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interesting loader for quad bike.
timberbear replied to offgridchris's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Nice video, reminds me of last winter, fingers crossed for some decent snow. Perhaps they should deploy horses to keep the cities moving! -
Pm me about the saw, I got one but if the price is right my brother in law will be interested. I'll have to pick those spares up for the jappa sometime.
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Firewood man, how's tricks? Yep it's Catheys, and all that lovely ash has gone to there bio mass boiler to keep the lads dry and warm all day whilst they sit around moaning that they got crap jobs and their underpaid! Made me cry when I got told I couldn't have the wood!
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No it's council owned and one of the biggest in Wales. Apparently years go they had a chap who didn't like strimming the saplings down, then as the saplings grew the grass cutters refused to cut them down because that was the job of the Arb team, then the grave diggers wanted to cut them down but were told they couldn't do it cause they were grave diggers, e Arb team wouldn't do them cause they were saplings and that the gardeners should do it. The gardeners wouldn't do them because fifteen years later they are now trees, then the departments got split up and the work was left. So to cut a Long story short they got a group of volunteers in, but health and safety said they can't do it. So they rang me and I said I'd do it.
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I didn't really want them out, connies are great places for certain nesting birds like greenfinches and we had a colony of house sparrows using then to shelter in. But the view I've got now is great.
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I put these bad boys off for ten years, wish I hadn't. Green houses one side, large pond the other, house to the north, chickens to the south! Whats more I didn't charge a penny! Why you ask? Cause my misses gave me an ultimatum, either the trees go or she goes, there's no contest, trees can't cook!
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In the name on ancient monument protection.
timberbear replied to timberbear's topic in General chat
Will probably reduce them down to four meters and then lower them onto bog mats cut em up and skid them out on mats. All depends on the site and weather conditions. The good thing is the motte stands about 8m tall so we have a fair run down into the woodland. Cable straight down to what might be the largest fire I've ever built. -
My local have two cubes of softwood a week off me. They light the fire at 8am and it's saved them a fortune on there gas bill. They like the softwood cause it lights easily and it's not to heavy for staff to shift from the log store to the fires. Health and safety at work act! My only tip is do the pub as your last delivery, stack it for free and enjoy the free two pints for stacking, please remember not to drink and drive, either take the misses or get her to pick you up!
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I've been asked to arrange the felling of several large beech, lime and sycamore from the top of an old motte and baily. The motte has a thousand years of history but for the past one hundred has been forgotten about and is now surrounded by woodland. It had several trees planted on it 100 yes ago. They now have to come down. So I've done the method statement, all trees to be dismantled and zip lined of the mound, no damage to the site at all. It's just a moral dilemma " history or conservation" There's also a large garden centre with all there green houses underneath!
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One of many impressive head stones.
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She must have jumped from the ballon with a parachute. Loads of sailor type stones too.
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There's one about a child who came down in a hot air ballon and drowned In the Bristol channel. I've got a picture, I'll upload later.
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Thought I'd share some pics if a little job I've been doing over the last few weekends. Involves removing ash coppice from a Victorian cemetery as part on a conservation programme. Some of the frees are very tight up against the headstones and we can't knock any of them over. Dropped about 120 trees with no damage, touch wood. I know I shouldn't but we found using our MS200t's on the ground was easier when trying to get close in to the stools to fell.
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forest,park and gardens [llantrisant,south wales]
timberbear replied to Martyn Amos's topic in General chat
Really helpful blokes in there. Order all my gear from them and full of advice. If they ain't got it they'll get it. Good place to look around and even blag a free coffee or two off them. Great news about there new premisses. Good place to go and try your latest chainsaw trousers on and there not shy on offering you fashion advice" a well dressed tree feller is a happy and productive tree feller". -
Do you perm his hair?
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Certain saw mills can take it providing they have good bio security measures in place, FERA have said that it can be sold as firewood providing it's taken off site in sealed trucks. Once the tree is felled the disease is dead. It broke my heart last year to fell and burn about twenty ton of ash which was in a deseased area, mind you what a fire it was.
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Small scale timber extraction
timberbear replied to john k's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Old pallet forks on the back of my compact. Great at doing wheelies!
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I'd be interested to know what you want for a cm3, I've got a contract with FC Wales but in all honesty it's to time consuming to extract myself in the quantities I get but I've got a fixed rate with them. I'd be looking for delivery to Chepstow. Sorry for the interjection DT, what part of SW are you.
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Do you mean an artic load rather than arctic? It's a good question cause I get quoted all sorts, and the other fact is due to the lightness of the timber you get less tonnage on the vehicle but more volume, if that makes sense. (am I making sense, not sure).
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I'm lucky I got Thursday and Friday off!
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Massive flame on the UK. Ok, let's be serious sharpe saws and drive safe.
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Timber!
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Nice, so jealous, we got a cottage in the Galloway hills but when ever we travel up from south Wales we always miss the ruddy stuff.
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Post your pictures so we can drool over your snow. When we were poor, and we still are, all we wanted for Christmas was snow.
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Please send me a picture of your snow so I can take it to the pub so they know I wasn't lying!
