Brushcutter

That seems high.

Thanks. Not sure i'd like to do line clearance. Don't like climbing that much.

Hi Where abouts in Bedfordshire are you? If you get a lot of other hardwood off the estate could you mix the poplar in and sell it roadside as mixed broadleaf firewood? As i've said in other posts i think it would be difficult to shift whole lorry loads of poplar for firewood, i maybe wrong though. The smaller stuff would make good material for kinderling. If you want to shift it quick and all in one go chip it for biomass. Money is no where near what you'd for firewood but its quicker. working on 80t an acre chip half and half for firewood?

Currently burning Chestnut which is about 9 months old. Cut and split for 3. It does burn but not very well.

Quite a few Valmets around at the moment. A few 6400 over in france for 10-11k. If you look hard might get a 8100 or 8150 for the same money. Both give you a lot of tractor for your money. Also being Valmets the name as a 'forestry tractor' means they keep their value very well.

Very nice. Do you find it pinches and throws stuff back at you, especially when doing soft woods.

Nice. Sell the big lump off to timber. Looks like Ceader? Nice tiny gob cut.

Pigs will sort it out nicely. They'll turn over the woodland floor nicely too. Even better once you've put the piggies through the wood you can eat them.

It is a bit silly i can pull the timber trailer behind a 7 tonne tractor on the road with no real training. I can't however tow a trailer behind the landy without taking a test. Quite a hard test at that. As for the pole saw i've never known anyone with the ticket. Its one they brought in a little while ago. If you can use a saw and prune a tree then i'd say give it a miss.

The ticket that will serve you best will be B+E on your driving licence as very few people comming out of college will have it. If you can afford to do C as well all the better. Worth having chipper and stump grinder as sooner or later these will become compulsary. CS 40+41 pruning and dismantling if you want to do aerial stuff. CS 32+34 medium/large trees and windblown if your more of a forester

Some on there from xmas eve. People should be grateful they got something. /humbug.

The FC does many grants under the WGS (woodland grant scheme) Woodland planning grant WPG Woodland assessment grant WAG Woodland improvement grant WIG Woodland management grant WMG Woodland creation grant WCG Woodland regeneration grant WRG. All offer various amount of money for different things. Obviously the more wood you own the bigger the amount of money you get. Also depenant on the area you live in depends on any extra funding you can get. I live in a deer population target area so i can claim extra money for deer management under WIG. Think its around £6-8 ha now. The woodland i wanted to by was about 35 acres but someone with more money got it. I could have claimed under WIG WAG WMG and WRG. But it would have worked out at a few hundred quid a year. Is it worth it? If your doing it then you can get some money back for what your doing and since its in a grant scheme the felling licences come all sorted out for you.

You'll have great fun with that. I had the D50 my friend the D60 and they were fantastic cameras. I got a 50mm f1.8 lens. Lots of pictures now with shallow depth of field with blury goodness.

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Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too.

Sent a few emails to a few ads on there.

Thanks i've sent them an email.

Hi I'm looking to do harvester and forwarder training. I have tractor base unit and bunk,cab and other forwarder. I'd like to do a proper forwarder and harvester. Does anybody know where i can get the training? Also is anybody else interested in getting the training so we could make up numbers for a course. Regards Andy

Ours is doing that too. If its not starting try using a hair dryer in the air intake. It works really well had to do that with an old transit van a few time.

I've not really delt in selling Cherry but i'd say around £60/m3 would be around the money. Cherry sometimes has green staining in which presents as almost little balls. It makes it totally worthless.

I have a 7 tooth with a 20" bar. Fantastic logging saw.

Cool. I'll be up to watch. It was quite red on the way into work this morning/

What about a big shredder or something that would let you chip the root ball too. Pull them all out with a 360 and feed them whole into the chipper? The job anywhere near hertfordshire at all?

Hi Just a heads up for anybody looking for training. Just done my CS34/35 there with a few other Arbtalk members. Was fantastic top notch facilities and the trainers/assessors are all really good too. Obviously its a long way from me but they were able to get me a good deal on some fantastic accommerdation. Will be using them again. Andy.

As would i and a few day release arb students with their own saws to clean out the stems.