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X2. Also makes it easy to add a basic tiltrotator. I specced twin aux even with my 1.9t and I’m glad I did.

All done. Two bags of firewood. Took around four hours but was waiting on Harry dealing with the scabs so did some office stuff whilst he cleared the decks. got a fair bit of offcuts left over too. I’d be surprised if the job owes me £50 in timber and petrol, so very happy with £650. thanks for your help guys. Really liking this sawmill.

Well there’s definitely worse places to be on a piss wet afternoon.

People down south are too posh to pay for ‘waste product’. Firewood is form rather than function here 🙄 I used to put them through processor but I reckon it’s easier to me to deal with them as they come. Branch logger set for short cuts does sound great though.

I produce far more than I can burn, but I can’t bring myself to not bag them up, they’re so easy to do. Got myself a little bag holder at the end now.

It’s ok, I know he’s been let down and wants them by the end of the week 😉 Ten of these at 3.6m should be doable in an afternoon from the size sawlogs I have. So at £70 that would be £700, or around £600 after timber costs. Sounds good to me.

The beams are currently sawlogs, so I’m not wed to them! Just wanted an idea on realistic pricings. It’s an odd order because they’ve asked for 38m worth of it. Usually beams are individual sizes as you know.

6" x 5" beams, either 3.6 or 4.8m. Douglas or larch. 10 of. i have both in my yard, what should I be charging per m for that section timber?

Saw looks OK-ish- it's pretty small diameter timber. Ram is slow compared to a PTO model, that'll be the bottleneck. But an utter bargain at that money!

Did you import directly then? how do you find 14hp, sounds a bit underpowered? What kind of money?

That’s impressive, which model?

Yes, I find a hydro top link is invaluable on almost every implement. Just look at the finish on these contours- you just set it to float and it follows beautifully.

No, still need to do that! Plus the neighbour wants a load doing also.

Midhurst here. 07765 776454 Not sure what you mean by ‘decent’, it’s 16” capacity.

Interesting. The regs are deffo worth reading through. I think I was confusing the small trailer exemption for licensing pre-boris trailer giveaway. Most on here will run under the 100km from base, tools and equipment for use by driver in course of his work exemption. Edit- sadly I don’t think this hypothetical baker would be exempt. Especially as driving the van to make his deliveries would be his main/only job for the day. Luckily bread is light!

No tacho required.

Tacho would only apply if over 3.5t gross weight vehicle, or if over 4250kg with trailer and not covered under an exemption. For example, the village baker's 3.5t delivery van doesn't need a tacho. And it's 'hire or reward'....

No, but my missus does…

Not a brand I’m familiar with. What will you be running it behind? Most flail collectors will do a decent job on light grass and relatively heavy brambles. Its thick scrub or thick rank grass that will test them.

Found a couple of pics. Not the biggest timber but you get the idea.

My missus is happy cause I’ve used a few scraps to ‘poshen up’ our kitchen cabinets! With the grapple you wouldn’t have the weight of the winch, so much work well? Mine on a 38hp AC is a good fit. Riko.

Looks a monster alpine, what is it? I use a skidding grapple behind my alpine, it's handy to be able to transfer a lot of the log's weight to the back wheels. If it's milling lengths, they will be short enough that you only drag 'just the tip' (ooeer missus!) along the ground. Works for me. I've got some beech I left spalting to mill later today that I extracted like this. I've not used a logging arch but I'd imagine it take a bit of a while to rig it all up? Probably ace for longer extraction routes or timebr lengths though.

If I had a ticket for everything I do and every machine I own and operate, I’d probably have to do a month worth of refresher courses per year!

You know I’ve got no tickets, right? 🤣

I like the Stihl professional depth gauges, and for the actual stock removal, an m12 Milwaukee ‘power file’. Technically my grinder can be set to lower the rakers, but it’s such a faff involving changing the discs, angles, chain and depth stops that I don’t bother. The power file is magic. I use ceramic belts on it, 60 grit removes depth gauges quickly at a nice gentle ramp and you soon get the hang of how much pressure and how long. Check every few teeth with the stihl gauge. I’d say it’s just as controllable as a file, if not more so as we all know how easily the file can skip on hard rakers or the opposite ones. It’s got two speed ranges, both variable. You can even set the belt to go the other way to push the sparks away from you. A really well designed tool. A 120 grit ceramic belt is ideal for dressing the bar. Brilliant tool for this kind of thing, it’s much quicker, easier and cheaper on consumables than a file. If you want to get finicky, a surface conditioning belt will make the bar rails factory smooth to finish off. https://www.powertoolworld.co.uk/milwaukee-m12-fbfl13-0-12v-13mm-brushless-belt-sander-file-body-only