slasherscot
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i personally dont sell firewood, burn most of arb wood myself, giv rest away to friends etc. working on the principle u get 2 builders bags out of 1 ton wood how many people sell over 400 bags a season.
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if u want to come and fell it and extracted it. ill giv u as much scots pine as u want............12 pound at roadside for pine chip i can find better ways of making a pound
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depends on the quality and size, oak is sellng well ....pine u cant gve it away.
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Perhaps we should have Arbtalk Sloe Gin comp, homemade of course, to be judged and tasted by all at the nxt apf, perhaps a token prize from 1 of the site sponsor.
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theres woodburners that u can use n smokeless zone,,,,,,, as for chimmney u can run stove pipe up thru roof with the proper materials
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saw some blackthorn other day covered n sloes gav me an idea for makin some sloe gin any1 made some?
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a bit colder up here tonite mate, clear nite
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just bought a 2nd handed ifor 105 with mesh side elect tipper. working and pulling well.
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All beech at the mo.......2 trees i took down in Douglas 2 years ago, price was too tight just cleaned my feet and nomore. everytime i put a log on its a reminder to keep the prices up LOL
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whats your favourite tree to work with
slasherscot replied to steve_o treerat's topic in Climbers talk
silver birch, sycs, alder not too fond of oak, too rough and anything with IVY -
try ARBJOBS
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Biker Jailed After 166mph Speeding Ticket - Yahoo! News UK this road goes from edinburgh down thru moffat, mainly twisty old road, except for a strait just outside west linton heading to dolphinton, the strait must be over a mile long, i guessed he caught there, did 120 in my brother opel berlinetta down it 1 day, nvr again.
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only system that i saw that worked, was low leading long pole over the top of a digger into piles for the harvester to process. no need to back tie, and only needed bottom tree or large stump to attach strop and pulley to.
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Skylining that brings back the nightmares.......broke the back of many forestry contactors
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Suggestion for timber forwarding on steep slope
slasherscot replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Large equipment
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fun to drive, nver drove a diesel, petrol engines were very thirsty, they are quite heavy vehicles, dont suppose diesel much better, with the right tyres they go anywhere
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were u pulling chipper. a lotta damage......
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maybe the tipper does recharge the battery some dont, u have to recharge and put back on g
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having not seen the watchdog progamme busy watching eastenders LOL... Anyway in the middle of the job 2day, pollarding 3 sycs, take down of 3 cedars, a member of the public was standing on the opposite pavement watching us 10 mins or so, i ventured across expecting the usually verbal., to my surprise he proceeded to comment on lastnites watchdog programme and how glad he was to see our job being professionally done. Half a dozen business cards in his hand for his friends and family and a pat on his back i sent him on his merry way:thumbup1:
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cheers mate
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luckily mate some1 from green machine ran over it when i was subbie climbing for them and upm bought me a new ms200t to replace it, its been in the corner of my shed for 3 years , parts were priced at 146.....i got them all for a tenner worth a rebuild....it wasnt 3 months old when run over so stil bags of power.
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it must have been the holy spirit........surely
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rebuilding a runover husky climbing saw, managed to buy a whole body for a tenner on fleabay, got everything onto the new shell, only probelm i have is the 2 screws that go thru the carburettor onto the body are not getting enough of a catch, causing the saw to draw air. the screws are the tap in type, i cant put a nut on the inside. Ideas pls
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brasher..... 120 up here.........but your running cost are a lot higher.. and its a boring job by urself
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4 laps to go and be World Champ
