spuddog0507

Dont know what sort of quantity your after ? but you will find that most trees from a garden will carry a quantity of metal !! it would pay in the long run to buy forest grown timber for your job, there is plenty of estates out you way that will be taking timber out on a regular basis,,

Personally i think we will see a big increase in road side checks, i think the trap is all ready set and it will be a very easy income for Borris to pay some of the money back that he paid out to all his mates in the covid epidemic, !!,,

Yes i lad i know using a unimog for arb work and running on red is on with a on going court case and its been going on now over 3 yrs, as he said it all started with some one running in the back of the Mog when it was parked roadside at a job and we where having our dinner round the back of the house we where working at, the women driving the car called the Police as she said the mog was reversing ? CCTV footage from a set of nearby traffic lights confirmed no one in Mog and had not been for 20mins, every thing snow balled from there, Greater manchester police, DVLA, Custom & excise etc so far its cost him about 30k and it aint finished yet,

Most will have it nearly all the way through thats why they got left soaking for so long, but one thing you must remember Andy is back when these sleepers where laid and like many many other things in that era is they where made to last unlike the shite we have today, cut one and then cut a piece of it and take it in your own house near the stove and just see what happens ??

From past ventures with sleepers, i can tell you that before they where laid on any rail way they where treated just like telegraph poles and that was being soaked in large vats of creosote for up to 3 years depending on timber species, and thats before they had decades of oil spilt over them from all the old steam trains, if they where cut and went in to any property the smell of oil and creosote would be present and would vastly increase as the temp rose when the stove was lit, Going back a few years when i worked in a sawmill we cut some 12ft 10"x10" larch that we delivered to a BT or Telecom depot as it would of been called in the early 80s, these lengths of larch where unloaded and dumped it do a very large covered tank of creosote for 2 years before they went to be erected for a trial of a new style telegraph pole,, if i was you Andy i would stay well clear of the reclaimed sleepers and just go and buy new oak sleepers and cut then up far safer as i can just see the old ones being a massive headache for you.

Horticulture the growing of ornimentle trees, So whats Arboriculture then ??

There is talk of a third coloured diesel possibly green for construction site work that will be taxed more than red but not as much as white,

Most definatly reading it wrong, forestry has and will all ways be exempt, as you are harvesting a growing crop, if that makes sence,

Thats where ours came from, and what you state above thats what you have to pay for buying from the UK, Do you not know any drivers either coming to the UK or coming over to France from the UK ?

Your fine dont worry about red diesel, you me and a few others on here all qualify for exemption, you have that one word on your invoices and website,

That snatch block/pulley will be fine , we use then and i think they are rated to 8 tonne, only problem i see with that is the price at 162 euros ? the ones i have bought have come off Ebay for about 20 quid each, we have about 4 of them and all seen a bit of service now, they have a grease nipple on the other side of the pin just keep it gtrased and it will be fine, if you are doing a fair bit of winch work one thing i will recomend is a self release block which saves a lot of leg work and time, i think uniforest do one but Igland definatly do, not cheap but well worth it, the one we had i made it myself many years ago as when i wanted one delivery time was something like 6 wks,

Sure is at the moment, 12 degrees and pissing down here now and 36hrs ago it was -8 and i think some one on here said about 2 wk ago they cancelled a job due to a Blackbird sat on eggs in a conifor !

We are in some very strange times at present, sub zero temps here from Saturday am till lunch time Monday, 2" snow Sunday lunch time and was still here Monday, then it started with that shitty drizzel about 11 ish and temps flew up to 11 degrees by 5pm, then i see a report of snow drops out in flower and just seen a video on FB from Robert Fuller with 2 Kesterals with one of them siting on a egg,

I subcontract to one of the UK,s major forestry co,s and i have no option but to do a daily risk assessment or if its a job we are on for a few wk we just do one for that wk and amend as needed, i,e weather conditions, ground conditions, site changes etc, when a big proportion of our work is dealing with multiple wind blown sites which is not for the faint hearted at all, a windblown site is not for a novice cutter at all, now after the storm we have had this week end how many lads have gone out there sorting storm damage out and had a near miss or even worse ? there will be some, there is a lot of things wrong in the tree industry that need addressing and may be if they got addressed and sorted out things would be safer all round, i work now n then with some arb teams and some things i see are unblievable, one of late was a guy with saw boots n saw pants on but pants rolled up to his knees and using a saw brashing a tree out,

Personally i dont see the point in that report, coconut palms and date palms i am very very unlikely to come across working in commercial forestry in the north of the UK, Been in the job 40 yrs and on the verge of retiring, But one thing i can tell you is it dont matter how many reports like that are written, We as the human race will never know every thing about how a tree reacts when under stress from either wind or in the felling process as every tree weather it be Palms , Larch, Ash, Oak etc they all react different, and not one scientific report like that will ever be 100% riight,

Well thats 15 mins of my life i wont get back,

Bloody slippery out there this morning -6 here so be careful, Just been out to get something out of truck and nearly gone on my arse, i probably looked like something off dancing on ice ? all door seals on truck frozen up so thats a wipe round with silicone spray this aft,

Its not that difficult, the 2 main requirments are 1) you need some hard standing for the delivery wagon to sweep off on to, 2) you must have means and demonstrate how you are to disspose of the off cuts (slab wood ) and all bark arisings, you cant sell the off cuts slab wood for fire wood, The licence you need is a Pytothera processing licence which will carry a number and any haulier delivering to you should ask you for it so all infected timber can be traced, Go the FC website and you will be able to find all you need, What Les has said is not right, that was a rumour that did the rounds about 5 or 6 years ago,

i had it a 427kgs on fresh felled, knocked 12% off for it drying a bit which came out at 376kgs but goes to show what i know !! that had dried out alot,,

Looks a bit like my dinning room that,, but with no women in tow i do know where every thing is thou, 😂😂

We have a Igland 4201on the back of a 40hp kubota that works very well for us, its pulled a lot of stuff out for us over the 7 yrs we have had it, it has 95mtrs of 10mm cable on it but that dont all get used very often, Its something that has only been used once in the last 18 mths but if i sell it you can bet a lump of money that we will get a job the wk after where we would need it for a wk or 2, we all so had it on the back of a tracked tractor we hired in for a wk or 2 and that worked well,

Well i will give it a go at 376kgs for the slab of Elm,

Well it seems like its there and its in the western Lake district, how it got there is yet to be confirmed ! can only off been spread there by Human activety in my book i.e debris on walking boots mountain bikes etc, but it dont look to good at the moment, there are tens of 1000.s of trees coming down across Cumbria all ready with out another disease threatening 1000, more,,

One of the sites we work on has a block of Spruce with Lodgepole planted with in the spruce and it was planted as a trial for the lodgepole to act as self thinning, the spruce have smothered the lodgepole out and are all stood there as dead poles, to me it looks like it has worked well, only lodgepole we get are shitty bent twisted multi stemed things,

FFS we are going to have no trees left at this rate, i know there is 480 hectares of infected Larch coming down in the lakes, and when i spoke to our FC guy on Thursday he mentioned about the out break in Devon and Cornwall having movement orders on Hemlock n DF, i will ring him in the morn and find out,