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Good luck getting a contractor to piss about with 4 acres when the moon is aligned with the stars in the seventh apex and everything is perfect... You'll need even better luck to sell it all at a premium and even better luck to make a profit once you take labour into account. Cut and big bale to waste is the cheapest option.

Ask a local contractor to mow it and big bale it. Then move the big bales to the edge of the field and let them rot down out the way. We have local ag contractors do a village green this way and the cost is not high as we don't care when it's done or need to ted and dry the grass. As for all this talk of ploughing etc- you might scrape turf off to get heather established but for species rich grassland all you need to do is cut and collect and introduce wildflower seed at the right time.

I think a 135 or 181 would be too small, not enough rev up and go. Keep the weight the same as far as possible but go bigger on the engine. Especially if you're dong multiple cuts to cut all the tangles up, a lack of power will piss you off very quickly. My MS250 is 3hp and 4.6kg. My MS181 is only 2hp and still 4.6kg.

I'm that tired I had to read that twice before I realised you were your usual pisstaking self....

Isn't it Sweden where they collect brash from the roadside with a baler of sorts for power stations?

MS250, 12" 1.1mm bar, 8t sprocket.

I agree, seems crazy. Only the other month it was in Earthmovers magazine and they were saying how wonderful it was. Do you think that tracked dumper is a bit overpriced?

It would stabilise quickly, influenced only by a rising life expectancy. One child per person (or two per couple) is simply one child to replace the person in question. One child per couple would lead to a drastic reduction in population, hence I agree with China's policy. It's an unpalatable truth that nature's population control is practised (and needs to be practised by way of starvation in the human population. This is why the argument for GM crops 'to feed the world' doesn't stack up. You're simply delaying the inevitable. Better that a few million suffer starvation now rather than a hundred million of their descendants. It also raises the quality of life for the rest of the population. We're always told that we 'will need to feed x million more people by 20YY'. No we won't. Nature makes the rules, we can only bend them so far.

I was told that too and I think it's rubbish. Incredible amount of variables such as the weight of the saw, length of the bar, grip factor of the surface. All these 'rules of thumb' do is confuse newbies. In the end only mechanical understanding and experience will tell you if a particular saw is tensioned correctly. You can tell a lot by the sound made as you pull the chain over, or at least I can. You can hear worn sprockets like this too.

Good plan. Could I also suggest a roll of silage sheet? We use this on building jobs around the cement mixer etc, it's very economical, completely impervious and stores well in a tidy roll. The best size is the 2m ish wide one that you use for the walls of a clamp.

I'm probably the most expensive in my area If you want to take logs uber seriously that's cool. Good luck to ya. I fail to see the point when we're at a tipping point re cost effectiveness compared to fossile fuels and the entry barriers to the log trade are so low. For me, it's easy extra cash when I get an order. It matters not to me about a bit of sawdust on the drive, the customer is too busy being engaged in cheery banter and having some gardening sold to them Quick question- are you in favour of increased regulation of the log trade?

A mate has a Silver 100.6. It has the turning circle of a dead elephant. Awful for loader work.

Simple- you decide that your profit margin is more important, and the 1% of customers that would complain can do one as I'm buggered if I'm paying for an expensive crane AND leaving them a £5 bag! Flip them off the side, take the money and on to the next drop.

Because some of us work smarter, not harder...

Proper job mate. Where's the grapple from?

How long is a piece of string? Seriously. If you've no experience whatsoever then you'd be best off cutting hedges and subbing a climber in when you need one.

There's a course IIRC. I was going to do it a few years ago but never got round to it.

It's the same story when it's wet too mate! Sandy or chalk soil = no problem, just whack the spoil back in. Clay can be problematic. If it's wet it just won't consilidate and can also cause problems with shrinkage when it dries out and gets wet again. I had good results using crushed chalk as backfill on some fairly damp clay. Cheap, effective and can be removed easily in future.

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I've never broken a 1/2" one despite the usual punishments metered out. That said, my 3/4 set is a Kamasa one that I picked up locally from an add in the shop window.

Wolf. I have 6l, 25l and 50l. I bought the 2.5hp 25l for £90 the other day- nothing else comes close. They take some serious abuse too. I've had the 6l one for ten years, the 50l one under the floor in the workshop for 6 years and no problems whatsoever.

You don't need a wide selection of stimmer line- the Stihl round stuff is fine. I never have line welding save for the one bad batch of cord I bought. 2.4mm twin line on grass trimming. If that's snapping then you're doing something wrong, it's as simple as that. Thicker line is a clumsier cut and more drag on the strimmer for no benefit. I run the small heads like the FS-94 on FS460s with no issues. Thicker growth is best done with 4-way head using 3mm line. The stress on each bit of line is halved as the lines are doubled- make sense? Thicker than that and it's blade time. Shredder knife.

Yeah, a set is a good starting point. I had one from Screwfix. Have replaced the ratchet with a Halfords Pro and the sockets over the years have become mainly Silverline and Bositool as they've gotten lost.

Mate, you could have paid any ag mechanic £300 to fit you a second set of aux ports and a changeover tap by now. Stop faffing around and take the advice.

Sounds like you might as well have made it yourself. At least I expect my welding to be amateurish