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Went a long time ago with primary school if I remeber correctly it was'nt fenced out at the time so you could go inside it
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Was raining hard at 6 am this morning, by time I was at yard and we'd loaded trucks it had stopped just a strong breeze and by this aft was blue skies and sunshine and working in shirt sleeves again, great british weather
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Was one of the first jobs a mate of mine had when he went on YTS at the local timber yard/funeral directors, they sent him off to dig a grave up in the peak district with a pick and shovel, this particular place only has about 6-12 inches of soil before you hit limestone bedrock, lukcily he wasnt as green as he was grass looking and niupped down the road and borrowed a compressor and jack hammer off another mate of ours, don't think he ever told them back at the yyard how he got it out so quick and neat
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Was blowing hard and lashing down last night, got up this morn and its dry blue skies and just a steady wind, supposed to get worse later so we'll see
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Experience is what you gain from making mistakes, especially in this game there are no hard and fast rules, no two trees/jobs are the same and you are always learning, the ability to watch, listen and use your common sense are all as important as experience but you also need the knowledge gained from your experience to interpret the situation
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Boss put us all on standby for emergency callout but looking at Metoffice again this morning doesnt look like we're getting any strong enough wind this way to do much, so we'll see
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I only side them up if thier roadside so cut it back roadside and leave brush on field side, if its between two fields I leave brush both sides which is also known as midland bullock.
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Well according to Met office worst we're getting up here is about 40 mph on sunday aft, but boss has asked us all to be available for emergency call out over the weekend just in case
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There I was checking the oil and water!
csservices replied to Sussex Groundie's topic in General chat
Last time I saw one like that was when I was welding in the workshop and didnt realise my brother had put a battery on charge until there was a loud bang and the side of my face went tingly from the battery acid -
Found a weather vane well grown into the base of the trunk on a site clearance couple of months back, will get a pic if its still there when go up next
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did rotate the pic the right way before I posted it, I'm better with a trowel than a PC
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I've started putting the back cut in either above or level same as everyone else now not really noticed any difference in the ease of felling but makes sense that it would reduce the chance of it kicking back
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Have done a few not got any pics on pc though, this was a fireplace I rebuilt in my brothers cottage, theres two back to back built of brick and stone he reckoned would take me half a day to repoint them so he could have them sand blasted, in the end took me 4 1/2 days to take down and rebuild due to poor state of the brick/stone work
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Always put the angle cut in first then the horizontal, as thats how I was shown, depth angle etc all depends on size of tree and situation theres no one size fits all to it, out of interest do you put felling cut in above or below the bottom of the gobcut? I was always told to go below but the younger lads I'm working with at the minute all put it in above, doesnt seem to make any odds, they all go down the same
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Whats the cost of CS30/31 these days?
csservices replied to Woodworks's topic in Training & education
Exactly why I've not done mine, have been booked on 3 times over the years and every time the course was cancelled for one reason or another, no way I can afford thick end of a thousand pound plus losing a weeks wages nowadays, I was thinking about it earlier today, as I know an asessor who offered to just do me an asessment without having to do the course the other year, will have to ring him and see what the crack is -
Got a 6x4ft home built one for log deliveries and other small jobs, bit small behind the disco but can also be pulled by our peugeot 406 if required, also got an 8x5ft mini digger trailer and 12ft ifor williams flatbed, if I need one that tips I've got one i built from the back end of a 7.5 ton ford cargo to go on the tractor or I can borrow a 6 or 8 ton dump trailer, so got most things covered
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Peeing it down horizontal most of the day, definitely a 3 coat day today, then got back to the yard to find the drains had backed up and flooded one of the sheds
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I used to know someone who did a similar thing when he got a log order he would go up the wood and fell a tree, cut it and deliver it straight out, then complained he never had any repeat custom
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Yep, without seeing it I can't say for definite but so long as you have a fall acroos the whole length then should be all good, we've got one ditch on the farm thats over 6ft deep to allow for the ups and downs and height differences between the fields but thats an extreme case, any field drains should be around 2ft depth so ideally you want to be below them to allow to discharge freely into the ditch.
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Saw the aftermath of that once, chap I know bought a fordson major with a boughton winch from a farm sale, few weeks later tried to use it to recover another tractor that was stuck end result was the major sat in the field upside down for couple of weeks until it dried up enough to recover both tractors
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Never got that technically involved usually dig them at a constant depth follwing the natural fall of the field and if its wet enough to need ditching/draining the ground water will show you if you've got the fall right
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I've always staked after because I lay alot of big over grown hedges and you can guarantee if you stake as you go the stake will end up right in the way of where you need to lay one down
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Local one I use has been cashless since last year, its either cheque or paid in via your debit card, have to take photo id too else wont even let you on the yard and are also signs and police posters saying scrap will not be taken from walk ins or people arriving by taxi.
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I usually put one in at the start to set the angle and then lay til the end of the day and then stake up, unless there are any weak pleaches or its very windy, weave it all together as it goes along
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Said it for years once you start getting machinery and therefore fuel involved above that for the chainsaw and buying timber in there is little or no margin left, it goes back to the old thing of firewood has always been sold on the basis of it being a cheaper form of heating than gas or coal, years ago when I got timber as perks of the job from hedgelaying or windblown from clearing fencelines it was a worth while job to be in as you could process it and sell it at a price people were happy to pay
