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  1. Highland Forestry
    That's just made my friday night more interesting!!
  2. Highland Forestry
    Very interesting subject here... Depending on how you look at it, it;s not always possible to be two tree lengths from felling activities.... take railway clearance for example, the whole squad, chipper the works is never two tree lengths away from the actual felling - it would just be impractical. The AFAG guidelines are all well and good but they're generic, and more often than not it's easy to just quote them and job done, but sometimes you have to just roll with your own ideas and opinions, cover them in your SSRA and then you have peace of mind that the job is being done your way and not dictated to you by pen pushers.. just MO.
  3. Highland Forestry
    I still think the tongue and groove action on youporn is more useful
  4. Highland Forestry
    Watch out for the greenmech CM220 on ebay also... I had a bid on one on the Isle of Mull last week... when it came to payment time I smelt a rat when he emailed me asking for a moneygram transfer and was going to have the chipper delivered to my address and wouldnt let me pick it up.. Ebay cancelled the auction before I had a chance to report the scamming sod. I see almost straght away there is another CM220 on there. Gutted, and still after a chipper too. You just can't trust anyone on ebay, sadly.
  5. Highland Forestry
    I imagine that cut would be useful for felling across side slopes when you dont want the tree to roll or slip down the slope.. cant seem to think of any other uses for it??
  6. Highland Forestry
    I quite fancy a 36' for my 880 - I think it would compliment the saw nicely as the bars are lightweight and really hard wearing. Not sure who makes the biggest bar in the world, but GB offer a full range right up to 87'!!
  7. Highland Forestry
    Good system of work Jamie... we do the same on big hairy sitka for the harvesters. A contract manager told me a while ago 'You can do it however you want to to it as long as you can justify it in your risk assessment'
  8. Highland Forestry
    Chai Spiced Tea...Cappuchino... wtf?? Bog standard nescafe here!! Bloomin arbos
  9. Highland Forestry
    GB Bars are rumoured to be THE best in the world at the moment...
  10. Highland Forestry
    Do you use your saw without wearing gloves???
  11. Highland Forestry
    I'd get a second opinion if I were you mate, and make sure you always wear gloves for work.. I get rheumatism in my knee sometimes, mostly during winter and on cold damp days, but that was caused years ago by crushing my knee and dislocating my patella - dosent seem to affect climbing or work too much though.. can be painful at the end of the day. Not sure about with hands etc as you are always moving and working with your hands in this game - you're doctor friend may have a very good point but deffinatley get it checked out.
  12. Highland Forestry
    I think if you want to see some propper tongue and groove action it'll have to be a youporn job!!
  13. Highland Forestry
    That's the comission for you. Offer them £11 m3 - If you make your offer official I bet they would mull it over and sell the whole lot.
  14. Highland Forestry
    Thought about it, that's as far as I got.
  15. Highland Forestry
    Probably bought in to the port untreated and paid by the ton and then treated here and sold by the piece..
  16. Highland Forestry
    Our sitka pulp up here goes out by the BOAT load mate!! I believe it's around 6500t per load.
  17. Highland Forestry
    If you've 100 loads sitting at roadside and they've been sitting there for three years then I would say the FC have made a big cock up somewhere allong the line... If I were you, I would contact the fc and ask if you can buy it off them.... offer them a stupid price per ton to clear it, and punt it out as local firewood.
  18. Highland Forestry
    I was always led to believe that the definition of tree surgery was urban forestry.
  19. Highland Forestry
    wow... how many cranes does it take to remove a tree?????!
  20. Highland Forestry
    wow....some major malfunction there.. Would love to read the insurance claim.. ''well, what happend was...''
  21. Highland Forestry
    Couldnt possibly comment on the weblift, But as another alternative, these are supposedly very very good: Winch : SherrillTree Tree Care Equipment
  22. Highland Forestry
    Tilhill are well into brash baling I believe - quite right too, must be millions of pounds worth of brash going to waste every year.
  23. Highland Forestry
    OUCH. Not something I would like to experience personally... sounds bloody painful mate. I take it you made a full recovery?? has/did the whole experience change the way you work or your opinion on the work??
  24. Highland Forestry
    Err.... great idea John... possibly a legal minefield I rekon. On a different tack though, you can already find out about bad payers etc with Experian or suchlike. Simples, have a basic contract made up for all jobs and ask your customer if they will be requiring credit, and explain to them that credit is available for 30 days no problem at all as long as they meet the criteria of a basic credit check.... I doubt you'd get many customers wanting somebody trawling through their credit file and would end up getting paid up front on completion 9 times out of 10. You could set you're site up as a credit check website as a reseller of experian or similar and actually use it to good effect. The cost of the credit checks on customers can easily be added ontop of the specific job in question at the time of quoting. Just a thought to chuck around.
  25. Highland Forestry
    I use Trust... Thoroughly reccomend them!! (Right Cameron - you better offer me a damned good quote come renewal time in december, wink wink)

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