spuddog0507

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,

Lodgepole makes quite good firewood once dried out, it gives a good heat out, we get a fair bit of it and the only problem with it is if left outside in the length it soon starts to rot but should be ok for a year or so,

The 400 is quite a decent saw, i had a day on one back in March and for the time i used it i thought very highly of it, light, well balanced, good throttle response and seemed to have plenty of power with it, the one i used had 20" bar and we was cutting some 24" + Sycamore with it and it seemed well up to the job,

I dont think so ? as i spent some time on Thursday with one of the main FC guys for that area and this disease was disgust and i am sure if it had been found in Cumbria he would of said so as the more people that know about it in a area the better the chances of it being found are ? Can you say when it was found in Cumbria ? as it could of been found on Friday ? The FC have been out looking for it in Wales but nothing found as yet, Something else thats come from the big Green house again ! when we have no trees left we might learn, ??

Hi i dont know how far north of the border you are ? but if you where in the bottom half of Scottland i could put you in touch with 1 or 2 people in the area that you could make enquires with regarding work, Saws, PPE, foot wear and other equipment is one of them situations that you get what you pay for and my take on that is buy the best you can at the time as it will pay in the long run for you, saws to start with i would be looking for a saw around the 45-50cc and my take on that is do a bit of reserch in to your local dealers, talk to other lads and get there opinions on what saw is best suited for your needs, for me every thing is Stihl and purchased from a local dealer, 3 reasons for that 1) support for my local dealer. 2) if i have a problem with a saw it generlly gets sorted out with in 24hrs, 3) i chose Stihl due to the spare parts back up in the UK unlike some other brands, i have always found the Stihl 260 and later the 261 to be ok, just sold a 260 that has stood idle for 2 + yrs and tipped the old fuel out of it and refueled it fired up 5th pull,, Boots i have always found Meindl wood walkers about the best but not sure if they are still available ? Pants dont bother with the cheap ones as they are a worth buying, unconfortable to wear and even worse when they get wet, I am sure some others will add to this list with advise on both work and equipment,,,

I can really see that or something like it being a very good venture at the moment and even better with either a winch or a crane or event both,

Totally agree with that one ,,, Once over we had Empires run by Emperors, Then came Kingdoms run by Kings, Today we have Countries !!!!!!!!

There are less cattle beef/dairy in the UK today than there was in 1965 and it is just not a few its something like 1,5 million less, compare this with the amount of cars/trucks on our roads and thats something like 55 times more today and as for commercial flights compared to the same time 4000 in 1965 and 30 million today, We dont have to be Educated at Oxford or Cambridge to work that one out, ???