skyhuck

weird???????

They do.

Wonder how that happened??

Ideas??? Scrap yard???

If you pay for an add in classified with pictures, I'm sure Steve would be happy for you to start a thread to direct people to it. Personally I think it a pretty poor show for people to put a free add in the classified and then start a thread so they can post pic's for free . Come on guys Steve has produced a great resource here for us that costs nothing, is it to much to ask that when we are making money (selling stuff) we give a little back???

If the customer was happy and the cheque cleared the jobs a goodun.

Are you going to deal with the brash (small branches, twigs and leaves)? Or do you need someone to fell, chip brash and leave you the firewood??

Does anyone know why they are watering it?? Is it to prevent splitting?? A neighbour of mine who works in France for most of the year told me about some stacked timber that was being spayed with water and wanted to know why.

I remember when Samuelson first competed in the WSMC, he was not that big (compared with most of the competitors) he was the world champion arm wrestler. Arm wrestling was part of the contest, there was a huge yank who's arm was broken whist wrestling Samuelson. Samuelson said "I did not break his arm, he actually broke his own arm". His Mrs also competes. Its very sad that he came back the following year much bigger, having obvious taken loads of gear to get so big. Most don't live to any great age, because of all the gear they take, their hearts enlarge. Its a shame theres no way to make it a clean sport that was just down to natural ability and hard work.

Thats wrong. Ash has a very low WC and weights less than most other timbers. Water weighs 1000kg per cm3, so any timber which weighs the same will sink, most timber does not sink.

It already has, Rupe put pic's of his up months ago.

Guano (bird Pooh) is the finest fertilizer known to man, its worth a fortune. Islands with sea bird colonies on them were mined for the guano that had built up over the years and people made vast abouts from this. I not sure its were the sh1t got its name through.

To answer the OP's original question, its all down to how much of your income comes from logs. If is 60% or more of your total income, its got to be your main business, less than that and its more of a side line. There will be some who make more from a side line log business than others for whom its there main source of income. But as a very wealthy man told me many years ago "Being well off is more about whats going out than whats coming in".

IME, rail work stinks!!!!!!!!!!! The day I was able to turn it down was the day I felt my business was a success.

Meaning??

HMCE I think and yes your right

There a guy near me who has one for tree work, its been registered as "Special vehicle" for years, he ran it on red for years, until his yard was raided by the ministry who told him not to (no prosecution) He also has a Renault that he has registered the same.

They are 6.5 or 7.5 GVW, so should easily carry over 2 tonnes legally.

How do you manage to use a loading shovel on pallets???

You dry the billets, then cut them straight into the delivery vehicle, so it can reduce handling

What your describing is the classic business model that produces a business that can be scaled up to almost any size and as you say is very sale able. IMO, tree work is one of the worst businesses to try and build using that model. For that kind of business you ideally want unskilled people carrying out most of the work, its best if each persons duty's can be written on one side of A4. That way you can easily replace or replicate each person in the organisation. We can't really do that, you find a good climber, lean what he can do and how long it takes them, then they leave and you start again. Same when you try to build a new team, your looking to find another good climber and then you need to find out how they work and what jobs suit them best. I have known a couple of very good tree firms that were sold, both have since gone bust, most of our businesses are dependent very much on us as the driving force behind them, be that managerial or on the tools. If I were just interested in building a business that I could one day sell or just build to a size where it would provide me an income without me needing to be there all the time, I'd be looking at things other than tree work. One thing that seems strange about your post is that fire wood production is an easier business to build than tree work, so why don't you create a separate log business, following your low input model?

This is going to be my new sales pitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All the equipment I use has a special safety feature, its called......................my brain, it works really well.

You don't bother with the legs then??