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I'll hold my hand up to that one, up until couple years ago all soft wood went on the bonfire or for firesticks if was clean straight easy splitting, last two years I've burnt mostly lleylandii at home with the odd lump of over sized or ugly hardwood that hasn't gone in the selling pile, burns really clean, only empty ash pan once a fortnight 👍

Least the gob was in line with the pull line 😄

Also worth noting that when assisted pulling with a vehicle it is always better to pull off the front of it as the driver has a better view of what is happening and can either stop the cutter or tell wether to pull early or if it needs a quick snatch pull to try and recover a bad cut, however again this is all down to experience.

Agreed I'm not a climber I was a grounds man and before that have done a lot of felling over the years, always take my stumps as low as possible on the felling cut saves messing later 👍just been and looked at the video again and to be fair I would have felled it but in those conditions with only the truck to pull it I think I would have wanted the pull line via a redirect off the tree in the right of the pic behind the truck.

I was agreeing with you 😄 possibly in a roundabout rambling way, RAMS are a backside covering exercise at the end of the day, my point is/was there will always be people who think they know better, I'm not innocent I have screwed the pooch on occasions, one thing I have noticed with willow and poplar felling is how many people won't finish the cut as they start to move early compared to other trees leading to them barber chairing or twisting off or stopping half way over in some cases.

This is what I used to tell the lads at the firm I worked for for a couple of years, yes the boss can stand in the yard and say do it x way but when we get on site things may have changed and we have to do it y way but you have to use your common sense, this bit me on the backside last year and was one of the main reasons I left, a lad who I had repeatedly told the boss was a liability due to repeated foul ups badly screwed a tree up, I was off work that day but my name was still on the paperwork and so had to go through the motions on it, brief was strip the 3 or 4 large roadside trees back to standing stems and leave til we had the tractor on site to fell them, 3 ashes and a Lombardy pop ironically, as I was off this man and his mate agreed between them they had had enough of climbing and would fell it, this man couldn't fell for toffee and end result was several thousand pounds worth of damage and him getting sacked for gross misconduct.

Would always be a dodgy fell with that much cross wind regardless of species, fell it with the wind or into the wind with a pull but that close to a road should have been stripped to a pole first, unless it had a good natural lean and a still day to fell it parallel to the road but even then I would still sway towards stripping it first due to its proximity to the road.

It is a forst, don't know what hire charge is though dumped couple of trailer loads of conifer off there the other week when doing a garden clearance

Halls plant hire in Chesterfield have a couple they hire out, they've got a green waste tip too 👍

Small world came up on google images, remember having a go on one at a jcb driving day when I was about 14/15

Have you tried backloads.co.uk think it is it's a online service for hauliers to pickup return loads

Similar set up to the old jcb powerslides

I've got some stamped war dept 1952 and are still going strong 😄

Always found fenn mk4's in a box to be the best thing for squirrels, many years ago when on yts I trapped a 180 in 6 weeks in a large block of mature oak woodland kept the buzzards happy too as they twigged onto me emptying the traps in a morning and would wait for a free meal 👍

I've got to say my haix saw boots were the most comfortable I've had however the soles fell off before they were a year old.

Unless it's the angle of the picture it appears to have a natural lean towards the gap between the two trees, I'd use your bags of hedge clippings as cushioning and fell it, can get to much bounce felling big lumps onto tyres.

Cheers bud, the tree one was my first a couple of years back had been thinking about one for years but couldn't decide what to get and the idea for that one popped in my head one day, the rememberance one was done last year, next one is in planning 😉👍

Have driven one of those a few times lovely trucks to drive used to load it right to the top with 7ft lengths of timber and would still pull like it was empty 😀👍

Middle of sandy gravelly/clay pasture ground at this time of year dividing up a building site.

Not used these on bigger stakes but helping out with some newt fencing last year and the lads had one of these and it fair flies the posts in

Cheers Eddie, ditching bucket that came with it has seen better days and needs attacking with the welder but will do for now, the 12inch bucket that came with it has been hard faced on the teeth and bucket edges so should probably last indefinitely 👍

I was just thinking the same, I first started on the saws age 14 so 26 years ago, can't remember anyone owning or wearing a chainsaw helmet let alone saw trousers, jeans and steel toe cap boots was as much as was required, from memory most work was done with the neighbours old saw with no chain brake too, hse would have a fit nowadays lol

Haven't got time to be hanging round gin palaces like you dearie 😘

Yep I use dioralyte if it's been really hot like today, have to watch my hydration due to severe leg cramps, although they have been better since I've been on quinine tablets.

Smart water helps has got electrolytes and minerals in so keeps you topped up, I've also found I drink more using my camel pack, think it holds 2 or 3 litres and keeps it cool too.