Chris Sheppard
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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.
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Did you manage to wrestle it on with the crane?
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Good find - think he was saying what a lot of people feel.
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I enjoy pretty much every aspect of being out in the woods, but that bit really is the best
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Few Pics from Today's job. Two Sycamores and a Norway Maple in a beer garden that had shed a few limbs recently and were to come out. Andy (Treequip) climbing, with Brett (Buzzsurgeon) and me on the floor. Photos haven't come out great but should give you an idea. First one was on the floor before 9am, second shortly after and the last (biggest) before midday Some ringing up and a bit more chipping to do tomorrow and then a lot of splitting
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We used to use the 365's on one estate and they were used for everything apart from ringing up big stuff. I personally don't really like them as they feel like an underpowered 372 but they are good solid saws and if hadn't had a 372 before using a 365 I'd have never known the difference between the two if that makes sense. re the special vs the XP, as far as I now they never made a 365xp -but I could be wrong.
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that looks nice, but bet it won't carry a lot if its 3500kg GVW still
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I reckon you could be onto something with the long ladder - if you were doing a fair bit of smaller diameter stuff in one place, I wonder if it's worth having the ladder set up on some sort of stands so the saw is suspended from it rather than the ladder sat on the log and then just roll logs under for the first cut? I might be over complicating things but that's just me
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Thanks for the links - really helpful. Looks a very well built unit, bet it was very rewarding. what sort of weight is it? Was the pop up roof hard to do to make watertight? Well impressed
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Never realised that. Our old legacy was plated at something like a tonne and a half if I remember right - and handled it well too.
