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slasherscot

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  1. go the utility way, good steady work and pick up as manyextra tickets as u can.
  2. A small tip..........when the wife has let the fire go down to last few hot embers( happens every night??). pull all the embers to the front glass and then put ur logs in....gets the fire going quicker
  3. as side note......I did my first job for Drax the other day, done the full circle
  4. First job on my own was for Shotton Forestry, woodland management side of BSW, the woodland manager was Mathew Rivers who went on MD at UPM tilhill and now chairman at Drax .......was a 1 mile clearance of stika spruce for new forest road at Carsphain......we just had to fell and cut into 2m lengths and stack manually at the side.......when the road was made...timber wagons went along and lifted straight onto wagon...it was the hottest 3 weeks u could imagine........the cleggs were flying at you in battle formation..... after work every day we went to the river/stream for a swim to cool down...the water was nice and warm
  5. i wouldnt worry too much,,,u live not too far from the scottish border..in fact probably was scotland at one time........if u lived south of the watford gap maybe jail time????
  6. if u look at the back fence panel which is 6 ft..the tree can only be 30 to 35ft tops
  7. The conservative party fought their election in Scotland on Leave the EU and no Indref 2 .......i think losing 7 seats and their share % of the votes, would send a clear message to the dimmest of west minister politicans that a mandate has been reached and its just a matter of when Indref2 will happen. If u dont like it you can always vote no on the ballot paper.
  8. stick with your job atm ... try and get some experience either weekend or days u are off during the week........having tickets is essential if you want to work large utility or woodland based companys......personally i wouldnt go down the forestry route
  9. i bought a brand new tw230vtr(3yrs now).............any breakdowns have been small and ive done them myself...waste of time and money running to dealers unless its major. would only buy new or 1 to 2 year machine now
  10. theres not many steep banks that the modern harvesters and forwarders cant do... even then they just cut a road in and fell to it
  11. Used to own Ford County 924 with big wheels all round...water filled front tyres......igland double drum 3000.............ran it till it dropped .sold it to tractor breakers...cant say i miss it LOL
  12. really depends on size of trees and slope of ground..hard to gauge without pics...2 ton beech in a plantation could easily be 80ft .......within 15ft of the power line i doubt SP would want them direct felled.
  13. on a side note if these trees are within 2 trees lengths from the power lines, they will have to be climbed and dismantled
  14. its just a glorified directory.......tried the free 2 months trial period.......lack of phone calls from them and it took a few phone calls to get then to cancel membership..........people are using Mybuilder and bark etc.........no need to phone several contractors ..place an ad and get contractors to ring u at no cost..........its the way the markets going in the domestic market
  15. its the sheer cost of collecting a single log
  16. Fell an old large european larch........rings were that tight we had to use a magnifying glass to count them.........turns out 186 years........ideas what to mill it into
  17. take the plug out and squirt some wd40 into cylinder and start it up
  18. i have a venom 22ton road pull............splits everything.....well worth the money
  19. husqvarna 254..........raise the bar in chainsaw performance
  20. seems pretty stupid way of killing off trees and not getting found out

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