spuddog0507
-
Posts
2,381 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
6
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by spuddog0507
-
One of them lines women was very smart as well,,
-
Well Bugger me backwards we have actually won a game of football with out it going down to penalty,s, Well done to all and very enjoyable to watch, i think the blokes have something to prove now ???
-
It's not going any where and I have a ongoing project for it to go in,
-
Sorry but we have to come to terms,, that the country can't manage with out them sort of people ?? There is a lot of people out there in all fields of work that get paid good money to do a job they can't Do ,,,
-
i have my eye on a v2003 thats sat in the corner of a warehouse and has been for 12/15 yrs now, all shrink wrapped down to pallet as it was delivered from Kubota and its £1800, cheep yes,
-
Sounds about right that one, some lads i work with now n then you would think they had been cutting stone flags with there saws,
-
Well thats a bit more like it, had dealings with SEPA in the past and TBH they where not that bad to deal with unlike our EA south of the boarder who seem to be a waste of time and thats if you can get hold of any one who knows what there doing ?
-
If i got a offer of £200 for 3 logs like them, i would rip there hand off and have them loaded and delivered, before they had a chance to change there mind, they are not good or nice logs at all, if they was on a job of ours they would be stacked in the firewood stack, £200 is very very good money for them !!
-
Has it done a lot of hrs ? and the guy i know is just north of Edinburgh, a rebuild kit dont cost much but the labour sometimes makes it a expensive way of doing compared to buying a new engine, Last time i enquired about a new V1505 none turbo the engine was about £2300 + vat,,
-
Andy as most of us know, everything has a sale value !!
-
TBH i think the word ,FREE in cases like this is a little bit cheeky, The offer of a brew and a few chocolate biscuits goes a long way and to drop the lads 20 or 30 quid will go even further and a few added beers even further, Given the present times and as some lads in the industry now start to feel the pinch and the demand for firewood gets greater, it simply gets dropped off at the place where the exchange is fair for both sides,,
-
Cadburys picknik, but the chocolate has melted off it 😂
-
Hi first thing did you apply the linseed neat ?, i have all ways under stood with linseed it needs to be thinned down 50/50 with white spirit for it to really get in to the timber, i did 2 walking stick stands before Christmas one i did with linseed oil and the other with Danish oil both oils applied at same rate but the Danish oil made for a better finish,,
-
Did they fall down ? or where they knocked down ? to make way for more modern crap to be built on the same footprint ? I worked with a guy one winter stripping 12 old mill houses out up east lancs all these houses had a front and rear garden and then another chunk of land as a veg plot beyond a rear access rd, as these houses came up for sale he bought them one by one with the idea in mind that he could demolish them all and build more houses on the same site, today 28 3 bed semis now stand there, I think you will find money and greed plays a big part,
-
Most of the big timber harvesting company's these days won't put hand cutters in to large windblown blocks due to the very high risk involved, they nearly all state machine harvesting of windblown these days ,and there is only so many machines so yes there will be a back log, when I so it on the news back in October I thought by the time they get that all sorted out most of it would be only chip wood, Hand cutting in windblown is graft and it's one of them if something goes wrong, it can go wrong badly with serious results, we used to do a fair bit fir Tilhill but nit that much after storm Arwen and they have 100s if acers to sort out but they just wait fir machines now, Not a lot if lads today with windblown tickets and the experience to do it either so that increases the risk factor dramatically in my book as cutting windblown is not for the faint hearted,
-
It looks like Butch and Sundance did that job, as its a right cowboy job, you could not write it could you,,
-
At times, we do need to improvise, and nowt wrong with it all, still got same plastic fork in truck and been using it 5yrs plus,
-
Had a another pair of hands today helping out on a replacement forestry boundary fence, he was asked to bring a cup as we would have a stove and kettle on site he turned up with what he said was his best work cup a cut off Ribeana bottle,
-
What now?? Hung tree didn't come all the way down... !!
spuddog0507 replied to Bosty Dave's topic in General chat
Well said that man, your 100% right with what you say knowledge and the right kit in this situation speaks volumes, its knowing which or what cut to place where and where you put a strap/chain and how you set that up for a roll out, this is the sort of job we deal with quite often and it can be dangerous at the best of times, and as some one else has said get some one who knows what they are doing, -
You say doing 16 mortice & tenons was tedious,, can you imagine milling, then measuring & marking out and then morticing approx 8500 6,5ft 6x3 larch posts all with 6 mortices in them, i was doing this in 79/80 ish, we was doing this order from August 79 till christmas 80 on and off, all posts where erected along the full length of the M55 from Preston to Blackpool, Ok i did it with a chain morticer but it got a little bit boring day after day,
-
I think it will still creep up from now but they will hold back on it till christmas is out the way, Things are changing now with the way people use there cars, lad near me said when he went to work on sunday morn 7,30am he said 9 mile on the A6 to Lancaster and only so 2 other cars,
-
Mature Larch beyond help??
spuddog0507 replied to D.e.hill's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
It looks like Phytophthora to me, it usually starts showing signs at the top of the tree first, is there any signs of a dried up black liquid that has stained the bark in any areas on the bark ? usually near where the branches come off the main stem ? -
Jining Vote diggers and forklifts - any good?
spuddog0507 replied to Squaredy's topic in Large equipment
Sorry it's Bonser forklifts that where David brown, sanderson where about the same but yes Ford based, so I can't see a problem for acquiring parts for it, -
Jining Vote diggers and forklifts - any good?
spuddog0507 replied to Squaredy's topic in Large equipment
Please correct me if i am wrong but is your sanderson not based on a David brown 990, if so getting a half shaft wont be a problem at all, -
Yes same here Mick , DLT on breakfast show ,Simon Bates our tune , Gary Davis , then Steve Wright, then Bruno brooks for the drive home or some nights it was Jannice long who came on at 7pm, this would be circa about 83/84 ish,
