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Iwas taught 20% softwood 30% hardwood learnt my trade from the axe and crosscut boys .All my cutting was for commercial timber and big gobs wasted butt length.Stumps had to be 2 inch below ground not 2 foot above.Ifelled through the elm regime in the 70s and 80s with trees pushing 2000 hoppus. Imo moving the throat back in a backleaner is the wrong way to go, especially if youre roping it over a lot of it lies in rope position.Regarding elm particularly wych elm you find that because of the very nature of the timber they are more resistant to being pulled you only need to look at the rag on a elm butt or stump to understand that.Ive seen elm that have put up a massive resistance to being roped even when they were being winched with Cats and a 2 inch peg in the heart has been the problem.

I dont tend to comment much on this forum though i do read it quite a lot and ive got to say it seems to me that some of the comments about so called pikeys are doing no good whatsoever to your trade nor least of all to the people that are making them. As i once stated in a past thread there seems to be a number of people in this trade that put themselves up there on a pedestal having a go at other peoples work and lifestyles when perhaps they should stand back and take a look at themselves. Ive seen some of the pictures of work on this forum and to be perfectly honest id be ashamed to put my name to it With regards to the above quote you only need to look in any town centre to see litter thrown around thats also absorbing taxpayers money to clean up and im sure pikeys are not responsible for all of it. As regards people working on the cheapthen wisen up cos this happens in other trades too and there are certain people in life that will always go for a cheaper job doing, perhaps some of them just cannot afford the rates some of you guys are charging?

You may live to regret it if you get involved with him

Mervin is in fact dead.

Thats a bit wuff int it

Make sure you do doggy paddle aswell. ----Sorry

I was told not to cultivate on your face wot grows wild on your@rse---- nice one lads at least weve got some humour going at last.

Has anybody ever considered the amount of people with beards in this profession? It seems proportionately high in comparison to a lot of other jobs. Anybody got a theory on this?

You only need to look at some timber operations to come across similar circumstances

I was not suggesting pecontools that im good at everything , i did in fact state that im still learning. The only difference is that all my cutting days were payed on piecework not price per job and so just to survive for all those years there must have been something there.

It seems to me that reading through some of the comments as i browse through different threads on here to see people making comments that appear to set themselves and this trade on a pedestal. Ive been in this industry probably longer than most on this forum --- before a lot of them were born. Ive seen some of the pics of work done , and read comments about other peoples work some good -some bad when the truth is the people that made the comments wouldnt know a good job if it hit them in the face. Ive also met a massive cross section of people working in the trade.What you will find as you go down the years is that the best preventative of accidents is experience not bits of paper--Im still learning after 35 year s it could be said that there are numpties in every walk of life-- we appear to have a few running this country at the moment, This is not a personal attack on any one person on this forum but , more a way of saying that sometimes we should step back and look at ourselves both as individuals and an industry and perhaps not appear to be too judgemental of others cos some of the people that choose to read this forum could potentially HAVE been your very next customer

Could see France if you stood on that.

What happened to cutters felling trees at ground level?---looks so much tidier.

Will the clutch not have been married up to the engine so possibly an original chipper part?

Hows it shagged?

Sorry but nothing on the work front. Suitability depends on species.A load is an artic load, All must be free of metal. p.m me please if you think you have anything.

various mills throughout U.K

anything suitable for milling in full loads

The current demand for hardwood is buoyant to say the least. Anybody got or knows of parcels in the pipeline i would be interested to know.

Try turning the H screw out further to a point where you can get it to run --- then fine tune--- if this doesnt work strip carb again & check diaphragms are fit correctly ---especially the one that operates the needle

I can place the Elm into avery good market for you provided it"s sound and not gone back too far

Has this come from surgery work?---if so metal can be a problem

I can place Poplar could you indicate which part of country it is and whether it is already felled?

I have 35 years experience marketing round timber all over U.K ---anybody who thinks they may have something of interest please contact me by P.M

I have amarket for elm butts but would need to see them ---how many are there?