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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,
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I think some of them weights are way off , i will have a working out session and post back
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Alpine tractor and trailer crane
spuddog0507 replied to Will Cobb's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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,
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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 😂😂
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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,,
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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,,
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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,,
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Dont own a petrol crosscut saw but i have owned this old girl for about 15yrs , it probably wont pass any HSE inspection, but is solidly built, reliable, economicial and it does its job very well, will cut 12" with ease and i cant make it use a gallon of diesel in a day, Engine on the bench is a Petter 10hp twin cylinder that starts first swing every time, according to engine number and Petter,s records the engine was made in April 1953 and still doing a days work, they certainly dont make em like that any more,,
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What do you call the right money per tonne ?
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Mini timber trailer fir using with 2.6t digger
spuddog0507 replied to Rwhiteheadfirewood's topic in General chat
Might be for sale after christmas ? but might be a bit big for a small digger how big is the digger ?
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Dont think i could afford to run my saws on aspen at £18 a gallon, it would cost me above a £100 a week in fuel for a saw on a busy week,, It dont cast me that to run a 3,2ltr shogun, since the E10 came out i have only bought the super unleaded fuel like Shell V power, had no issues what so ever but i have noticed one or 2 little differences, 1) the saws seem to run a bit sweeter than they did when i ran them on just standard unleaded, 2) We seem to get a bit more run time out of a tank of V power as compared to the older standard unleaded, OK it may only be a couple of minuets extra run time per tank but over the day/week/month it adds up slowly but surely, Ok the fuel is a little dearer to start with, but working it all back it does save a few quid in the long run,,,
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You meen the pump is running directly of the crankshaft which your fan belt pully is fitted to, was it lifting fine before with plenty of lifting power ? then suddenly went to nothing ? first thing first is there oil in the resaviour ? when was the filter last changed ? is the pump shaft still rotating when engine running ? if all above all OK , get in there with a spanner or 2 Your not going to repair it with out doing something, get pump off and connector check connector, check pump shaft is rotating but not to freely, there should be some resistance,, personally i dont think a new connector and pump would break the bank for that, whitehouse products would be well worth a call for new pump,
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Well i totally agree with this, i have someone who comes now n then and will do a days work in exchange for a 5x3 trailer load of logs, he aint got either the cash or the space at home to do it, so he comes to my yard on a sat with his butty box n flask and just plods away for the day, and another lad who comes with us just for the experience of being there working on a timber extraction site and he works with a local domestic tree surgeon, he wont take cash or beers off me he just says he should be paying me, this young lad just wants the experience on a saw which he aint getting at work,
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Andy not every thing in life is all about money, some of us really do enjoy what we do and i am one of them even now i still enjoy a few days on the saw, extracting timber with my little Kubota or cutting and splitting firewood in the building, i would think some people who have been doing the job 40plus years would be fed up with it but i still really enjoy it,,
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Yes there is a fair amount that keeps coming to the surface, if we get a few dry summers and then really wet winters it seems to appear, I been on a shoot today that is just on the edge of what we call the moss land, very peaty soil, this is where the bog oak rises up to the surface, the last field I was on today is just stating to flood up and if it keeps raining there will be about 2000 acres under water till march/April and today its been very hard walking today it's only just started to flood up, photo below is just a example i reckon in next 5/6 wk that fence will probably go under water, the said field has not been worked for 45 yrs as we know but next spring/summer it's due to be reseeded and leaveled up, could be interesting ??
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There is a lot that keeps appearing on the Fylde and down around Southport has done for many many years and will do so for many more to come,,
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Are Lantra and City and Guilds interchangeable?
spuddog0507 replied to William Clifford's topic in Training & education
Its not that long since some organisations would not accept Lantra certificates, the FC was one but i now believe they do, one company we sub contract to would not accept Lantra and i think they still dont but i am not 100% sure on that one, Our local council who we do a bit of work for now n then didnt accept lantra but now they do, i think the only Lantra course i have done was for a sit a stride ATV (Quad Bike) please correct me if i am wrong i am sure it was a lantra course and i got a lantra certificate and a NPTC certificate for the same course ?? -
Depending on how hungry you are to make it as a climber, if you don,t mind doing sat and sun and putting a bit of effort in on your own behalf, find yourself a farmer/land owner with some woodland and explain your self clearly at what you want to do, explain that you just want to climb the trees and you wont damage any so NO spikes, i have put young lads from Myerscough collage on to landowners for this very purpose and it seems to of worked fine, if you find some where take some one with you DONT go alone, pick yourself a tree and climb it a few times and may be get your mate to time you i am sure you will get faster as you cant beat hands on experiance for getting up to speed, i hope this is of help and good luck,,
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From what i have herd 2 & 6 for you 8 till 5, I am still on 2 bob a day 😂😂
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I just cant see how you would expect to get a straight answer on this subject, its a bit like going round every one in the pub on a Friday night and asking them how much they get paid, some would be daft enough to tell you, but most would just tell you f, ,k off, every one thinks different and every business runs different so as others have said work your costs out + a profit + a bit more incase you have a cock up, so really there is no answer to your question and the only person who can answer your question is yourself ,,,
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Stubby just put a bit of Cassy R in to any fuel, you dont need much about 2 tea spoon full per gallon, and as you know it smells fantastic, bit like going to a vintage bike sprint or a race meeting, i have put it in all sorts from 50cc Fizzy,s to 750 triumphs 😂
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2 here had a hard wet day today, only 3 of use picking up today and l probably picked 50 60 birds today out of a bag of 223
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Hi and welcome, most lads i work with in a forestry enviroment run a 261 along side either a 462 or a 500i, i run a 261 with a 461, the 261 is a very well balanced saw and very manoverable when snedding out, its lively and has plenty of power, mine wont get as much hammer as some do and its been faultless,,,
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yes your right only need cross cutting ticket and no felling ticket needed, it don,t say anything about the size of tree you deal with on this course ? ,Some things in life i just cant see the cense in and this is one of them, i can only see this going one way and thats the wrong way !!
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Single windblown ticket still available new code of 003937 and interwoven stems and part blown trees is now 003935,
