Chris Sheppard
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Personally I prefer a chainsaw type, especially if a lot of your timber is going to be up to the max diameter of the machine and/or wiggly. Yes, there's the sharpenign of the chain and the fact it needs oil (whether a separate tank or it uses the hydraulic oil) but from my experiences I just found I got on with the chainsaw ones better. The circular saw type ones cut very well on smaller timber but have the habit of getting a bit of wap on when they get warm and (as above) are also generally a bit noiser. Also, a lot of the smaller chainsaw type ones run husky small bar mount bars, which suited me as I could swap bars from felling saw to the processor when it was getting a bit worn.
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the little iglands really do work well on the smaller tractors as they sit quite close to the end of the arms so reduce a bit of the leverage once you've got a big snig on. I ahd a uniforest 35e on my old Carraro 50hp and that worked well, just could have done with being able to lift a bit higher but that was the tractor more than the winch. -
I used to saw a bit up from time to time - dead easy to process with something like a hakki pilke eagle as the few bits that needed splitting were dead easy to do with the corkscrew. Can often get a fair bit too small to really be called a log but at the end of the day it all burns and often once sawn and split it doesn't look that different to "normal" logs anyway
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Are there many coffee addicts on here ?
Chris Sheppard replied to gensetsteve's topic in General chat
it is nice but I find it a bit like rocket fuel - Taylors After dark is quite nice too. -
It's only a 4 tonne trailer but it can fit a fair load on it. Haven't weighed a load off it yet but reckon those pines in the photo would have made between 3 and 3.5 tonne. We're pullign it with that old 50hp international at the mo and it handles it no probs when it's dry. That's not the same one that we've got up for sale though.
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the 357's are a great little saw, feels like a big saw in a little body as they seem to have so much grunt for not a lot of weight.
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Are there many coffee addicts on here ?
Chris Sheppard replied to gensetsteve's topic in General chat
I really don't think there is one Can live with Gold Blend if I have to. I don't think Maccy D's do bad coffee for when on the go -
There's a couple in the classifieds
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Does it have to be larch or might you stretch to Pine? Might have some larch but not for a month or so I'd reckon though. drop me a PM if interested
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Small timber trailers on ebay.
Chris Sheppard replied to Ty Unnos's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
whoever won it got a good saving over a new one and that looks so very nearly new -
I'd agrre with that. Used to wash pro plus down with red bull type drinks when it was really busy and it made me feel rough as. I find eating little and often tends to help and as much as I struggle to do it, eating breakfast does make a difference. Looks like it's finally stopped rainign now - best go do some work.
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Seem to have seen more wasps than usual but only found one nest so far and that was in the flue of our boiler. Took some getting out but it's sorted now.
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There's no such thing as a cheap second hand processor any more - even old dogs on ebay are making silly money.
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Small timber trailers on ebay.
Chris Sheppard replied to Ty Unnos's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
seen one similar to that but with the hiab mounted in the centre of the trailer and it was a full electro hydraulic one with slew and a couple of extension. Wasn't a big trailer but got 6 big dumpy bags on at a time -
I can see what you mean; clutch will be as though it's engaged so if you turn over the engine the chain will rotate, but if the chainbreak was on then the pull cord won't pull -I think
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My husqvarna technicals went back to husqvarna under warranty at less than three months old - they'd worn through on the inside of one of the legs just above where the cordura finishes and it goes back to the stretchy stuff. I'd not been the most impressed with them even before they broke
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Somehow got onto topic of the new top handle while in local husky dealer last week and he reckoned they'd postponed it til september.
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I'm not a fan
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Small timber trailers on ebay.
Chris Sheppard replied to Ty Unnos's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Yep, it certainly looks like a Riko one and at that price you couldn't buy the crane new, let alone the rest of the parts to build it. Chances are it's not nicked as there aren't huge amounts in circulation and if it was chances are it would have filtered through to here by now. Does seem a little too goog to be true though -
flicking through some recent photos and found one that brought a smile - this was what was brought out to us on the second day of the Pub job Carlsberg don't make packed lunches for treemen, but if they did, they'd probably be the best in the world
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screw splitter off chip feed wheel?
Chris Sheppard replied to Timbermcpherson's topic in General chat
Might be Buzzsurgeon you mean. We were using it a coupel of weeks ago on a job and it worked well, much faster than running through the tractor and the oil never warmed up any more than normal. -
I'm hopefully going to make it at some point, been the last three years but had been working so never really got to see the show properly, though it was always the one I enjoyed the most.
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It's near Stockton on the Forest
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Replied to Haven't been in long so it mightn't have made much sense
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We're looking for an extra pair of hands (maybe 2) to help out on a site just outside York, 2-3 days a week at the moment, but if there's a pair of you then you could maybe do more. If it works out, then there's plenty to go at and could see work into the later parts of the year. To start with would be felling small parcels of birch firewood and presenting for the forwarder but there may be some softwood thinning to go at too fairly soon. CS30 and 31 will be plenty - Nothing too taxing (and a flat site )so could be an opportunity to gain a bit of experience out in the woods. Will need to be fairly flexible as we don't always know ourselves what days we'll be there until the week before, but it's 3 days most weeks, plus quite often a day over the weekend as well if you wanted to. It'll be on tonnage rate, it is hard work and you will ache If you're interested PM either me or Buzzsurgeon.
