spuddog0507

Yes it is, and FISA introduced the chainsaw refresher course, which had to be done every 5 years, we did one 3 years ago, 5 of us on it one trainer there and it was £208 each for a 4 hr refresher course and my gripe with this is they cant be arsed to send us a certificate, just imagine how much money could be made out of doing a driver refresher course every 5 years it would be tens of millions a year, !!!!

You dont have to be a member of any organisation to fell,sell or but timber, Who said you did ?, but if you are a member of FISA you get to put on FISA registered on your invoice and them when you renew the year after you get a bill of them for a percentage of what your yearly sales where, i think its about £1,70 per tonne at the moment , the same will happen with the woodsure scheme,

That to me sounds very much like being a member of FISA, you pay them a annually fee to be a member and then they charge you a percentage of every tonne of wood or chip you sell, the woodsure scheme sounds very much the same, its just a way for the government to get a bit back, and looking at whats going on with Gas and Oil at the moment there will be a lot of stoves being fitted this summer ready for next winter as gas and oil will not come down as quick as it goes up, thats if we have any ???

Had a Collie back in the mid 80s that was a very clever dog, and i bit different as it was Grey and white, i will see if i can find a photo of it and post it for you,,,,

4 different dogs there Eggs spanning near on 20 years all very well bred, but its just unfortunate that they are all docile and stupid 😂😂

This sounds about right to me from past expieriance, a guy i do a bit of work for has a fishery and they put some up on his land a few years back, they wanted to just put them up in a line across the middle of a field, he asked them why could they not put them up along a near by fence line and he never really got a answer, so he just handed it to his land agent and the poles went along the fence line, and you should get a yearly payment for each pole but i think you should have a say in where it is to be situated, it would be worth talking to a land agent,,

Really !! after breeding and training Labs for near on 40yrs now i think you could be a bit off the mark there, you could say that about any breed of dog but its all down to how that dog was treated and trained back when it was young, and all that falls back on to its owner and that is usually the stumbling point !!, there is a young Lady not far from me who trains Labs and Spaniels for the Police, border security and the fire brigade for firearms detection, drugs, accelerants and laundered cash, her success rate with these dogs is approx 85% pass rate, her kennels are full of dogs like about 60 of them at all different stages of training and i would say 70-80% are labs so for you to say Labs are docile and stupid i think your a bit out with that quote and just take a step back and look at the owners of the Labs you have seen and i will bet i substantial amount that them owners are totally clueless when it comes to buying and training a dog ??,

Yep the job is going to be F ------d, priced a job the other day and put a extra £50 on it to compensate for fuel going up, but may be it should of been £150 ? at the rate its climbing,

That will be Andrew at Gt eccelstone garden machinery, he is only just down the road from me and i think they are just ex display saws not ex demo, i havent been in his shop for a bit now but last time i was in he was on Echo saws,

Digging foundations and drainage systems on building sites has never been agricultural or forestry but all the plant and machinery on there sites have run on red diesel for decades,,, so should they of been on white ?, Red diesel has always been stated by HMRC as not for road use, and like a lot of other government statements it only tells you half the story, The issue with the new regs on red diesel as from the 1st of April has been in the pipeline for several years now, and now they are telling us what we can and cant use red diesel for ? i cant see it working like the government want it to work (like squeezing every penny they can out of us) and i cant see how its going to be policed at all ?, the issue now is where and how to purchase red as you are going to have to prove its use to the retailer,, At present we are facing daily fuel increases here in the UK and we will do for the forseable future and i think its the same all across Europe as well ! but one thing i dont understand is the whats happening in the States with fuel as they are all so getting steep increases daily as America is full of oil ?, I know oil is a commodity and the price alters daily, so are the states just following suit due to the world price of oil on the stock markets ? or was all this increase planed by the world leaders back in October in Glasgow ??, price on red yesterday at 9AM was £1.22 a ltr but told by the time it gets on the wagon at 2PM it could be £1,25 or more as the price was changing every half hour, Tues i paid £1.61 ltr for white and this morning i paid £1.68 ltr and i dont know how true this is but was told this morning we will see another increase on Monday of possibly up to 20p ltr,

Nip it in to Walker hydraulics in Kiethley, not that far for you, or ring em and send them a photo and i am 99% sure they will sort it out for you, i have found them to be allways very helpful in the past, it just looks like a flow control valve to me as my forwarding trailer has em on and they wont of been moved for 10yrs + now,,

I got a Corvid grant off a farmer Ok it was only £100 but i had 3 mornings dealing with Corvid,s over drilled wheat 😂

Amire Kahn would be best to ask. but i dont think he comes on here 😂

Me to, and they have been mostly the younger lads from Myerscough collage who have done the CS30/31 and think it dont mater what i do now i have my ticket,, one lad i told him 3 days on the trot about gripping the front handle with his thumb, end of the 3rd day i said your stopping and we are going to talk about saw safety for 20 mins, he just laughed and said i cant stay my mum will have my tea ready,, so i just said OK then i dont need you tomorrow or the day after, i could not get it through to him that the thumb was so important and its my site your on , your in my employ, but it will be your accident but my headache sorting all the shit out afterwards,,

Its not a forestry thing at all,, its all areas of using a saw and any instructor worth his salt should be telling you thumb round that front handle as it will give you approx 50% more control over the saw in a kickback situation and that could be the difference between a saw hitting your head or not,,

You and Leslie getting your handbags out 😂

And you wrote most of it 😂 You are quoting stuff that i believe you know very little of ? there is some good lads on here who do know what they are talking about and for someone like you to keep mentioning kill, killing, kill, killing, tells us a lot about you with how you word what you write and to post that on a public forum is not a very tackful way of going about things, Now i do know that what i write below is more than likely to get your back up and your going to come back at me with something ? but we do have to face the truth now n then, Dog training, i have breed and trained working labs for 35yrs + now and been involved with training working border collies (sheep dogs ) for 50+ yrs, and yes i am from a farming back ground that goes back to the mid 1800s on one side of my family and the late 1800s on the other side, so i might just know a little about what goes on in the countryside and training working dogs and beating the living day lights out of any dog will not help or cure any problem that the dog may have, but its very clear you have had great success with your methods and you must be the only man on earth who has!!, What you quote above and in your past posts about the killing of dogs in live stock and what would happen in a court of law is very different to what you quote as you have only quoted about the killing and shooting of a said animal in live stock, just have a dig in to the full legal situation with the shooting of a dog and it is not just as straight forward as you think or quote, land ownwer,s,? tennent farmers,? who owns the shooting rights,? who shot the animal ? was there a suitable back stop for the bullet if you missed ? have you evidence of trying to get the dog under control,? was the owner present,? was there a public right of way across the land,? did you have something to tether the dog with on your person,? the shooting of a dog is a very very grey area today as once up on a time it was quite straight forward, all these points above will come in to play in a court of law, the photo below is the only proof i have and i wont say to much about it or who was involved but it lead to a court case and some hefty fines for the land owner who farmed the land and hence he now no longer has his shotguns and firearms, the situation was 2 large dogs of a pointer style where having a bit of fun with some sheep, the dog owner was on his way across the field unseen by the landowner who shot the dog about 100yds in front of its owner, the said owners wife was some distance away but as some one said above nearly every one has a mobile phone today and she filmed the whole incident, so when it all came to court the video was played and there was several practices missing that should of been carried out but wern,t, and as the saying goes what cant speak cant lie, hence the landowner paid the price, Now i do agree with some of what you say, and given my back ground i am all for the shooting of a dog that is clearly worrying livestock i wont say if i have or havent done the deed but i have several family members who have but all on the QT, being tackful about things generally pays off but given the society we live in today as soon as a gun or shooting is mentioned to the local constabulary they will be there in swarms but mention you have just had your car stolen or you house emptied the reply will be we will have a officer with you as soon as we can and that could be from hours to days, Photo is of a prize winning pedigree Texel ewe carrying 3 lambs so what would the lost value be ? who knows and we will never know as the said lambs could of gone on to be prize winning champion Rams that could of been worth tens of 1000s of pounds,

Got this smart arse at the moment, she just sits there and freezes and then waits for the cattle or lambs to come to her, she is very laid back until shoot days, she just sits and waits sometimes for up to an hour or so and waits till there close enough and just licks the snot of the cattles nose, this has become a popular thing during the summer months when there is some young stock in the field next to the yard,

Going in the kitchen now to beat the living day lights out out my dogs as they havent washed up yet,, so that will sort them out and all will be good for the future 😂 😂

Oh be careful there Gary with that dog being so close, as all them Ewes will abort and then drop dead with a heart attack 😂 FFS what a load of shit people talk, by the law of averages there should be no sheep left in the UK by now and i for one must be responsible for the death of 1000s of sheep as my dogs are with me where ever we are working and 99% of the time we are up in them there hills working amongst different livestock all the time,

Should we be using quick release trigger cuts in windblown ? i was taught many years ago by a elderly chap who had worked in forestry all of his working except for what should of been his first 3 working years, but he was posted to North Africa with Montgomery, he taught me and drummed it in to me that only slow release cuts in windblown, as it gives you a chance to see what the tree/root plate is doing, the cuts he taught me i never knew the name of them (thats if they had one at that time) since then i have had to do a windblown certificate and learnt that the cuts used where exactly the same as i was shown 25 years prior but where called a V cut for timber say up to 15" and a J cut for the bigger stuff, step cuts work ok but can cause problems and again can just pop with the tension loaded in the stem, As Spruce pirate said above 2 heads in windblown are better that one, i dont know what any one else clears in a day on windblown but we try to work on any where between 15-25 trees a day each but every site is different and on some we might get 10 each done and the next site might be some smaller stuff and get about 30-35 done each,

This is not to far from me and i read about it last wk in the local rag, its a very popular walk and walking area all round there, I believe the people involved was on the public right of way but had the 2 yappy dogs with them which will not help the situation, We have possibly met the 2 people involved a few years ago when we was repairing some walls, they came across from a public footpath to see what we was doing with the dogs niether on a lead at this time and ewes with lambs in the same field, the 2 dogs in question never shut up yapping and making a beline for my hands when i went to pick a piece of stone up, i said should they not be on a lead, she said they wont touch any thing 5 mins later these dogs where chasing the sheep n lambs, i think what has gone on is a load of bull and no way should that farmer be held resposible for whats gone on ? or is this just another part of the governments plan to get rid of another farmer !!!

What size of bar will a pole saw take ?

Use a roller by all means, creocote is the shit one you can by in the likes of Wickes or B&Q dont bother with that use proper creosote and mix with used oil and if your timber is dry when you do it it will really soak in a dry quite quickly 2-3 coats and it will last a fair few years before it needs doing again,

When i read the thread title i thought it was a new STD that had been discovered 😂 😂