liamjordan
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cheers man, really enjoying it! thank man, means a lot to hear that! See it makes me appreciate trips like this even more as there were only 2 spaces to come and me and the other lad, were picked to come due to i guess how well we've been getting on in class, so it is truly a great experience! Will do, plently more pictures to come up at some point! Amazing how much you can learn from a picture thread like this, for example the things brushcutter has previously said. Thanks for the comments
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ah yeah i do love the pics of your old valmet, glad everything on the up now man! keep it up!!
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ah i see thats awesome man, you've really thought this out , was about to ask if you had a winch for it? and a crane fed chipper would be sweet!
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yeah we tensioned it with a chain, again went very easy and quickly. We had a chain tensioner with us, but the instructor said the chain way was quicker and he thought easier so we did it that way. Sounds a bit complicated for my crane skills ahahah
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yeah it does, luckly dont think i've debarked any trees yet... to be honest we were putting them on last week and found it so easy with a chain up over the wheels and drive on to pull them up, but they are bloody awkward things to move about in the workshop to get in the right position to weld
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incredible stevie! looks like a hell of a set up! you can tackle so many jobs with that arsenal of kit! does the valtra have a 3 point linkage on? or has it been removed to get the roof mount on?
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yeah i find its kind of jumping in at the deep end with machine operation on a thinning site, but its all good. aha nah i havent, the ground is really good going, the areas i have operated the harvester in have all been really flat, so far there are some steep sections, and as everyone including teachers are off for a 4 day easter weekend me and the other lad have been welding new spikes on the forwarders band tracks for some more steep ground A lot of snow? Ah i see fair enough, fozzy is a brilliant teacher, as im doing the engineering course didnt have him much at the beginning, but had him loads recently rebuilding an old brunette forwarder, and a total rebuilt of a log max harvester head, hes also giving me so many pointers for machine operation
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yeah he came out with me and the other lad for the first week, hes gone back now, ah yeah you on his course in the summer?
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yeah i thought it would, the is thats making it harder, well i think it is, is the fact its a big thinning site, i love using the forwarder on this as it is really improving my crane skills, but just finding it tricky to select trees from in the cab of the harvester, as im used to wondering about with the saw and having a good look. But i do think its a lovely machine to drive, self leveling cab and cab slew is very helpfull, and the head seems very robust and feeds really fast on this small stuff. Snows gone, well there winter pretty much has, had a few inches last night but that had melted by 3 o'clock, its strange weather at the moment always changing
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yeah it lovely to use, yeah been driving the 1070e for a good few hours, starting to get the hang of it, slowly...
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was going to say exactly the same thing pretty much we use ripping blades because a ripping blade cross cuts better than a cross cut rips, if that makes sense, so with a ripping blade you get a duel purpose saw
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Alright guys, some of you know that im studying up at Barony College at the moment doing Forestry Engineering, its going great! Well at the moment im in sweden! Been sent over here for three weeks to a partner college in Varnamo, to do some machinery opertaion and a bit of engineering, so this is my holiday for 2012 Been out here 2 weeks so far and already done so much and seen so much its awesome! Heres a load of pictures I have been taking.
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they cant be that crap as i have driven mine (1984 90") up to scotland and back a few times (about 300 miles) and its been in need for an engine rebuilt for a fair while before hand
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that would be a waste? if it was mine and I didnt want to climb on it I would just turn it into a pull rope, or probably even light rigging
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aha nice one! yeah tidy job cant go wrong for that money! really I want the ones that wrap around the wings, but as mine were free couldn't go wrong really, if you said you wanted some wipac style spots i've got 4 at home that were on a roof rack I bought, was planning on fitting 2 of them to my bull bars.
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dammit sam i was going offer you my services and make you one for a hell of a price
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yeah man all is good, loving scotland! Im in sweden at the moment though, through college for 3 weeks to a partner college to get more experience on the big machine
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only just noticed this reply mate! thanks on the spiking note, i have seen a tree that has been killed off from spiking that was back at college where there was a spruce that had been used for climbing courses for a long time, there was a hell of a lot of spike marks and it did kill it off. Personally i dont see a problem with spiking a healthy tree that is to keep if it requires only a little spiking, like this poplar did Thanks for the advice on the winching, this tree didnt require much winching if any, yeah i did use it as a safeguard as the road was on the other side of the hedge. Got a few steel blocks kicking so i'll get them out soon and give it a bash!
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if i was in the shire mate i would, but at college in scotland and in sweden at the moment, maybe in the summer lol
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if you still at college when i get back from Sweden i'll show you where my speakers are, hard to explain, but there in the foot wells next to the door, by where the heater port, was a pain to wind the window up and down before I put some smaller flat speakers in. Before my aerial got smashed off it was just on the roof in the centre just back from the windscreen
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Oddball and Special Chippers Thread
liamjordan replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Large equipment
sweet thread, saw this in the forestry journal a while back, sweet bit of kit -
ahaha yes this is true sam
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this post made me laugh, nice to know im missed i am still about but recently moved out of normally college accomedation and into a house on the college grounds which has no internet. this foreign country is sweet though, loving it up here!
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nahh not at all man, consytrutive criticism is great and like i said before it lets you see how other people would go about the job, but what do you mean by finishing the job? thats what i agreed with the owner to do
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cheers for the comments guys about the spikes, i used spikes to knock this top out because i found it safer to stand there comfortably on spikes and cut it rather than without, thats the main reason, yeah i probably didnt need them, like said before there are plenty of branches, its just the way i found most comfortable to do the cuts. As for breaking the hedge, yeah the owner didnt mind, and it didn't really smash it once all the brash was pulled off it popped up a bit (plus i just wanted to knock a big top out to tell you the truth ). None of it had to be chipped or taken away, when me and granddad get back in there to do some other trees we will have the fordson with loader so it will just get pushed up and burnt and the firewood lifted out, so saving time for the groundie isnt really an issue. Threads like these are awesome its great to see how everyone goes about jobs, and gives a good discussion, thanks for all the input
