Tom D

Great job, great pics.

Ok I can't spare the time to go to hampshire to do the tree life prep course so I am looking for some information on what to expect. Any information would be helpful, good books or websites, or your own experiences. Does anyone know how the marks are apportioned? writen exam vs. ident vs. excersise? Thanks

Wow that's a lucky escape, can't wait to see your pics Paul. What does a plane like that weigh?

Try these:001_smile:

Looks like a geat job Ed, Did you already own all that wire rope or did you buy it for the job. This reminds me, I read once that when they built the west highland railway over rannoch moor and other boggy bits they felled loads of trees and lined them all up on top of the bog, then they covered them with stone and laid the tracks on top. In those conditions I bet that timber is still good as new.

I was going to say driving that thing must be like being at sea on a twisty road, but you guys don't do twisty roads do ya:001_tongue:

So how many times have you had time off for a fake illness?

After all the toys you've been using lately I reckon working with us would be like going back to the stone age. lol Be nice to meet up though.

We will hopefuly be starting on thursday, but wont really get our teeth into it untill the week after as we have to cut a ride in and thin some sitkas on the same site, If you fancy coming over to see the wee tractor at some point you're more than welcome. Its so long since i saw the job I can't remember how many of the willows will fell with the winch, hopefully at least half of them, pretty horrible looking trees as I remember.

You doing anything next week, I've got 14 big crack willows to dismantle:001_tt1:

You must be rusty, breaking a branch like that under your own weight, perhaps you should have gone to the gym a little first.

Have you thought about the galvanised steel sheeting? I have it on my van and on a trailer which was done 8 years ago, still no rust.

Send it by sea Stevie:001_tt1:

Mine are around 20 on average, although I was testing some of this years batch at the weekend and noticed that many would be (when split open) 25% in the middle then 20% nearer the edge and 10 or 15% on the outside. So really the only way to be sure is to weigh them then dry them down to 0% and weigh them again. There is a huge difference in weight between oak or beech at 20% and poplar or willow at 20%

So thats why you sold the mog and valmet, the new v12 vantage looks nice.

Pretty dry load, mostly beech, i cant'be sure it was exactly 3 cube but I wont be far out, it was 5 bulk bags worth. I'm sure other timbers would be a lot lighter. What to yours weigh per cube?

I'd second that, I weighed a 3m3 load last year it came out bang on 1.5 ton.

I wanna see the comic genitalia:001_tongue:

As far as mounting the pulley goes I use a cow as it takes more rope, and I don't like having the tail hanging around, once the stem gets too thick I go onto a timber hitch. Other than that I can't choose between them.

Just a thought, do you guys use unleaded petrol ( gas )? maybe the leaded stuff was better as it burned cooler? I gust got one of my 200's back today, it has had a new carb fitted after 6 years of pretty reliable service, according to the saw doc there is an o-ring in the carb which perishes over time and breaks up allowing air to be drawn in.

It would be nice if we could make these debates / arguments a bit frendlier, reading this thread would put most video virgins off posting which is a real shame. I LOVE watching other peoples treework vids, please post them anyway and we'll all try to be nice... There are hundreds of members on here and only a handfull have posted vids, some of the regular posters should lead by example.

they are great if you don't mind being seriously over weight. My mate has one , it weighs 3 ton empty:scared1: Take it for a test drive... to the neaerest public weighbridge.

Try local agricultural shows, or even better craft fairs, there's a company up here who I've sold timber to in the past, I saw their stall at the edinburgh wood fest , which is a sort of craft fair held once a year in town. All they were doing was selling boards, some wany edged some not to the general public, for seriously high prices. If you have nice, interesting timber all you need to do is show it to the right people and they will buy it for silly money.

Todays euc dismantle

I have also been climbing for 6 years, in tree work for 9, I dont claim to be the worlds best climber but I do love rigging, the more difficult ther job the more interesting it is, however, I also love simplicity and I think finding the simplest way to complete a job safely is the real challenge of dismantling. I did my first speedline job a few months back, I had gone 5 years without doing one because I had always found a simpler way, eventualy a job came along where a speedline was the simplest way. I think what you can see in this vid is the simplest way of getting the job done. and if you think there's too much slack you should have seen some of the stuff I did today, we were felling out tops of a multistemmed euc from 8 feet above the pulley... Why? because it was the simplest way of getting it down the pieces only weighed 50-100kg and there were plenty of leaves on them to slow their swing. I am sure that Mike understands the laws of physics and that if her was butt hitching 1ton lumps of oak hed use a bigger pulley and have less slack, but as he's a seasoned pro he's learned where rules can be bent and where they can't, just like a few others on here.