normandylumberjack

Hello fellas, Can anyone help with a bit of info on a load of scars on a 15 year old ash in my garden? all the others are ok, but this one has splits/ scars up and down the bark, hollowed out and full of woodlice. they are usually no bigger than a few inches long. should i be worried?

Sounds like hard work, hope the package was worth it!

 

That old lady's got some good karma sutra tonight, the la poste woman, not so much:biggrin:

 

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Lucky old lady!

We had the opposite with DHL, my wifes new passport, birth certificate, livret de famille all stuffed into the post box, signature done by the driver. Called DHL, not fussed. called embassy, not fussed. I love the way we have to jump through hoops, but no one else it seems!

A couple of different iron bars with pointed/ chisel ends. 5 footers at least and heavy as you can manage. these will shift stones and rocks and cut through roots etc. a bale spike from a tractor works! A tamper to backfill with, shouvholers, fence pliers, tool belt for staples/ nails etc.

Has anyone got an Ama th2510 top handled saw?

Seen them on fr jones site and they look like they would be ok for me.

I dont do enough to warrant a ms201t but could do with some power between silky and 346xp.

Any opinions on this saw much appreciated.

I agree with CS, 1m lengths then you can cut to suit the customers needs once seasoned. I find that spliting the log with a maul, whilst it lays flat on the ground works well, just wear stout boots, i have done this a lot and find it stops the need for too much wedge use.

If you can get a Bilke processor on hire it will make your life a pleasure, look at them on youtube, perfect for this type of job!

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Born2Trot - No problem for my reply. I deffinately think using that style of lanyard set up is the way forward (fliplines are a bit historic and rubbish for positioning) My point was mainly you can make one, that might not be quite so 'pretty' but essentially does exactly the same job. Have a go at making one... 4 or 5 meters of rope of your desired thickness (I suggest 11mm) 2 carabiners, an eye to eye hitch cord (I suggest 8mm which you can tie yourself using fishermans knots) and a Micro pulley. Connect one carabiner to one end of the rope with a fishermans or anchor hitch and a good stopper knot on the other end. Simple...

 

Normandy - The above materials can be sourced for around 30 to 40 quid from normal UK suppliers. Even if you used nice carabiners and tope of the range rope etc its still far cheaper than the 'ready made' option.

 

Tom.

How much is a Pinto pully? Or 2 DMM crabs?

Dont pysl but, a stihl ms390. 2007 model, used hard on stuff i dont want to risk other pro saws on, cut iro 350 tons of firewood (mostly beech & oak) only had new plugs, 1 air filter, and an exhuast last month.

People slate them, but it has never ever failed me even when my more expensive saws are failing. It will always be my back up!

I love my one, have had no problems with it out of the pack, and find it helps make fine adjustment with one hand easy, using the pully to pull in my body weight, used it in lots of anchor points above and below with no issues.

You do have to set the distel as you would with any knot in your climbing system from time to time, but thats just common sense and dont want to state the obvious and get backs up.

using same materials, time to tie knots, splices, package, transport, tax etc. I doubt many could knock one out for £30, i had a look and the parts individually cost over £85 + vat.

I think its good kit, hard to put a price on that imo

the contacts on the side loading door usually fur up and stop it from locking had this on 2 transits and a connect, the little dears that nicked my kit from the back had no trouble getting in.

Not that this helps cos you have a pickup, bugger!

Rubarb?

Its been going about for a while, usually asking for money to be sent or a bank transfer of funds. total scam

Gigalo, aka; Man-whore or He-bitch

Hienz Hummer, the gigalo, with the most below!

Have you spoken to your student services dept. or your tutor? Remember its your training credits and you dont get them back. I had this argument with duchy college in Cornwall, as i was promised a lot more than i got.

I was amazed that other colleges put their students through Chainsaw tickets, climbing, spraying and proper machinery use. We had about 3 hours basic chainsaw use, agri tractors to drive around a field for an hour a week, no climbing, but we spent weeks cutting grass on campus, and felling with hand tools and scrub bashing with a billhook. Dont settel for a crap education!

Didn't Ali G have that track suit?

Sorry to hear that ahallam, I have heard fantastic things about Barony too.

but if you think about it women dont need a fluffer......

Mine don't, they need a chiropractor!

French forign legion. Bomb disposal, sniper, brick layer.................................

English teacher.

Cornwall. thats where im from, and served my apprenticeship. the training agencies down ther are p poor, and the colleges not geared properly towards forestry. I did a dip. at Duchy college in forestry, and was amazed when i saw a prospectus for colleges like newton rigg, where they had decent training facilities, rather than agricultural training, adapted for trees.

Get out of Cornwall, its the least wooded county in the uk, and look for a decent college with proper arb/forestry facilities. Cornwall is for surfers and retiered people, thats why i left.

Another fine piece of work. I will deffo get a mill soon!

Well i was going to say Alder, but seeing as everyone else thinks the same, i wont bother putting up yet another post just to say the same thing.

ALDER!

oh bugger.

Now there is a man who belives in his product! Bite his arm off, 1 weeks free trial, return if not happy, you wont find many deals like that about!

Keep up the good work Rob D!

FIREWOOD! stere is the unit to measure fire wood, If you cut plantation grown, 2'+ dbh chene for firewood then shame on you!

Sell on the tops and 2nd lengths, for bois du chaufage, but realise the 200+ years of growth and management of these trees and get top money for them.

If you are going to harvest get a cutter that is experienced with hardwood felling to maximise timber quality, and reduce damage.

Call the college, the training agency and find out if there are any placements with an employer where he is at the moment.

My apprenticeship was a farce for the first 2 years, working on an estate and signed up on a course not really relavent to my needs. I manned up and demanded my training be taken seriously and didn't get the answers i wanted.

My training credits were all but used up, and in the end I had to pay from my own money to train in forestry proper.

make a noise early on, and insist that the college act. I spent a couple of years running a photographic shop durring an injury recovery period, and had an apprentice, a nice lad, but he was signed up with a training company that was only worried about bums on seats. I had to fight to get his trainig to be taken seriously, we moved him onto another training company and things improved.

Fight for your right to proper training, no one will do it for you, sadly.

Im not in your area,(Manche 50) but here Oak commands good money if it is of good quality.

A local timber merchant i work for has told me that competition for comercial quantities of clean oak is fierce and with the recent news of the forestry dept. selling off huge quantities of timber to china, you should be getting top dollar.

Ask a local merchant or sawmill, or look on bon coin and see if anyone local is selling.

would a flail mower not work on that terrain? dropped, chopped 1 man+ flail hire.