Highland Forestry

Somebody in the local village here has had something similar to that done a couple of years ago, trees still look shite.... cringe every time I drive past.... I know who did the job and they have been doing that and worse all over the place for years...

Tip it off the bridge!! I could recommended some guys at perth but that would be further to drive than the bridge...

I don't know when you did your course but I have now been through three blokes out of merrist wood and as far as I am concerned all the course did was fill their heads full of ****! The boys I had came straight out of merrist wood after the 10wk course and thought they were 'arborists' ..... and they simply werent. They had good knowledge of id, and some fungi etc but couldnt use a chainsaw to save thier life. Aside from all of that, everyone...including the merrist wood graduates seem only to get CS30, 31, 38, 39 - in industry this is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard! Ok, so you have your 30, 31, 38 and 39...... what can you legally do?? Cut trees/crosscut and fell anything less than 15' and do an aerial rescue and use a chainsaw from a rope and harness..... big deal...Where's the 32,33, 34, 35, 40, 41, chipper, mewp, PA1, PA6, FA etc? None of us like all this health and safety/qualification world we live in, but it's the hoops we have to jump though in order to get on with it.. IMHO if you go onto these college courses and pay good money for them you should come out of it with ALL the tickets you need to work legally and professionaly in the industry. Instead what we have coming out is a bunch of half-qualified guys thinking thier the bollox. The colleges give the guys the impression that it dosent matter how long it takes them to do a job as long as they do it safe, which is also a load of crap.. safety and efficiency go hand in hand. rant over....

schweeet!

Ahh that's easy .... It's a caterpillar mate!

Welcome to the corporate machine

Yep, learn from your mistakes I guess...should have taken the extra 30 seconds required to move to a slightly better position and not had my left hand under the branch i was cutting.. The silky's take no prisoners thats for sure, what alot of pain and blood for such a small cut, yowsers!

It didnt cause much of a cut, so I'm not putting pics up because you will all call me a big jessie! The point I'm getting at is just how painful it was/is

Well I managed to drag my sugoi across the top of my knuckles yesterday..... OUCH . No massive damage just a few cuts across the bone but man does it hurt and even today knuckles are totally swollen This is a first for me, never so much as nicked myself with a silky before so my heartfelt sympathy goes out to all that have!

theres nothing on...

In that case, I may just have to have a beer and put my feet up infront of the telly for a change!

£600 for two helmets???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus christ!!

Well i'm glad you guys are all busy....... tescos is starting to look attractive for me just now.

hmmm.... may be a bit of a challenge then.

Sawmills will often have bulkers running about stevie....

They dont look that cheap to me....??

busted!!

Respect! That must have been awesome for a 10 year old on an excavator

cant get my head around this cubic feet stuff... dealing with cubic metres so much I tend to think of everything in m3 these days... Do you deal in cubic feet because with hardwoods there isnt the quantity or is there another reason??

yep...done that myself a couple of times cutting trees out of rivers..... dont stand behind the saw ! You can get underwater chainsaws that work off of air lines I believe, I think divers use them.

Here in gods own country it is currently p*****g it down, and more forecast for tomorrow. That'll be the weevil spraying knocked on the head... paperwork day tomorrow me thinks.

I think it's a good idea Steve! Theres too many posts on this forum that are derailed and turned into a general chin-wag. By the way... did you see the weather forecast tonight? Looks like rain again tomorrow..makes a difference from the weather last week.

Tom, if you manage to find anything out, I'd also appreciate hearing about it.. Cheers, Matt

What about filling them full of chip, bark and waste left over from processing and then sell them as mulch bins pre-filled or sell full of green split logs as bins for seasoning.

LOL great wee film.... I wonder how realistic that is of a real council office??! ''I've heard about this pandemic of dutch elm disease... now, would that affect flowering shrubs and bedding plants'' ''ive got children you see'' ROFL..