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slack ma girdle

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  1. Two wheel drive tractor(50-60hp) and a pto winch will set you back £2000, and solve most of your problems.
  2. I can dream, till then lots of groundies
  3. Last weeks fun and games. One and a half silage trailer of logs, one of chip, and half a trailer of sawdust. There was about 2 foot to spare on each side. (And i wont even mention the winch cable snapping )
  4. Is it growing in profusion, with nothing else growing amongst it ? If yes to both then winter Heliotrope. Rampantly invasive
  5. I reckon that this is probably about right. This kind of work is sole distroying, so don't go under pricing. If some ejit wants to flog themselves for bugger all, then let them. Hold your nerve and be helpful.
  6. I have just put a new handle on my fencing mell, if that is any help.
  7. You will be pushing it to get all that done for £600 per hectare. For thinning/ respacing i allow 2-3 days per hectare with three cutters cutting. This will mostly be spear cutting and milling down the brash to the ground. How are the 8' lenghts going to be extracted ? As the remaining brash will be a major hinderance.
  8. Nope things have changed a bit. Lantra and NPTC are now identical in terms of course material, both train and independently assess to the same level. Both the Forestry commision and Tilhill now give equall weighting to Lantra & NPTC. As a trainer i have gone with Lantra.
  9. Its not difficult if you have the experiance, just very expensive.
  10. Nope i mean a badgers chair, how often do you see a barber in the woods.
  11. Sycamore very brittle tends to snap off the hinge too easily, so no good when you need the tree to remain attached or to get it to swing/ or move against direction of fell. Ash flexible fibers, so good holding capabilities, but can badgers chair very easily. Extra care needed on leaners. Larch, the itchy tree, i will leave you to find out why. Duglas fir is suseptible to but rot on damp sites, so you need to check the wood in the mouth before starting the back cut, and alter accordingly.
  12. The last one is a hansom devil, is it some kind of ink cap ?
  13. Water got in 8 months ago and caused everything to burn out/ corode. Samething has happened again hence the new starter moter.
  14. Ruddy starter moter. It was only re-built 8 months ago, and the ........... ( you may add your own expletive here) coils have burnt out. New one should be here tomorrow if it fits, and if it does not, break out the grinder and massive hammer
  15. Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
  16. You can only apply for the work you intend to carry out, if the customer changes there mind, then you will have to re-apply.
  17. Big trees with big wide canopies brilliant, smaller trees i have scared myself on numourous times when is catches and you drop a couple of feet until the cam re-ingagues. I have had mine two years, and i still don't entirely trust it. It is like marmite love it or hate it.
  18. That seat looks far too comfy, what wrong with bare metal.

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