Tom D
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A few from today, They were 80 foot tall, we taped one. The pov makes the stems look thinner than they are, the second one would be 4'+dbh,there's some biguns on this site, got to dismantle the rest:thumbup: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz_PKTFcPOw]YouTube - Felling willows[/ame]
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The buyer at AJ Scott told me that he'd may £50 a cubic foot for the right log. It needs to have a good shape and be burry right through. I haven't found one yet. Yours woukd be good for tyurning though, ask the tirner to tell you how he wants it cut up. Some one might want a slab.
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I tried the bottle jack once, You need a really big one! The 8 ton one I had wasn't really up to the job, I think the ones designed for the purpose are about 40 ton.
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If you're really good you can make a harness as well.
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Forgot the keys to the chipper once, felled the tree stacked the brash and then ... hotwired it. Took me a while to figure it out though:cursing:
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My old man used pallet line all the time, They're ok.
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About 80 foot, you'll have seen crack willows before they're the ones that grow quite tall and then fall to bits. They are fairly common over here. We'll get the hobbs out and you can knock some big lumps out.
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I hadn't realised you wanted to climb, theres some real nice trees on this site, 6 of which the consultant who surveyed the site claims "should not be climbed":cool1: I suspect though that this is due to the fact that they own a 27metre tracked mewp rather then any real concern for contractor safety. They are all crack willows Salix fragilis quite tall too. Wednesday would be good, I'll give you a ring.
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How about the next 2 weeks? Lol. Be great to see you any day this week or next, although I'm hoping to do the felling / winching stuff in week 1. Its ages since I loked at this job, like 5 months, I popped back on friday for a refesher: they haven't got any smaller:crying:
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I need someone for the next two weeks after being let down by a groundie just now. Work is in edinburgh and would suit someone with basic tickets or whatever to be honest. Money will be £50 - £60 a day and would suit someone local as accomodation round here is expensive at the best of times and its currently festival time so it is even more expensive. Anyone interested please get in touch. Thanks Tom
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The shackles are one of the best features. as they allow you to attach extra attachment points. although if they replace them with something like the tree motion where you can clip in either side of the bridge that would be good. I have the setup below, which is ok, and I do use those two quickdraws all the time.
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Are they on the forum? I'd love the chance to have some input, or at least a chat, I really like the TF, but have made a couple of mods, it would be great if a new model could incorporate these.
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Sounds interesting, I have a fair size stack available now. Tell us more.
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Brilliant. Great vid and really good quality pics too.
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firewood kiln - How do you build one? does anyone know
Tom D replied to Joy Yeomans's topic in Firewood forum
Have to say why? Waste of energy and probably not that cost effective unless you sell in small bags direct at top dollar. Best spend a little time building a decent off ground racking system somwhere windy. -
I've seen this before, several times, not sure what it is thoiugh.
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I think pentland are only really interested in timber like you say, they make their own chip.
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Yesterdays job,not that big but it was so windy hand holding was almost impossible ended up using the hobbs rigging bits off a 3" stem:w00t:. All went ok.. just.
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I don't know the model No, but it was 120Hp john deere, only 6 years old.
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Got back to the yard yesterday, saw the fire brigade just leaving. In the field next to my house my mate had been ploughing..... Electrical fault apparently.
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Thanks Guys:thumbup:
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I can remember reading on here that some of you guys sell chip in bulk. I am now dumping my chip at the farm up the road and have plenty of space. I will have a large pile every now and then which could be taken away by artic as we have a loader here, its all on a hardstanding and there's plenty room for trucks to turn, park up etc. So does anbody want some? or know who I should contact? its 5 mins from A1 35 miles south of edinburgh. Cheers Tom
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To be fair if this is the same case, I think the car driver lost that case because the expert witness his lawyer had hired had claimed that the damage to the limb that had broken was visible from the ground and had been missed by the estate workers. In fact it was proved by another expert witness that the damage would not have been visible from the ground and therefore the estate workers could not have seen it. It is still accepted that lay inspections are ok so long as experts are called in in the event of defects being discovered.
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We visited our local showroom, picked the one we liked and then bought it off the net for £400 less.
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Let us know how you get on with it Steve, I've ben thinking about getting one. What do you use at the moment?
