timberbear

Seriously thinking of buying a transit with Hiab, similar the one in the picture. It's for picking up the odd bit of cord and delivering logs. I'm only buying to save the wear and tare on my back. The other option I have is to buy a tipper and fit a small timber grab like the Riko ones. Not worried about amount of cord you can get on a transit because every little helps, more worried about my back. Anyone got one? This one is run of the engine. Got about 10k to spend. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Is that Fakenham in Norfolk? I only ask because I used to go there every summer from the age of three until I was 13! Had an auntie who lived near there and I fished the river wensen? Sorry about the derail but the name brought back memories! 30 years ago! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

35hp great on steep banks, 25mph on the road and will pull three tons, snakes in and out of the trees it's perfect for woodlands and estate work. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Speak with Jim at Riko see what Petrol splitters he can do, just tell him your budget. I started with a small electric one which I still have, your welcome to borrow it. Just checked your website, looks good and your only 30miles away. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Looks ok but I doubt it will cope with the more dense timbers such as oak. I'd be concerned about the diameter of the ram. There must be someone on here who has got one. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

It's bi directional! You can turn the seat and steering column around. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Well seems its a Christmas present it would be rude not to watch them a bit like the films the boys in work lend me. I think I'm a bit older and wiser these days and will take it all with a pinch of salt. I think the trees appeal more to me than a bunch of rednecks acting up in front of the camera. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Hi Sam, I've done four days all together there and think we have totalled up about 70 cubic meters mainly willow,alder, elm and ash. Picked up new machine today. Do you do any work there and what's the connection? Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

I was lucky enough to get some delivered in and it was great stuff, long straight and harvester felled. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Ash, only just looked at this post! I agree with all the comments people have made. I have previously had to deal with bullies as part of my role as a shop steward. Any threat anyone makes against an individual or persons property must be recorded. I would just invite your local community copper around for a chat and give him a copy of the original email and ask him just to make a note in his book and ask him to log a reference for it. I've got someone in the village now selling driftwood as firewood for £60 a cube, told the pub it was air dried and better quality than mine. We are going to buy a cube at the pub then ring trading standards! Three of his customers who were originally mine have now told him to get lost and come back to me, they are now at the back of my list! If you need to know who your local bobby is or want someone to call in let me know I've got contacts in your force area failing that , as Firewoodman knows I grew up on one of the countries roughest estates and I still have a few contacts, I myself am a reformed character. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Season one, episodes 1to 13. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Yes in my excitement I forgot to add the picture. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Just had a belated Chtistmas present, hopefully after 20+years in the game I will finally learn how it's really done! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

I was told that on the British market it stood for mechanical saw. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Only managed nine miles today, six yesterday but fourteen on Sunday. Might have a break tomorrow and go to Dumfries and visit Clarks to try on a shiny new Protos! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Jon, it's up in the Galloway hills. I'm fortunate enough to have a cottage up there. This is the fifteenth year I've been coming up but I've never seen so much harvesting going on. It's all to do with the good price there getting for the timber. I'm now in Glenelg and it's the same here. They have a big barge and jetty on the coast and it's being shipped off to Ireland . You can pick up surplus timber for about ten quid a cube from the private estates (they like a pit of cash)! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Completely sold out of trailer loads and on our last 10t of billeted bone dry beech which is reserved for bagging. Plenty of wood available in Scotland! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Here's my two again, this time travelling north for two weeks in the hills. They have there own parcel shelf built into the Landy. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Firewoodman, Just want to say all the best in your new ventures and if you need to borrow anything and I have it then give me a shout. Just want to say a big thank you for the long term loan of the Jappa, which really got me going especially with the firewood frame work timber which has now died a death thanks to those great big fires they built in Port Talbot and Aberthaw. Like you I started the firewood side of things because I enjoyed it but it's really now a pain in the arse, especially trying to find decent timber at a decent price so to pass onto local people at a reasonable price. I'm seriously looking at moving north with Nic (Nicola!, in case anyone is wondering) having spent nearly the last weeks near Glenelg and southern Skye and seeing the possibilities of mobile processing combined with forestry work with our options of possibly buying a few holiday cottages to run its worth considering the change, like you at the achy age of forty and my back and wrists getting worse then life changing decisions need to be made. So good luck buddy and I'm sure we will be bumping into each other soon! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

That's the one Sam! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Hay, Firewoodman, It's a shame there not selling Flat Holm, I would have loved to have bought it, instead I'm looking north!!! As for the timber, I think any third party who takes on the management of Flat Holm will still want to heat there fire! Rather than give the wood away we now have the opportunity to sell it to them. We have now processed over 100cubic metres of usable timber! There's so much timber on the slipway we may have to look for a seasonal processor operator! Interested send me your CV. Hope all is well. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Been running a Jappa 700 and Farmi WP36 for two years( the jappa for four and doesn't get used now). The Farmi on road tow is so easy to move around, the conveyor swivels and I can fill four crates in about twenty mins. Just convinced Cardiff Council to buy one to convert timber, so simple to operate and sharpen the chain. Having its own engine allows me to hire my services out too. Spares from Riko are easy to get hold of if you need any parts, not that any things gone wrong. Get the log lift to save your back. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Well done Steve, works a treat, nice and bright and runs smooth. Big thumbs up. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Thanks for all your responses, it's a three year tender. Its previously been used for winter wheat, I'm thinking of putting in a price then allowing a local farmer to lift a crop off whether I put it back to meadow or look at an arable crop. I'm just after the land because its local and I can do a little extra for our local wildlife.

So cropping being arable, would be a bit more. It's all the land at the top of my lane. If I could have it for thirty years I'd fill it with sycamore and beech!