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trees that are being kept generally shouldn't be spiked, yes, but i don't see a problem spiking poplars or willows. Plus there is hardly any spike marks, its not like i was spiking up and down it all day, ladder up as high as it would go, climb up then spike up to one branch that needed cutting off, spike up to to put the winch rope in, back down to the level of the cut, then just lowered myself down on my friction hitch.
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cheers for all the comments guys, appreciate it thanks, yeah man once the paint was dry, had to pull the top out of a poplar http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/39860-knocking-top-out-poplar.html cheers man, yeah i did 280ish miles, pleased with the old thing dont give me ideas...
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cheers for all the comments guys! I really enjoyed this job, nice a simple, also got try my new Home Made Landy Winch Bumper The reason behind the job is that its for a land owner that my granddad does a lot of work for, we had a few other trees out of that woodland, and they wanted the top out of the two poplars as they are by the road and just for aesthetics from there house i guess And yeah that is a home made pulleysaver, does look a bit weird in that pic now i look again.
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liamjordan replied to liamjordan's topic in Large equipment
it really is handy man! it has 2 cranes on it both being able to lift 2 ton -
Alright everyone hows it going, some of you may or may not know that im at Barony College in Dumfries, Scotland at the moment studying a National Certificate in Forestry Engineering. It is great, i love it. Well i thought i would share a recent pictures from in and around the workshop
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Heres the last job i did on my Christmas break before coming back up to Scotland, had two poplars to knock the tops out of. Only had time to do there one, as we kept getting a lot of really bad wind so had to keep putting it off, they aren't bothered though so i can finish it when i go back down at Easter i think. Simple job, lop a few branches off, put the landy winch rope up there a bit of a cut and off she comes, did smash the hedge a little bit, but i said that might happen before i did it and they werent bothered
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Alright guys, havent posted on here for a while. Just before i drove back up to Scotland after Christmas I needed the landy winch to pull some poplars over, it wasn't working properly, seemed to keep cutting out, so i stripped the winch down to find it was full of water... as the power input terminal was very loose and corroded, so cleaned it out, and re-wired it all, works like a beast now! I thought as i had it off the landy, i would make a new bumper. See before i had a winch tray sat on the top of the standard land rover bumper. I wanted to sit the winch down and have it all as one bumper. So cut the middle of the bumper out sat the winch tray down in and welded it and reinforced it abit, lick of paint and now looks tidy! Well i think it does
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after today alot of my climbing gear is in the footwell of my landy... so it can live there for a while
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you looking at buying new or old? by what you said about handeling anything a big old stenner or forester is what you want, but having said that we push some fair size stuff through our norwood, probably bigger than recomended. I guy i know has a mobile pezzolato mill and its brilliant, im not sure on the model, will take some fair size stuff, and he found it cheaper to buy the eletctirc version and then buy a second hand pto driven generater that he ran off his mog, so that could be somthing to think about
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my rigging gears in one bag and my climbing gear in another simples aha, the climbing bags starting to over flow abit, but having said that stuff ends up getting mixed around bags, i dont mind really as long as its all there somwhere
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real nice mate! wheres the throttle handle on the saw from? or did you make it? never seen one of them before
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alright man, i have 2 old dolmar bar for it and an oregon one i bought 2 years ago from clarks i think it was, its a solid nose. I'll get the product number, i think the oiler holes lined up more or less, i may have had to grind it a little bit, i honestly cant remember, i'll check
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depends what saw its on, really big bars are great on really old saws as they have a lot more torque, chain speed is always a lot slower on old saws, i would much rather be running a extra long bar on an 070 or 166 than a modern 880
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grandad has a 48" on the 070AV, i have 3 36" for the 153 and 166, and a 44" for the 166
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Saw all the homemade rope guides that people had been posting on here, so i had a go at making one. I cant splice so it was knots all the way, did a eucalpytus take down yesturday, so gave it a go there, seemed to work really well, and it retrieved ok, only problem is that because there is no wire in the eye just the hose it did get abit compressed and was a fiddle to get the pulley through on retrival, but it worked none the less
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i use a prussik on my wire core flip line, dont really climb much but thats what i've always used and works well for me
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liamjordan replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
looking awesome stevie, with that engine, whats she like on fuel? -
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liamjordan replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
i can totally see where your coming from, you being brought up around it and visiting it so often, but surely this wood was planted for timber, as a crop, like most woodlands, so whats happening is just the way it was intended? -
i think planting more willow is the way forward, it may not have as higher calorific value as other stuff, but its sure as hell grows fast, and we manage to shift tons and tons of it as firewood
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liamjordan replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
ahh fair play, thats awesome, hell of a versitle bit of kit! -
166 i have and will never regret buying mine
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liamjordan replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
ah nice one, that would be sweet, you going to get something fabricated that fits between the bolsters to hold gravel, soil ect.? ahh i see you can get around most places without going on the road? thats ideal would love to come and see that beast working! -
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liamjordan replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
what are you planning on have a clam shell for? and what about moving it from job to job? use a haulage contactor everytime, or would it be possible to fit on a trailer behind a tractor or mog? -
Never seen a splitter like this before
liamjordan replied to Chris Sheppard's topic in Firewood forum
thats awesome, hardly any effort at all -
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liamjordan replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
nice one stevie! looks like a hell of a bit of kit!
