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They’ll almost definitely only be felling them because you are a twat. You twat.

That patio looks like it wanted ripping up and chucking in a skip anyway - stop kicking off for the sake of it would be my opinion. As said, do you want a treeless environment to live in? Maybe buy a house on a new estate if so, so you can decide what grows up in your immediate environment.

‘Pit boss’ trees was another localised name for them apparently, as they were seen as a symbol of wealth when first introduced. Good ones look amazing, but ones with poor form can look terrible IMO. We’ve got a cracker that was grown from a 6 inch potted sapling picked up at a school fete - as a stand alone feature tree they are superb.

Who was it who chainsawed up the whale on here? That didn’t look like a great job tbh....

Can’t you swap the pump (and if not the issue then other components) from the good machine to isolate the fault if you have more than one?

You can get the rotor re-shafted at Greenmech

From the pics I’d bet that a heavy reduction to Ben’s orange line would see that tree outlasting all of us, and even if it failed it wouldn’t then hit the transformer pole. But it isn’t possible to make such a call just from pics. Give SPEN a call - if you’d prefer to keep the tree (which I think you should, but it’s your tree to do with as you see fit) let them know and their surveyor should be qualified enough to advise the best course of action. As Paul said, they will more than likely pay their contractor to undertake the works at no expense to you, but to a specification agreed by you. Let us know the outcome!

It’s more the operating centre etc which is harder for a lot of people. Paperwork is no big deal, having somewhere to run from/park makes it more difficult than it needs to be.

No shit Sherlock! The law needs changing to make running heavier trucks straightforward (no O-licence etc). It’ll probably have to change when the additional weight of batteries are forced upon us mind....

Once you put a big arb body on it they do.

The 3.5 tonners weigh pretty much the same (whatever make) so why not? At least it should be running in a safe condition if actually overloaded on paper. Probably cheaper to buy originally, 3.5 tonners make strong money anyway.

If you ask your local dealer if they can get close to the online retailer’s prices in my experience they will often try - it’s worth paying a bit more to keep the local guys open anyway. I’d much rather spend locally where possible.

I’ve had a few PMs asking for location etc - it’s in Cheshire but could be loaded onto a pallet easily enough. English oak (Quercus robur). Approximately 3 feet across, it must weigh 150kg minimum I’d guess. I’ll get some proper measurements if I get a chance today though. At £50-£80 it won’t be going anywhere unfortunately. This is a big old lump, and it is all there in one piece.

That makes sense and is brilliantly described. How come these issues don’t tend to present themselves on/in harvested timber though?

We felled an oak today and have a really nice burr that the customer would like to sell. Any ideas of value, and who might buy it? Or should I stick it on eBay?!... Cheers, Dan

Greenmech Safetrak - get the chipper to the tree, wherever it is. They are far and away the best on tracks if you want to go across tricky ground (which is the whole point of a tracker chipper surely?!).

Whatever you want to call him, I hope he gets caught and I hope he ends up in a nasty accident.

The guy in the pics is a pikey in my eyes, whether he’s a traveller or not. I couldn’t care less how he classifies himself/how he was brought up/what demographic he associates with. (Some travellers don’t help themselves though as they harbour/protect pikeys and live off their income). You don’t have to call yourself a traveller to be a pikey as far as I’m concerned.

To me a pikey is the lowest of the low, a scummy thieving lawless benefit-scrounging tax-dodging dirty criminal scourge on society. Whatever ethnicity they decide applies to them or where they choose to live is irrelevant. If if you want to see what I mean by pikey, have a look at the pictures in the first post in this thread. There is one right there - he and anyone who knowingly supports him fit the description perfectly.

Don’t think I mentioned travellers. Nope, just read it again and definitely didn’t at any point mention travellers.

Dirty thieving pikey rat wants those fingers chopping off.

A lot of the older Fords only do 30k though - painfully slow on the road. I’d love a TW though!

I’d be very wary of buying any second hand tractor fitted with a loader personally. Much rather have a tidy non-loader machine to start and fit one myself if needed. I’ve got an Agrotron and am very pleased with it (it’s powerful but relatively small so good amongst trees) but certainly not without its issues, but I think that would be the same with any brand. Anything second hand is a potential grenade, but I wouldn’t personally want to buy a new machine and stick a mulcher on the back/drive it into the woods etc. Our job wrecks nice kit, no matter how careful you are.

Definitely a squirrel.

It started out as a bit of an unofficial ‘I’m better at dragging trees than you’ local affair, but has grown into quite a big competition. They have to drag a load of tree trunks around a trials-style course with really tight gates and very steep slippery terrain. I couldn’t really follow the scoring but hitting the gates was obviously a no-no - the operators were amazingly skilful and had the timber double choked (one near the skidder, and the second nearer the back of the timber) and used the double drum winches and machine’s pivot to steer the logs around corners etc. Some of the skidders were also fitted with cranes which obviously made the job easier - I’m not sure if these competed against other similar machines or not though. The cranes were ridiculously strong and were used for dragging as much as lifting. It has apparently turned into the biggest event of its type in France, and draws in quite a few trade stands. I think it’s as much a showcase/working demo for the skidder manufactures as anything else tbh. Or it may have just been a bunch of pissed Frenchys having a big dick competition - either way it was ace to watch!!!