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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,

Yes Arbtalk has changed, along with many other things in life, like people, attitudes , and society in general and its only going to get worse i am sorry to say ? 40 years ago we used to go and have site meetings with a land agent or the estate manager and discus a woodland weather it be thinning, clear fell or for a pipe line going through, some things got written down and a price agreed and we just got on with it, Today i get to meet some smartarse kid with a HSBC & TSB degree in woodland management telling me how to do my job that i been doing since late 1970s, then when i disagree with something they then snottaly remind me that they have a degree in woodland management,, OK jog on with it then you got the paperwork and i only have 40 odd years experience, now that does piss me off, One management lad i met a few wk back at a site tuned up in a fleece and his office shoes, the day wasent great with sunshine one minuet then lashing it down next, he requested the site visit and when i said to him are putting your boots or wellies on, his answer was not got any ? best i could do for him was 2 Aldi carrier bags and some bailing string to cover his carpet creepers with hence when we returned to the cars he was soaked, loads of things have changed, some for the good and some for the worse, internet is good, mobile phones are good to a extent but i hate to think how much working time is lost in the UK in one day, And i am no exception as my phone has not stopped ringing this last 2 wks, but i only got myself to keep going ATM, today i was doing all sorts and only got about half done of what i wanted to do but due to answering my phone i got several trees to look at and 2 woodland jobs to look at,, Ok rant over,,,

There was a lot about like you say, old lad down Rd at a farm who is sadly no longer with us had a Norbsa mid 50s wideline with a A7 500 twin copled to a rrt2 box I allways thought it looked and sounded well,, I went to a bike show with my dad in late 70s and saw this bike that consisted of wheels frame forks engine single seat rear sets clip ons and a 5 gallon ally tank that said triton on it and I thought I going to own one of them one day so the one above was purchased in 93 from a old guy in melton Mowbery for the grand sum of £1200 so not a bad investment ??.

Not today but last wk, fitted a new hydraulic to tractor and finally splashed out on a new timber grab, totally transformed the whole outfit, lifts better and grips logs better, had 4 days extracting with it and loved every minuet of it,,

Like this one,, one of the first Norton widelines 1954 fitted with a 1953 all alloy triumph tiger 100 motor and box, mate has one but a bit different than mine, 1958 wideline with a modern triumph 955i motor fitted and he says its good for 150mph but dernt take it any further,,

Oliver Coombs at timber auctions in york would be a good man to talk to as he would auction it off as a standing sale for you , so basicaly sold to a harvesting crew who would cut process and remove from site so you wouldnt need to do owt only watch and take a few photos and then take payment,,

Swinny has just about said it all in his post,, but i will add that there is some crap out there for sale that is described as in good working order and TBH some of it is not fit for purpose and they are just money pits, i was looking for a digger before covid and TBH i thought no just hire one in when i need one as its one less machine for me to look after, 8 tonner wont be as easy to sell when you done with it either, and personally i think the 2,6 2,7 2.8 tonne machines are much easier to sell, Another thing to think about as well is theft a 2.7 will walk as much easier to move on a ifor trailer thane a 8 tonner is to move,,

Yes it was from the post office and if i remember right it was basically the size of a post card and it was brown, it did say shotgun licence on it and not certificate, think first one i got was 1980/1981 and it lasted 12mth and it was about two quid, no reminders about renewall and if you didnt get a new one you would probably get a visit from the local plod to see if you still had guns, very relaxed back then ,,

Had a day on my old kubota today forwarding timber out that we cut a few months back, not the driest of woodlands but still traveling well at half 5 on last load, bit rough in places so slowly slowly wins the race and it wernt a short haul either any where between 500 & 600yds ,

As promised, midland 12g s/s Hammer gun made in 1876 for a butcher in Fleetwood, this gun was 1 of 2 identical guns the butcher bought at the same time and when he fell ill he gifted one each to his 2 members of staff, the guy I got it off started at the butchers as a Saturday boy just before WW11 started he then became a full time traine butcher, he said he was given the gun in the mid to late 40s and used it extensively for rough shooting, I acquired the gun early 90s and it was checked out and found to be out of proof on the RH barrel so off to the Birmingham proof house it went and came back stamped up with Moor proof on it than when it was made, originally 1 1/8oz nitro proofed and now 1 1/4oz nitro proofed,, I have not used much since I got it but have shot ducks pigeons and pheasants with it,

I will dig it out as its right at the back of cabinet,,

I have a midland hammer gun not damascus barrels though, got it handed to me when the shotgun certificates changed, made in 1876 for a butcher in Fleetwood and was 1 of a pair he had but not numbered, i am only the third owner of it and the butchers grandson i still see now and then and is all ways telling me about his grandad shooting grouse, hares, rabbits and pheasants to sell in his butchers shop,

Worked in forestry and shot on a lot of land over the last 45 yrs and only ever had one tick on me but taken hundreds off my dogs, doing some thinning work ATM on a estate that has a large head of both deer and sheep on it so i will be looking more often now,, A forestry co we do a bit for have health and safety days now and then and Lyme,s disease is a big thing, on one of these days they had a young lady there who was the daughter of a bloke i had done a bit of work for on a park home site across the rd from me, you can check her story out on the net and its quite sad really, such a beautiful young lady with big prospects in life and all ruined by 1 tick, Sophie has done a lot of work raising awarness on Lyme,s disease on BBC radio Lancashire and on TV as well, you can check her story out by just googling Sophie ward lyme,s disease and it will bring a few sophie wards up but i am sur you will find it,,

Thats just a stack of firewood, may be one log worth milling ? prices in general with timber seem to be dropping at the moment, £60 - £70 a tonne road side, and i would say circa about 8 tonne there,,