liamjordan

me and grandad were skidding timber out all day today... i hate the heat soo much, up and down the hill all day with the winch cable and chokers, i was dripping with sweat and there was grandad fine with a think german shirt and waistcoat on not bothered by it at all, god knows how he isnt effected

i just use the starter cord, simples

Sacrilege! Some things have more intrinsic value or historic value than scrap. Is the crane going too?

i no man, is a real shame! nooooo the crane is stayin, tis a good work horse, gets used a few times a week, handy thing to have in the yard, i've never seen it out on site that was before my time at this game:thumbdown: grandad stopped taking it on the road some years back.

glad i am not the only one with a yard that resembles something from wrong turn ha ha.shame old girl had to go as scrap

ahaha yeah are yard is a bit old school, but still very functional yeah it is man, a real shame

Steady on Liam!

Should of paid scrap value to him and set it up yourself. They can be a pain in the backside though. Our one is electric on 3phase and since it lives in a barn we have issues with the electrics.

if i had the money i would of

yeah man this ones 3 phrase, scrapped a big old genterator and old guy lorry that were going to power it a while back, he used them for all his band and circular saw sharpening machines before he sold them, another load of things that would be cool to still have!

that looks similar to one I nearly bought many years ago , it had its own rail tracks for the log carriage and was used for cutting track sleepers

If I remember rightly we decided there was just too much of it to move a fair distance, but a lovely bit of kit.

yeah man thats right this ones got the rain tracks too

yeah i can see why you decided that it is a fair old lump

that would be awesome to fell

yeah man i put those two logs under it just to try it, but it does need to be lifted up a little bit more, so i'll find some bigger bits sometime

Well i havent had much work on recently as my cousin has gone for a hip replacement, so made these benches in our field to keep myself busy, finished them off this evening, although im going to carve abit more out of the one at a later date

All made from alder from the same field, does make it more satisfying using your own timber, have got some pics of me milling it with the alaskan, will have to get the camera developed though

Suspect theres over 2k worth of scrap there then. £140 a ton i got last week

think its about £170 here at the moment i'll find out in the morn when i see grandad

Good old machines the Danckaert. Belgian i believe, there we a few back in the old cabinate making workshop. Nothing as big as that though

probally of looked like that when it was up and running?

yeah man that the sort of thing! it was semi set up there, he had concreted it down and made the saw pit out of a big steel water tank, shame he never finished it

yeah man! theres probably another 15 ton plus under the sheet, so it was a fair size saw

What we were doing today blasphemy through my eyes, but whats done is done.

Grandad bought a big old Danckaert Bandsaw years ago when a local saw mill closed down, he started setting it up in the yard but never got around to finishing it. So its just been sat covered up, and now we have started to scrap it slowly as he'll get a lot more money for it in scrap that what he gave for it.

This saw is one hell of thing, im gutted i have never seen it going. Today we scrapped the wheels that the bandsaw ran on, these give you an idea of the size of the saw!

That one piece on the landy weighed just under a ton, hell of a lump, and just fit nice and snug

Well was a good day anyway

Holme lacy college in hereford will do it mate. i just did my CS38 there and when i was filling out the registration form there was a section for under 18s. I know its a bit away but definately worth a try. Good luck bud.

yeah man that where i did mine

aha yeah i agree on the prentative maintenance

but say your machine does break down, and you have to get a forestry engineering to come out to you... that could be up to a day wasted,

thats why i have done a years agri engineering and now going onto a years forestry engineering

plus all the kit we run is old so its good to be able to keep all that going

i did mine when i was 16 with no experience piror to the training at college all for free? You should really find out why they wont let you

Spend the best part of a year in Finland training on the big forwarders and harvesters. Then i'm thinking come back big bank loan and getting myself a T131 and a harvester head. Looked at a few woodland jobs around here that the harvester would breeeze through.

nice one mate!

thats possibly the way im hoping to heading in the future, owning my own harvester would be awesome, one of the main reasons why i've been studying a lot of the engineering side of things, is to be able to fix and maintain big kit, this has potential to cut down huge call out fees, and its just bloody good fun

these machines are apparently one of the best for steep slopes

http://www.forestryjournal.co.uk/pdf/Menzi%20Muck.pdf

They look good, are they chainsaw gloves?

and where did you get em for a tenner? Just googled and they are up for £17!!!

they ent actually chainsaw gloves, but who uses propper chainsaw gloves anyway? they are waste of money imo

i didnt really like mine, the fingers wore out pretty quick, they look snazzy though!

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never used one, but there was an indepth thread about it on here somwhere, a good review too

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/business-software/12105-drift-innovation-x170-helmet-camera.html

yeah done a few in the back of my landy lately, my own customers not grandads aha

done 5 loads since last week, another one to do tomorow, ideal

Well done. I'm off to college in Finland to drive harvester & forwarders:thumbup1:

nice one!

the course im going onto says that theres an opportunity to go and do your harvester ticket at a partner college in scandanavia

Honestly don't go there expecting any sort of organisation! I still haven't been given a start time for my course yet

ahaha mate i bet it will be better than my college... most of the time last year we had to wonder around in the morn untill we bumped into our tutor, then decide which room to go to, latley our timetable has been somthing like, arrive, fag break, canteen, fag break, IT room, fag break and so on

well done!

 

what sort of thing is covered in a forestry engingering course? is it mechanics of forestry specific equipment?

its the maintainance and repair side of things, seems very much the same as the ag one i just did, but forestry machine related

when i went up for my interview they had a few "projects" going on in the workshop, stripping down and welding up some old harvester head, along with putting a roofmount back on a massey tractor

after doing my ND forestry, i did the ag course mainly to learn how to keep all our old kit going, then after doing the course for abit i realised how much i actually enjoy the engineering side of things, so i though i may aswell try and combine the two fields of work i live for!

Congrats Liam.

 

 

Oh the free and easy life of a student eh!

cheers man! ahah yeah student life is fun, but never have any money... i'll get back to you about those bars when my next google check comes through? that cool? cheers rob

You poor naive fool

ahaha well it'll be a change to holme lacy... better tho? well i'll find out in august i suppose if theres some sort of timetable and organisation that will be a step up