Chris Sheppard

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.

Hope it goes well on Thursday

Yep, I think you've missed the point a bit Jon, Wood is a way of life, not a job If I wanted to be a rich man I'd not be working in the woods that's for sure - but I'm happy and get by so it's all good I got a few books (only one work related), a dvd, cd, sweets/choclate etc and a pack of frozen moose leg steaks to go with the exotic meats cookbook

Normally treat myself to a bottle of single malt in the run up to Christmas, Jura Superstition this year

And me

Dunno, I had one and after 5 minutes decided it was safer holding them with my foot and sawing on the ground. Really didn't like it at all as small stuff had a tendency to spin. Also, I found it a very unnatural working position. I'm not saying the thing in the vid is going to be good an all timber, but for small diameter (say sub 4") I reckon it'd be a handy tool.

I'd agree with what's been said already - either burr on bar or possibly uneven bar rails. I used to find on my hawk that one side of the bar would wear more so the chain would sit off to one side. If you're careful you can level them back up with a flap disc on a grinder. Generally speaking, if anything on the processor needs forcing then something is wrong somewhere and forcing will just bust something else.

They look smart When you get chance, can you email me through some rough prices - probably something like the 325 and 400, and on the smaller felling head too Thinking for mounting on a smallish 360. Which ones will you have for demo and what will they be on?

That was awesome - good find

Bit of a mix, some 18 month ash and Oak with some small diameter green birch that burns a lot better than it should

There is a thread somwhere on here with these already. I reckon it'd be pretty quick on the right stuff, though perhaps not the safest. Though I don't see it as any less safe than using an old flat table sawbench or even a big corkscrew splitter - I'd not want to fall into either of them and they both snatch pretty bad too. I did very nearly start making one of these a few weeks ago but never got any further

I'd finish decorating the house, put it up for rent and then fly out to Alaska, buy an old double cab pickup (old Ram or chevy) stick a demount camper on the back and go where I felt at the pace I felt like, maybe even heading down into BC for a bit too. When I felt like it I'd buy a bit of land and build a cabin and live a simple life. If I felt like it I'd come back home and go back to work, using whatever (if any) was left of the 100k to put down as deposit on a valmet and roofmount with harvesting head

This looks like it could be a good starting point for a smaller machine - Bet it wouldn't take a lot to get drive to the trailer and a crane bolted on. TERRI 1020 ATV TRACKED FORESTRY / SNOW VEHICLE SPARES OR REPAIR | eBay