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Stevie- how come no-one has invented tartan chainsaw trousers? Never mind camo.

stevie...when your invention is finished can you be sure to post a pic for us?

Hahahahahahaha!

T-shirts arrived today. Great! Thanks Jonesie.

i saw a lego version of this

Thats brilliant isnt it!:001_tongue:

I had one once- stevie if you think its on a par with a transit, you must have driven some terrible excuses for transits. I reckon more like on a par with the rustiest zetor on the farm!!!

Put your 100 quid towards a newer bit of kit.

Just do it Stevie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Once you have you will wish you had done it years ago!!

 

It is just good sense, you are spreading the weight on the mog, with chipper on the back AND the chip on the back you end up going down the road like a speed boat.

 

With the chipper on the back you cannot pull a trailer, unless you get one of those crazy long draw bars that make going off road a joke. And running a mog with out a trailer is, IMO, pointless.

 

You are like me small firm, I do all the driving, climbing and cutting.

 

I have a really good man, but if he left I can easily find another labourer to replace him, they don't even need to be able to drive, let alone pull a trailer.

 

A mog with the chipper on the front and crane trailer on the back means you can go and do a FULL days work , bring every thing home, all in one trip, and because of the capacity you have if Mrs Miggins comes comes out from next door and says could you remove my 45' conifer while your hear?, your not think "oh if only I could get it", because you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Ducker chippers are OK, they a basically a TP, but they are not as good as the Schilesing, IMO.

 

Alex has a very good S/H u400 like mine, if I were you I would go for that.

 

I would not recommend putting a front chipper on linkage, it make it stick out way to far and increases the load on the front axel.

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I want that one!

Thanks for all that input guys-i'll be back in the woods on thursday i think. I'll get some pics sorted out.

Thanks for speedy reply!! Will get shots as soon as i remember to take my camera, and check out Fb interior.

You definitely get to feel or read trees- climbed a sketchy juniper a couple of months back, knew it felt weird, but couldnt describe that feeling. When the trunk hit the deck it pretty much shattered. Like you say- didnt sway quite right!

Just had another look at this thread as i have been working for two weeks in some ancient oak woodland on teh south coast. We are felling every sycamore in the woods. The woodland was clear felled last time in 1968, and has been coppiced for the tanneries and other industries for hundreds if not thousands of years. There is a large amount of what we thought was ustulina, until i saw John Hancocks thread on Daldinia concentrica. What is confusing me is that the fruiting bodies look just like daldinia, but it is all or 99.9% on living sycamore, (of basal diameters ranging from old coppiced stools of about 4-5 foot with about ten stems, down to small single stemmed specimens.) One area that we were in today has been very badly hit- and the rot has left markings in the centre of the trunk just like in pics previously on this thread, with some being hollow. (makes directional felling very interesting at times!!) I am confused as to what it is- and will post pics later, but also- we have to leave all the timber and brash in the wood. Natural england say so, to give a beetle some habitat- sorry dont know which one- but are there any long term implications of leaving this much diseased wood lying around, and exposed stumps. We have left upwards of 120 tons of wood so far, let alone brash, on the ground, and have another 10 days in the contract, and about 1/4 of it is diseased.

bit o' class!!LOL Moron!

Ill be able to recognise you at capel now!

heres my girl,

what do you think ?

Jeez thats very impressive mate!

BTW does that go on to say "the best tree surgery/surgeon in sussex" on the right? That must be pretty effective.

i use one of them everyday mate:ohmy:

Are you the huge fat guy on the left or the right?

stretch airs and 200quid boots dont make you a tree cutter. the 110 foot redwood down safely 20 feet away from buildings eitherside of it does.

Good point well put!

I am sure i am behind the times, and you have probably all seen this, but....

put v8 chainsaw into youtube....I didn't post a link as there are loads of vids of this ridiculous monster.

on the pitta bread front- cheese and onion- in the pitta, slam it in the toaster. Tops.

Another one with crane on ebay but twin rear wheels, I dont think it looks half as good as the other.

I totally agree. That first one would do me niceley with a five ton hi=ab...nice to dream:001_smile:

Nicely done mate. Fits really well!

Well i dropped off some full loads to a local farmer and filled ton seed bags...it holds four and a half of those:scared:... I cant think of the exact size at the mo but wouldnt want it any bigger!!!

Just picked up om this thread- you guys with jap stuff, esp those hi-luxes need to be extremely careful when towing 6" chippers without any weight in the truck, let alone fully laden with high sides and chip- vosa will take you to the cleaners for overloading like that! I dont know what the newer ones are like, but the model in the pic with the chipper attached must be just about up to, if not over, gross train weight with a couple of guys and equipment. Down here they are overzealous to say the least!

a couple of the redwood:001_smile:

nice fell stevie.

i reckon the biggest trees down here probably look like shrubs compared to that.

Showing off the pants or the big tree you felled Shreks Wee Brother?

 

Where was the tree mate? She looks a big one!

nah nah- he didnt fell that- he's just a model- i keep telling yous:001_tongue:

You are in the wrong game stevie- you should take up a career with stihl- modelling for their 2010 catalogue. I think they're checking out potentials at their remote mountan chalet as we type......

Reading all that reminbds me of the twins my mate pulled while we both lived in Ayr...... he had some pretty thick beer googles on that night.

 

anyway back on topic, i'll get my niece or nephew in some cutting stuff one day

 

Jamie

Stevie- or is it allison- you never mentioned that before....

monday treat, i now need 2 new chains:thumbdown:there would be more value from the metal in this wood. i reckon there must have been a tree house in this many moons ago:mad1:

is that burr oak- and did you take it down or just reduce it- next time harvest the burrs. They will pay for several rolls of chain!!