spuddog0507

All the issues you mention can be sorted for little money as there still plenty of stuff available for Browns, i have the brown in photo, 1970 780 Highway as its got brakes on front axel and only has one brake pedal, i fitted the forklift on the rear and it gets used in yard most days and the time and effort it saves me is unreal, its never failed to start yet even in that beast from the east it was only thing in yard that was running, 2 load all,s and 2 fork lifts next door that wouldnt start, i did the head and injectors on my 780 2 yr ago and it cost about £350 to sort but it improved it big time, brakes aint worked on it since i got it 15 yr ago and hydraulics aint brilliant either, but i new filter and oil might help,

1980/81 its still going and doing a job, some of todays tractors wont be here doing a days work when there 45 yr old, it dont look in to bad of order TBH cab looks better than a lot of em, old guy down rd from me got one in 83 on A plate but i think that was 4WD, he used to wash it every friday before lunch time as he used to drive 1/2 a mile down rd in it to chippy for his tea, when he sold up in late 90s it was still like new with about 800hrs on it and i think its still local as well,,

The OP has not hinted at what he would pay for say 2 arctic bulker load sat in a yard 40 mile away from his yard ? I get the feeling he is wanting it for next to nowt ? but every thing in life has a value and that value is far more to some than it is to others,, I know of 3 local ish yards where tree surgeons tip off (log chip and brash), 2 are free of charge and one is a tenner a load weather it be a barrow full or 5 tonne, all 3 of them are no where near as busy as they where 3 or 4 yrs ago ? and there is a very simple answer to that one and it is as the age old saying goes, money talks, One of these yards a friend of mine takes all the shite log from it for chipping (i do know what he pays for it and its not peanuts) and its 1 or 2 arctic load a wk ATM unlike 3 or 4 yrs ago it was 4 or 5 arctic load a wk, sorry to say things have changed as some one said above due to green energy ? and the days of getting timber of any sort for little money have virtually gone, 10 yr ago i was paying £950 for 25 tonne loads of decent sized hardwood today you can put 2k in front of the £950 and thats if you can get a odd load, None of us can compete with the likes of Jenkinsons who are running over 2000 trucks and seem to have the waste timber biomass job sawn up from one end of the country to the other with the likes of Tilhill and Euro forest all selling to jenkinsons and have signed deals with em, so the likes of us aint got a cat in hells chance of getting much nowadays,, i do still get a bit of timber from harvesting sites but its a couple of tonne of 2.5mtr a couple of tonne of 3.1mtr a few 3,7mtr and a few 4,9mtr then some big rough 2,5mtr over size, this may equate to a total from 5 or 6 tonne to may be 15 tonne but all i am doing is tidying up for them as its not worth sending a wagon for a part load, i would think you are on the RHI payment for your boiler so your getting paid for each kilowatt of heat you produce ? i know a few on this RHI payment and they just buying walking floor arctic loads of dried chip,, some one did say facebook market place and thats where the tree surgeons are getting rid of there excess log but for good money,, i used to take a good amount from a few tree surgeons but not had much this last few years,, ,

Sorry to hear about this les, i will be 100% honest on this, as if i can help someone from my own past encounters i will do,, I will say this just as it is,, i got diagnosed with depression in mid 90s after a marriage break up, my GP put me on some meds and tbh i was asleep on my feet for a few days after taking about 3 of the tablets prescribed hence i did,nt take any more of em as they didnt help one bit, i got my self back to some sort of normality after several months of doing things i liked doing, this bit was not easy at all as it seemed like it was a massive effort to get a bit of fishing gear together and clear off for a few days,, Then after about 9 mths i started going in to Preston on a saturday night with a group of lads i worked with and boy was i enjoying myself, at this time i was enjoying life but i knew there was something going on in side me that i never talked about with any one, at this time a divorce had been settled and i had got my house back for very little so happy days, At this time (late 90s) i was in a small pheasant shoot that involved a lot of walking (photo below, after lunch we walked the entire length of the fell) and the following couple of days i was totaly fooked and very low,i then went to My GP with this issue several times over a 18mth period and drew a blank till i so a young stand in GP who took me round to a nurses room for bloods to be taken, 2 days later got a call from GPs surgery to come in, i went and so the main man practice manager who i had al ready seen 5 or 6 times, turns out that my thyroxine level was near on zero hence to problem, He put me on meds for this and i was then in every 2 mths for moor bloods to be taken, i did feel much better after this but i still felt there was still something else ? Fast forward to approx 2005 and when i went to work i was ready for home by dinner as it just felt like the battery had run out, Then after several more GP appointments and getting no where again it was another young stand in GP that picked up on something and i was sent to a ME specialist, on my first appointment i was diagnosed with a 86% case of ME, life at this time was very difficult and even some general day to day chores felt like i was climbing Everest, My ME lady gave me a book and it was just like reading about myself but in this book was a section on diet and basically cut crap food out and eat good decent food, i will admit i did used to eat a few ready meals, takeaways and convenience foods, today i hardly eat any crap food and as for takeaways may be one a month if that,, i would ask for a blood test for thyroxine levels if i was you as this may fast forward things for you unlike myself where it was dragged out for ages, The meds they put me on many years ago work well for me and if i do run out and miss a few days things seem to go backwards pretty fast, i know weather dont help issues like this as it just seems to be crap day in day out, chin up lad keep smiling and i hope things work out for you,,

Nice, I think tree shears are best invention since central heating, had a shear on a 2.7tonner last summer thining some regeneration birch n alder and i was gob smacked at what I did in a day with it ,,

Well today was a bit of a test, went off Rd with truck and loaded with some 3.7 spruce and ceder saw logs, got down of my seat and truck had sunk a good bit,, thought oh shit we are unloading now ? A couple of wk ago I had a afternoon sorting the diff lock out that is air activated and probably not been used for 20yrs, so today just pushed button in, light on dash came on showing all 4 wheels locked together, engaged bottom gear and just drove out with no issues, made some big ruts though, pulled down on to hard standing and strapped up and back to yard, think I might be on power washer tomorrow,,

Correct name is a heart cut, generally used on biggish trees where you felling cut is more than twice the bar length, ie if your using a saw with a 20" bar you should get able to fell a tree of 50"dianeter,

Nice setting but it wont be so warm 30ft up that tree ??

where abouts in the country are you located ?? it will help you source it much faster,,

what age of pick up you looking for ? not to sure about the Hilux pick ups that are around 10 yr old mark,, i know of 3 people ATM that have had there pick ups recalled by Toyota for chassis corrosion, 2 are lads i shoot with and one is a lad i fish with ,the worst one is the lad i fish with he got it up in the air this summer to steam clean the old wax oil off it and it ended up with holes in the chassis and cross members, this i have seen photos and a video of it and its shocking, my old shogun at 20 yr old is far far better underneath than this Hilux at 11 yrs younger, the other 2 are both with Toyota UK atm having the chassis renewed,

Well went and felled 15 spruce and cedar trees other day, 2 of use on site and little digger with fixed grab, all went very well after a late start at 10.30am but got all 15 down processed and stacked ready fir collection and all brash pushed in to a big burn pit, site was nice n dry and hardly made a mark on the ground, then today I went to pick first load of log up and what a difference the ground was after the rain we have had,, last photo was this aft parked up and all dry abd as soon as I got on my seat behind crane the heaven opened hence puss wet through in no time and wagon stood in 6" of water 😦😦

Well thats fooked that up then,,,

3.7mtr and 4.9mtr saw logs are approx £65 tonne road side and 3mtr chip wood is £45 tonne then stacked brash ready for chipper will be appro £15 a tonne once some one has chipped it,, trees will average just under a tonne so if you work on 50 tonne of timber then another 15 tonne for the brash and tops you wont be a million miles away,,

i was 83 and have the same as you 7,5t with trailer up to 4,5t dont think any of the answers above are correct ??,,

Well not today, but nearly every day since Sunday this week, I been moving some timber we cut in the spring and summer, I wont break any land speed records with truck but it sure does its job very well,