Chris Sheppard

throttle cable as it's a TDi My old P reg 130, which did have a black box under the seat was also a TDi. Being land rover, there's probably no hard and fast age for when they di/didn't have them - probabaly just depended on what was on the shelf that day

Mines not got it on a P reg

Mine definitely had a sealed black box of some sort under the passenger seat with wires coming out - I got told it was an ECU, but not in the same sense as whats on more modern engine. Don't know what it was for though and never bothered investigating

Only the later ones once they have EGR valves I think - my 130 did but the 90 doesn't (130 was an early 97 and the 90 is a late 96)

It'd be too much big stuff for our little crane I reckon. To hand fell 2 acres won't take long though.

what sort of % is over say 18" diameter? Roughly what tonnage do you think there is to come out and how far would it need to go to roadside? We're not a million miles away but if there's a fair bit of bigger stuff or it's a long haul we're maybe not the best bet.

I'd doubt it would be worth getting a harvester in for such a small area. Are you looking for someone to come in and give you a price standing or for you to pay a contractor and then sell roadside?

That sounds ace Bet it's an awesome little thinning saw now

Can't comment on the 560 (though meant to be getting the demo one from our local dealer to have play with this week) but the 357 is a good all rounder on a 15". Not as flickable as a 346 but more grunt. Last had mine out in some 18-20" Pine with an 18" on and it pulled it without much drama, but swapped to using the 372 again and that made the 357 feel positively lazy by comparison. What puts me off the next generation of saws is the not field fixable electrics - even the local husky dealer said it's a fairly involved process swapping over ecu's if they ever fail as it all has to be plugged in run up and programmed again. Depends what it's going to get used for mainly as to which I'd be tempted by - doesn't help much really

Don't worry too much about it Andy, it's pretty normal to get some residues round there (well mine always seem to anyway ). It sounded like it was running well on Wednesday so can't be too much wrong with it

Agreed. Whilst my only experience of them was whilst working for Riko, I really got on well with it - knocked the socks off my old HP Hawk in every way and took bendy stuff well too. very fast and easy to use.

I'm surprised Marshalls don't advertise on here yet

We're probably a bit far away at York for it to be worth doing, if I were you I'd drop by the Estate office at Mulgrave as they usually have plenty coming out.

I've not seen a mobile mill with a shelter before other than if you had a shed in the yard to work in. To be honest, I think you'd probably find a shelter would end up getting in the way for loading as most mills seem to require you to walk in with the head. I found a good set of waterproofs and about 5 or 6 pairs of gloves usually got through even a typical cumbrian rainy day. to be able to handle any diameter, I reckon you'd be into Lucas/peterson type mills, though these are limited a bit on slabbing wide boards compared to a bandmill. We managed to get some pretty big butts (can't remember exactly as was a while ago but were bigger than it should have been)through a woodmizer by taking a slab off each side first to narrow it down - if it was way too big then alaskan it into more manageable bits? I always fancied a lucas/peterson type of machine but having spent more time on bandmills (Lumbermate 2000, woodmizer and a couple of static Forestors) I think I'd be more inclined to go bandmill and an alaskan. I've not seen a PTO mill other than the old forestors but surely there'd be no reason you couldn't tow a woodmizer or similar onto site behind it anyway - they both run on red anyway and reckon a sawmill engine might use less than the valmet over a day anyway. I'd have said to get the most out of the crane, you'd have been better off placing the tractor next to the mill rather than in front of it anyway. Go and have a day with Stan - he's very patient

going 7 to 8 i've never needed any more links so I'd guess an extra drive link should be enough for 7 to 9 - could be wrong though as that wasn't on a 395

If you do still want another saw, drop Spoonz on here a PM as he might be intersted in parting with his 024

Yep, liked that. Wish they'd get it back on Quest again soon. Did get into last series of Axe men though when you could get full episodes on youtube

We're cleaned out of stuff ready to go at the mo but got plenty down to start pulling this week and got plenty more to go at - just outside York if it's of any interest. Nearly all Scot.

Absolutely - and if it's anything like Grandis it's really brittle too so doesn't want to go too small. I've been trying to find time to do a bit of milling over the last year but never get chance as we're too busy felling at the mo.

Nice one - I'll know better tomorrow and let you know - if you fancy a look it's on the same site as the firewood but up the other end. Reckon it wouldn't take a huge amount of work to be able to get Kieran's 6 wheeler fairly close and we should have a 15 tonne 360 with grapple to hand too so theoretically they could be fairly long.

Was kinda half expecting that might be the case - Just seems a shame for them to end up as firewood as they were a couple of really quite nice looking trees.

In that case you either have a very heavy land rover or a very light transit

Just had a landowner on the phone saying he's had a couple of big Firs on the edge of his arboretum come down in the wind. They're not doing anythign any harm so off to have a look tomorrow. From memory, if they are the two I'm thinking of they were both pretty straight, not massive in height (probably still sub 100ft) but were both a good bit over 3ft diameter above the toes. I'm not 100% sure what they are, I thought Silver but he's saying Noble - either way I'm guessing they aren't the most desirable of timbers as most of the mills seem to dislike anything in normal sawlog diameters. I'll have a better idea tomorrow of what's there and what might be usable but theres a reasonable chance if they haven't snapped that we could get them out in fairly sizable chunks between the digger and winching. Anyone any suggestions as to buyers?

Our christmas tree is on ours tonight. Well bits of it are, still busy with secateurs

Sounds like it'll be a great trip. When in vancouver, it's worth getting a ride up to the top of Grouse mountain in North Vancouver, there's some awesom chainsaw carvings up there. If you've time, try and get up towards whistler too - it's not much of a drive north of Vancouver and the scenery is great. Not sure what we're doing yet - didn't get away this year so hopefully getting away properly this coming year. Maybe a trip back to British Cloumbia, maybe Alaska or it might be a bit of a road trip into sweden/finland/norway again but later in the year.