Brushcutter
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There is a OSA 250 on ebay.
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You can never have enough cranes
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It's a good book. Just a pitty they've taken the yield class tables that use to be in it out.
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Take a look at Bandit. Well made and simple. The 150xp is a 12" machine but it's very weighty at nearly 1.5 tones but it's bomb proof. I don't know if the 85xp comes in a PTO version.
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University advice, i need some opinions!
Brushcutter replied to Michael Ricketts's topic in General chat
It does open a lot of doors. Yea the jobs it opens up are more office based but increasingly head forester/head woodsman which are say 90% practical would like a degree. -
Hi Stu I insure my Navara with NFU. At 23 though i don't think they'll touch you unless you have some other policy with them. They don't tell you this till you've gone through all the questions. Direct line will cost you 2-3k i'd expect as thats what they quoted me. I think at 23 i was with Post office for my D22 Navara was about 1100 quid. Whats worse is i still pay that now with NFU
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University advice, i need some opinions!
Brushcutter replied to Michael Ricketts's topic in General chat
Hello. I hated my first term at uni and wanted to quit but after then it was great. It opened many doors for me. What about doing it part time it will take longer but give you more time to work. Also just because a degree might not be right for you now doesn't mean that in a few years time you can't do it. -
Elm would be my choice. Followed by a lump of Oak. I'd steer clear of treated softwood.
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Charlie will know but i think its the same as a proper forwarder. FMO 1.5 and 3.2
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Thats the phone call everyone hates to make and dreads to answer.
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I know 5 or so around me.
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Did you stay at the Old Bridge or the new fancy TKF hotel thing. Top grub in the Old Bridge.
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TKF are fantastic. I did my CS 34 & 35 with them a year or so ago.
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Thats fantastic.
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If anything happens you'd need to prove the bit of equipment was 'fit for purpose'.
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Passed my Finnish forwarder test. Makes FMOC look like a walk in the park. It's so strict that one guy failed for being 2 mins over the time and another guy failed for not having a full load.
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Without standing next to it and looking at in and whats around its hard to say. I'd probally fell it with some sort of Coos Bay cut but it depends on how those cracks fall in term of felling direction. Not sure i'd want to climb it although being on the saw at the butt doesn't look too fun either. Big MEWP?
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You do a series of cuts. So in that you put the head on one side sort of just off the felling direction and cut in a 1/3 then feed up about an inch or so and do the same. Do the same on the other side. As you do the felling cut the undercuts in the direction of felling sort of compress and break in a stepcut sort of fashion. You can have them for not just direction but for making sure the guide bar nose going the way across and the saw moter get everything too.
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That looked like a horrid tree to climb you could see it swaying. I've only ever felled tiny say 10-15m Southern Beech and even they were a pig. Wouldn't want to climb one. Nice tunes though.
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Fozzy! He did my harvester and forwarder top notch guy. A guy called Andy something did my tractor forwarder and he was from that neck of the woods.
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365 special is a great saw. Have a 20" on mine and still lots of power. 24" would be ok but you'd need to keep it sharp. It's no 372xp but its a VERY capiable saw.
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Thats some nifty speed you got going on there. About half an hour to unload i've of thought. I'll take a picture of the tables and send them to you and efficeny calculations.
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What size bits? 2 bays of 2.5m? 3m firewood? 4.2m saw logs? Doing it in thinnings or clearfell? What sort of diameters? I'd say doing 4m saw logs on big selcetive thinning racks i'd put a load on in about 20mins using an old 8 leaver crane, be quicker on joysticks. Have it off in less than half that. I've got some tables and forwarding efficeny calcuations if your interested.
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It's really good isn't it. You'll be pleased with it what is really good is if you put an 18" bar on it.
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I use a Nikon D90. Hardly small but takes fantastic shots.
