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  1. Highland Forestry
    I tell ya..... you just can't get the staff!
  2. Highland Forestry
    I refer to mine as the '200
  3. Highland Forestry
    Sounds like a brilliant design idea to me! would find something like that very useful as well as affordable for £1k. It could be ideal for so many different jobs I think it would be worthwhile having it wethere you intend using it or not. One thought though... if it could be done and works, would the manufacturers not have already done it? I agree the tipper bodies on pick-ups do the styling no good at all so I would say you're onto a good one here!
  4. Highland Forestry
    A true masterpiece Tommy... top class!
  5. Highland Forestry
    A good pair of long-johns is deffinatley a requirement!
  6. Highland Forestry
    Funny you mention that.. My grandfather kept the agricultural engineers and motor mechanics/petrol station on Great Green in Cockfield for many many years and everyone calls him Reg. His name is actually Leonard!!
  7. Highland Forestry
    CHAINSAW OPERATIVES - NORTH SCOTLAND We are currently preparing a contract due to start 3rd February 2010 and may have the available resources to take on two additional staff for the duration of the contract. Approximatley 4 weeks. Contract location; Grantown-on-Spey, Carrbridge, Aviemore, Strathspey area. We would be interested to hear from any interested parties who currently hold NPTC CS30 & NPTC CS31 as minimum requirements. We envisage that these positions will be filled very quickly and so invite all interested parties to email [email protected] with details of experience, qualifications and relevant tickets held and full contact details.
  8. Highland Forestry
    From what I hear this kind of thing happens quite alot Matty.. been done to me also, although not with a planning app. The bigger companies are just as bad at it but I guess business is business. It's a low thing to do but it;s a sign of the times we live in
  9. Highland Forestry
    I've heard of very large clearfells being done for £6.50/£7 a ton, but usually by owner operators who have fully paid up machines. For thinnings the benchmark would be around the £10 a ton mark for a contractor, and if you are having a management allowance you might want to increase that further.
  10. Highland Forestry
    Cut and Extract to roadside for £7/t??? Not likley! More like £9 or £10
  11. Highland Forestry
    Dont you just love this job...
  12. Highland Forestry
    I just dont seem to get enough time to sit on the computer these days.. always got loads of stuff to sort out!!
  13. Highland Forestry
    Congrats Stevie.... that's some ammount of posts!
  14. Highland Forestry
    Ouch! Sounds like you were lucky Drew... glad you weren't higher! Hope youre back to health soon mate!
  15. Highland Forestry
    Nice looking reduction! Not sure what to make of the chapter 8 though!
  16. Highland Forestry
    Who cares?? it's a feckin animal!!!
  17. Highland Forestry
    I would LOVE one of these bad boys... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmYXGSgBj78]YouTube - 1st Woods Ported Dolmar 7900 (New muffler mod)[/ame]
  18. Highland Forestry
    Just noticed this thread... interesting reading. Tell ya what, you just cant beat a gypsy stick reduction from a ladder!! Ham - In this game we all make mistakes, errors of judgement and misconstrue specification from time to time.. You'r customer asked you to take as much off as you could, so that's what you did, but your idea of as much as possible is different to your customers.. well there's a whole can of worms that's different for every customer. Personally I think you took a bit much off her for my liking, and I know that beech are easily shocked so I wouldnt have been so heavy handed.
  19. Highland Forestry
    priceless!! Where did he think it was going to go with that much counterweight!
  20. Highland Forestry
    Looks like it did a bloody awful job!!! Impressive yeah, but what a mess!
  21. Highland Forestry
    Err.... havent got a clue what you're on about!! lol Have you got any photos/is it on the web?? It's mostly cut and chip up here with lads on the ground.. sometimes they do a bit of mulching but that's about it.
  22. Highland Forestry
    I'm there to cut any trees in the way of lifting operations, to clear any trees required on third party land to allow access for cranes, plant etc and then I am also there to clear trees over the track and hanging down onto the track between carrbridge and aviemore, and between carrbridge and moy. The problem today was that the rail crane needs to be detached from the engine so that we can take the engine down the line to clear trees.. unfortunatley the diesel has frozen and they are having problems getting it to run, so I have been on stand-by all day waiting for them to heat the diesel and get the crane running. The fuel tank is double skinned and bunded so having a heater on the tank isn't doing much use.. So... I decided as I had full site access to take some pictures!
  23. Highland Forestry
    The two green coloured cranes pictured are Leibherr (spelling?) 500 tonners. The two rail cranes pictured are 75 tonners.. There is a 1200t crawler crane coming in to lift the engine!
  24. Highland Forestry
    You're absolutley correct I'm affraid... I've spent the whole day on stand-by. Tomorrow I'm to go back, and should be taking a light enginge to clear the track of fallen trees with a view to getting the line re-opened.
  25. Highland Forestry
    Even if you do get the ammount of snow forecast, you still wont have had anywhere near the ammount we've had up here... It's laughable really.. you'd like to think england was made of sterner stuff than grinding to a halt and crying over a little bit of snow!!

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