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  1. combined tree services
    cheers for the advice guys , i do appreciate it and will let you know of the outcome . dont think i will be buying a harvester just yet ha ha ha ha ha ha
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    yeah in all honestly i get most of that , im not saying that i can go strait on in ther and know all that i need to know because i know im going to learn an awfull lot more as i go but you need to start somewhere .
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    a normal ranger does have the same chassis bud , but to make it a tipper you need to lay a tiper chassis onto of the main chassis , basicly works like a hinge with your tipper body welded to the top . if you were try to make your standard tub a tipper you would still need to make the tiping chassis to bold to the chassis and then make the runers to bold the tub to the tipper chassis , the tub would not sit down like it currently does and in all honesty would look pretty daft .
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    it may be totally of the point but i have found that im selling a fair bit of wood chip to gardeners and the likes 1.5 tons for £50 dont seem bad and to be honest its better than trying to get i firm to come down and collect my chip and pay me next to nothing for it .
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    hiya if you have a look at my Avatar on the left hand side of the page you wil se my ranger tipper - the bed is longer and as you can see the sides are much taller , this chan be achieved quite simply . i would not bother trying to make the origional tub tip as it requires alot of stiffeners fitting , a tipping chassis , and would be more hastle and probably just as costly as building a propper decent tipper
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    thanks TC much apreciated , i really want to get into forrestry more and i can see a good outcome to clearing windblow sites ! as mad as it sounds i see loads of plantation full of windblown or multiple windblow trees that need clearing an no one seems to wanna put their hat in the ring to do it down here
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    As far as i knew it was still acceptable to use a top handled saw with one hand where required - ie tip reducing where a secure work poition can not be accieved without using one hand to do so .
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    i was thinking of offering £6-£8 per ton , sound fair guys ?
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    so what roughly would you offer for it ? i really aint got a clue lmao
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    the site im looking at is all Sitca and Douglas , i guess its a case of working out a price and seeing if it works ! if not better luck next time
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    tommer you need to take the engine off of its sliding mounts - you will need a varied selection of sockets and spanners as the nutts on the under side of the chipper , also you nees a nut remover as im guessing one of them will be rounded off , secondly you will need to remove the cowling from the front of the engine to get to the sliding plates - this will be awkward as there is a steel bracket in the way which is useles , next you will need to remove the belt tensioning lever pins from the side of the engine - this is awkward as one of the r pins will be held in by a hydraulic pipe , after this mate your on your own .
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    what age is your landy ? i speak to the guys in the garrage at western power down here and they have the oppinion that the current defenders are not worth bothering with , i must admit i have never been in there and not seen a couple of landys in bits . i guess its another case of cutting build costs at the expense of reliability and quality which is a shame for what was a good british designed and built machine
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    thanks for your reply , CS34/35 is all sorted . im hopefull that i will be accepted to do the work . but like you say its alot of work and the timbers is more of less worthles i guess
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    not good to see at all , but i remember reading that someone making arb 4x4's is no longer willing to use landrovers as they break far to much !!!
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    trees are roughly 16-28 inches diameter at base , some are hung up well others are on the deck , alos there is a large are or miltiple wind blow , site is mainly flat but access aint to great fot a mog or forwarder . hoe this is of use , im looking at several sites so really looking for a rough costing , i obviously dont wanna offer to little and not really to experienced in pricing forrestry work
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    Hiya guys just loking for rough prices to pay for clearing wind blown timber from plantations . any advice welcomed
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    i could ask you how you feel a one sided tree is safe ! . im not sure about you but after seeing first hand the results of someone cutting one side of the crown off of their neighbours tree because it was hanging over their garden and less than 6 months later the tree ended up on the property owners conservtory and rear extension . I would be inclined to say that a one sided tree can be rather dangerous , as far as siding off trees for utility work goes i would not considder doing any such thing to a medium/ mature tree . these days even utility work has to comply with bs3998
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    all i would ad to what Huck has said is that if in the process of cutting the tree back to their boundary they make the tree unsafe (one sided) or ause the death of the tree then you can have them for it .
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    hmmm well thinking about it if i was to work for someone and had to drive my scooby for work i think i wouls be needing to claim at least £1.50 per 1/2 mile let alone claiming for speeding tickets and points ha ha ha ha .
  20. combined tree services
    mate i would charge what your happy earning and covering your costs for .It varies from firm to firm depending on their initial outlay , runnimg costs , machine , etc etc . my best advice is to sit down and work out your costs first , if another guy's tractor is bought and paid for and yours aint then its most likely he can charge less than you , therefore you could work on his prices on effectivley be working for free
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    from my understanding if the trees belong to your parents then without prior consultation with your parents they have no right to be cutting the trees , however if there is a specific safty reason then most La's will carry the work out under deligated powers . do your parent own everything upto and including the river bank ? secondly i would not have given permission to do any tree work if there is a possibility of a tpo or cons area .
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    just the man !!!! do you have or do you know of any timber for sale ? i have sold the 90 tons i had and they guy i supply is in need of more timber preferably as old as possible , not worried about length diamiter or species . while im on the subject do you know of any timber trailers for sale ?

     

    cheers

    Dave

  23. combined tree services
    ahhhh i see , well how much would you want to cover fuel , a days wage for you pluss funning costs of the trctor ? im not beein cheeky but only you can work that out , personally i would give the local utility companies a call especially if you have a timber trailer too , also from time to time they may be interested for rail clearence . other than that contact your loca councils , i know if you were in cornwall i would have plenty of work for u
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    to be honest if you are happy doing the work and you know that nothing has the potential to breach the proximity of the powerlines then there should not be a problem . but be aware if something does go wrong then you will be in a world of hurt . personally i would contact the utility co and notify them of you intent to cary out works to trees on a certain date and give them as much info as possible ie- address , pole numbers grid refrence and a detailed brief of the job .
  25. combined tree services
    up at half six , at work for 8 then off to site with the lads to finnish of a shut down from last week , then went to look at some work , went back to site to find the mog up a small track and the lads having a wale of a time , picked up 2 truck loads of timber and back to the yard to do a load of logs and clean all the saw's so on the whole not a bad friday !!!!! What i aint told that lads is that we are back cutting some HV spans for the next couple weeks !!!!!! ha ha more playing in the mog !!!

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