Joy Yeomans

This may be a long shot, but does anyone have a used chipper for sale ideally as cheap as possible for my lads to use as a second chipper to go off with. must be working condition, doesnt matter if its scruffy. Not bothered make, etc - if you've got any ideas please pm me

yes - you have to change your mind set with it, its more efficient to keep it in 24 hrs to keep the cast iron hot and plan your cooking - we cook our own lamb that we raise ourselves and its the best slow cooked in the "Stan" - you aint tasted food til youve tasted aga cooking!

yes that sounds about right, our neighbour has same size house as ours 3 bedrooms etc, fills his oil tank up twice a year at over £300 each time - about £700 a pop for oil to heat hot water and radiators - we fill our truck up and bring it down twice a year with softwood and with this we cook and heat hot water and our 8 radiators! costing us if we sold it equivalent to say £160 for two loads of softwood at £85 a pop - which also cuts our electric bill as w cook on our aga (stanley) and our monthly electric is only £20 Direct Debit and even then in winter we get a rebate! - so compared to equivalent house with same size rooms etc our bills are reduced by £540!! but ofcourse our wood is free so we save alround!

Well Said! but a nice white gypo truck would set those logs off loveley:001_tt2:

yes well said, I think he means widthxdepthxlength gives cubic metres filled flat - with air spaces! as we all have to tell customers to remember its not an exact science when they stack them and think your .08 short:001_huh:

to get back to the thread - I agree with quickthorn - its going to get difficult - and also if you only sell hardwood - where are you going to get it after all the thinnings and other bits harvested? - there will soon come a time when you wont be able to buy hardwood to turn into firewood it will be uneconomic surely - demand will outstrip supply - we have to fell all our own so we have 1,000 of tonnes from FC - but what about the companies who buy in? youll have to go down the softwood route - but softwood isnt a swear word - thats all I and family burn - the stuff the customer doesnt want! the stove sellers and internet experts have alot to answer for - true old fashioned firewood burners know any wood is good - I have to cook on my stove and heat our house, I try and explain to customers but it is difficult - back to thread, margins will be tight and some will fall by the wayside, only tree surgeons selling their arisings and foresters selling their own produce and firewood merchants will have to sell mix loads or softwood in a few years time thats my opinion anyway!

well what do we burn? - good question - unfortunately I always get the stuff the customer never wants to buy - i.e conifer, softwood ,any thing , poplar, mainly conifer though - and I have to cook on mine! - stanley solid fuel - but you know, any wood will burn, and produce a hot enough hotplate for food and if your careful will heat an oven upto 200 to cook a joint! plus hot water and heating for for houses 8 radiators - some people are too fussy with their wood.

could well have been - trouble is Im a bit of a collector/hoarder and when the yard gets a bit too full and starts looking cluttered - or I see my next purchase I have to shift something to make room:001_tongue: - cant resist my machinery! big boys toys or something to do with it

yes, was a nice drive, sold it to get some more tractors:001_tongue: decided to finally get out of agric.contracting - but having said that still did some silageing this year - cant quite get farming out of my blood!

some of the workhorses if of any interest ;I like to collect tractors - not particuluar to colour or make - just like to collect them, ---- MUST HAVE MORE TRACTORS, MUST HAVE MORE, MORE MORE.......

that price sounds a hell of a lot for standing softwood? at 12"+??? would be interested but these figures wouldnt add up for what we would do the job for:confused1:

bingo - we've found it just the same, I think that no one reads these local rags anymore - word of mouth - INVALUABLE - Web site works well for wholesale customers & ebay does pretty well - I think a good website in this day and age is invaluable though - updating ours in the next month or so when I can get round to it

just to add more griss to the mill - our RA's are quite basic, Talking Forestry work here - would post but afriad youd all laught at them - they pass muster and do the job - but I find i tried to put in an all singing all dancing one - which seemed to be over the top and the lad who weve appointed site safety officer said it was too much to fill in every day etc - so we checkd what we needed - took advice and our basic tick box was sufficient and the lads didnt mind filling it in - simple tick boxes, verbal checks, tick boxes, sign etc done - 5minutes before start felling and its complete - anymore and i think they wouldnt bother - but it IS a needed piece of h&s as it does reinstate in everyones mind before they start what should be done, what mustnt be done and what could go wrong and then what to do if it does and where to go etc hope this helps keep up the talk joy

where abouts is it, if near us would be interested

Thanks Yvonne, Rohan informs me we had our new grab bowser off you last year - thanks for info - will contact Barony - joy

TW stands for Two Wheel Drive - sounds daft but they were all 2 wheel drive in America then made for europe 4wd front wheel assisted axles, these big tractors were designed in the USA where 2wd was the norm on this size of machine the reason for this anomoly was that different farming practices found on different farms in america and austrailia - TW's came in - early ones were ,10,20,30 then came, 15,25,35 with a first and second series to give three series in all of the TW's giving three shapes two types with Q cab, then to the supa Q cab force II, hope this answers your question - we are ford anoracks Im afriad.

will do thanks,

sold that ages ago charlie - the bloke just took his time collecting it! - getting another though hopefully saturday. - give us a ring tomorrow charlie - re: about that larch behind you

TW pulling out some willows from mill leat clearance - giving the other tractors a break - if anyone interested TWis for sale please ring 07970 040755 if interested price £7000 ono plus VAT

yes, got yvonnes details from last fmoc;s thanks - will contact her -

yes unfortunately, when youve got lads sat waiting for work - you go where you think it will keep them busy for a few months etc - but when the pay doesnt come through you have to take it on the chin - unfortunately in this climate its not nice - just thankful that weve got back in with our local FC and got some good felling for our lads to get stuck into - will keep them busy for a bit. - although always on the lookout for work:001_tt2:

wanting to get the last FMOC tickets for our lads, which is the FMOC harvestor course, does anyone know of a course running at the moment or very near future - we usually use Dick Bradshaw for all our training - hes brill -but hes not always in the country - could be training people all over the world - thought id just post this thread before I contact Dick to see if theres a course running in near future that our lads could tag onto?

Derek still keeps in touch :thumbup:did meet Dad - all brill - David, Derek, Donald etc we had the full clan visit whilst Skylining - I think they were checking us southerners out! - but they were all the nicest bunch Ive met!! Fantastic Company - and we all had some laughs. Were planning a reunion at next APF its just down road from us at Cannock and we should all being well be helping our friends from Fuelwod run their site and supplying them with timber etc and carting back and forth for them to our site nearby so will be there all week - will have to set up a mini Arbtalk Scottish Reunion! Wont be working for Neil again through! - still waiting for my money 12 months down the line! - does he do this to alot of folks??? no wonder he struggled to get skyliners there if thats what hes like?

the last ones Ill post - so as not to bore you with it - but very proud of our achievements - I think we know all about putting this old girl back together again now, from new pistons to clutch, and rewire, shes had a full rebuild and respray and renew to set her goiing for another 30 years+, all done by myself, and Tony my mechanic and thanks to master Mechanic and master tractor brain Ken Ferriday (tonys dad) for advice, my dad for painting the wheels and fiddly bits and me for spraying it!

the rebuilt county 1124 just waiting for cab to be put on and bonnet, which is on now with new decals will post a pic - shes had more money spent on her than my wife!!!! - thats dangerous!