liamjordan

i have done hedge laying with college, and its a good skill to learn, our tutor said he charges £10 - £15 a metre.

Great stuff!!!!!!!

 

Gives me hope for my latter years!!

 

You can tell from your Grandfathers body language that he knows exactly what hes doing and has done it all a hundred times before.

 

Do worry about "SOME" who think any technique thats not in the NPTC assessment is not to be used.

 

I think putting the back cut in first, when winching, is a very good idea as he was able to see if the cut started to open or close and thus judge if he had enough pull or too much,.

 

Thanks for sharing!!!!

 

Looking forward to your next post.

 

I would love to have a pint or two with your Granddad, I bet I could learn more from him than any modern "training day".

ha thanks for that, i enjoyed reading that post

Just thought i would post these few pics of our whole "yard"

I have a hankering for a series one in my life.

ha its nice to own one, we have started restoring it fully, at the moment it doesnt have the origanal engine, thats in the shed, to put it in short years ago the landy was driven through a lot of floods, and its never been the same haha. So we have just got an other engine in now, we will put the orginal back in some day.

We still use that for work on occasions, normally when the 110 is at the garage...

Classic saw, like the 036 and MS360 were/are... Unbreakable in my experience. If I was only allowed one saw this would be it.

o right sweet, well thanks for that, i think its a good saw, glad i got it, paid £490 for it aswell, brand fire new

i'll post our two work land rovers soon (90 and 110), but this is our 1948 Series 1, one of the first ever made i thinks

I salute your Grandfather and his unconventional methods. Looks a very good setup you have there.

ha thanks!

not unconventional just old

That's the one

 

I ended up getting shut of mine and getting a 20 ton hydraulic with a 4 way option, sped things up no end.

 

The screw type can be very quick as you say but it's got to be nice stuff with no knots, I found Ash to be hard work as well, wouldn't completely split.

 

There's that point when you have hold of a log, the cone grabs it and trys to spin it and you are holding it knowing that if you let go your going to get your knuckles wrapped

ha cool, havent had much ash in stock, big enough to use the splitter, just use the sawbenchs, but i know what you mean when it doesnt split completely.

We have two hydraulic splitters and yeah they are much more effective, but its a handy setup we have with that fordson, one man on the hiab movin logs and cross cutting them, then another on the splitter.

How do you get on with the screw type splitter BTW, do you find it a little slow at times and sometimes end up fighting with the log?

well i think it works well, but it totally depends on what wood you are splitting, we have just split about 8 ton + of poplar and this splits easy, the splitter loves it, but when your trying to split stuff like oak, that isnt that well seasoned, it is a bit of a fight.

They really dont like knotty bits either and it kills when the wood flips around and smacks you on the knuckles

got one in the boot of my car ready to use to the morn great saw the only problem with it the oil pump goes to easy on them also a bugger to start when cold but what saw is'nt you'll love it

ah right okay, mine seems to start okay from cold, a lot better than college's 260's

Even my ms180 takes about 4 pulls from cold and 1 when hot.

 

I should imagine it has elastostart and a decomp though?

yeah it does

In vid one, the felling technique wouldn,t be far wrong if you'd have played the tape backwards

ha okay fair enough

i think iv seen that tractor in the first clip before?

 

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=3912

yep that my video to

I don't want to get into critisising and putting you off posting. Good on you for doing so, nice to see some old tackle.

 

Keep participating on and reading the forum and all will become clear

ah right i think i understand what your saying, the lack of ppe? older unsafe cutting techinques?

I think you need to sub someone in to fell trees for you

whys that?

Hello everyone, i just bought a stihl ms361 with an 18" bar , got it very cheap to

Just wondering what other people think of it?

I like it, it runs well, stihl has never let me down in the past.

Thanks

lucky lad if thats your grandad, you must sit in college wondering how old grandpappy is still alive. but he is because he has skill and talent. and true grit.

learn as much as you can off him, you dont find that kind of information in books(not saying college isnt helpfull)thanks for sharing his story mate

ha thats for the great comment, i am learing a lot from him! and a fair bit bit from college to

Hello everyone, i just thought i would share some information and some pictures about all the equipemnt we use to produce and distribute our firewood.

I wouldnt say we have a big setup, we do sell a lot of wood, yes but im not sure but i doubt its anywhere near on the scale of what some people on this forum do. Just to let you know, my granddad runs this "business" and he is retired so this is not somthing that keeps us alive, he purely does it to keep active and to make a bit money in the proccess.

We deleiver at least 1 load a day up to 5 on a good day (we consider a load - a 110 land rover full heaped, probably weighin about 3/4 of a ton)

Main Chainsaws:

Stihl MS 440

Stihl MS 361

Stihl MS 018

Stihl MS 090

Tractors and Equipment:

Fordson Major with Winch and Loader [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIViwIUSWiQ&feature=channel_page]Video 1[/ame], [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEFBcf5Bl_w]Video 2[/ame], [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HClLt6V_1wc&feature=channel_page]Video 3[/ame]

Fordson Major with Hiab and side mounted Logsplitter (Picture 1, Picture 2) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9tsgLexvSQ&feature=channel_page]Video 1[/ame], [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svZ5e0KyKgk&feature=channel_page]Video 2[/ame])

Leyland 270 with Hydraulic Log Splitter (Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3)

Ford Ploughmaster and Forwarder Trailer (Picture 1, Picture 2)

Small Massey with Saw Bench (Picture 1)

Another Massey with Saw Bech (Picture 1)

Crane (Picture 1, Picture 2)

Will post more info/pictures/video about our firewooding operations.

Thanks for taking the time, to read, look and watch!

Liam Jordan

Thanks for taking the time to give us the story behind the vid!!

 

I hope I can still cut as well as that at 72!!

Ha no problem, thought i would shed some light on the subject

Ha same

Ok hello everybody, first off sorry for the bump of this topic, but i need to say a few things.

This is my video, i just recently found that it has been posted on here. So i thought i should clear a few things up ha

Just vid of your average farmer with an old saw he prob bought from a farm sale the week before....Why the hell someone made the effort to film him is beyond me

Nope, he is a retired logger. Once he finished school, he went straight into the trade, doing various things through life.

- Comerical tree felling

- Tree Realted Estate Work

- Sawmill Worker (still doing some now)

- Saw Doctor

- Cutting and Delievering loads of firewood (does this about 6 days a week now)

The saw is not actually ours, it officaly belongs to a local saw mill, my uncle (not that guy) borrowed it off them to use it for a job, that was 7 years ago, it was never returned, they know we have it, but they will probably let us keep it, seen as though health and safety wouldnt allow this to be used by any of their workers.

the ppe or lack of in this vid also the safety features on the saw, i wouldnt work a saw without a chain brake n safety throttle.

i like to have a rear chain brake on the handle also, makes it that lil bit safer

Yes, he doesnt wear ppe, i always moan at him for this. I am 16 studying foresty at college, when im workin with him im always wear correct ppe. He just wears steel toe capped boots and gloves lol, sometimes ear defenders

Why criticised? He is most likely working on his own property, and has manged to reach a ripe old age without lethal injury.

Yeah he has been working from a young lad through to 72 and still working now with no injuries

Just to confirm- that was a modern video. The guy who shot it was the chaps’ grandson who said on you-tube that he had been in the trade for 50 years or more !

Yep, im the grandson

Your right...what a lovely tree, shame to fell it! Crown looked healthy, and no target as far as I could see.....Shame

It was a health and saftey hazard, aparently i didnt really want to see it come down, but we just got paid to do it.

It was rotten on the one side, due to being struck by lightning and leaning over a lane, so due to health and saftey it had to come down (if it had fallen on a car or someone the farmer would have been liable)

Interesting points of view on this thread, firstly the use of the 090. heavy powerful saw, will shake ,ou to bits after a days use, every body part takes a hammering, but lets face it, the big toys dont get much of an airing these days. I love my 090, but it has its place, and would rather use the 66 any day, with all ts modern avantages. PPE, personally I'd always use it, whatever saw I'm on, but thats my choice.

The tree, well given the chance i'd fell it, it as coming out for some reason, maybe for the timber, maybe for safety reasons, maybe for firewood, and perhaps the old boy wanted it filmed for one last chance to show "he still had it"

Yeah was because of saftey reasons, but some will go for timber, the rest firewood, and yes that is one of the last big trees my grandad will fall so he wanted it filmed.

Well thanks for taking a slight interest into my videos.

Cheers

Liam Jordan