THE88MAN

you were luck-eh!!

absolutely!! i had a black lab for 12 yrs up the wood with me along with my last border terrier,both sadly passed on now,but i'm re-living it now with my border pup and the missus chocolate lab,he's thick as **** but we still love him,happy days

perhaps it cleaned alot of caves!!

dogs may eat **** but are incapable of talking it at least

thats what i thought but snapped a few chains recently and put it down to the asda oil,i then mixed it 50/50 with the stihl stuff,then i worked out 20L drums of stihl stuff from mr jones are only a few pence more per litre than supermarket oil,no snapping chains since

LINFORD JOKE: linford goes to join his local golf club,the steward says "sorry,we are not taking any new members this year,but there is another club 10 mins down the road sir" linford replies "hey,but i'm LINFORD CHRISTIE,olympic 100m champion!!" steward replies "ok then,3 minutes down the road sir"

i have a 25" bar for my 88,much the same principle,nothing stands in its way!!

thats interesting david,many thanks,i always think ash is overrated and overhyped anyway,i've got eucalyptus,blackthorn and lombardy poplar(yes really)sizzling away on my woodburner tonight and i'm sitting in my underpants(nearly!)the beetle can keep the ash

short thread then! is it already in the wood or does it find it once stacked? my yard is 15 miles from where i coppice and nowhere near woodland,but only seems to appear once the wood is in and stacked

could be a quick thread this one! some kind of bug/worm has been chomping its way through my ash firewood stock for the last few years,it bores in and leaves alot of dust but doesn't decimate the wood,if anything seems to speed up the drying process,whats it called?!

today 8-5pm,monday 7.30-dark pm probably,my days vary.i tend to start on site in residential areas at 9am,would like to start earlier but seem to get quite a few moaners! until "they" want something doing that is

done.keep the donations coming guys,and keep your fingers crossed for chris

i've had quite alot of ash over the years that aint the best burning,seasoned and green.its usually old,slow grown,gnarly stuff i find

just get yourself a fourtrak boys,26mpg,20mpg towing a small continent at 60mph all day long,MT tyres to go anywhere,odd oil change and happy days,my 94 tdx even has air-con!! seriously good work truck,good late models going cheap,bit small in the back probably only down point

funny thing is i now actually do firewood for beer money! 10 years ago we sold 30 1/2 ton loads a week (winter) on average,£40 a load,full time job,take out fuel,overheads,two mens wages,breakdowns etc then do the maths,not viable.i have always maintained that good seasoned firewood should be nearly double the average market price but while idiots are rushing around cutting their own throats it will remain beer money.i now sell 4-5 loads a week at 60 quid on a saturday.....after i've earnt my living mon-fri,sad but true

I did a bit of flier hand posting many years ago,i found saturdays and sundays on sunny days brought work in,people cutting front lawns and washing their cars in cul-de-sacs were easy to strike up conversation with,subtley leaning into tree work talk,being polite and not too pushy,ending up with mostly small conifer work but eventually lots of it,and still serving most of them to this day

purely out of interest has anyone had kit stolen and recovered/returned because it was marked?

thats a bit like some strong spirits said to be 140%,always confuses me,when i drink them i usually end up with my face in a puddle:ohmy: back to the lime subject i find it on a par with horse chestnut,it will just about burn but not very hot,i would take it and mix it up perhaps 10-20% with better hardwoods

thanks andy

Thanks M,its an indoor day today

I like trees but as we know, there's no two quite the same. A big take down or leylandii hedge, just two aspects of our game. Reducing beech on a monday morn, may fill you full of pride. but tuesday the dreaded conifer hedge, "my god its 12 feet wide!!" Wednesday maybe different still, "can you top my 40 feet ash?" you turn up and find an elder bush, disappointing,but still its cash Thursday and its time for pop's, and the wind bites cold and hard. then the rain comes sweeping in, "bugger this lads,back to yard" Friday afternoon soon comes, "we'll have a job and knock" but it looks like saturday morning too, 'cos the chippers gone to pot. We love the trees,of course we do, and often to obsession. thats why we treat them with respect, or they'll soon teach us a lesson. We tackle them with MEWP's and cranes, with our husky's and our stihl's. a more satisfying job ther 'aint, and it also pays the bills. A stressful jobthis sure can be, but we wouldn't change a thing. when you see for miles and count 6 churches, in the sun,you feel a king. I like trees but its more a passion, i'm long set in my ways. i'll live amongst and care for them, until my final days.

and make sure you give her a deposit..........sorry:001_smile:

i like trees but why do we say "i cut it down then cut it up"?!!!

sorry to hear that mate,been there myself.probably only that busy myself because i stoop down to doing little old ladies hedges and a bit of landscaping etc,i know alot of you boys wont but needs must sometimes with me and it gives my back a respite,hope life picks up for ya soon bud,steve