cousin jack
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I have a customer, who wants to fell four old fruit trees, damson/apple, in his large garden, he will use the resulting timber for his own firewood use. Max height of trees 18ft, but he is within a conservation order area, could anyone advise on procedure about obtaining permission etc. Thanks CJ
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Seems like Shotton is into recycled paper nowadays, think the wood train is going to Chirk, found quite a few vids on utube [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq6ssEBf-Qs]Kronospan Timber 14 07 2009 - YouTube[/ame] Would love to see how they unload it. Should add, once you've seen the first 2 mins of this video, you've seen it all, don't waste 5 mins of yer life watching the rest unless, you want to see a tidy bit of reversing by Jones the driver.
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Saw this in Crewe station, heading towards N Wales, where was it going Chirk?
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Well worth a watch
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Can't see where it mentions M4, but Junction 31 of A55 is near St Asaph in North Wales, the A55 runs from Holyhead to Chester.
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A55 Holyhead Road from M6 I think
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Respect
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Been there! Not nice. Mine was over some ash rails, they did'nt break, spent 6 weeks in traction with a broken hip/pelvis.
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We feed all year round as well, had a hell of a selection, yesterday. Blue, Great Tits, Goldfinches, Greenfinches, Chaffinch, Long tailed tits, Robin, Blackbirds, Wrens, Woodpecker, Sparrow, Nuthatch, even a couple of Fieldfare's. And a couple of cock pheasants, who will now be on the menu later in the week. Should add, well away from the shooting coverts, so fair game in my book.
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When you say "nigh on impossible", I am assuming you are talking about uphill extraction. Two things, can you make a path out along the bottom of the slope, if so, extract downhill, then out, also, a simple pulley block, and rope will halve the effort needed to pull anything. Anyway, good on you!
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Is that right, always thought they were just ordering a Big M for themselves, even funnier now!
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Jotul is another good make, up besides Morso, get on the bay, you will certainly find a good second hand one there.
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Like that, good link
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Crikey it's moved on a bit, I can remember Ken Barlows first wife getting electrocuted, don't think lesbians had been invented then.
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Jesus, there's a panto on telly now, since when has Nigel Havers been in Corination Street, what happened to Albert Tatlock and Ena Sharples
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Watching it now! Derail I know, but anyone watch the new David Attenborough series on Africa, Wednesday night absolutely fantastic.
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They fit in a standard trailer ok, you also have a PM
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I was riding horses about 30hrs a week for 27yrs, and yet found it very frustrating when driving from the ground, it is a different ball game. If you only go for one day with Simon, you will benefit from it, I would not recommend anyone else. If you wish to see the mare, click on the facebook link below my post, you will see pictures of her, she is called Leonne.
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Horses extract timber, they don't fell it!
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Contact Simon Lenihan of Celtic Horse Logging, he can tell you all about The Ardennes, and gives training courses. Celtic Horse Logging | horse logging contractors | - Celtic Horse Logging Also, I might have a Ardennes mare for sale.
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arb show horses do this happen here in the uk
cousin jack replied to predator's topic in Horse Logging
Looks like it was a pulling competition, and I'm guessing it was Austria, as they had some Noriker horses pulling. I personally would'nt want to do this as it get's your horses fairly revved up! If you then take them into the wood to work you have got a real handful. A good horse works carefully, listens to you, and gives you the power when you ask for it. -
The opening post states that the owner of the woodland concerned could be better off to the tune of £300,000. If that is'nt profit I don't what is. The figures were compiled by Dr Adam Watson, he is a scientist not a forester, he is impartial as to the profits/losses incurrred, his main concern is the effect modern forestry is having on the area where he has lived all his life, ie The Cairngorms.
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At £50,000 you need to keep it very busy and it would have to be a VERY short extraction to get 60 tonne to roadside.
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As someone has said above, each site will be specific. I have worked alongside a winch, pulling larch thinnings to chip and there was nothing in it, horse and I easily compared to the winch operation. I will always try and advocate using a winch on uphill extraction, site tractor and winch above, and then use the horse to pull across or downbank to the winch line. The above sample, (which was not cherry picked), has been produced to try and make woodland owners, foresters and agents, to consider using horses as a viable and sustainable alternative to machine methods, and proposing that selective thinning, rather than linear will produce a better yield and potentially bigger profit's over the lifetime of the crop. Of course the other thing to consider is that the horses and operators are up to the job.
