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I'm just picking up at the minute but even still think I may be sold out by christmas, hoping for a good run on christmas trees to make up the short fall

If you can't spell at least speak proper like what I do

Best way is to fry up some good bacon first, then take the breasts off the pigeon and fry them up in the bacon fat slice and put between two slices of bread, jobs a good un!

I've got a 6610 Ap cab 1986 on its way to 8000 hours and still working for a living, they are pretty basic unless you get a later SQ cabbed one but for in the woods your better off with an AP or LP cab lower overall and steel roof, avoid the early column change fords later ones are ok once you get used to them, good if your doing alot of shunting about, if you can find one with dual power all the better, its hydraulic splitter and doubles the number of gears in effect, oh and go for the later cross block engine as early ones could go porous, but if your looking for a basic tractor to do a job then I'd go for an older ford or a case, although the xl cabbed case are fibreglass roofed same as ford sq cabs so not so good round trees

Yep but it could also have round logs or knobbly lumps in it and that really throws out the calculations and I'm going to get it all again in the morning cos I've got to go and see the same bloke to price some fencing

Had a customer ring today asked how big the load is, said its a mini digger trailer load so just shy of cubic metre when heaped up, then spent ten minutes discussing wether thats a cubic metre when stacked neatly in his log store or loose tipped into trailer, told him it was an approximate measure as a guide when loaded on trailer, so how much is actually there when its stacked he replied, honestly I give up sometimes its like trying to teach Baldrick to count!

I was thinking about metal saw horses yesterday after unearthing mine from the back of the yard, cant remember what make it is but it has plastic covering on the cross bars in case you slip and a ratchet strap so you can load it up with a few lengths of small cord and hold them in place to be cut at same time, not the quickest way but handy when you've not got a saw bench

Theres an idea, buy up all he's got and double your money on it without the work Now all I need to do is find someone round here selling it that cheap

I use a 6lb Roughneck fibre glass handled axe about £15 from memory and lasted years, had a rough neck splitting maul too til it lost its head and the new one I bought is so bad it would probably split quicker using the hammer head side

Plenty of damson and apple crumbles so far, mum and dad managed to collect 112 lbs of apples from thier 3 small trees this year, got my eye on a nice patch of sloes for the gin, just need to remember to buy the gin

Cheers for that

Hi folks, looking for a price on a weeks hire of tracked chipper, in Derbyshire if possible, can collect, if anyone can help cheers Ed

Got an old police whistle somewhere, used to have it for controlling beaters and guns during my grouse keepering days, mind I can shout loud enough to make people hear at a good range never thought about carrying one when working but I can see the point, will have to look it out

Only tried that technique once after being advised by a tree surgeon friend that it was the best way to deal with a large windblown alder in a wood, obviously slightly different as I'm not a climber so did it with the crown intact, back of the tree broke out first even though I'd left plenty of meat when plunge cutting it, barbers chaired about 7ft up from the plunge cut twisted round snapped off and slammed into the ash tree 3ft from my left ear at head height at some considerable force, fair to say if I hadnt been behind the tree, theres more than a fair chance I wouldnt be here now, so no I wont be using that method again

Could be used for converting hedgelaying brash read for charcoaling, if you did the charcoal in small drums like I do, would save burning up brash and add value to the job, in reality I'd probably end up with a big stack of bags of tiny logs and never get round to charcoaling it

Mine too, but they always say "two Ed's is better than one "

Got 5 whippets and a pat x JR terrier if you want some real chaos

Axe is alot faster than a splitter if you've got straight grained stuff, plus it doesnt need any fuel, doesnt tie up the tractor and you can replace alot of axes for the price of a log splitter

Be lucky to get 25 mpg out of one, wheel spin something awful in 2wd on the road, especially with a trailer on the back, second row seats are ok if you employ dwarves and you bang your knee on the gear stick constantly when in fifth, apart from that...............

Usually try and get them out within a couple of days or at worst the weekend following the phone call, else tend top find round here that other wise when you ring back to arrange delivery they'll have gone else where

Grass will grow in limestone without soil if you leave it long enough I'll put up a pic of my yard to prove it I'd probably put 4-6 " of top soil down and use a drought resistant seed mixture to be on the safe side

Usually use click-forestry don't know if thier the cheapest but always been good quality and good on delivery too

Makes me glad I've got sky so I've got more than two channels to choose form that have'nt got football on them

Mate of mine ran a mog, mostly for moving stuff about for his small holding but would als occasionally use it to move a compressor for his sand blasting business, unfortunately for him he had taken it to a local quarry one day to do some sand blasting when they had an inspection and as he was there had his mog checked and as it was on ag and running on red it was impounded, £1000 fine and investigated for back tax on how long he'd been using it. The law as I remember it regarding ag machines and diesel is that you can run red for forestry and ag work while you are actually going to or from or doing work ie mowing, winching etc, if you transport arisings for your own use, ie timber, hay etc you can transport it on red, however if you transport it for someone else ie as part of the contract you have to transport it to the customers yard, then that is hire and reward and you should drain tanks change filters and refill with white, although its not completely that clear cut as there are exceptions such as verge mowing which is not classed as ag so you should be running on white, confused? join the club

Had a run of them a few years back after I agreed to support a local kids charity, one of them when told I was'nt supporting anymore charities as I was peed off with people ringing every couple of days told me his mate worked for a company that could stop the calls, "oh right" says I all innocence, gave me his mates number, but then said when told him I was'nt interested I couldnt ring his mate and get my number removed, told him that was very interesting as I already knew about the TPS and it being a free service and that I now had his name his mates name and name of supposed charity and would be passing details on too trading standards he couldnt get off the phone quick enough