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slack ma girdle

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  1. My Nuffield 10/60 cost £500 18 years ago, up until the flywheel bearing collapsed last year, only needed a new starter motor.
  2. My best for felling & extraction to roadside was £14 per m3, my worst is £79. There are too many variables for each site, and don't forget to factor in breakdowns. I consider a week without a breakdown an exceptional week.
  3. Most tree officers are reasonable, i would speak to them, and arrange a site visit. If you are not trying to hide anything, and the trees have only been pruned i wouldn't be overly worried. Tree officers in my experience tend to get afficious when you are trying to hide things.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Found this fella at the weekend.
  7. I tried some screw in tungsten studs, fantastic grip, but impossible to drive machinery in.
  8. I take your one inch, and raise you another 5. Needless to say the jack didn't push the tree over
  9. I'm still making making mistakes after 20 years, and still learning.
  10. 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.
  11. Some of those trees were hairy monsters. Do you use a spreader plate with your jack? Good work
  12. Green Elf Cup, this is the first time that i have seen the fruiting body, albeit very tiny.
  13. 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.
  14. Finally the last 4 windblow. It's proving tricky manoeuvring amongst all the wobbly stumps.
  15. Not bad for quarter past eight on a Saturday morning.
  16. Diggers around this size are phenomenal with what they will lift and pull, and as light a footprint as the log bullet.
  17. Sorry @AHPP no idea what you are going on about.
  18. 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.
  19. Gurd your loins you lucky people, the fool is droning again.
  20. It's a shame that you are not an hour further west, i love being nosy around other peoples woods
  21. 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
  22. After 2 days of being piss wet in the wind blow from hell, this was the final straw.
  23. I see your dog, and raise you 3 cows

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