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Seems expensive. The forest guarding is it good. There are some interesting forest guards out there. The tyres are they proper Nokkians? If it's a P reg it will be a valmet 8150 rather than a valtra 8150. Does it have delta power shift, air con, front linkage? for the price. For that price i'd be looking for 6000-7000 hours.

With the college course it will give you more options down the line.

Milled much more with a bandsaw than with a chainsaw. Beech can go either way be rock hard or be easy going. Oak seems always to be hard work. Hornbeam was slow going and hard on the saw. Teak that was very hard and blunted the saw quickly Ash i've not had a problem with. Larch if it's pinchy can be very hard work. Stripped a band of every tooth before! Fir is nice and quick.

My toy box has 200t 346 xpg 365 special 576 xpg autotune. ms 660 Recently died 357xpg

I worked in Finland on the machines for a winter. It was so cold that some days it wasn't worth going to site as the machines would break in the cold! Until you've been in -30 it's very hard to imagine. I did some hand felling in January out there. You got hot you started to sweat that froze then you were freezing cold. Not good, also the wood is very brittle because of the cold. Not sure if i'd want to be on spikes or running rope in the cold my self. Not that i saw much tree surgery out there. Infact one job was to stop the low loader at the bottom of this guys road track the harvester up the road fell the tree in his garden and process it into 30cm sections for splitting....

Could you have mog feeds to chipper feed roller motor where the hydraulic gets hot. Rather then returning back to the mog add a radiator in on the feed motor return. Big enough radiator should sort the problem could even add a fan on the radiator. Bolt the whole assembly to the back of the rotor housing. Don't know if it would work as i don't know anything about mogs. In my head though it seems like it should.

What size valtra and trailer?

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Doing more forwarding and hand cutting now in the shire. Don't really like the harvester.

I have auto tune on the 576xpg and i love that. Never had any engine problems with that. I think i'll add a 550 and a 560 to the collection:thumbup1:

Hi Thinking of getting a website. Lots of ads for suppliers on google. Who have you guys gone with. Did you use a template, make it yourself or spend lots of money and have someone do it for you? Cheers Andy

Yes as long as the crane is long enough if you know what i mean. The real advantage is stability as your say half a tonne of crane is just below the height of the rear window rather than above it on a huge frame.

Hi Thinking a 550xpg to replace my 346xpg. Although i see lots of threads about 550 problems. So what is the consensus? Get one the problems sort them selves out or avoid like the plague. Andy

Jake plate crane on Valtra A95 with a 203T (6.7m) crane with front tank around 18K+vat Botex roof mount on a Valmet 8050 with a 6m crane is around 18k+vat. Not a lot in it cost wise. Pros and Cons with both sets up depends on what work you want to do with it and where.

Try TKF training. Up in the north but they're a top notch training centre.

Check out: Barony College HW Training Plumpton college They all do forwader top two harvester. Hopefully by the new year i'll be up and running doing forwader training.

I use a Husky 365 standard chain with a 20" bar. Works OK, little slow perhaps.

So they have. Interesting. Looks a little simpler i did my first FMO just after they did the cross certification thing ie. if you can drive a bunk mounted forwarder then you get the others.

It's quite difficult to get on a machine. I don't know how much truth there is in it but it's said that FMO training is second in cost to pilot training. But given that you will have 100k machine doing maybe 10% of production, damage to machine cost of a good trainer. I can see it being close. The best way onto a machine is to cut for someone with forwader. One day if your good you'll get a go. Then you might get to cover the forwarder driver or play with it when its not doing anything. Downside is most people use agri forwarders because 50k will get you the best forwader trailer going put that behind a 30k tractor your still a hell of a long way away from the cost of a proper purpose built forwarder. However the jump from agri to purpose is quite steep. Mostly because agri ones have manual controls and are very slow. Once you step into a purpose built and every control is customisable to you and the controls are quick i mean seriously quick even turned down to slow. One you master the forwader you'll get a shot at harvester the crane conrols are the same. Just have to learn your buttons and computers. Quickest way in is the digger route to be honest. The real thing as the harvester driver is quality control. No point in cutting red 3.7s when that might only just go for pallet. It all seems scary and a lot to take in but it does come. Takes a long time and a lot of practice. Once you have it though it can take you anywhere in the world. I've worked in Finland and had offers for South Africa and Oz. Just bare in mind the hours are long and locations remote. In this country we seem to have 1 guy 1 harvester nice as you get to look after it and if you break it you fix it. Else where in the wold its 2 guys a machine either a 8, 10 or 12 hour shift each. Depending on where, conditions and the like. Much more civilized especially if your close to home:thumbup1:

You will need some FMO tickets. For the machines you will need: FMO 1.1 or 1.2 Tracked slewing i don't have it so i don't know it. Basically a digger FMO 1.3 wheeled rigid or a tractor in common terms FMO 1.4 4/6 wheeled articulated. FMO 1.5 8 wheeled articulated. Once you have your base unit you can then choose your next units. If you want to be a forwarder driver you;ll need FMO 3.1-3.6. Depending on where you have the crane and on what base unit. If you are driving a tractor with a timber trailer you'll need FMO 1.3 tractor base and FMO 3.4,3.5,3.6. Forwader handling crane cab, crane bunk, crane other. One test for base unit one test for your chosen crane position and you get the other two for agri forwading. IF you want to do purpose built forwaders. You need FMO 1.4 and 1.5 (two tests) and FMO 3.1-3.3 another test. For harvester an appropriate base unit and 2.1 2.2 and 6.13 (i think). Think thats 2 tests + base unit can't remember. Barony College and H+W forestry do harvester and forwader training. Just a note though you'll be looking at doing a nearly 6 week course epescially in the harvester.

Wilsons should have one. Or Valmet. Have you tried googling Sfernice Vishay Potentiometer and all the resistances and stuff. Might be able to pick one up from an electronics supplier.

On a 95hp tractor.

9.5 tonne Krpan with full electro hydraulics, radio remote, chains and i think 150 of cable and a folding butt plate. Came in a 7000 delivered i think.

Krpan also have a folding butt plate. It's very very handy especially for negotiating these new foot high stumps that are the 'in' thing in forestry at the moment Also good for keeping the ends off the deck.