Logrover

Think that is the future really! I ve worked for many tree surgeons and logs were all done by hand on the side as a cash earner but still at £60 plus a load. If you buy a processer then you need to turn over a lot of wood to make money to pay for it all so i suppose it out prices the smaller guys. Also it depends where you are based, london way you will gets a lot more than where i am in cumbria where wood is more easily come by locally. As i said il try to offload cheaply to the pubs here and make a bit of profit then concentrate on my forestry work!

Well im moving soon, at least before next winter so need rid really. I was lucky to get about 5-6 ton ash/oak free so all its cost me is time moving it, cutting and splitting it. It was a test to see if it was worth it round here, clearly not! If its local ie a few miles i dont mind selling it cheap as its all a bonus to me but otherwise its too much hassle especially with diesel being pricey. As for amount no idea how many logs but its back of a land rover, ie over a m3. Im much better off doing the timber cutting all week at £17 a ton!

Beginning to think logs are a lost cause now, just sold a load on ebay with free delivery up to 15miles......sold for 35 quid. Great and its a 17mile trip each way so i stuck a fiver on top for fuel, see what hes says. still dont make much out of it......seems hard to sell decent seasoned wood this year, all i ve had has been time wasters saying they can get it for £40 a bag. I was selling for 65 but now i think im going to lower it to get rid and not bother next year. Il keep some for myself but i think people are only interested in cheapness at the moment! Il give a few good loads to the local pub at half price i think just to make my life easier! How is everyone else finding it? seems less sales this year.

I searched for ages for a yard in several different areas....theres very little about, most people own theirs or as said before rent off a farmer so its very who you know. I dont have a yard.....i dont need one now anyway but its a very difficult thing to find and prices seem to be near the same as house/industrial estate prices.

Hey yeti i have got work as a forestry cutter paid by the ton, may be a bit far but if your interested let me know! its near lazonby, penrith.

Yes im an idiot i was using circumference not top diameter......... did a calculation and its makes more sense now......

No the problem is i measured diameter in cm with a norma cml tape not a dbh calibrated tape so i need to convert it do i not first???

Been felling today. Logs at 3.7m so i measured each one at thinnest end with a normal cm tape. Now this is not a dbh tape. I have become all confused as i ve thought too much. To work out volume do i need to convert cm in inches them divide by pi? does nt seem right as a log 126cm diameter ends up at 15 dbh......ermmm no!! So a 3.7 log at 126cm/49 inches divide by pi=15cm. On sawlogs tables=0.08m3 not right!! help!

yep granfors,,,its not big but does nt need to be, out splits any axe i ve had! had mine 7 years at least, all others lasted mins.....

Well mines not a hgv but shes my only car, been doing 300 miles plus a week loaded with as much wood as i can get in th back and i love her! free tax, 37 mpg and cheapish insurance!! oh and yes im mad.

I have a pto winch, driven by the rear transfer box and a shaft. The hydo pump fits where my drop box to the shaft goes. Now if you want hydro there are kits for ps pumps BUT you will find its a very small oil container and so is pumped round and heats up quickly so you may need to plumb in an extra oil tank as well or fit an oil cooler to it. Also these pumps are usually small volume and so do not give a high flow rate so winches and the like will run very slowly. Its much better, faster, cooler to run a big oil tank with a larger pump from the transfer box especialy if you plan to run bigger stuff as well. Hope that helps Rich:thumbup:

Did my dissetation on these laser devices, nikon forester 500, lasertech trupulse and vertex. Tried them all and they all varied in areas but found the nikon only useful for single trees as if a branch gets in the way where you sight it measures from that point not what your aiming at. The vertex was easily the best with more features like distance measuring from the trees base and was most accurate in general. Anyway in certain situations you cannot see the top of the tree so have to guessimate it anyway which sort of defeats the object of it all although the more accurate the esimate the better with timber prices being marginal for thinnings etc. I would nt bother with one for arb as it id overkill and not nessecary for the work being done.

Just use it!! fit a winch/crane on the back, stick a trailer on the back and paint it up for advertising as well......soooooo cool! or give it to me so i can run it along with my series 1 landrover in the woods!......timeless!!

You want a worm drive winch as said before so you can control spooling out better and holds itself if it dies! leccy ones die easily on long pulls and burn out solenoids. For heavy work you will be better with a pto or hydraulic one or youl buy a leccy one every few years

Im new to logs this year as i ve gone self employed as a timber cutter. Previously i was working for others doing their logs so i know all about it having 15 years in forestry and arb work! Managed so far to ring up a load of ash, some seasoned and some seasoned oak each time i go in. Collected about 20-30 loads i recon all stacked and ready to go in tha back of my tiny house in the concrete yard. Put and advert in the local paper and had 4 calls in 3 weeks. Also put a card in the local shop. So i ve done only 2 loads so far as one said she could get a bag for £40 and im charging £65, another wanted it that day so by the time i called her back in the eveining she had ordered elsewhere! So its started very slowly and maybe as so many are doing it? dunno need to make a customer base first so i thought it would be a slow start. The local shop sells bags of kindling at 3.50 for a net and sold out in 3 days. After buying bags im not sure its worth it if i supplied as id have to do it by hand????

Yeah shes getting some heavy useage! cutting most days all day and was given a good shoeing on the large felling course! i expect service parts to fail! Thanks for info

my 2065 has broken its band.......dammit! wheres best place to source one and is it the same as the husq 365 band??

Would love to give this a go, used chainsaw mills and made a few oak benches myself before on the side but im 2.5hrs away from you! im starting to apply for supermarket jobs now and not even getting those due to so many out of work! bad times. getting me down a bit now.

H and W training services, John Williamson...top man!!

Few picks, did it just outside keswick in 2 inches of snow and blizzards...awesome fun! On test day i did a tree that needed a 20" bar both sides to fell after the front bore.......a good day! max 15" bar indeed!!

I am in penrith area but willing to travel, Got a degree in forestry and 12 years experience in arb and forestry, have previously been self employed. Looking for any work. Have nptc certs including med, large and windblown trees. Thanks guys.

That makes good sense! yes it is a sideline for now to top up while im cutting as i am still looking for more work but if it took off i would consider expansion!

I imagine that some people will just get the cheapest so not come back to you and if there is a problem then they would also just go elsewhere so i think its hard to get log feedback unless from a loyal financialy stable customer base without taking any new customers which i think would be madness if you have the volume of wood! Anyway why would it be stealing others business? Business is not personal, if it worked on the basis of not competing then it would nt work at all surely as every new business would need to create its own customers

i agree, if someone wants logs...il supply them and if they come back then good if not then so be it, anyway il run out quick as i dont have much at present anyway. I have written a logs spec sheet, prices etc so it can be explained by the better half...good idea that cheers!

I have just started advertising firewood on saturday and got the first call today where the other half said hel call you back at 6 as i was on my med/large and windblown trees course and i was obviously a bit busy in the 3 inches of snow! anyway i call them back soon as i leave site and get the we ve already ordered some............. so it seems you need to reply straight away and deliver maybe..... Anyway i think i was a panic order due to the snow! Just wondered if you have less loyal customers since the economic issues or is it all about the price??