Highland Forestry

If you hear of one going cheap.... please let me know!! Talking of machines, my mate is selling this at the moment... Very tempted with it but cant secure the finance just now He's wanting 80k for it [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BU3bWOAU8g]YouTube - Timberjack harvesting windblow in the Highlands[/ame] Edit: forgot to add, it;s a Timberjack 1470 and is a fantastic machine, have used it myself several times

The logset 500 is a smashing little forwarder.... cant afford one unfortunatley

Was working with a guy last winter that did that.... on a rail job.... where we were under alot of pressure and deadline was looming.. To say the site foreman (me) was upset would be an understatement

Yep, went to a job last weekend and forgot to take my throwline. I had completley forgotten it after I had cleaned the truck out the day before.

If you look through the forum (all of it) you'll see there's a section called 'employment' Your thread would be better off in there mate. Good luck Matt

Dean, did you go to the saatchi gallery???

Have looked at this a couple of times on the bay... bit small for us unfortunatley, if it would take out 5t it would have been perfect

Auditions on ITV2 again just now.... hillarious

Transit/Iveco - All that jap stuff is designed for midgets..

This was a funny one... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIx0h7_nF08]YouTube - Worst Audition ever[/ame]

talent, yes.... not sure about the rest, seemed a bit fake to me ?

ART??????..... to FIVE year olds???? ..... FO.

damned right!! wow. She looks naturally beautiful too which is rare

That cheril cole lass is absolutley beautiful......hubba hubba hubba

Watching the new X-Factor on ITV2+1 at the moment, absolutley hillarious, you have to love the auditions.... where do they find people this bad??!

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Testcricket - Just to let you know, Ash can be a bit snappy mate. Take on board what's being said here cause it sounds like it might help for the future. As for insurance being a grey area? Come off it... you know as well as anyone that you're supposed to have public liability. You also need employers liability if you had a lad in to help. If you're not sure about what insurance you need then you shouldn't be doing the job, further to that just call a broker and ask. Looking at the pictures yo posted up, looks like your cuts on the gob didnt meet properly either which will not have helped matters, and you're hinge isnt straight which will have biased the direction of pull.

Having said that... I have done something similar with an indian bean tree! My grandmother has a really nice specimen in her garden which blew over about 5 or 6 years ago, we uprighted it with a tractor and then drove fence posts into the ground around it and tethered it down and as far as I'm aware the tree is now stable and healthy without tethers. I'll have to ask her if she can send me some pictures of it to post up here

Whats the betting the next puff of wind they're over again??

If you are felling a lot of them and cutting, snedding up after felling then maybe a set of freestanding step ladders would be better, even the short 4ft tall ladders you get, but whoever wrote that on the spec should get shot.. lol, bloody hard work felling above head height with a saw, not to mention dangerous!

Only after they have passed their CS38/39!!

I would be quoting £100-110 a day per man. If you go in a bit higher the farmer will probably want to knock you down to what you're after anyway. Sounds a really nice job... bit different with the 6ft coppards. I wouldn't be felling large diameter stems above head height though, spikes and flip line job me thinks.

Yep ... me. But only because I like to give people a chance and normally I offer new guys a trial period to start with.

Likewise, I wasn't aiming anything at you either.. LMFAO - ''More anchor points than the QE2'' LOL i'll remember that one. One of the lads I had out of merrist wood took literally a whole day to do what I could have one myself in a couple of hours.... this is when I started to think about the quality of his training... for starters it took him 45 mins to get a throwline up and get his rope up.. If you come out of college telling me you're the dogs bollox then I want to see a ****-hot climber... it's not a case of it being my problem if he's no good... afterall..he's told me he's an ''arborist'' not a ''tree surgeon!'' and all the shpeel that goes with it. The best guys and the best climbers I have seen so far have all learned through experience of actually doing the job. Some of them have more professional qualifications that were obtained as CPD and some of them are like me and just have their NPTC units.

That is a very valid point, it's the same for us as well.... but the guys we contracting to are just playing the liability game and thats why they require the tickets. They are covering their arse the same as I have to cover mine..