Chris Sheppard

On a typical day's arbing I'd have thought the cost difference for the day between petrol and aspen would only be £5-£10 for the whole job, tops - there's not that many days when we'll do 5l of fuel on an arb job unless the big saws come out or we're ringing everything up. Out in the woods, now that's a different matter altogether. Each man will use a fair bit of fuel and be earning little enough as it is. I've never bought Aspen myself, but have used it a few times, mainly in hedgecutters but also in saws a bit. Liked the smell, but can't say I've ever really noticed the fumes using ordinary fuel much unless it's been a particularly still or murky day. EDIT: was too slow typing

Yep, there's definitely a knack, especially if it's still fairly low hours - mine seemed to get better once it had done some work. Try like Stubby says, but if you still can't get it to run, try starting it as though it's flooded (so chain brake on, no choke, throttle wide open and pull it over like that till it fires.) Mine was fine from cold and fine on warm starts but was a bit of a pig after refueling from empty. As much as I hate the idea of a primer bubble, it's the one saw I've found that really does seem to need priming. You should feel the first few pumps of the primer don't do much and then it'll get a bit of pressure once the air's out. Give it 2/3 good pumps once there's pressure and it should be fine. When you said about it running for a couple of minutes and then when you went to rev it, it died, that's the autotune adjusting itself - they're not like old type saws and need to be worked hard. Try whipping the spark arrester screen out of the exhaust as that seems to help it ick up a bit cleaner off the bottom if it's been idling a bit. Once you get used to it I'm pretty sure you'll love it

Used a palax 35 recently and didn't find it a great experience - it was OK but not very instinctive to use and also had a good amount falling sideways too. Was nice having a joystick control but didn't like that the ram comes out everytime the saw returns - if they made it so you just flipped the joystick back a bit more to set the ram going, IMO it would be a much faster and easier to use machine.

That'd be the Tajfun ones - meant to be pretty good.

Reckon BigJ might be worth speaking to, isn't he out Edinburgh way?

I used to suffer a fair bit with migraines when I was younger - not so muchnow but still occaisionally. Yours sounds similar in that it's behind the eyes and knocks your concentration. I find that 2 paracetomol and 2 ibruprofen (cheap supermarket grade ones) usually do a good job of either getting rid or at least clming it down enough to finish off the day and get home. If I'm not working then a couple of cocodamol do the trick but then I'm no good for anything.

I'd be going for a fairly broad mix but would like to have some areas of nice Douglas and Larch and get some areas of mixed faste growing hardwoods, though round us it would probably end up reverting to either Birch or Ash with a smattering of Alder. Hawthorne seems to like our sandy soil and have seen some quite nice trees so I'd bung a few of them in too. Some Oak would be nice too. Suppose ultimately I'm not fussy - I'd be happy with pretty much owt

The TR 70 was around £3K plus vat and the Rojek 9cm one as £3500 plus vat - petrol ones were a bit dearer. The TR110 from memory was a fairly big jump in price from the TR70 - I've got it on an email somewhere but can't find it at mo. From what I can gather, in other countries they are producing fuel for gassisfication boilers.

I'm pretty sure it's exactly the same photo as when R and R civils had the one for sale a couple of weeks ago. There's was a bargain and that was double the price of the current one listed. Scam Scam Scammity Scam

Wonder if we can get a bulk discount if we order 2 pairs?

Good to catch up with you too, Nige

We had one out on hire a few months ago and found it to be very good. Was the older, air cooeld one but was radio control. Had a wide range of stumps from 3 foot diameter willow half buried in bit of a bank, to a long row of small leylandii and nowt seemed to slow it down. I don't know much about big grinders but the others do and they were thoroughly impressed. We were working a fairly long site, with some crappy ground to cover and never slipped a track so maybe the one you use is just poorly set up? All being well it's coming out again shortly.

Looks like the Timberking's aren't looking quite so appealing - they were £185 at the APF (though there were only two pairs and odd sizes) but will be £220 normally. That is a fair chunk less than the rest of Europe though so not all bad - but it does make them a whole load more than the woodlander, which doesn't seem a whole lot different to the timberking at a glance.

I had a chat with Richard at the APF about tthe japa 100 and he said that yes they still do it but it's been guarded up that much it's now jumped up loads in price and they don't think that it'll be as popular. They didn't even have one at the APF. Makes: Hakki Pilke eagle, (M Large) Japa 100 (Fuelwood) Balfor (Riko) Posch (Jas P Wilson) BGU (Perry Plant) (Ryetec) - can't remember brand but italian Bindeberger/Krpan (Marshalls) Palax (caledonian forestry services) there's probably a few more I've forgotten too. Generally second hand aren't far off new prices so if you can stretch to it, new's not a bad idea. As for Viewing, not sure who there is out your way any more.

Rocking table are about the safest, flat table tend to be good at snatching the smaller diameter round timber and sending it flying over your shoulder. I used to have a hakki pilke eagle and that was a great little thing, but they are a bit dearer now @ £1500 plus vat (last time I priced one up). They have a corkscrew splitter built in which was great with odd shaped billets and has a pedal to disengage the belts when you jam the blade up (so making the belts last longer). The Oxdale ones look very similar to the Rosselli ones, just painted up. There are some that are fairly havily guarded which, IME, made them very awkward to use. TCT blade is a must have -they take a fair bit of abuse.

Tht'd be the TR70 and TR110 - the difference in price for an extra 4cm is huge, but there's another manufacurer bringing one across that does 9cm and is only a tiny bit dearer than the TR70, google Rojek wood crusher. My thought were to think of it more like coal, in the sense of it being more like nuggets and you just heap it up and maybe even shovel it onto the fire rather than placing individual bits on. Been very close to going for a branch logger for a while but it's the shifting the massive amounts of produce from it that I'm less confident about at the mo.

Tht'd be the TR70 and TR110 - the difference in price for an extra 4cm is huge, but there's another manufacurer bringing one across that does 9cm and is only a tiny bit dearer than the TR70, google Rojek wood crusher. My thought were to think of it more like coal, in the sense of it being more like nuggets and you just heap it up and maybe even shovel it onto the fire rather than placing individual bits on. Been very close to going for a branch logger for a while but it's the shifting the massive amounts of produce from it that I'm less confident about at the mo.

I've done a few, but still at experimenting stage at the mo. We get a huge amount of small diameter stuff (sub 4") and am trying to find a market for it. One of my thoughts was chiminea wood - small diameter short logs. Had made a rack up for cutting poles to normal logs but it lended itself to doing tiny logs too and was surprisingly quick to cut and bag. Have got a few nets sat at home drying and they seem to dry fairly well without going mouldy and dry a bit quicker in comparison to normal logs. Haven't got round to burning more than an odd few but they seemed OK if you made a decent heap.

I've done a few, but still at experimenting stage at the mo. We get a huge amount of small diameter stuff (sub 4") and am trying to find a market for it. One of my thoughts was chiminea wood - small diameter short logs. Had made a rack up for cutting poles to normal logs but it lended itself to doing tiny logs too and was surprisingly quick to cut and bag. Have got a few nets sat at home drying and they seem to dry fairly well without going mouldy and dry a bit quicker in comparison to normal logs. Haven't got round to burning more than an odd few but they seemed OK if you made a decent heap.

Without being there, then I don't know exactly, but going off the two days bit and assuming Climber, Groundie, truck and chipper I'd have said around us it could have been more like 2/3rds and still stand a fair chance of not getting it. We are out in the wastelands to the East of York though so everyone's poor

Without being there, then I don't know exactly, but going off the two days bit and assuming Climber, Groundie, truck and chipper I'd have said around us it could have been more like 2/3rds and still stand a fair chance of not getting it. We are out in the wastelands to the East of York though so everyone's poor

Guessing Logrover's previous thread's been moderated - sounded like he's having a bad day.

Guessing Logrover's previous thread's been moderated - sounded like he's having a bad day.

For sure - Can definitely see the whole North:South divide thing here

For sure - Can definitely see the whole North:South divide thing here