Brushcutter

How big are the fly wheels? The ones on our Stenner 41 are 3' as are the ones on the Robinsons resaw.

Wait till you do 32/33 whereyou put a really big awkward tree exactly where you want it.

2.4 is probally for fencing. Although i've done firewood to 2.4 too. I guess it's not too far from Bucks to Northampton. I wondered if you were over near Hitchin in Herts it looks a bit like it.

Thanks. I got mine from the treesource bookshop. They do the field guide too (which is the easier one to read first). The other books are mainly tables which make sense once you've mastered the techniques. If your boss has a woodland marked for felling (thats not been started yet) check the cubic meterage on the felling licence and go measure it on your day off and see if you come up with the same answer. If your doing softwoods (you can do it with hardwords but its harder) you can work out the volume of each tree and know exactly what your felling.

Looking good. Whats the wood going for? Since your fairly local who did you do it with and at what site?

Looks simmilar to what they did to mine. Any idea on cost yet? Mine was about 2k with parts and labour:blushing: On the plus side there was some left over ValtraTrans oil so i haven't had to buy any of that in ages.

We get our bands made to order by southern counties saws. They weld up the 18' 6" wide lenghs of steel into the band. As for teeth setting the saw doctor setting them for what we're cutting. Larch has a wider set than oak and chestnut for example. As for speed i'm not sure, ill try to look at the motor speed on monday.

Nope. I was very impressed with them at the APF and the price is fantastic. Riko would do me one with the remote for 5800+vat. I'm hoping to replace a 6.5 tonne fransgard. Does the cable lay on the drum ok, get lots pinches on the cable? Sorry to derail but not many people get big winches.

Big chestnut always seems to be shakey. I've done some big ones 24-36" at the butt some have been ring shaken to firewood pile. The others have been ok. I have a 6' log thats 3' at the small end with a bit of star in it but no ring. Going to make something nice from that.

Nice job. How do you find the uniforest winch? Is the 8tonne electrohydraulic one? with the big butt plate?

It's too far gone so it stayed as bug and beasty habitat. Got a fair few good splated bits that size in the yard to mill though.

Some felling from Tuesday.

Bands for our stenner are £100 and about 30 mile drive as well!

I've just got a pair of the new shiney Arbortec gloves. They're well made and they've got nice AV pads in them too. Very nice fit too.

google seach may throw up something. I think there is on on the AA contractors CD and on the FCA CD too. If i could find my FCA CD i'd look and send it to you, but i can't. Basically you need to say thing that your committed to protect the environment. Using bio chain oils Using Aspen Working locally Not wasting fuel and electricity Disposing of waste correctly Recycling your waste into wood fuel (logs) Wood chip for mulch.

It's an old school method of dealing with hang ups. You wrap the strop around the tree (you can even dog it in with a pulp hook) the you use a bit of wood as a leaver to role the tree. Doesn't work on big stuff but its ace on smaller stuff saves lugging a bar around all day.

I got a metal drill box from screwfix to put all my saw maintencence gubbins in. i did put some wooden dividers in untill i took them out to get more stuff in. I think they were about a tenner. I have: Long and short combi spanner Piston Stop Small allen key (the long one that you get with the strimmers) Large allen key Feeler guages Roller file guide Standard file guage bar dressing tool Flat & round files Metal grease gun bar nuts sprocket spair chain spare spark plug bit of starter cord stump vice PPE wise you'll need: Boots, Gloves, trousers, forestry hat, first aid kit, whisle. Useful bits (essential for felling) Timber tongs (don't bother with a pulp hook) Timber tape (short one will do) Plastic holding wedge 6" or so Felling bar i have a short and a long one. use both depending on the trees. Bit of 13mm rope made into a turning strop Hilift wedge Forest axe. Combi can I've collected lots of bits of kit over the years. Some works for me and has been used, abused replaced and repeated. Other things like pulp hooks sit in the shed and collect dust. Get your 30/31 over and see what works for you as you'll get to play with most of that kit. Then go and buy what you need afterwards. No point in spending a fortune and realsing you'll never use it.

So we can buy one on the day? Its not going to be like this Husky thing, show us a good saw that we all want then not bother to sell it?

Do you have the blue book? Forest Mensuration: A Handbook for Practitioners about 25 quid and it will teach you a lot of what you need to know. It's worth having the field guide one which is green as its waterproof and spiral bound for taking out into the woods. Decimal Hoppus tables Decimal cube tables Top diameter tables Yield class tables There all good books to have. It's worth getting your self a girthing tape in metric and an imperial decimal one (Hoppus) to take out and have a play with. A Clinometer is also a handy tool to have although they are expensive. You can use a cheapy compass clinometer which will do the same job. You do tend to get your eye in i recently looked at a stand of Norway and said 50' timber hight 65' total. Looked at it with the clinometer and i was spot on. When it was on the deck it came out the same too.

Amazing.

I'd ask one of the guys at Jas P Wilsons. They deal in a lot of Valmets Valtra/Valmet and Valtra (all incarnations of the same thing) tractors.

Don't know much about the 6400 series. Our A95 had a very similar problem to yours. It turned out to be the pto clutch wasn't properly adjusted and it had worn away. Needed a new one i don't think it was a wet clutch though or the damage could have been much worse.

How big is big? The 390 395 are good for big timber say 28" plus. I'd fell and crosscut with that but limb out with the 357. I've been using the 576xpg for 30" chestnut and it's a fantatic saw. better than a 372. How many trees will you be doing i use my 357 for some big stuff. I've used a 15" bar on a 346 to do a 30" oak. You can cut 3x bar length.

Get the rootball out thats the best bit. I'd say the wider the boards the better.

I do a fair bit of milling and the slab does pile up, we chip it. If you had a big fancy mill that does kiln drying and all sorts of other things why not get a woodchip boiler and get some of your heating out of a by product. Only an idea i've only really worked in OB.