TimberCutterDartmoor

and the lorry!

Should have said if it's all processor size, firewood = £28/m3 ish. Down here chip and firewood is easier to cut than fencing and firewood same roadside price anyway.

Normal to market softwood in m3 imo, I know up country they do it on tonnage still. Roadside £ depends on the product, log / chip / fencing ...

Mate of mine had a policy that wriggled out of paying £8k; they found every loophole going including - "you didn't inform us on the day of the accident"; yeah that's because he was in hopital you muppets! After that I didn't renew my policy and paid dearly for that decision (or did I?) when I smashed my leg up and was off for a long old time. Pioneer used to advertise on here but I can tell you who I do reccommend, is cornish mutual; I will be going with them soon enough. For construction, £600 a year gets you £600 a week. Higher risk arb and forestry might change the premium a bit but I thought that was pretty good. Mechanised harvesting in my case was cheaper than motor-manual for obvious reasons. Better to be seated twiddling mini-levers than falling over brash with saw in hand - that's how they see it, and is logical!

Oh yes, that's the girl. They felled a few of em 2 year ago; I thought the whole thing had gone but a poxy branch somehow clobbered a gas line...

Oh aye, that makes sense. Not thinking that! Roots thru the pipe? whole thing has fallen over, not above the stump etc. edit: just found this: Tree down on gas line on Tavistock Road causing huge tailbacks | Plymouth Herald Just a branch, not the whole stick the macs up there are a good 70' +

BIG Mac (rocarpa) down at the top of the road and ruptured a gas main (stinking apparently); Wife has parked and walked home in filthy weather. Road closed since 16:30 - not a tree cutter in sight; I know nothing about call out times - is that a long wait?

Normal (now it's been like it for months)

I'd rather have that TJ in your avatar

Sent solicitors letter, nothing! Freakin' nighmare...

Get an account with Interlink Express - sent many a parcel and my vote goes to them. Parcelforce on the other hand; fine until one of their staff nicks your order of saws! Long story! You say value for money so I've answered accordingly i.e not "who's the cheapest". Money is what you pay but value is what you get. My Hermes are dirt cheap but you don't get the item!

You sure it's not some angry squirrel?!

It's Crimson alert that is worse than red! That means the end of the world is nigh!!! Scarlet means even worse!

Pretty nuts, very strong gusts, absolutely pouring.

What happened to our Liam aka Flaming Ace?!

This is like when a land owner looks up the FC price indices and sees that whitewood average one year was £15/m3 so they automatically assume they can get that. It doesn't work like that!!! That £15 is based on 95% of the timber being nice clean spruce in scotland on easy to moderate harvesting sites. So when a small parcel comes up on a hellish hillside, needs hand cut, winched to the harvester and forwarded to a stacking area the size of a tennis court, you can forget your £15/m3. Please ignore all the wonderful or otherwise figures that get banded about; a buyer who does a tidy job will get a rate for the product based on what it it is minus the harvesting cost and earning a living and go from there.

Wasn't my winch but it was alright. Pulling green and red cords to operate is tedious and hard work I found. I reckon a hydro would have been much better. Mate of mine was going to buy a 85 manual Uniforest but I persuaded him to go hydro for a few extra quid; worth every penny but unless you've fought with cords I guess you might not appreciate the difference. Most of my experience is with a BGU 9.5t Profi with powered unwinder and full remote; having used that I'm getting a Uniforest 5.5HPro for my little tractor; yes it costs more but atleast a job that no-one really wants becomes easier and more productive; powered unwinder makes drum snags a lot less common.

David Browns always seem to look the roughest regardless of actual condition; must be the white / rust look My ol John Deere 2130 is nice and shabby with rotted out roof and mudguards but a quick spray of JD green and yellow here and there

+1 +1

Be jolly careful if it's the hot film/wire type; use brake cleaner only as it leaves no residue...

Now snowing! (s/w dartmoor)

That was the old school way yes; before turbos, intercoolers, hot and cold egr, de-nox catalysts, DPF's, common rail or eui direct injection. Furthermore it mostly applied to cast iron blocks with the occasional alloy head; no wet liners to be seen; the odd tractor excepted. Old school exhaust diagnosis was: BLUE SMOKE from exhaust - Causes: Engine is burning engine oil, injection timing is incorrectly set. BLACK SMOKE from exhaust - Causes: Too much fuel is being delivered to the engine or the fuel that is being delivered is not correctly atomised, Exhaust Gas Reciculation (EGR) system has failed or is incorrectly set of has become clogged with soot. Insufficient air. Old Perkins Prima was a classic; black puff at startup followed by clean due to low pressure in inj. system when cold cranking. WHITE SMOKE from exhaust - Causes: If the ambient temperature is low, steam which is normal and usually clears, if the smoke never clears, water is entering the engine (cylinder head, head gasket, liner problem). Quenched combustion. GREY SMOKE from exhaust - Causes: Injection timing is incorrectly set, fuel is not being atomised correctly, something other than diesel has been added to the the fuel tank. How do you find the VAG 2.5 V6 TDI? Have fancied one for a while; had saab 3.0 tid v6 which was glorious - when it worked

true and that oversize should be down the £ ladder

+1. Mine is the 9hp Robin engine one; latest has 6hp?

High but Dry?