Tom D

Big bars are pretty horrible to use, a pain to sharpen when blunted, and sap power. Big timber is only worth using for firewood if you have the big kit to deal with it. The amount of time (time is money) it will take to prep for splitting would be better spent buying in timber of a sensible size that is easily processed. This is why the smart firewood guys will spend way more on processor sized timber, what it costs to buy is easily recouped in saved labour.

Remember you will still get dangerous carbon monoxide from aspen, its not like you can use your saws indoors! It could be the CO thats making you feel sick, its one of the symptoms.

Could Oli Francis please get in touch as the email he left doesn't work. Cheers:001_smile:

Bump. This needs to go, I will be looking at sensible offers....

Interesting, sounds possible but I am fairly sure that all the rings formed a cylinder 3-4' long, do you think thats possible? The other rocks surrounding don't seem to show this..

I see what you mean but that wouldn't give a cylinder, i.e. if you cut through the rock a couple of feet further down you would see the same rings.. With this stone I think you would, I'll make further investigations....

Cool Bog oak.. The rings are concentric, the photo doesn't show it well, I had the advantage of seeing it in the flesh, there is another rock where you want to put the camera, I am going to take the stihl saw down and cut a bit off, then look with a lens and see if that shows anything.

Yes, but these not a ball shape its a reasonably flat cross section.. Given that limestone is formed under the sea I think its more likely to be some kind of sea life, but I don't know what.

Its in a band of sandstone that lies under limestone exposed by the sea, there are a lot of fossils in the other rocks around there, the rings form a cylinder, like a tree, I should have taken more pictures really. I just can't think of a way in which concentric cylindrical rings could form without some kind of life being involved. The rocks are Dinantian which is early carboniferous, they are about 350 million years old.

That wouldn't explain the complete circles, I have seen sedimentary rock folded before but on a much bigger scale. I would imagine the rings are exposed because a tree trunk was fossilised and once it had formed rock it them cracked giving a fairly clean break. It could be a stromatolite maybe??

Saw this on the beach today, there are quite a few fossils there, what do you recon? The only other think I think it could be would be some kind of coral which grew seasonal rings....

Still waiting TCD...

These threads do my head in, you can't compare your "job" with mine or anyone else's because every tree is different. I have done jobs just for the wood, in fact the last time I paid the customer for the privilege, but there was £15k of wood, it took us 3 weeks to fell and extract. But who is going to go and prune leylandii just for the wood?? You all talk about day rates... is £1000 too high? not if you have the right kit, I have made well over 1k a day with just 2 men, but if you have the right kit on site...... its about how much work you get done, not how long the job takes. If you had all your saws stolen tomorrow and you can't afford to replace them the same day then you are not charging enough. You should be making enough profit to replace significant items of equipment on a regular basis, i.e. year one new saws / climbing kit, year 2 new chipper, year 3 new van, year 4 new stump grinder, year five new saws again.... you get the idea, this is over simplified, and for many items will not be brand new but newer, but.... if you are not doing this then you are not charging enough. The way I see it you and your family should have a comfortable life, be able to afford a decent holiday, live in a nice house, have a pension, and not feel like you are scrimping and saving.... Are you? have you? will you? If not why not. As the employee its easy to look at prices for jobs and think the boss must be loaded, the reality is somewhat different. The problem for many is that they leave employment thinking they can do it much cheaper than their old boss, in reality they can't. Unless of course they live hand to mouth and job to job, always scrimping and saving, spending all their time repairing old knackered kit because they don't charge enough to replace it regularly..... If you remember nothing of this thread remember this; there will ALWAYS be someone cheaper then you...... BUT they can't do ALL the jobs... So when you loose a job to the cheap guy rejoice! because thats another day of his hand to mouth existence taken up. and thats one less day he is competing with you.

looks like turners oak.

The new forth crossing has attracted workers and materials from all over the world, in a gesture of inclusiveness the contractor put up the flag of every nation involved. On arrival for his photo shoot king Alec had them all taken down. Saltires only. True story.

This will depend on how dry the wood is, 25t at 50-60% moisture, i.e. fresh cut, will give you about 70 cube. Whereas 25 ton at 20% will give around 100 cube. Bulk bags vary in size a lot so work out the cubage from there. Its worth remembering that fresh felled softwood may be 55% moisture so 13.75ton of your load is just water, if you bought the same load "oven dry" you would be getting an extra 13.75 ton of saleable wood. This is why its always best to buy firewood by volume not weight.

This is 2 wheel drive....

Looking at the picture I don't think that flicking they would have made any difference, once its been pulled tight then thats usually it. I don't think the picture is a setup, although as the rope is new england fly, its not Buffalo's, its his sidekicks. Please don't tell me you climbed up yourself to retrieve the trainee's line Buffalo? Being a bit of a bastard myself I would usually send the trainee to fetch MY stuck line LOL.

Love that little fendt, front linkage and pto too!

Its a 111, I need the extra hp for running a heizo...

I have bought an N series with a botex 570...

Bump! Annoyingly I spoke to one of the people who was interested in this machine before I took the dodgy deposit, he has now bought another machine... I want to sell this before the end of the month as the new one will be arriving soon. I have just had the brakes overhauled, new seals in the master cylinder. She is ready for work, and compared to the ones in Jas Wilsons yard she is nicely priced too!

thats the only difference...

That winch has seen some action! Nice tractor, welcome to Arbtalk.

Specifically I am looking for the differences between this DOLMAR - PS-6100 and this Makita UK - EA6100P45D - CHAINSAW PETROL 45CM 61CC.325" they are identical no?