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Just spent the last 2 days taking down 2 big multi stemmed lleylandii, one was at ground level at customers side but tight against garage with 5-6ft drop off the wall into neighbours and the other was further down the garden so sat on 3ft wall customers side with 8-10ft drop on neighbours side 7 trailer loads, all good fun though

Tend to use my husky 350 mostly as its lighter and less thirsty than my 357xp, both running 18 " bars and .325 chains, although have to admit my weapon of choice before some thieving get parted me from it was my husky 372xp with 24 " bar

From memory a level hicap load is 1.6 cu metres, which is about twice as much as a level load in various jap pick ups

Actually something just occurred to me, I got told a few years back that to do cs30/31 was 3 days if you had experience and 5 days if you didnt plus 1 day assesment for NPTC, now apparently its 5 days compulsory plus 1 day asessment for NPTC, so does that mean experience no longer counts in respect to the course or is it that as you don't have your ticket you shouldnt have any experience because you should'nt be using a saw

Used to sell a hicap load for £45 up here when I was last doing them years ago, got to be more now though, with buying timber in to make it pay

Some one told me years ago when I was still keepering that if you didnt learn something new everyday you were doing something wrong, I would always take experience over tickets, but in any industry it seems there is always the chicken and egg situation of people wont give you a job without experience but they wont give you a job to get experience The problem I have is that going on the training courses I've been on they seem to be on a monkey see monkey do basis, ie they will point out if your doing things wrong and tell you how to do it during the asessment case in point NPTC part 1 spraying ticket, spent weeks trying to learn all the stuff in the defra pesticides rules and regs, went for asessment, never got asked a thing from it! Questions were when don't you spray, when its wet or windy, put on suit face mask and gloves and measure xx ml of coloured water into jug and pour into knapsack, congrats you've passed £75 please and never been asked for it in 17+ years Another example, although this seemes more common sense to me, asessor went to test some estate wood lads on estate where I was working at time, when he told them they needed a saw with 15" bar max they laughed and said they didnt run anything under 30" his reply was fair enough reckon you know what your up to then, lets go to the pub and do the paperwork

Found quite a few one year after haymaking when it was very dry like this had either been caught by the mower or haybob as they were running so shallow

Try Firebond, they specialise in modified landys

Yep, that would be good cheers, so long as you can give me a couple of days notice I'll be there

Could be interested mate, so long as I'm about when you need it shifting

I know somebody who even used to ask for a reciept off Mcdonalds if we stopped for a coffee, he'd put tit through as entertaining clients

Nearly as much as the ones who repeatedly ask wether its dry and seasoned only for you to turn up to deliver it and they say drop it on the yard as I havent got a shed/log store so by time they get used likely hood is they'll be wet again

Buy some pigs off me and then you can claim its still agricultural as your still farming it, actually I seem to remember if you put a few hens on that counts as well

Yep remember those conversations well, no doubt be a few this year again, trying to explain a ton of oak would be less than a ton of willow for example, which is why its mixed and sold by volume mind probabaly the worst was the bloke who wanted his logs cut exactly 12 inches long as his log store was 2ft deep and it would make them easier to stack, ordered 6 loads like that got them all cut and he never came back for the rest :thumbdown:thin k the word ends in ker, so now they get them as they come unless thier old regular customers

Only done one grant job in the last 2-3 years and that was a smallish fencing job earlier this year, used to be booked up right through winter with hedgelaying and fencing work through the Countryside Stewardship, have seen someone advertising in Farmers Guardian saying grants are still available but it didnt say where from

When I had my Hi cap, a few years back now admittedly I was charging £45 a load heaped up and lads with hiluxs were charging £35, by my reckoning a landy hicap filled level is about 1.6 cube, I'm working on £75 a cube this year as all timber is now bought in and thats what I need to make it pay at the minimum but I've got back into logs more to improve cashflow through winter than make any serious money off it

Think you'd make more selling the crane and the winch off first, been clearing my yard and basic scrap is making £160 a ton at the minute so not mega bucks

Lmao

Dont know if this is any help to you, they do list flails for logic mowers flailsdirect.co.uk

Yep, pity I've not seen him again since

Yep got plenty of those Mind havent been able to get in the workshop since march as Me dad had a tidy up due to sisters wedding reception being at the farm and dumped everything in the workshop, on the plus side means I'm now having a big sort out, which is probably long overdue looking at some of the stuff I'm uncovering

So does that mean its the recession or I'm to expensive? as I've been flat out since January but have now only had 1 price accepted out of the last 5

Hmm probably a toss up between clearing drains/septic tanks and newt fencing

Been a while since I bought any binders for hedgelaying so cant really help much, but I do remember a guy who made walking sticks, came up the farm once to cut sticks, think he gave me something like 40p for short shanks, 80p for long shanks and anything interesting i.e ash knob sticks were negotiable on size and quality, anyway up shot of it was I ended up £40 better off for spending an hour wandering round showing him where to look for the best ones

Must leak faster than my old ford then