Tom D

We had trouble finding the bog standard HSE one that you have to put up in the workplace, so stocking those might be an idea, we also need some wee ones to go on the vehicles to indicate that they have fuel inside, I'd take some of the timber stacks ones too. I might be interested in some logo'd ones if they weren't too much more. Cheers

Just shows how a picture speaks a thousand words, we have known for months that refugees were drowning, yet now that a picture shows up everyones interested. Its also worth pointing out that net migration in 2014 in italy was 4.29 per thousand population, UK was 2.69, france was 1.09 and germany 1.06. seems like the french and the germans need to do a lot more! Unless we fix the problems in syria and iraq this will only get worse, and with the political mood in europe heading further to the right adding thousands of migrants will lead to more problems and bolster the far right anti immigration position. .

Whats the safe working zone on that, brave man having it so near all those houses. Those things can chuck stuff a long way. We've used them before but never so close to public areas.

We have a 6100, its a good saw, not as fast as the 560 but pretty good, better than the 362 IMO.

Thats the one! Take care if you ever prune one.

Very close Peter.

Between Darrin and Python we're almost there... latin name anyone?

No, here's a big clue!

No. Its not the wood in the violin...

Nope. Seems to have got everyone thinking... here's a clue.......

Nobody right so far.... I have never officially ID'd this tree myself but it has been done by a consultant who's pretty good so I'm pretty sure I know what it is.

Good guess. But no.

What's this?

Back in the "bad" old days when mortgages were easy to get, I was told by a mortgage broker that they knew that being self employed meant that you did as much as you can to hide your earnings, He was even prepared to take into account any "cash" that I may have earned but not declared. Of course there wasn't any. Its a different world now, I feel sorry for those that can't get onto the property ladder now. For anyone who is struggling: get off the high street and go see a mortgage broker, they will find you one if anyone can.

Not used the ratchet spanners but I bought a Facom 3/4" drive set recently and its definitely good quality stuff.

1000 Jon.

Just paid 45p, its getting better...

Thats only if you reclassify it as a crane, you could just keep it PLG and its not a problem. The reason dedicated cranes can't tow is because they run on red. if you keep it as ply and run on white you can still tow..

I thought long and hard about this years ago, I ended up going down a different route buying a valtra instead but not because the landy crane is a bad idea. Great for picking up timber on jobs and even small dismantles, lifting stems out of gardens over fences etc, plus if you deliver logs in bulk bags it would be ace, I was going to have a 110 landy with a toolbox behind the cab and a hiab behind that.....

Nice! your felling looks good enough to have just stunt felled the three of them though. Maybe next time.. were you tempted?

right now a 2.2 tdci before that a 2.4 tdci and a tdi before that..

First tank of fuel on the all terrains, got an extra 60 miles over the muds! second tnk is going to last way longer too... So this has led me onto a depressing calculation, over the 50000 miles I have done on the current landy this would have saved me about £3k! and over the 250000 miles I have driven in landys over the last 15 years or so I would have saved a shocking £14k...... Almost enough to buy another landy! I'm converted.. bin the mud terrains and buy a winch with the money you save in year one, that way you still won't get stuck..

Theres something called spot response SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger thats quite good for remote areas with no signal I think. Well done for considering it, 20 years ago a guy I knew decided to set up his own log business, he bought a splitter and a pick up and started asking farmers for dead trees to scavenge. He was offered a big elm at a farm up in the hills, it was a bit of a climb but he had a 4x4 and got quite close to the tree. when he was felling it it went wrong, he tried to run but it rolled on him, he was trapped under a big limb with a smashed pelvis.... No one knew where he was, and no one had mobiles back then. His saw was still running just out of reach but he could just touch the tip of the bar, saws being what they were back then the chain was still spinning, he cut his hands to bits getting hold of the saw but eventually managed to get it. He cut the limb off himself and started to crawl towards his truck. He was beaten by a stock fence which he couldn't get over, he had to wait until he was missed and discovered. After a few ops and a long recovery he was ok, but a lucky man all the same. People think it won't happen to them, but sometimes it does.

That pretty much sums it up.

What's if for out of interest?