Tom D
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It's nice with a 24" bar, it would probably handle a 28". I wouldn't go less than 20" it's briefly entertaining in an 18 but ultimately pointless.
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Ordered a new bar for it last night, I'll give it a whirl next week and let you know how it goes, it was a good saw before so it will be interesting to see how it performs. 357 it great btw..
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Been asked the question by the client and don't actually have a definitive answer. We normally just do it, excersising common sense when close to other trees, shallow grinding if necessary.. Any one aware of any official position?
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Do you not have a local recycling centre, there are a few up here that will take green waste for £20 a ton, and they take chip for free. We use them a fair bit, saves a trip back to the yard if you're full by lunchtime.
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UK Forestry in serious trouble?
Tom D replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Round here there have been several big wind farm projects which have involved clear fell of semi mature spruce.. This must have had an effect locally at least,flooding the market with pulp and biomass.. Maybe similar things are happening nationally. -
25 ton plus, mostly processor size mixed quality hardwood no willow or pop, about 5 pine sticks in amongst it. Call Tom 07801 538 717
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A few more..
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Working up north today.
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???? I should have said what's wrong with turkey oak....
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What about the 254? The transformation with mine was greater than with any of the others....
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Could still be robur. There's plenty like that out there. Sapwood looks normal to me .. What's with turkey oak anyway?
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Re clipping the saw up, we use micro grabs on all our lanyards now, you tie a stopper knot in one end so it won't drop right through then just pull the stopper knot right up and the saw is at your harness, squeeze the grab and it's back to working length...
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Makes me smile thinking back 10 years, I'd work 2 or 3 days a week, work on the house a bit, go fishing , chill out. Then the kids came along. Haven't fished in a couple of years, and it's been months since I went out with the rifle.
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The government don't make it easy to grow a business that's for sure, the vat threshold is the first hurdle, we've now hit another hurdle where I don't have any more time to manage everything. I started out part time, my wife had a good job and I spent a lot of time renovating our house, just using subbed as required. It was hard to get past the threshold by much, turnover was less than 100k for a few years. Then we suddenly lept forwards to the 150-200 mark and that was good. Now we have stagnated again at the 350-400 mark and we need to make some changes to move on again. YOu need to run the business that works for you, you can do quite nicely under the threshold if you are smart but there's a lot of guys busting their balls and still at or around the threshold, that's no fun... Likewise it's no fun turning over 300k if you have no free time and lots of headaches. We are about to go paperless with a new quoting and accounting system in the hope that it will free up a lot more time... Maybe it will.
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I like that.. Looks very professional ..
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I might take a welder to my bashlins.
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I think this is a great idea, genuinely, having twin spikes hinged will make a huge difference to comfort and stability. Why they think it's ok to charge £2k I don't know. Still someone will be along soon with a cheap copy, probably stein.....
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All the alpines that I have seen have a land drive PTO. This means that you could have a purpose built trailer and a prop running to the trailer axles so you could have 6x6 or 8x8 drive. Might cost a few quid to build but it would be a handy machine, decent floatations tyres and maybe even band tracks on the trailer, should go most places. BCS do an alpine with centre articulation as well as a steering front axle so much better turning circle..
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If you know how to charge then sure its better to work two days a week for £700 a day and take the rest off, but there's a lot of firms who work maybe 18 days a month and still stay under the threshold, these are the ones I don't get.. Round here I don't think i'd get enough small connie jobs to make a living on my own, the small jobs are the most competitive, as more people can do them. I don't work 250 days a year but when you have staff the company will be working that many days, different staff have time off at different times..
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Its pretty hard to do tree work with no staff. you need a subby or an employee surely?
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Not sure about the legalities of split companies.. Sounds dodgy to me, it needs to be remembered that it's not a a case of right or wrong, it's a case of how an inspector interprets the rules. And these people have so much power, freezing bank accounts for example, that it's not a risk worth taking. I'm surprised how many people manage to stay under the vat threshold (without doing a lot of cash). The threshold is 83000, that's only £318 per working day of the year..
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I have 2 362's one of which is spudded. Neither of them are as good as a ported 357. I'd like to see that 362 against a stock 560. A stock 560 was just a whisker slower than a ported560 on .325. My latest ported 357 is running 3/8 and is probably faster still..
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I think its bacteria feeding on the sugar in the sap, could be yeast. Try canesten.
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By professionals I mean they probably are in the plant business, they will have a legit company with trucks and a depot etc, so they can easily get rid of stuff like that. You're not towing that away with a transit. And none of the gypo's round here run anything bigger than a transit. Was it on air brakes?
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Looks brand new! Thats professionals, not travellers.
