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  1. timberbear
    441 for me, just keep it sharp and it will fly throug most timbers with ease. Nice well balanced machine great with a twenty inch bar on it, no bending for cutting smaller stuff up. Might be cheaper to hire someone in for a day or two with a big saw.
  2. timberbear
    It's not only trees that need checking, I found straw hanging out of my tractor, removed cover to find six robin eggs in there. Moved tractor to a quieter part of the shed, mother and eggs doing fine. The problem is I needed the tractor to plough the plots to put the wild bird seed in for next winter!
  3. timberbear
    You got to admit it looks good. Now looking at an all Wales combined service including ABP and a leading forestry service! Today the bay tomorrow the world, Saturday, first day off for ten days!!!
  4. timberbear
    Have to agree with what Jim says, if you look at my post "processing driftwood" you will see some of the bent and twisted timber that's gone through the machine. We did three days of non stop bendy wood, the only problem was we eventually run out of wood!
  5. timberbear
    They have a warden and volunteers and you can even camp or rent a cottage out there for a few nights!
  6. timberbear
    Thought I'd share some pictures of turning timber washed down the rivers Ely & Taff which is then recovered from Cardiff Bay. Forty ton converted into firewood for Flatholm Island.
  7. timberbear
    Far to busy logging up the last of my super dry strategic reserve stock pile. Twenty ton of bone dry ash and sycamore, now all processed and sold. Security van to the bank please!
  8. timberbear
    It's a six way splitting knife in my Farmi WP 36 which I now use for splitting all my rings.
  9. timberbear
    My neighbour who's now 86, spent several weeks last year gently working around one of his back teeth with a small screwdriver to dig it out. After ten years of pain he said it had to come out. So after digging it out and suffering from a swollen gum for several weeks he finally realised he had got the wrong one out! only do it if your sure!!!! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App
  10. timberbear
    That's good going, imagine if you had a six way splitting knife! I've doubled my out put.
  11. timberbear
    I thought they were eight wheelers! Rather sell the timber to someone who wants to process it rather than send it up the big chimney.
  12. timberbear
    Wasn't sure if you had! Couldn't remember the artic only the bio mass people. I wouldn't want to be the artic driver if ever we sold it!
  13. timberbear
    Not sure you'd get an artic in.
  14. timberbear
    Cheers Jon, will sort it now!
  15. timberbear
    That was one if the reasons for taking out Barry Dock as it was one of the American supply points. Nuke first and save your ground troops for occupation !
  16. timberbear
    There was an article written years ago In the early 80s which showed where the soviets would drop there bombs. In South Wales was Barry docks simply because of the massive gas pipeline running along the coast. Followed by detonation of nukes above the Bristol Channel causing a massive tidal wave. Once the water had receded the soviets would simply invade with very little radioactive fallout.
  17. timberbear
    Never seen the point in having masses of nukes when the USA and USSR ( showing my age now) signed up to MAD. When the ballon goes up its time to kill or to be killed.
  18. timberbear
    Well we could always send it to biomass , that will keep the lights on! I think the biggest waste of timber is bio mass! If you look at a lot of our over managed woodlands there's not a single piece of timber on the deck and not a single beetle for the birds to feed on. At least doing things this way will compensate for what's going on else ware! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App
  19. timberbear
    Took a good few tumbles myself! Greasy as hell before and after the snow. The worst part was walking back through all the brash which was simply cut into the ground. We would try and work in lines, felling down hill so the guy below would buck and sned before sending his tree down the line. It was good to see the young blood full of confidence and brawn fighting with a 60ft hung up tree then returning pale and tired at the end of the day! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App
  20. timberbear
    Jim, The beer was great! Got stuck in straight away! I will highly recommend it to others! I've already spent 6k on a brian James tri axle so if I did anything I'd stick a hijab on that. 16ft is rather long. Might be interested in a crane and power pack!!! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App
  21. timberbear
    The woodlands are on the northern edge of Cardiff. Very steep sided. No extraction routes and are Sssi. The area was last worked in the early fifties. The idea is to thin 30% which includes creating ten very large coups the rest made up with halo thinning. The scheme runs for five years and this is our second year on it. It will be great to see the regeneration when it happens. It is a shame about the wood being left, but there again it's more important to enhance the diversity and secure the longevity of the woodland. We were lucky enough to work there in the snow! Now pulled out due to nesting season. It was great to run a big crew up there, the camaraderie was brill and a great place for our new chainsaw operators to learn how to remove hangers! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App
  22. timberbear
    Sorry chaps, just wanted to share my heart breaking pictures of year two of my fell to waste grant. I recon 750t covering fifty acres of prime welsh hardwood, mainly ash, beech and sycamore. All part of a woodland management grant which involves breaking up the structure of an even aged 340 acre woodland in total. Mind you the timber fairies have removed nearly everything that was felled roadside. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App
  23. timberbear
    The trailers plated at 3.5t so I think the payload is 2.7 I will check when it stops raining! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App
  24. timberbear
    What about a timber grab with legs? A ton of 8inch softwood cord on the back is still a fare amount when processed. My other option is to put a grab on my brian James tipping trailer. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App
  25. timberbear
    Brian James wins hands down! A little more than 3k!!!! Well nearly 2k more!!!! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

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