David Riding
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From house of an employee in wigan, they have found the land rover, cleaned out of gear obviously, and dash ripped to shreds.
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I will make it to the peoples republic in the near future to pick up my mats, not in your way are they
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I think everyone on this forum knows that at some point in the next 5 years they will be starting a thread under this catergory.... Anyway Land Rover Defender 300tdi, with gear went last night with various saws in 66's 44 26 20. The land rover was for sale and was worth about 3k will probably only get 2k from payout I am glad that a popular tree surgeon from Colne who frequents this forum told me on an arbtalk get together to change my tool insurance to an old for new policy ,so not as gutted that 2 66's went which were only 3 months old. Cant remember his name but he has this ridiculous unimog set up with a massive 14m crane on a trailer, it will never catch on.
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good try but nothing was allowed on site apart from the 6 inch chipper it was in method statement completed by ecology company. It does not matter what makes sense!!!!! I offered a low ground pressure 18inch tracked chipper, skyline etc but was no go. Manual graft 3 weeks, stems 12 to 18 inch in mud up to knees every day.
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woodland owners kept it, all alder though, it will probably be left to rot
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Job should have took 3 days with the big kit but due to those newty & badger things had to carry all timber by hand and nothing bigger than a 6 inch chipper on site. No power line jokes.
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I do contract work where lowering kit is required constantly, if I then get a call from council for emergency job where rigging is needed, I get a subby climber in with a lowering kit to cover one of the jobs. Also some climbers prefer using there own rigging kit. I suppose I could buy another lowering kit, but I dont think this is necessary and I think the subby would prefer the extra sweet cash for providing.
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I would always favour someone with a full range of saws (including 2 x 200t's) and full rigging kit even if they were £30 a day more, due to fact that I usually only get a subby in when all resources are used.
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for clearance work in North West Area, all felling work. Rate based on experience and qualifications, must have pre 97 licence.
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Anyone got an idea of price and a supplier (apparently it sinks rather than staying on surface of water)
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keruing wooden vats available (54 tonnes)
David Riding replied to David Riding's topic in General chat
No you cant lick them and get pissed -
keruing wooden vats available (54 tonnes)
David Riding replied to David Riding's topic in General chat
Joseph Brown (Vats) Extremely tough hardwood, so I presume would make awesome firewood. -
54 tonnes of Keruing wooden vats in 3500mm lengths, ranging from 130mm x 50mm to 240mm x 75mm, located in Girvan, Shrekland. Just north of Stranraer. PM if interested with an offer.
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Been very disapointed with output of air burner for root balls or vegetation, so always used a high speed shredder / tub grinder instead. kingswell and tree clear only people I know.
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at the moment for clearance work I just estimate number of trees and then times it by a constant weight but would like to be a little more precise.
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Time restraints on site would stop that on most jobs, but I really have thought about that and log processing straight in to a walking floor or artic tipper.
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Thought about 32 tonner but for smaller clearance could just take the 18 tonner with better access for say a large domestic job.
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moving to a much bigger yard and going to do firewood on a lot larger basis, so I want to be greedy and keep it.
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Cheers, althought the whole website is completely being re-done at the mo. Yeah its my trailer but will only carry 8 tonnes max, I am also doing work a lot further from base so would like something that will be faster and carry a lot more. I dont need 4wd truck all timber is forwarded to road side. You would be amazed what an awesome 2wd crane truck you can get for 10k - 15k a mog at that price would not be too good.
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Some people! beech reduction, too much?
David Riding replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
does make it look a lot less severe when photos are more in proportion to each other
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Some people! beech reduction, too much?
David Riding replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
I agree, if you had took photos from exactly the same spot it would not have looked anything like as severe. -
Is the a general formula for estimating the weight of a root ball going of say dbh, I realise this will fluctuate from tree to tree & change depending on ground conditions.
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Its costing me a lot hauling timber so am looking to buy an 18 tonne similar to Peters but with trailer / drag as well. Will obviously need class 1, but whats the most I can legally tow.
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They took the 20% Tax out my cheque......Grrrr
David Riding replied to Mac McLennan's topic in General chat
some of the massive construction companies will deduct 20% regardless, as the inland revenue will have advised them to do so. CIS deduction should get passed down the sub-contractor hierarchy i.e lads working for you but try telling your local hire company that your deduction 20% off their payment of the tracked chipper you've hired
