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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 !!!!

Hi reading your original post and how you describe the trees, have you considered milling the oak in to slabs for table tops ? reason why i say this is that a friend of mine has recently (last september) just ringed a oak up where the main stem was near on 4ft in diameter and over 12ft long, when he showed me the photos of what he had done, i just thought WTF, i explained that if he had got it milled up in situ in to say100mm thick slabs and sold them and proceeds he would of got would of paid for it being milled and bought him a lorry load of more user friendly firewood rather than cutting 4ft rings in to six so he was able to lift em, his face said it all !!

You got to start some where and it sounds a bit like whats going on with my tractor, your engin is a V1050 so it will be same set up as my tractor and i now have to turn it off manualy now at the pump as solenoid works one way but not the other and i am sure i will end upwith same problem as you in time,,

I take it this will have a electric stop solenoid on it ? check that the wire to the solenoid is in tacked and not broken or check it with volt meter or test screw driver, in fact if you listened to it while someone else turned key you could probably hear it snap open, if not take stop solenoid out remove plastic plunger and spring and it should start but you cant stop it then ?? to stall a chipper is another question,,

Some of the auctions back in 2013-2018 had massive numbers of lots like 1-2000 and some of the items went for next to nothing, the truck in my other post came out of one of these auctions in 2017 and in this auction there was approx 200 of the DAF trucks and you could of bought just a normall cargo version (no hydraulics winch or crane on them) on a hammer price of 12,13,1400 quid, now i think thats a lot of truck for very little money,,

Witham,s are just a MOD surplus disposal site, but if you have the time and patience you can get some real bargains from them as no reserve on any thing they auction, i have bought items that have come from withams and every thing seems to of been OK, but we have to remember everything with in the MOD has to be right and you will find that when cars, vans, trucks, plant and machinery is usually serviced regardless of cost and most are over serviced, Truck below came from Withams 1993 with only 38k kilometers on it, and none of the modern day electrics on it, so happy days for me,,,

It and he is real all right , he is very well thought of in hia home town of clitheroe, i am pretty sure he is the grandson of ex TT sidecar racer Norman Burgess who i used to see a fair bit of as he lived next door but one to my uncle,,

It's a thinning job so fresh felled , it wo t be dry by a long way,,

Your weights are a bit out , 2,5 14cm M/D 35kg 4.9 20cm M/D 142kg 5,5 24cm M/D 230kg, If you are doing this by hand ie man and a chainsaw the fence posts are just not worth doing, we havent done any fence posts of that size now for near on ten year as there is just far to much time involved in it for half a days wage, just put all the smaller timber in to the chip stack far easier to handle and stack than the small short stuff,

I think some of them weights are way off , i will have a working out session and post back

Went through all this about 10/12 years ago, i really wanted a alpine but after watching one at a forestry demo day i decided against it , so it was back to the drawing board and a re think was in order, looked at medium sized 4WD tractors like ford 6610s case 784 884, made the decision and purchased a Kubota L3250, about same size as a Grey Fergi but with 4wd and 40hp, been a good machine and extracted a few tonne with it now, been reliable and its stood out in all weathers, never missed starting when needed, and i think the resale of a tractor like this applies to a far wider audience than a alpine does,

Been bloody cold all week this week, mon tues wed it never got above freezing, Thurs we had a very delightful ! degree with a chill factor of -5, today Friday it started to thaw this morning ,then a dusting of snow, then from about 3ish it went below zero again, then another dusting of snow which made for a very interesting drive home on untreated roads, just been out with dogs down lane and its done a tad more snow but its slippy under foot, my young dog has been down twice and the older one when i called em back came to me but just slid about 10ft past me looked at me as if to say FFS take me back home where its warm in front of that fire 😂😂

Have you got a fetish about injectors ? why start with a £300 - £800 job ? why not start with the cheaper option of £45 ? if its not the £45 option thats causing the problem it wont be a issue as £45 is not the end of the world but then that possible problem is eliminated, If you go the other way round injectors out and possible head off it will turn out a expensive starting point ??, from past experience with injectors on Kubota,s they have always come out with ease,,

It wont be the injectors ,its more than likely the diaphragm diesel pump that is located to the left of the injector pump, it runs off the cam shaft and a replacment is about £45, takes about 10 - 15mins to do,,

Yes McConnel, and its still got the brass badge on it as well, McConnel built hundreds of em for the FC, they where towed to site and just used in the woods for like you say pit props and there was versions with a ripping table and fence on em and used for ripping split posts down, they where developed for the big push after the end of WW11, they are still a good machine today so would of been state of the art machines back in the late 40s early 50s,,