doobin
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You need a Shepa mancrate and a mini chipper! I love easy hedge reductions like that laurel.
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Ideal job to sub out to a tractor/hedgecutter combo then!!
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Ideal job for a little brush/rake on the Sherpa and then the bucket grab. often you can get most of it just with the bucket grab even.
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Good quality chestnut coppice is worth maybe £600 per acre standing. Probably considerably less than you were hoping. That goes right down if access etc is shite. I'm presuming you are either Sussex or Kent, if Sussex then I can give you some starter contacts.
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Price them per job. Remember, the customer in their head has "This is gonna take me ages with my b and q electric trimmer!! And where will all the rubbish go?? I'd better get someone in."
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Oregon. Comfy and cheap enough for trousers and boots. Helmet probably ok.
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Yup, on the plant side of things secondhand prices are back to pre covid and lots of nearly new diggers up for sale. I think it’s gonna be rough. I’m holding off going for a new alpine tractor, I’ll just spend a bit of time building a forestry cage on this one and I’ve just spent £2k on new tyres and an air seat for it. Trouble is a new one is 40k by the time you’ve ticked a few options.
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Fantastic for utility work and maintenance. However I’m not a fan of the current trend towards using flailbots on conservation sites just to tick a safety box. Mulching everything and enriching the site is the antithesis of conservation sites!!
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If payments were still only in gold and other precious metals the country wouldn’t be in half the mess it is currently.
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Whatever you can get for it. £50 straight off the job is better than £100 after handling it twice and having it laying around the yard.
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I suspect folk up your way are more practical when it comes to the utility value of firewood as opposed to aesthetics!
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You can do the same with a Ranger. They will still go in front wheel drive in 4H. I'm not familiar with a defender, but I think you would have had to put it in 'diff lock' to keep going, as they are permanent 4D
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Should have changed the UJs then! 🤣 No truck is maintenance free. Besides, I’m amazed you didn’t feel / hear the clanging!
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Because it’s a Ford! Not a reliable Jap rebadge like the earlier models.
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Yup, never smoke your own supply! The joke is on them as the softwood burns hotter.
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Not really as down South. Firewood is more about form than function in the Home Counties, so I sell the nice uniform ash and beech off the processor and use the scabs myself or sell to friends for £20 a bag. I'd only get £30-40 a bag to a customer, so not worth the time for a lad to deliver it when they would otherwise be taking a £90 bag of 'neat' logs.
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Yup, even with my £5k woodland mills 130 max I can make a veneer cut quite happily. Ripper 37s, the wider type.
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Forestry winch recommendations
doobin replied to Martin du Preez's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Easiest way to remember is to get it wrong once next to a greenhouse. You won’t forget next time. Not me, another tree team. I was just there scrounging some oak butts for the mill. -
Briggs and scrap em. They’ve always been shit.
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And we all agree it’s a bad idea to feed alcohol to children. However plenty of parents think they are doing the right thing by opting for ‘sugar free’
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FFS. Well, it was good while it lasted.
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Put yer hand in yer pocket and buy the pauper model! You've seen my 130, it's a good value machine.
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The only silver lining is that we are ‘keeping our powder dry’ so to speak. The oil will still be there when all this nonsense is finished with and we really need it.
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Interesting article. I'd say it's worth a shot, it couldn't be any worse really!
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Selling firewood is much like selling drugs. All cash, the end user gets a warm fuzzy feeling until they run out, and most importantly, the dealer should avoid using their supply! The mill extension is providing very handy for a chop saw, to cut anything. It’s freed up a bench in the workshop that previously held a chopsaw for infrequent use. It’s much better with the bunks providing a decent length of holding capability. Post weathertops are child’s play- as is bagging up the scabs without moving them five times!
