TimberCutterDartmoor

Hmmm. Got a sat nav, map reading skills reduced. Got parking sensors, get in other car forgetting it hasn't got them, ooops. Likewise parking aids, yer gonna lose the skill of looking around you as you start to rely on a screen.

3.0 6 pot?

Same.

Same.

Hahaha

Took the words right out of...

No email, just verbal: Told the subby to crack on...

Well he thinks a child will more likely try to climb by inserting foot into 75mm wide mesh square than 50mm. I even went measured children's shoes! Not a horsey type; just wanted mesh taller than stock fence/ pig wire. The fence is merely to demarcate a boundary on some land he's bought. There are numerous entry points over walls elsewhere if folks really want to trespass on a field of nothing.

Yep, and he said continue...

Sure: Hampton steel vs Redbrand from fenceline.co.uk

No not cheaper, on the contrary. Will dig out the pics later. The image (2 different ones remember) was always "for illustrative purposes only". He asked for horse netting, that's what he got. He freely admits that even the netting in the pictures looks vastly different in real life. FTR all his emails quote what time mine were received in hours, minutes and seconds!

Subcontracted a fencing job out. Job has been done absolutely superbly. The fence is 1.5m high with 1.2 horse netting attached. Customer chose horse netting after I sent him 2 different google images to show what horse netting looked like. At no point did he choose an exact specification of horse netting i.e BS standard, wire thickness, mesh size etc. One email from him says "horse netting as per pictures supplied"... Hmmm So we fit circa a grands worth of high quality horse netting. Customer calls by during week long job and comments that horse netting is less "meshy" than he expected but it will do and please carry on. I rx an email asking to retrofit barbed on back side of posts at top - no problem. 2 days later - another email - "you have not fitted horse netting but small gauge stock netting" I reply proving 100% otherwise. He replies, no longer mentioning "stock netting" but saying what we fitted is not what's in the pictures. The 2 pictures are different but he refuses to acknowledge this; merely provided to illustrate the look and height of horse netting. As it happens the pictures are of "non-climb" horse netting with 50mm x 100mm mesh size as opposed to what we fitted which is 75mm x 80+ mesh size (stretches to 100mm if tensioned vertically according to the supplier). He catagorically from the start only specified horse netting, not the non-climb version or any other version. Anyway he wants us to dismount the netting we've put up and re-erect the other brand. This would be a £3k exercise in itself and I'm not prepared to suck it up quite frankly. As the saying goes, I'm too old for this crap... What'ya reckon?! Cheers.

Just been to the shop and bought and demolished 3 packs of the Wild West stuff! Only 90p a pack there tho haha

Definately partial to some now and again

Flippin ansome! Love the crampon boots and ice axes.

I've had both the Stihl and the Echo. The Echo is sweeter running, lighter, better cut and much smoother than the Stihl. Wouldn't buy anything else now.

Round wood or rings / arb arisings?

Used to drive a pickup everywhere until my commute to harvesting sites just drank fuel for the sake of carrying tools and I didn't need 4wd. Got rid. Estate car saves me on average £60/week. Just have to walk a couple of hundred metres to the machines in the winter; big deal.

Been there. My real sympathy with all those packing up.

It's completely true. Working for the bank and nothing else. Misery. Plenty with a million quids worth on the never never; how they sleep at night?!

Sorry thread title should be "in" not "is". Mods please correct my dumbass typo, I'd be ever so grateful.

Agreed

A few markers; cut and extract rates squeezed to the limit; cutter taking the hit as usual. Lorry drivers actually admitting they're quiet... 2015/16 particularly poor for firewood for obvious reasons. The phenomenal volume of used machines coming onto the market every day; mascus et al; even ebay has circa 10 harvesters on it at the moment. Tractors; just not selling (so say the dealers). Definately not favouring the big re-gen harvesting contractors. Crike.

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Quite. Blame the fuel! Why I now do a Stubby and put RL2 in Aspen 4... Use Ethanol Shield where I have to tho...