grant

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I rebuilt a 660 about 6 months ago with non gen and havnt had any probs so far and no difference in power or torque.

don't know where you are but were in worcester and have a big 4wd tractor and winch and would be interested in the oak buts

i have decided to sell it standing but you can give me a price for it many thanks Grant

dave madgewick at vastern timber company is your man best payer i have ever worked for and a really really fine gentlman mobile 077674435565 say you got his number from stuart thorne good luck:001_smile:

thanks for that stuart

My first thought would be skyline if the bank is really steep. However they'd be quite expensive to hire in i would of thought. My next thought would be a double drum winch pulling things upto a landing in tree lengths and processing then forwarding to roadside.

 

A lot of the stuff will be too big for most processors so it will be chainsaw and splitter teratory. The smaller ash and birch would be good processor stuff though. the 20-50" Ash and Oak buts are best sold road side for the mill. Good quality oak would get you around £8 hoppus foot maybe 6 for the ash. Worth seing what length the mill wants the stuff in before cutting. Also 30-50" oak but will be very very heavy so you'll need some pull on the winch to get stuff up. Also quite a loader to put it on the lorry.

 

I'd say not less that a 6.5 tonne winch closer to 9 would be better. Double drum better than single as you are more efficent that way.

yep exactly what needs to be done. in a worst case scenario its firewood but the bigger-better quality stuff will be going to the mill and after a few calls with members of here today thats the route it will be going. its to big a job for me to take on so it will be sold standing.

A well trained horse with Spikes/Heels n Toes shoes would do the work. Tree lengths extraction and voice control.

agreed but i would`nt risk my horses on it when a skyline or winch will be a lot quicker and safer

ive got a bit for sale

Totally agree - all this negative doom/gloom stuff!

I have about 300-400 'regular' customers. One of them has been made redundant. The rest HAVE NOT! But this harbinging has caused 3 jobs to be postponed in the last 18 months due to people 'holdin back' and I would guess a few of the less frequent customers may have not even contacted me because of thi pumped up anxiety.

 

I wonder how often these things are expounded either for some political purpose or because something really bad is happening elsewhere and they are trying to divert our attention.

 

They say that only bad news sells - maybe someone should try publishing good news - can you imagine a paper (or FORUM..) where headlines read,

'Young arborist sweeps footpath every 5 miumtes during work so old folk can walk safely by, and the old folk are really grateful'

 

Or 'I left my car for 3 days and came back to find it still there'

Or 'Instant drop in fuel prices as crude oil prices fall'

 

Am I just getting old? I too never watch the news and don't read papers.

I look at the BBC website and just read what looks interesting - don't care about biggots, racists, chavs, 'travellers', villains and coouldn't give a stuff about self publicising celebrities.

 

Aaaaaah all this thinking is driving me insane (I'm turning into Roger Waters)

Maybe I'll end up walking down Worthing High street with an MS200 in each hand and get on the news myself (Note to MI6 and anti-terrorist squad... thats just a joke).

if there was a like button it would have been pressed firmly

Think I would be training them horses a little about dragging timber and sod the connies in B'ham!

 

Firewood heaven:thumbup1:

big bank mainly clay i struggled with the dogs today let alone my horses

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they wouldn't work on that bank Ive been beating there today and could hardly walk across it

yep thats at the Suffolk show with me stood between them (honest)

cylsdaleXshire cob and its roadside only, its more of a costing exercise to see if its more profitable then cutting connys in b-ham lol

ive got 30-50 Arctic loads of timber to fell-extract from a farm in the midlands predominantly ash 15-35 inch with birch 10-25inch and 20-30 oak buts at 30-50 inch all straight, close planted with felling license in place. so with 10 yrs + exp in arb and no forestry exp i could do with a few ideas and its on a 45% bank. with the price of firewood and num of posts on here wanting the stuff please comment.many thanks Grant:confused1:

Try hire it in kiddy, or global plant for a bigger machine

hi jph no buyer yet the yew is just out side stourbridge we will be felling it wenesday so it will be back in my yard soon if you want to veiw-price it.

Hi guys ive got a job on and the client wants a price on this yew stick, its 8.5 ft at base and 7.5 ft 12 ft up nice an round with no sign of decay would it be of any use to you guys or are there any west mids based timber merchants that would be interested. hiab transport available.

or when the next days job is cancelled at 10 pm

a good length of blue polyprop bejeesus

get well soon fella

I came out of the YP 4 yrs ago when it got to 7 pages of so called tree surgeons or conifer experts

sorry fella could not resist meself try the local farm sales in farmers weekly or simalar mags or if not ebay ?

potato farm ?

ive decided its time to mod one of my 660s any advice on who in this country does porting and exhaust mods and possibly a retune after, any ideas ?

ive got a farm in belbroughton and can take chip and logs (no sweepings or hedge cuttings) pm me for my number