tommer9
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Everything posted by tommer9
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Precisely what i am concerned about.......I might see if RCO has any input....
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Well i had 20 metres of jap larch delivered this evening on 6 wheel and drag, and the driver has given me the number of a haulier who has an artic with BIG crae on. Ill try and get him down from north devon.
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880 has more grunt, slightly more cc, and more torque.
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:lol: Good post mate.
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HOw is the i phone ground breaking? They didnt invent touch screen. Neither was the i-pad the first of its type. It is however the only oneof its type that is not compatible with websites that use flash (about 25% of the worlds websites and growing innumber fast)due to apple not being able to buy Adobe and rebrand it as apple. They also, regardless of wht the likes of Stephen Fry would tell you, are not the inventor of the 'windows' idea- drop down menus etc etc. Not sure how crap the PCs were that you are used to using, but my PC is silent, and is running very fast, 4 gig of ram and over clocked to 3.8 gig, and thats an old PC- about 7 years old now. Graphic designers were the original market for macs, which back then were more than just a dressed up PC with an overinflated price tag because of a pretty box.
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When will people learn that all this mac business is total crap. It is just another asus motherboard (like in 99.9% of every computer sold) in a fancy package, with ripped off open source software which is then (regardless of who ACtUALLY did the work) accredited to a company that has such a small market share that the virus writers cant be arsed....yet....Your time will come apple fans, there are viruses out there laready for macs..... And as for unreliability of PCs, with a very small amount of know how and switching on of AUTOMATIC maintenance programs your PC will be as troublefree as a MAC. Eset costs about £25 a year and is bombproof. MACS are a rip off, as is every other apple product, from a company that portrays itself as a lovely caring family blah blah blah but is worse than Microsoft in that respect. rant over........
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Yada yada yada.........
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Busman's holiday.......?
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Thanks Rover- great link. The teaching power of Arbtalk strikes again!
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Yeah i have always used Beech. Oak is ok though, esp for fish I think.
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Ill second gibbon on south america. Not worked out there, but spent time in Argentina and Brazil........amazing places.
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Thick coat and cold are not condusive to PU drying rob. Warm/ hot environment is good IME, and as you say, a thick coat of that stuff will take along time to dry off. Its pretty gloopy isnt it?
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HOw do you mean 'easy' Mike? Its not a steep slope, but this isnt final thinnings either, and we have been told we cant damage too many other trees on the way down, although i feel that the top being on may slow the descent a tad.... I did reply to loads of the suggestions from earlier, but somehow didnt post the reply. Thanks for all the help so far. I like the homemade bogey idea, rides are excellent and big, would an artic log trailer unit be able to handle these logs, or would i need a teleporter (or two) to load? I will have a 6 tonne franchguard on the back of the valmet to skid the timber out. We did moot the idea of suspending the one end on the butt plate / winch and the other on a teleporter.....
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I am sure the M&S advert i have just seen on the telly is advertising food smoked in douglas fir:confused1: I was under the impression (from investigating for my own food smoker) that softwood was a definite no-no for smoking food:confused1:
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Just pay up and move on. You will NOT beat this. Sorry but the powers that be in the world of parking tickets live for it...I speak from multiple experience.
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BTW to you more experienced fallers, would i be better off topping out or just felling straight, as far as shaking the timber is concerned? My [limited] forestry experience has not been for timber logs, so this hasnt been an issue) There will be issues with the amount of colateral damage we can cause to surrounding woodland. (the trees will have to be selectively felled, this isnt part of a clear fell I dont think)
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Thats what i have advised (its not for me...I am felling, extracting to rideside, and milling.) I will help throughout (hence the threads) but I am not that interested in bodging it up a public highway, or the frustrations of what could and inevitably will go wrong- I dont want any unexpected grit related surprises caused by dropping logs on the road etc etc either. Its enough of a paint getting a stone 3/4 way through a 5metre long log, let alone a 12 one!
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I think i am lucky, I never get them. BTW I use Eset Nod32 home security. IMO nothing else is worth bothering with.
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Ew- nasty Rob. What a nightmare. Beautiful timber all the same.
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Yeah I am leaning towards the legit route, simly because for £400 ish the job would be done, and no headaches. I reckon it could cost more than that in man power doing it heath robinson stylee anyway. As far as legalities is concerned, TBH it is such a quiet backroad that we could probably just close it and no-one would know. Its virtually a private estate road anyhow, to all intents and purposes. Couple of guys with 'stop-works' signs would do it I should think....
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Standing. Thanks Mate- yes i have, ill call him tomorrow. Never thougt of him:thumbup1:
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Any ideas what standing doug is going for on average? Would be big trees, as per my extraction thread- at 42' they need a top diameter of 16".
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Any ideas welcome here. I have to fell about 25 doug firs, whic at 42' length need to have a top diameter of 16", so they are going to be fairly lumpy. they will get skidded to ride-side; the ride itself has just been put in and is massive, in preparation for alot more forestry (nowt to do with me BTW), and the final destination is only about 500yds up the road. I have had a few ideas, including even dragging up the road!!!!! However even though it is a tiny back road that rarely sees any traffic, this is not an option. Any ideas more ideas, wacky or otherwise?
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Working in my sleeveles vest again today, sweating.....pink campions in flower and daffs coming into flower in some hedgerows too.....WTF?????????
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Preciseley. I have had the same experience Rob.
