spuddog0507

I was about a year before you and paid 22.5k put 3k down which i had been saving since i was 14 chopping and selling kindling, but we have to remember what the interest rates where back then, i think 14% rings a bell not the 1.25 or 1.5% like there is today,

I dont know as i am not in that situation, but people do it, your £550 is what 1 wks wage so what do people do with the other 3 wks wage ?? i think it all boils down to how much you want it as if you do really want it its up to the individual to make it happen, there is ways and means of doing it,

Very much agree with that, i have been with one today on a shoot, been of work since Wed but made a very fast recovery when he got out of bed this morning, He has been out all day today and he was saying he might go back to work on monday but if i have 5 days off i 70% of my full pay, This guy boils my piss and many others,

That has been the norm for many years now, when i first took a property on back in the mid 80s it was 1 and a half wks wages for the mortgage payment, Back then a mortgage was based on 3 times your annual income, at that time there was no where near the same amount of rental property as there is today, but due to some people having the balls to take on buy to let mortgages and then having the forsight to get another then another and that then puts them in a very good buying position of just being able to buy one property after another, My argument has all ways been the same WHY pay rent and line some one elses pocket when for not much more outlay every month you can pay a mortgage and own the property yourself one day ??, i have never understood that one, I know people who are paying more in rent than they would be on a mortgage and lets face it with interest rates at a all time low its never been a better time to buy a property but then again most of the younger people cant get a mortgage but then again all the bloody houses they are building around me are sold before the paint has dried,

£15 hr is a fair rate for some but not for others, as Big J says some people need to stay away from a work site as they will never fit in, i have 1 guy who works with us and he does work, he can fell tree after tree all day but cant use a tape measure so some logs end up under size and that costs, if he is just on 2,5 mtr firewood its ok but not on saw logs, another guy i pay him well as i dont need to watch him or check anything its all done right, Back in the yard i pay lads £10 a IBC cage for splitting firewood one lad will do 2 + cages an hour and the other lad ( if he turns up ) when he gets there he just wants to arse about on his phone and struggles to do one an hour, he then complains that he has worked hard and he only got £40 for the day !! and the other lad gets £140, should i subsidise him the other £100 ? and me loose out NO he will just have to learn that in life you sometimes have to put some effort in to get the reward !! Some people will never understand how things work with in business, and the older i get the more i think some of the younger lads are just not worth entertaining,

Bit like that up here at the moment, heavy torrential rain monday morning then came out in the aft, got caught in one shower and that was it totally piss wet through, my 2 Labs cleared off and where sheltering under the back of the truck when i got back to it, Not as heavy today but been at it all day, spent 3hrs in a Beech n Oak woodland at probably the worst part of the day and i dont hold much hope for my coat being dried out for morning,,

Its a Premier inn on the A1 at the halfway point, but only for an hour or so 😂😂

To many buttons and switches in that cab for you 😂😂😂

ah thats nice ❤️ i feel a table for two is on the cards here, 🍸 ❤️ 🍸

You must of moved across the pond have you!! let us know what them chainsaw flip flops are like to wear 😂😂😂

But chuck a drum of cherry in the back just in case, the bigger customers seem to be getting the fuel delivery,s before the smaller garages, M&S about half a mile from me had nothing at dinner time had a delivery this aft but only unleaded and max £20 qued out on to main rd at five ish when i past,

Local garage was supposed to get a diesel delivery at 8,30 am today but it had been cancelled at 4am this morning, lad who has garage had put his cones out so tanker could get in but come 10am and still not there he rang suppliers and was told he was sent a email at 4am informing him of his delivery being cancelled

Some i know did that yesterday J, just do it, our Government have and never had any foresight, its not as if we are short of fuel/goods its Drivers and that goes back to Tony Tosspot.s time as prime minister, so another massive Labour cock up thats going to cost Millions to resolve !!

Yep thats where i am going now got 6 25ltr drums sorted and 11000 ltrs cherry in ag contractors yard next door, F - - k em

Went for some diesel this morning as should be going to my mums birthday do, went to 4 garages, 2 shut, one with only V power unleaded and one with only unleaded but max £10, 1/4 tank of diesel in my Shogun so 2 trips to work and then if no diesel on pumps it leaves me only one option !!!

I bet he says he has a big Lawn !!!

Go and try and move the one on your log trailer and i bet you cant move it ? would the rotator off the trailer go on the digger ? should do just for a trial and pipe it the same, if that moves like the original its something further back or piped up wrong way ? if the one off the trailer dont move piped the same as original one, its something inside the original one rotator, You know Tom Dixon at Rimmington he will have a bit of expierance with rotators might be worth a visit or a phone call, There is not much effort being put in to rotate that grab and that is not right at all,

Thats not right, you should not be able to move that like that ?? when you grab a log with it does it hold it tight till you open grab ? i would say you have 2 pipes that are wrong way round ? even on my shit grab on trailer behind Kubota i could not spin the rotator even when using the leverage of a 8ft log in the grab, i take it the grab is new ? from a older post you was asking and seemed to be struggling with a 6 way diverter that you was fitting i tend to think you have something the wrong way round or there is a solinoid that is not functioning correct, i would start with a pressure test on the pipes to the grab n rotator all shoud be reading the same 2200psi + when opperated,,

We are not that bad on here you know, with the given climate with items being stolen and you not wanting to say much about it can only lead to people being wary ? I read your post and looked at the poor quality photos and to be honest first thing i thought was this sounds like a item being stolen to order !! but you have now shed some light on it and you have recieved one or two answers, i dont think that there are that many of them trailers in the Uk and if there is more than ten i would be supprised, they where expensive but not much use really due to what they are limited to lift and move, OK if you are just moving small timber what the crane can lift but after that its back to a good old work out, Cutting n carrying,, the concept is good but just not big enough,, crane might be worth 12-1500 quid and trailer 1500 quid ish but together may be a bit more i would say if you got between 4 & 5 k for it you have done well,

Your not wrong there, its raised caution with me from reading the the post and the quality of the photos they look like there zoomed in from a distance ? He dont want to give much away ? but if he paid 1k for it and he gets 2k back thats not a bad return on his money, It does sound a bit dodgy to me,,

I will hold my hand up and stand corrected, i was given a 400 for 2 days in march to use, and lad who let me use it just said it was 65cc and that is about all i know about them, apart from feeling very nice to use,,,

65cc Stubby and a really nice well balanced saw, good throttle responce seems to have plenty of power and feels well balanced with a 20" bar on it,

Yes i all ways have at least 3 saws with me a 261, 461 and a battered up well used 260 that just wont die, its been thrashed day in day out when i first got it 2009, it was my main saw on first thinings and infected Larch i would be very supprised if it has had over a £100 spent on it over the years, besides drive sprockets, bars, chains and a couple of plugs its been bomb proof, Looked at the Echo,s a few year back and the 501 felt ok, but i was put off by the slightly more weight and a tad less power than the 261 and when i asked the dealer about parts availabilaty he seemed very unsure ?? so that just put me off Echos all together, i do believe they are quite good saws, but i need to get rid of some saws and not buy any more,

Approach the local forestry /forestry maitainance lads first plenty of that around you and is you could get 2/3 days a wk you will learn plenty in a short space of time,,,

Location may Help ? as people are crying out for staff at present