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Spruce £90-£95 tonne R/S Larch £105-£120 tonne R/S if you can find any ? Oak i am hearing a lot of different prices but for good quality clean straight stems 5 - 7.5 mtr for beams where at about £375 tonne several wk ago, smaller diameter logs and lengths where much less tho at about £150 tonne R/S. as for standing spruce prices well only addvise i can give you is start as low as you dare as you can only go up and you cant come down once you have said a price, a lot of it depends on the ground, conditions put in place, one job i am working on getting later on this year has some of the best spruce in it that i have seen for some time but the site has plenty of issues for the big machines Its a nature reserve its next to a water catchment stream for a near by Res Only a narrow access and a long haul back to a stacking area all this adds up for me to go in as low as possible and i am 95% sure i will get it but it will be for approx £10-£15 tonne standing,

The Morris oil you bought Mike I would think would be fine as Morris oils are regarded by some as a very good lubricant company that do a very wide range of oils and specialist lubricants and there British company as well,

The Super sexy from northernarb is fine or it was ? i bought 6 25ltr drums about 2yr ago and down to the last one now i dont know if its changed in quality but it will of gone up in price of late, i think i paid about £30 + VAT per drum, The best oil IMO out there is the Exol heavy chain oil, its not the cheapest but it is gooey and sticky as, lasts well as compared to others, one lad who works with us bought some stihl oil and it was like hydraulic oil thin as P - - s i dont think he was impressed with it,,

Just read that tonight about the High court order at the shell garage just down road from me its stuck on the door at eye level so you cant miss it , it reads like they was expecting something from the British public but it all so allows them to put fuel up to what ever they want !!

Then on the other side, i dont mind doing a odd day or two, as you say, in the cold wet snow if it allows me to be on holiday from May till October spending my time doing a bit of fishing, shooting and dog training or in other words doing what i want to do,,

Worked in forestry a few years now and managed with a estate car for many years, then I got offered a cheap L200 pick up, this made a big difference to where we could go and the time and effort it saved carrying stuff was unreal, there has been days during the winter that we have gone working and got up hills on to sites when the forest roads have had several inches of snow on them and we got there in a 4x4 but a 2wd estate or van we would of been going home and not working, I now would not go back to the estate car or 2wd and its as the saying goes , action speaks louder than words, I once asked a old farmer on his views on 2wd tractors v 4wd tractors and is answer was , one of them your going the other you not,,, very true that,

When i was making some walking sticks during last winter some Hazel and Ash sticks that i have had a few years just would not straighten out no matter how hard i tried and its not like there massive as there not at 30-35mm but they would just not have it unlike some other sticks that i have had for 10-12mth which straighten nicely with not much steaming and very little effort, so i will have to agree with Squaredy on this subject after experiencing it first hand myself,,

another one being a twat 😂😂

Your lucky it was just you, if we was on a felling site and one of my lads tested positive it would be all of us off site immediately, until further notice pending a investigation,

Total agree with FAC getting harder to get now but it will only get even harder in the future, go for it now as you have nothing to loose, I recently was going to take some scrap in and was asked to bring either a photo driving licence or valid passport of which i have neither, but i did say i had a SGC with photo id on it, answer was we cant accept that ??? my answer was any dick head can get a driving licence or pass port but not every one will get a SGC or FAC,,,

My grand parents had a Collie call Murk and one called Rain along with many others,

Yes that Collie was a smart dog in more ways than one, its mother was a good working dog on a hill farm up east Lancs where i worked now n then, when i went to the mother in laws the collie would be going round n round in the back of the van as the mother in law had a fair lot of chickens n ducks and smoke would be up n down the field with them all day,

One I said I would post a bit back for Gary112, sorry for quality of photos as they are photos of photos, Grey and white border collie that we had called Smoke, First photo circa 1985 about 14wk old on the banks of Loch Awe, Second photo curca 1987, Smoke aged about 2 ish and the first Lab I had called Dusk about 9mth old at the time taken on a bright but cold morning on Derwentwater Keswick.

A 3" nail works wounders and its cheap as,

The last Lancaster to come home from the Rhur dams raid on this morning of May 17th 1943 was piloted by Flt Sgt Bill Townsend, Here he is nearly on the ground with the sun coming up behind him as he fly,s his Lancaster over the Dutch coast at 60ft to avoid flack and anti aircraft fire on his way out to the North sea heading home to RAF Scampton, these men deserve the highest of respect in book for what they did,

I thought it looked a bit pissed, but did think it was me, as its been a long day with loads of problems and headaches 😂

Sorry the 80th aniversary of the dams raid is next year, its the 79th this year,,,

Its been all over the UK this wk end to mark the end of WW11 and it will all so be the 80yr aniversary of the Dams raid tomorrow night 16th/17th may

Any thing containing Chris Packham or should we say kwis !!

Sorry to hear this, i went through it about 6mth ago, had a good innings thou at 15yr 5mth

Lads in building next to me have one and there making steel framed buildings, load all buckets and all agri repairs etc, but there,s wont be 480 quids worth tho, more like 3/4k as they are cutting every day with it, seen them cutting 40mm plate with it a few wk back and made a very tidy job in quick time,, i would think the machine you quote above will do owt you want to do, you all so need a compressor as well which i will suspect you all ready have,,

I dont even think all the photos are taken at the same place ? or same time ? personally i would not be sending any money with out seeing it and fetching it away with me, as said before there is nothing in the back ground in the photos , this all ways makes me very wary of adds like this,, many years ago i went to some deserted farm buildings and i am near on 100% sure every thing stored there was dodgy,,,,, Look else where for one,

But you probably share yours 😂

I seen one working about 4 yrs ago and i thought exactly the same, when i thought about it i did look at them and a few others, havent got one yet as my timber job has not come off yet,

one or two points i dont really agree with here, how many saws do Echo sell ? and how many saws do Stihl sell ? i think the sale numbers will be miles apart with Stihl selling a lot more than Echo so there are bound to be more problems posted about Stihl, the quote you make about Stihl dealers not helping with warranty ? simple reason for that is some one askes there local dealer for a price on a saw and its £30 more than buying it on line from a shop 200mile away, they buy on line and them take to local dealer to get fixed under warranty, Ok dealer has to fix it but it dont say when in the warranty, if i was a Stihl dealer and this happened the said saw would just be put on the list and have to wait its turn,, One thing i have lern,t over the years is dont piss your local dealer off, i but saws from 2 local shops and the saw goes back to the one it was bought from and the service has all wats been very good, like drop it in on way home and ready to collect day after at dinner, As for mtronic and the injection system giving problems and being junk, it sounds like you been reeding on the Stihl fans page on face ache ? had several mtronic saws and only ever had a problem with one and that was a very early Ms241 with mtronic, it was all sorted in a short space of time and only ever gave one more problem after that and that was a fuel solenoid but when saw was collected i was given the print out from dealer and the saw had done 460 odd hrs, so given that 460 hrs on a small saw in commercial forestry work with only 2 problems over 4 yrs i dont think is to bad really, The 500i well i know lads who work them saws 5/6 days a wk putting 7/8 ltrs of fuel a day through them and i only know of one that had a problem but i and others just think the problem was down to the bellend owner who has a awful habit of not concentrating on what he is doing and the times we have seen him fueling up and putting chain oil in both tanks, says it all i think,,