spuddog0507

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Tractor and trailer does ok for us, i was working along side a log bullet mini forwarder on a job 2 year ago and i could move at least twice as much at a time and when your on a long haul it makes a diffarence,, then there is the resale issue as well, a small tractor will appeal to a much larger selling audience than a purpose built forwarder,, i think i would get back what i paid for mine and about the same for the trailer and crane, we use a little 2,8t digger with a fixed grab and it works well in thinings as we stack the timber ryde side and windrow the brash with it as with it being a fixed grab you can rake or push brash with it which i find is very labour saving,, Going to look at a job next wk where some windblown has taken a drystone wall down so its price for windblown clearance then rebuild the wall, could be 25 -30 tonne of timber which will be ours for the removal of it so tractor n trailer and the winch come in to there own in this situation, we will sever the trees and winch back in to the woodland whole, then sned and process with in the wood hence no brash to drag back, it all works out most days then one day you get every thing going wrong !! get your trailer with crane then make a braket up to swap grab between trailer and digger, but when you put it back on tractor put half a gallon of oil to dump out of grab n rotator as you would be putting hydraulic oil in to the back end of your tractor which aint good but the other way your UTO out of tractor in to digger would be fine,,

Read most of the above and some good points made, i have a small outfit that i use on mainly our own jobs or salvaging wind blown timber that we have been paid to sort out, as most of the work is generally down footpaths with in blocks of forestry from 100 - 900 acres it makes cense for us to run a small tractor and forwarding trailer, we all so have a Igland 4.2 tonne winch for it as well, it all seems to work well and even tho when it comes to the timber salvaging its at my expence but it works, main of the timber we salvage we process in to firewood our selves and sell on,, the trailer i have is about ready for a bit of a refurb and the crane needs a bit of attension as it was only one of the cheaper ones and was bought to do 2 jobs but thats 10+ yrs since, knowing what i know now i would not skimp on the crane as there is some very good small cranes out there today, only done a few paid extraction jobs with it and i was charging £28hr with a £2 a mile transport charge 1 way, i like extracting with mine and only problem is getting me off it,,

Yep no lying in bed this morning,,if that is a genuine add and that's the price ?? It is dirt cheap,, it would cost about £800 to put a set of decent tyres on it,, parts would not be much of a problem as there is a few guys up n down the country breaking this size of tractor now,, iseki seem to be one of the better built smaller tractors and are up there with Kubota,,

No tip off to the police, the body was seen by a local lad walking his dog, there is no formal ID as yet and i would say that will be tomorrow, we will all get to know who it was, but there was a lad in Lancaster called Dan Hives that went missing on 10th December, again by the river Lune and not the Wyre, never seen or heard of since ? it is quite possible this could be him yet and not Nicola as the Police have not said weather it was male or female ?, given the high tide time today at 10,25am and the hight off 9,4mtrs which is quite big along with a stiff SW wind for the last few days this body i would say has been out at sea and come up the river on the leading edge of the tide, Body was spotted floating at 11,35am !!!

Just had a simular issue with a truck, steel tank tho and there was loads of a brown like jelly substance, we got some out the tank and left it in a jar and yes when we had that frost a few wk back it did freeze up,,we just drained the tank and put a camera in it and there was a substancial amount of what looked like brown frog spawn on the botton and sides of tank along with a fair bit of rust so just bought a new tank,,your plastic tank would steam clean out ok,,

Not right sure what volunteers are doing ? but i need to ring a lad i shoot with in the morning as he has something to do with organising search areas, i will keep you posted,,

I aint seen it on national news for a few days now but on our regional news every night, all so a lot on local FB groups, the police are now looking for a tatty red renault van that was parked on Hall lane the morning before (approx 200mtrs from the bench where nicolas phone was found) where this van was parked it would mean crossing the river but the next bend down stream its very shallow and would of been a easy crossing may be knee deep, i have said from day one that there is a 3rd party involved in this case ??,, One thing i will say is this family have been let down badly by the police on this one, they kept ****************ing about searching the same 2 or 300yds of river day in day out, then 2 wk later decide to start searching down stream, i am busy tomorrow but i think tues and wed i am going to go and join the search would of done it earlier but been working 7 days a wk for last month,,

3 - 4 days yes may be, this stretch of river i have walked many times and spent hundreds of hrs fishing it and i would say it aint a easy stretch to search, last thurs the 2nd of feb the river would of been carrying approx 18" of extra water so sorry to say if she did end up in the river , which i dont think, she will be out to sea by now, i know a fair bit about how Morecambe bay works with its tidal flows and currents and winds as well, personally i think there is someone else involved in this case !!!

I just cant see that amount of river being searched properly in a day and once they get 5-600yds down stream the water clarity changes due to it being tidal,,

Personally i think that slate should be beded down and the gap on the LHS should be pointed up and not left looking like that,,

I do as well,, there is nothing that points to her just clearing off, i believe from one or 2 locals that knew her, that her home life was good, she had a good job and mothers dont walk out on there kids !!, Now her job would ring alarm bells with me a being a mortgage advisor she will of turned one or two down over the years and even more so of late with the increase in interest rates !!! ,

It is, but the tide times didn't coinside with the time she disappeared, there was approx 3hrs for her to be spoted, the river where she is thought to of been is quit deep just below the bench and will have rock walls so she could of hit her head ? If that's the case it is possible that she has gone out to sea !! But I still think some one has grabbed her,,, there is a lot that don't add up on this very sad case,,

She lived at Inskip but went missing in st Michele's , the river is tidal up to the small weir you may of seen on the news, but that is only on the big spring tides, on the other big tides it will reach approx 1/2 mile below the wier, but one thing we have to remember is that morecambe Bay has the second biggest tidal range in the UK

Nicola,s case is a very strange one, one local lad I shoot and fish with had gone to a filling station on the Wednesday night (25th Jan) and he said there was a guy there and when he first so him, he just thought don't come taking to me , however he did, he said he was not local and was very strange, and you defiantly would not leave your kids with him fir any mire than 30 seconds so this guy has been reported to the police and they where straight on it with the cctv from the garage but this strange guy has not been identified or his where abouts traced yet,,

This incident is only a mile or so from me and its certainly brought a community together, I know and have spoke to several people who Nicola and all have said the same thing, what a nice women she is, what i can tell you all, is the area where she went missing from i know very well and some of the early photos and reports where far from accurate, first thing i heard on the saturday night was a coat ,a handbag, phone and dog lead where found by the river then there was the 2 photos of 2 different benches, both i know well, one of the benches if you fell in the river there you would hardly get wet, but at the other one it would be a different story all together and this bench is now confirmed as the bench where Nicola,s phone and dog lead along with her dog where found,, i and many other locals are not convincied that she has fallen in the river ?? its as Stubby says about the dog, even if it was milling about say 50/60/70/80 yds away that dog would of heard the comotion if she had fallen in and the dog would of been there ?? my labs i sit in front of me when out flighting ducks and then just watch the dogs, there heads move, ears twitch and then 30 secs later ducks drop in to pond !!, so the theory of her going in i think is very low, Then there is the phone found on the bench and logged in to a call but muted ?? i think some one has approached her and she has muted the phone to talk to who ever approached her ?? then has she been abducted ?? we dont know anything yet, on monday i mate of mine was out shooting and was talking to one of the othere lads who used to be the coxwain on the lifeboat at Fleetwood and i totally agree with his theory that if she has gone down the river and out to sea it will be 2-3 mth before she reapers, but we all hope she turns up safe and well and we will just have to wait for the outcome, its a very sad situation where the local s have rallied round and all pulled together to help as much as possible,,

Your local stihl dealer would get you one as they are listed in the stihl catalouge or used to be as i have had a few

Yes I so some 18mth seasoned Ash n beech for sale recently at £70 tonne and I must admit I was tempted as its not that far from me, but last wk I got a msg from a forestry manager I work with asking me if I would be interested in removing approx 80-100 6 mtr lengths of larch from a site for free , answer yes I will and this is not the first time this has happened either, its the big company syndrome, we just been it gone before labd owner turns up,,

you assume wrong !! its in 2,5 mtr lengh,s off a local estate and its the trees that they have tided up last summer after that storm about 15mth ago, been stacked since may/june last year, all so bought about 12/14 tonne of scotts pine off the land agent as well for £20 tonne,,

Yes i just bought a fair amount of ash n beech roadside for £35 a tonne including VAT, its being delivered Wednesday the 1st feb,,

Had a 341 a few years back and my understanding is it is exactly the same saw as a 361 except for the carb, so if a HD34 is fitted i think it will give you a bit more power, so i wouldnt be to bothered about that myself, may be some one else could confirm this,,

My young girl out doing her job today, she not right keen at having photos taken ! Then again there was a lot of shots going off,, been a busy day and now both dogs having a kip and I think I will be following them shortly,,,

You say you are new to selling, but work the you and probably others with you are carrying out ,whats the expirience of the people on site ? are they up to speed with the felling of trees with in a woodland enviroment ? have you got machinery for extraction etc, there is a lot to consider at times and if all put in to practice correctly makes the job run faster and smoothly, The timber personally i would forget the hanging on to it and seasoning and thinking its worth more as it wont be, best way i can explain this is if its dry you will fill a wagon and drag to the top of the bolster pins and probably have below 20 tonne on, if its wet fresh felled it will only be 2/3rds up the bolster pins, so with fresh felled you would be getting paid for 4 loads as apposed to 3, so if you worked it back and taking cash flow in to consideration your far better felling, extracting and getting it away asap for you maximum return, and another thing to consider if you have timber led about it tends to grow legs and walk and more so now a days,,,,

Snow and hail late yesterday afternoon then temps dropped to below zero around dark, snowed again from 6pm - 7pm, then a heavy frost and more snow over night, just been stood at front of house and sorry and the cense of some drivers today worries me, one guy approx early to mid 40s just come round the corner of the housing estate like you would do in June but this morning he has slid across the road smacked the kerb with front near side wheel and pushed the tyre of the rim, oh dear,, there was a bit of bad language,, 😂

Your right there, This guy no matter what trees they are only ever sees the timber as firewood and nothing else, at times i find it strange that some people just cant see past the end of there nose !!!!