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Yeah your prob right hamdogg, its not easy living on 80 quid a day once you've paid all your expenses but without felling experience and more tickets its hard to get any more money from forestry contractors!
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80 quid a day is at the bottom end of the scale up here for a cutter with about 150 quid being top end. Cutters with only cs 30 - 31 would only get bottom end money . Fuel and saw costs are usually much higher for production forestry.
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Level one irata course is a week long, you have to log 1000hrs on the ropes before you can progress to level two. Level one course is fairly straight forward.
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I just had a verbal agreement with the guy so think I will follow your advice and walk away. Cheers.
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I do agree with you Robert.s its not a good practice doing tree work for wood but its very rare a customer wants the timber taken away from site in Argyll anyway, usually they want it for firewood. Firewood guy is desperate for hardwood so i could have made a decent wage on the job.
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sorry meant to say they are a charitable trust who were given a small piece of woodland to look after, they dont collect money for sick children or anything like that, if that were the case i would not hesitate in doing the job. Just annoying that they get me to do the time consuming dismantling beside main road because im insured and give someone with no insurance the slightly easier and quicker felling part of the job.
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I was asked to dismantle and fell about 100 ton of unsafe beech trees for a local charity, they were not wanting to spend much money on the job so i agreed to carry out the work and my payment would be the timber. I was passing the other day and noticed one of the trees had been felled, when i asked the guy in charge he said they only wanted me to remove 1 large beech 1 med beech and a med pine that were beside the main road as they had a guy from the village felling the rest. Basically the jobs been cut by 75 ton! i had arranged to sell the timber to a firewood dealer so am now letting him down. Pissed me off a tad. I am thinking about telling them to get on with it without me, What would you do?
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Donald Maclean is a forestry trainer up your way, worth giving him a call.
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go for it! the mog would be way more usefull than the old zetar, can carry, tip, lift, power pto equipment and do 50mph! if its ag reg it will be free tax and run on red it wont cost much more to run than a 4x4 pickup.
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that would be the ideal chipper for the job but at 50 percent of the cost of the mog i just cant afford it at the moment. looks very similar to tp 200.
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nice arial photo stephan , any chance of some close ups of how chipper and pto are mounted cheers.
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Im looking at a buying a unimog to run my pto chipper, want to mount it on the front with a din plate so it wont stick out too far. just not sure how the pto will attatch as it would need to be a very short shaft? the chipper is a 427 kwick chip so would need a reversing gearbox, anyone got any advice or pics of their front mounts? cheers.
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looks like some dodgey pruning to me! i doubt this was done by a qualified tree surgeon.
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Another vote for Karcher from me, got a diesel heated one and its been a great machine think it was about 1200 notes right enough!
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Buy yourself a 12 or 20 ton bottle jack from machine mart and weld a 10mm thick steel plate on top, then you have yourself a hydraulic tree jack for fifty quid! You will never use your high lift wedges again.
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What's better work/money? Tree surgery, firewood, forestry?
jmac replied to Lukey boy1's topic in General chat
Production felling for skyline winch is quite good money and makes you a good confident cutter. But arb work is much easier and climbing is more enjoyable imo. -
i know a guy who cut the bottom off his chute so that green material could just fall out before blocking the chipper, 190 timber wolf i use blocks if nossle on chute is aimed down too far.
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What kind of money are we talking? I could have the chipper fixed on the rear to save a bit of money. Its such a clean and low kilometre mog I think it might be worth it, depending on the how much to set it up for tree work.
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I am thinking about getting a 1700 unimog , its a good clean low mileage machine the only problem is its not set up for tree work. Is it a straight forward bolt on job to fit 3 point linkage, tipping gear and pto? There is a rear pto box fitted but this is used to drive a crane pump. I plan to remove the crane pump and fit a pto shaft and I guess the pto box will be a high speed unit so will need changed also. Any advice greatly appreciated.
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Cheers gnome:thumbup1: i gave elmwood college a call they said it was a three day course with them looks like only two days with sruc
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I need to get pa1 and pa6 tickets for upcoming roddie clearance work can anyone recomend somewhere or someone that does training in scotland?
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hi bobh im really looking forward to coming over on sat for the rally myself its the best rally i have seen. i know what you mean about the amazing drivers i have worked all over mull for a certain blue and green utillity company and i dont know how they drive those roads at the speed they do. i heard duffy was up near 150mph in his mk 2 scort last year:thumbup:
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cheers andy i will get chassis number when im back home from holliday. yeah english version would be good.
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im in argyll so know all about working in the rain. id rather get soaked than get grief from the wife for having no money for her to spend in next
