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Probly if they still made them I'd say Stihl 028 with 18" bar in fact I've just resurrected mine after is been in bits for about 10 years but the one I always went for before it got knicked was my 372xp husky with 24" bar, good power to weight and alot less thirsty than the stihls I was running at the time

This is the fastest landy I've owned, had a ford essex 3.0l v6 in it never had it flat out but managed 85 one day with an unladen trailer on back without realising this pic was when out fencing and asked younger brother top fetch some more materials running an ex electric board td5 110 hardtop at the minute

My mate had a pto one with the 45 degree in feed hopper when he first started that was ok til you got down to tidying up all the little short bits at the end of the job, thier the bits that tend to get chucked back out, mind I've been whacked by bits shot back out by a hydraulic feed chipper before now as well

Only had one snap in twenty odd years (touch wood and whistles ) that was 18 inch on husky 357, clipped some sheep netting cutting back hedge stumps on road side, just wrapped up in the wire no serious damage

I'll bear you in mind if my usual men don't want to do it

Got reminded of this one earlier hadnt heard it for a good while Pay peanuts and get monkeys

Made some round bale haylage the other week, but then got a call to say the lad who owns the 16 acres I've been given for last couple of years needs it himself this year as he's short of grass, though hvae been offered another ten acres somewhere else it'll be velcro trouser time and I'll need a brave baler man any volunteers?

Try an ad in the local free ads paper got me a few responses when I was looking for yard space when I was over in north wales (short lived stay in the end but thats another story )

Been photographed and filmed by customers quite a few times, did get asked to do an instructional hedgelaying video a few years back but turned it down and was asked if I wanted to model for Brocklehurst's catalogue once but turned that down too, I'm camera shy

My Grandpa gave me a copy of this many years ago, holds some true words If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, It is almost certain you won't. If you think you'll lose, you're lost, For out in the world we find, Success begins with a fellow's will. It's all in the state of mind. If you think you are outclassed, you are, You've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man. But soon or late the man who wins, Is the man who thinks he can. ~ C. W. Longenecker ~

Masstock Arable at burton on trent were selling 5 litres of Glyphogan for about £35 if thats any good to you, not sure if they deliver in your area, I'll look the number out if you want it

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