slack ma girdle
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Everything posted by slack ma girdle
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Everything! Work out a plan for the wood, timber volumes, what the owner want to do with the wood, and tie that in with a felling regime. Sort out the felling licences EPS checks and maps. Unleash the gibbon horde of subbies to fell and extract. Pay the woodland owner for the standing timber. Sort out buyers and transport for the cut timber. Generally i am working small woods and extracting less than 300 tonnes. -
This is where fools like me step in, cut out the circus.
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Have to disagree, i generate all my own work, and at the point now as one finishes, an new one replaces it. Standing sales are very buoyant at the moment. I stay under the radar to avoid unnecessary bureaucracy.
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Found this fella at the weekend.
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I tried some screw in tungsten studs, fantastic grip, but impossible to drive machinery in.
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I take your one inch, and raise you another 5. Needless to say the jack didn't push the tree over
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How do you become a forestry timber cutter.
slack ma girdle replied to Roebus's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I'm still making making mistakes after 20 years, and still learning. -
How do you become a forestry timber cutter.
slack ma girdle replied to Roebus's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
The ability to listen to what is being asked of you. Every person you will work for will have a different methodology, and you need to be able to fit into that methodology. At the moment all of the people who are cutting for me came with little or no forestry experience, but they all have enthusiasm to learn. They are now at the point where i don't need to worry or check up on them as i know they are doing a good job. I like people asking lots of questions, and learning from there mistakes. When something goes wrong i always ask why, and get them to talk it through. I hate to say it, but we only learn from our mistakes. -
Some of those trees were hairy monsters. Do you use a spreader plate with your jack? Good work
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
slack ma girdle replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Green Elf Cup, this is the first time that i have seen the fruiting body, albeit very tiny.
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Jacking over a backing leaning spruce. I can tell that i have been spending too much time in my machinery, there is a definite belly overhang.
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Finally the last 4 windblow. It's proving tricky manoeuvring amongst all the wobbly stumps.
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Not bad for quarter past eight on a Saturday morning.
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Diggers around this size are phenomenal with what they will lift and pull, and as light a footprint as the log bullet.
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Sorry @AHPP no idea what you are going on about.
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I think my belt combo, has cost around £20 from various car booties, and is about 10 years old. The Husky one might be good, but i don't think it will last as long as mine.
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Gurd your loins you lucky people, the fool is droning again.
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Have you 4 minutes to fill in an Arb survey for Green Skills Hub?
slack ma girdle replied to KateH's topic in Picture Forum
It can't be an amazing saw, its a Husky -
80-90 Acres to thin South Wales.
slack ma girdle replied to andrewmiskin's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
It's a shame that you are not an hour further west, i love being nosy around other peoples woods -
I hadn't cut enough of the wood underneath because of access. That caused the wood fibers to rip and snatch the saw, driving it into the ground. Bugger
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After 2 days of being piss wet in the wind blow from hell, this was the final straw.
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I see your dog, and raise you 3 cows
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Rain, spruce, glasses and visors...
slack ma girdle replied to Guardian Forestry's topic in General chat
After 30 years , i have learned to see through the crud, so that i don't notice it anymore. -
Selling standing timber
slack ma girdle replied to Agent Green's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
That looks like an ideal woodland for me, but you are too far away. There must be some lower impact forestry contractors in your area. Toby at Say it with wood is not too far from you. -
There is no right or wrong, all of the above machines have there strengths and weakness, you will have to adapt your work practices to suit their strengths. No one machine will do everything. Small forwarders are nimble, i haven't needed my winch since I've had the log bullet, but are no good over long distances. Tractors and forwarders are much quicker, carry alot more, but are a royal pain in the arse to manoeuvre amongst trees.
