Dean O
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funnily enough I carried out my first cat rescue this weekend - twas my daughters birthday but she had just gone down for a nap (2 years old) so gambled on getting there getting it down and getting home before she noticed. Distraught lady and i have a soft spot for animals. I dont think the cat could have gotten any higher, god knows where it was trying to get to. Told the lad I might have to "persuade it" down due to its position, but it seemed pretty glad to see me - so there wasnt a struggle.
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buxtons are selling a husky climbing helmet visor and muffs for £75 helmet is a petzl valeo vent, just bought one for one of the guys seems ok.
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I find the world of milling a weird and wonderfull place - dont get me wrong I love timber when milled. But this is the sort of thing I would probably cut up for firewood with all those large limb wounds. I would charge to remove it rather than give money for it. Whenever we get something special I can never find anyone interested in purchasing from us. You can barely give it away.
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Thanks Slack - yes your probably right. The trouble is the width of the burr being too big for my 36inch bar on the alaskan so I'll have to dice it up a bit first.
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Thanks for the advice so far, If anybody Wants it give me a pm, but I had wanted to dice it up and use it myself. Maverick what sort of diameter blanks are most useful? As I could simply mill it into blanks. At the mo my plan is to cut it down the middle lontitudinaly then mill and open the planks like pages so that they mirror each other as I think the right hand side is better than the left. The left side could then be peiced apart and dealt with differently.
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Came across this Ash Burr in a woodland we look after a couple of years ago, by the time I'd asked the client if I could take it I couldnt find it again. I'd like some advice on how to make the most of it. Access is poor/ very wet so unlikely to get it out with wheel barrow or arb trolley. so should I mill it with the alaskan through and through into planks (what thickness would be most stable?) Will it be unstable and crack/warp. or should I cut it in half (longtidudinally or laterally?) there is a line of decay on the left of the burr that would have been running from top to bottom when the tree was standing. There is some daldinia growing on its surface all over so hopefully it wont be too far gone but 4/5ths seems pretty sound. p.s its too wide to mill with a 36inch bar on the 660 so I may have to piece it apart any how - cut the left hand side off where the rot is and then mill? Any advice welcome. Dean
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Daft question but If you have an outlet and you know how much you can earn per ton or per cube once its out of the wood then if you measure the volume that 1/3rd of the plantation will be you can work out the rest from that with regards to transport etc. Then its just factoring in something for time fuel saws etc to see if its worthwhile. Just trying to get my head around mensuration myself at the mo so I'm not saying its easy but surely the most accurate way for you to get an answer.
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Has anyone used recycled plastic sheeting for a plant trailer bed. (such as stokboard or eco sheet) Got a small plant trailer - only used occasionally for transporting a stumpgrinder but the bed is rotten and needs replacing. what are the options for materials?
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replace a dmf with a solid on td5 defender approx 18months ago. van is worked V hard towing and carrying every day no noticeable difference in actual performance except an annoying rattle from the clutch release bearing (I think) - ie rattles when sat in traffic at a stop in neutral without the clutch depressed.
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cost might not be a factor but cheaper to fell and replace than pollard and manage a duff'n
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form factor norway spruce and corsican pine
Dean O replied to Dean O's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Thank you very much for the guidance Catweazel -
I always offer to cut and stack the timber in their prefered lengths to recoup the cost of our labour - never had any takers tho.
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form factor norway spruce and corsican pine
Dean O replied to Dean O's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Sorry I'll get there in the end OK reworking of reworking - But also to note is that the literature i have states that the 5.6 m plot is 0.01ha not 0.1 is this correct? plot size 0.01Ha (circle rdius of 5.6m) total basal area = 8607cm2 /10,000 = 0.86m2 plot vol = 0.86x8.34 =7.17m3 Ha vol = 7.17 / 0.01 = 717 m3 -
form factor norway spruce and corsican pine
Dean O replied to Dean O's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Oops didnt convert cm2 to m2 correctly. reworking my figures (on average figures for plots) plot size 0.01Ha (circle rdius of 5.6m) total basal area = 8607cm2 = 8.6m2 plot vol = 8.6x8.34 =71.72m3 Ha vol = 71.72 / 0.01 = 7172 m3 Does that look better? Thanks for your help -
form factor norway spruce and corsican pine
Dean O replied to Dean O's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Thank you for your help - sorry I should have noted that the av basal area given is the av basal area of trees over the three plots sampled (0.01Ha) so an av basal area of 86.07m2 per 0.01Ha = 8607m2/ha 8607x8.34 = 71782.38m3/ha sounds a lot for a ha? -
form factor norway spruce and corsican pine
Dean O replied to Dean O's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I see Should I work in averages - ie the average top height over my three (0.01ha) norway plots is 19.5m the average Basal Area is 8607cm2 (86.07m2). Ive managed to find tariff numbers from notes for the three top heights I have for Norway - but without any further charts they arent much help. -
form factor norway spruce and corsican pine
Dean O replied to Dean O's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
not sure catweazel - I've taken three sample plots of 0.01 hect each. measured my dbh's and worked out a basal area for each tree and therefore for each of the plots. Ive measured the height of the largest diameter tree in each plot to get a top height. area x height will give me the volume of the cylinder but I thought I have to correct this to allow for the taper by the form factor for each tree???? Arghh -
form factor norway spruce and corsican pine
Dean O replied to Dean O's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
ehhh? -
bought one to replace a 260 that became unreliable after 5 years of reliable heavy use and regretted it. Problems from day one. replaced it with a 550xp that has after 6 months not had any issues other than loosing the odd exhaaust bolt for some reason. I would not buy another
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just trying to get my head around some mensuration without the blue book to hand Does any one have the form factors for norway and corsican to hand please thanks
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with only 16hp at the pto it may not be the best thing for me after all. currently has a hi tip/ lift grass collector box, thingy m' jig. was considering a little timber trailer/crane setup for it too - but again maybe not the best thing
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thanks for taking the time to post those for me
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Thanks guys its 4wd with a deck and collector box I was thinking around the 2-2.5k mark. but i know little of these things. interested in the ability for fetching and carrying maybe running a little topper flail. I was going to go the route of a mini skidsteer but been offered this by chance really.
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been offered a bx2200 no implements just set up as a ride on 400 hours - does anyone know what ist is worth
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Surely if you price a job by a day you still price for set amount of time - for example we work from 8 till 4 (this just about always fits withn daylight hours). if i think its going to take longer i price accordingly.
