Brushcutter

I got some woolpower socks from Clarkes a few weeks ago and they've been keeping my feet warm nicely. I was wearing ski socks last year and these wool ones are better. Going to try with some thin cotton socks underneath tomorrow. Might get some of those heat pads for my hands though.

Mine too. Have a 15" & and 18" too but for power to weight/balance the 13" is king.

Norway makes nice tone woods. It can be used in fencing as far as i'm aware or at least the 2.5m 6" top stuff we sold off as fencing material was ok. Makes great chip wood too.

Intresting. Might get one for the truck. Been thinking about plugging the one in the Valtra in as its been a bit of a pig to start in the mornings, despite being made in Finland.

I've prefer the Navara. The L200 is nice but the cab of the Navara is a nice place to be. The 4work L200 is quite good off road even on 50/50 tyres and it drags around a 2.8t tipping trailer well. Doesn't like reversing up slopes even slight drives without stinking of clutch. Its quite nice to drive on the moterway. As for a tippper i've often thought about it but its quite expensive and you don't get a lot of load weight.

Seem around the money. Good stuff is 6-8 quid at the roadside. Rob would you come as far as Hertfordshire for good bits of wood to mill.

WOW! Looks like a nasty job to do. Bet that root plate went down with a thud.

Been done on Grand Designs a few times. Its been in this series episdoe 2 or 3 i think. Its ment to work buy doing something to the celulose in the wood. Don't know if it does or doesn't work.

Ouch. I do a lot of A road/moterway driving and managing 35-40mpg on my D22. Get 480 miles a tank i could do 500 but i don't let the light come on. Do really want a D40 though. Looking at a 57 plate one.

ISH How big is the tank?

Hi I was wondering what mpg people were getting from their D40 Navaras? I've got the D22 one at the moment and thinking of an upgrade. Just don't really want to be worse off on fuel consumption. Getting the Navara since the Nissan garage is 3 miles from my house and i've always had fantastic service. Thank Andy

7 of those made one fire! tractor makes fire easier.

Had a fire on Friday to get rid of the offcuts from making 1x1 tree sakes for the FC. There was so much that it was done with the tractor. When its time to chip the sawmill waste its the hottest job in the world in winter. Start with some 6 layers and your down to the base one before long.

Its good for extraction. About to thin a larch plantation which we need to cross a big grass common to reach. Being frozen means that the tractors won't make too much mess. As for working it can just be upleasnt in the frost and snow. Fortuantly i tend to do the forwarding/skidding so i get a nice warm cab, and in the summer it works the other way as the cab has air con too. Unfortantly this has made me slightly soft.

So true. Mine were fine then after a year or so they start to do that. I prefer the Husky ones. The STIHL ones are better being clear but i just like the husky ones.

Didn't get on with it at all. I broke it getting it stuck in the 346 oil tank i think.

I've always used bio chain oil. I've tried but synth and semi synth but i always come back to bio. Its much nicer to use than the other two and it always leaves the insides of the saw cleaner. I've tried cooking oils but they tend to leave the chain sticky. STIHL Bioplus is very expensive one of the reasons i tried cooking oil. I got myself a 10litre bottle of Clakes own chainsaw oil. Its very good. I'll be getting more when i'm out.

Quite fancy that county with a winch on the back. The 1164 with crane/winch and trailer would be a great little set up. I expect it will go for close to 13k though.

Difficult to say without really seeing the tractor but some of those counties are a steal. A guy near me is a collector/restorer/exhibitor of county tractors. There is about 5 in his yard.

I've only ever used Valtras MF and valmets. Prefer the bigger cabs of the valmet and MFs. Use baby tractor 80-90hp at the moment good manuverability and work well with a lader. In an ideal world a 110-130hp tractor with a crane on the cab would be what i would chose. Would work well with a harvester head, smaller biofuel chippers and still have a good towing capacisty.

Its a 6 tonne winch on the back of the Vatra in my picture its about 85hp. It will power a 9tonne one but again on young ash thinnings 4tonne would be more than enough.

Stephen has had a Holder Skidder with a two 4 tonne winches on the back in the classified section for a while now. It looks like such a fun tool to have and its very reasonably priced as well.

That was this Feb/March skidding out some Chestnut which we felled to become coppice. We sat the skidder at the top of a rack we cut and dropped everything down it. Then Dragged it into the tractor and processed it ride side. Did 5' coppice posts 8' firewood and 12' logs. Worked well as we weren't constantly driving around in the woods. The skidded ground threw up loads of intersting wildflowers after we were done. Not much we took out was >18" about 35 years old. There was a fair bit of sycamore in there too that came out the same way. Not done much work in young woods so i can't say how useful it would be but if its steep then whiching is much easier than dragging it out with a quad/trailer. At the age you said it would be quite small stuff so it might be best to drag it out as a tree length and process it up on the landing. If its too tight for that then its best to use a long chain and do a wrap around 3 or 4 logs before chokering the chain and dragging up the load.

What an amazing video. Thanks for posting. The camera work is fantasitc some and the music is really set the mood. I'm glad that someone out there is doing that sort of thing. Here we have the ancient tree hunt, which is along a similar line.

Nice job. Love the skidder. I've always wanted a go in a proper one.