Matthew Storrs
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sounds like your set on Stihl? Also are you buying used, as the saws you mention seem to command quite a bit more than £500 when new. If its used, I found the Ms 440 a very reliable performer.
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great result- makes a change, shame they cant follow them back to the camp then Napalm the lot, waste of a quad tho.
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Try Southern Timber, ipplepen, N. Abbot, Last time I went there I loaded up my trailer with some lovely looking stakes only to be told that they were 'special' stakes, and I believe they came with a 15yr guarantee, May be worth phoning them and mention your predicament. It will obviously cost more tho then standard stakes. As for strainers, how about getting a few telegraph poles in and cut them to length? Mole valley can order them.
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I agree, as much as I love them, you will not only need enough work for a mog but you need the right kind of work too, Im sure others will differ, Depends on what your main type of work is?
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sad news, nice tribute though.
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my rearend became so messed up with mine I had to wear a pair of black swimshorts underneath to prevent the customer catching an eyeful of my fruity underwear!
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Well, you can't, I try and do the maths he can fill a pickup in around 20mins, deliver it local in 30 mins, 10 mins for fathing around with stuff. so I guess he does 5-6 loads a day split and delivered, comes to maybe £200 a day, free wood, but after expenses must come away with very little, just a living I should think, He does tree work too mostly to get the wood, only the type he can do with his valmet roofcrane.
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That sounds a good approach.
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yep. sip freedoms for me too, much better quality. Im sure the arguement here will be that hiflexs are better for climbing in as they are more clinging material and stretchy. But i think SIP do clingy/stretchy ones too.
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I,d be intersted to hear a response to this, I want to put solar powered lights on a shipping container but how would you store the electricty without spending a shed load?
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IMO hiflex are complete and utter waste of time and money , comfy, yes (but no more than some other makes) but not built for any kind of tree work, iv had two pairs both of which; ripped up the backside, melted with any kind of heat, and the ankles got ripped to shreds within a few months of scrub clearing, don't even get me started on trying to climb a confier with them, they just get hung up/ripped on EVERYTHING.. In short I wouldn't have another pair if you paid me:laugh1:
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would you say in general if you do logs pretty much the only way to make money/stay competetive is to use a processor? I realise many tree surgeons do logs on the side with just a splitter or dare I say it an axe, But if your doing it day in day out do most of you use processors etc. A bloke near me does a navara load for £35-£40 (2 years ago) to me that seems silly cheap. But he uses a processor so maybe he makes it work like that?
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That surprises me, I wouldn't have thought there is enough wood around to be quite so competitive, in general compared to the amount of folks converting to woodburners. Why sell yourself out? would it not make sense to hold on till next year, or does it cost you to store the logs?
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I pay £100 for my 'patch' burn up site, logs and storage/lockup from a local farmer, on my door step too which saves a lot of travelling. I think you'l find most farmers could find a patch for you if you offer them an incentive, usually money, some might do it for a days work if you want to save money.
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Theres a nice looking Valmet 6300 on Ebay at the moment if anyone is interested. I would love it but can't afford it unless I do a mass sell of equipment!! Sorry I don't know how to send links/attachments!
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Well the reason I asked was that I recently quoted (and I think got it) to reduce the risk of windblow on a semi- mature beech tree up on the moors around us, I suggested a 30-40% thin over a reduction, as once you had reduced it there wouldn't have been much canopy left (very tall clean trunk with small canopy anyway) etc and once it regrows etc... Still don't know if I have suggested the right thing so was curious to the reasoning behind your comment.
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How come you say that, not argueing (yet:001_smile:) just curious?
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to be honest, she has 'trouble' written all over her,keep to your guns and I really wouldn't trust a signed document from her either, just talk to the neighbours as you say.
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stick to your gut feeling if I were you....
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Thats odd, Looks exactly the same as my 254 just been out and checked! Im sure a 254 geek will be along shortly.
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actually i think not, i can see a few wires about! handy setup.
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is that hiab a hand pump? what will it lift?
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really? I remember having to tow another cabstar (about 2ton) to the garage once and it struggled to go over 25, going up hills it nearly came to a standstill! that was without chip.
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you wouldn't want a bigger chipper then 6 inch on the back once loaded with chip, ours was a 2.5NA, Im sure the 3 liter turbo would be a different world.
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My old boss ran one beside a unimog, It took some abuse i'l give it that, The big end went at 229,000miles and was sold of to India at a similar price he paid for it. As long as you don;t go even slightly offroad, ie avoid even the flatest stretch of grass then they are quite good. One real plus I liked over a transit etc was that being flat fronted cabs and narrow they are extremely manouverable. As said above I wouldn't want one if I was doing big treefells day in day out but, personally for day to day average hedge work/tree surgery id prefer one over a transit.
