normandylumberjack
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Gigalo, aka; Man-whore or He-bitch Hienz Hummer, the gigalo, with the most below!
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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!
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Didn't Ali G have that track suit?
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Sorry to hear that ahallam, I have heard fantastic things about Barony too.
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Mine don't, they need a chiropractor!
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French forign legion. Bomb disposal, sniper, brick layer................................. English teacher.
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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.
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Mt first attempt with small log mill, Thanks ROB D!!!
normandylumberjack replied to jnoon's topic in Milling Forum
Another fine piece of work. I will deffo get a mill soon! -
if you do something slowly, and not in a rush, you move more smoothly. If you are going along smoothly then you achieve your goal faster through lack of f**k ups. simples.
in other words dont rush and make a simple mistake.
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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.
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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!
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good luck with your assesment, remember; "slow is smooth and smooth is fast"
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S. France forestry/timber help
normandylumberjack replied to G00MER's topic in International Arborist Forum
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.
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S. France forestry/timber help
normandylumberjack replied to G00MER's topic in International Arborist Forum
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.
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do i do a freinds request for you? what are you signed up as? sorry if these sound like stupid questions but i dont have a clue.
will try and put up some photos soon, if i can figure it out! good luck with your jumps!
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looks like a usefull tool. what do they cost?
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I have a 345, it was purchased in haste when another saw took a dump and i needed to finish cutting in a parcel of Larch a few years back. Its not a bad saw, as said before not a 346xp, but for lighter work its not bad at all. Mine came with a 18" bar and it is ok in softwood, but would recomend 13"-15" if being used in hardwoods etc. The only problems i have found are the fuel line seems to perish easily, and the oil filler cap sheared off when tightening it up, only by hand, but need a combi tool to release it, and i think this weakened it. if im ultra critical the screw down cover is a bit of a bind when filter cleaning is needed. It still gets used when i want a light saw and the 346xp is otherwise engaged, but would go for the xp if possible everytime!
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Hey life was for living back then! free love and all that, tho it was the late 90's and not the 60's.
Horse trials? good luck for sunday and hope the weather is good for you. is it a big comp? did you do the facebook thing, im not sure what im doing on there!!
