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  1. timberbear
    I've recently converted to softwood. I've been giving all my hardwood customers a free bag of softwood at 20% moisture rate. It's dry lite and clean and once you've given the speak on why softwood is the future their more than happy to try a load. It's easy to handle and process. Try given a free bag!
  2. timberbear
    Think I'm gunn a need a bigger truck!
  3. timberbear
    Riko gear is very good stuff, well made. I looked at the same machine but opted for their Farmi processor. Not only can you do billets and logs but you can drop rounds into the ram and split them. The conveyor is extremely fast and you can change the angle.It's like having an all singing all dancing machine and its operated one handed leaving the other hand free to sup on the beer!
  4. timberbear
    Make sure you talk to someone who knows a bit about them when you go to look at one. I'd sell the tracked chipper to you except it ain't mine to sell!
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    Bought my 110 off them a few years ago. Good machine and good people to deal with. They also supplied three 110's for our work place needs. Look out for an ex national trust one, usually well looked after. If you go for an ex environment agency one just check it's not worked near the sea! They used to do a lot of ex army 110's and 90's.
  6. timberbear
    What about your "HEATAS" approved firewood merchant certificate!
  7. timberbear
    I don't mean to sound thick, but how'd you upload a photo? It wants my URL address?
  8. timberbear
    Ash, if you get no luck there's a chap in Usk who has a mobile processor. PM me for further info.
  9. timberbear
    Flail them a nice path to follow and create a bramble hedge, great for nesting birds etc alternatively spray with Grazon 90 which is selective, but you'll need a PA cert to use and buy it. I use it create dead areas of bramble to allow natural regeneration.
  10. timberbear
    Don't knock softwood, it's the future! With hardwood pricing itself out of fashion we need to educate the fire burning masses. It's cheap, drys quickly, is processor friendly and more redially available. It burns well and gives good heat. I'm trying to wean customers off hardwood by giving them a free bag to try!
  11. timberbear
    North or south, based near Chepstow so could deliver as far as Lydney.
  12. timberbear
    A local potter has ours for hs kilm, use it on a damp rag to clean your burners glass, give it to your chickens for a dust bath, but best of all take it to the pub and say it's your favourite auntie and watch everyone squirm and offer to buy you a pint!!!
  13. timberbear

    Don't even know where it is? Scrap????? I'll find out, it was only a few k to repair it. As for the profile pic it's the youngest one of me I had.....

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    play bark

    timberbear replied to Treemon's topic in General chat

    It needs to be impact tested and a test certificate obtained. We used to provide it in work and had to send samples off to be tested.
  15. timberbear
    What make is it? Do you have a picture?
  16. timberbear
    Under the NERC act, felling an adjacent tree next to a tree containing a nest could also be deemed as destroying a habitat used by the parent birds for the purpose of feeding there young. It's not only trees that should be checked but the surrounding areas, I found a long tailed tits nest with young in today in a patch of bramble that could have quite easily had five ton of beech dropped on it! Not knowing that a nest was there is no defence any more!
  17. timberbear
    Pollard and leave as important habitat, tell the estate owner it will support more wildlife whilst rotting away over the next decade than it did during it's living years!
  18. timberbear
    Give Dowden a bell, my sisters tree fella just done his ticket with him, pasted first time.
  19. timberbear
    Hi Stephen, looking at getting a log splitter from you soon, in fact meant to speak to you at the APF but you were very busy, after the 40 inch on wheels but can't decide electric or petrol, don't want PTO as it ties my tractor up. Do I make the right assumption that the petrol is more powerful than the electric? The alpine tractor and crane is still working flat out in Cardiffs woodlands. Rich
  20. timberbear
    Put two barn owl boxes up in our little copse on the edge of our field, great success. Three broods in two years. Kestrel box up in oak tree. I use hollow logs filled with sawdust, hole cut out for green woodpecker and then braced to a clean trunk. Works every time. Check my website http://www.leechpoolholdings.co.uk
  21. timberbear
    It's the firewood thieves that do my head in, you tell them it's not waste wood yet they still come back and steel from you. Drill a three quarter inch hole in the end of the log about four inches deep, pop a shotgun cartridge in, seal with a bit of soil, And bang! when they chuck it in the fire, oh and don't forget to take the shot out first!
  22. timberbear
    Been using a skidding cone for three years now. Great for skidding trunks out, stops the buts digging in. Gets towed behind our Riko or used with the portable winch. Bought it with the portable winch. Think it came from Corwen Forestry or pro climber. I'm using it on Monday to extract a load of poles down a very steep bank. I got a video somewhere of us using it. The canoe idea we've also used, got two old ones from our local leisure centre , cut them open, filled with logs and winched out.
  23. timberbear
    Looking for two arctic loads myself, problem is I'm in Chepstow! Can you haul it. Cash buyer. Pm me if you can
  24. timberbear
    Has any one used any of the smaller PTO chippers designed to be used on a compact tractor. I've got a Lenar 25hp and was thinking of getting a rear mounted chipper. Seen them for about 3k! The idea is to take the tractor and chipper into the woodlands and at the end of the day take it off add some ballet forks to remover the timber in shorter lengths. I fully appreciate a tracked chipper is more powerful and is a totally different animal. Just trying to cut down on the amount of kit. The tractor goes on a trailer and is towed to site.
  25. timberbear
    Can't live without mine. Instant Internet access, calendar. Great for sitting in the landy with watching all those idiots on you tube. Had an arctic load of beech from the mendips last year via Chantler timber anything to do with you?

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