spuddog0507

FFS some one get this guy a coconut or he might be happier with a goldfish,, mind you he might moan about that as well, Our working days are full of shitty snied comments aimed at each other, there is no offence in any of it but it just makes for a better working day in my eyes, Over the years i have worked with all age groups of people and by far the better ones to work with where the older guys who had worked on building sites and road building as there was never a dull moment in the day working with these guys, some of todays younger generation just seem so boring and make a day feel like a week,

You have got a good deal there, and here,s me struggling to find anything at the moment, Bio mass has F - - - - d it up round us as Jenkinsons and stobarts seem to be just buying it all up before its felled, even the small parcells so its become hard off late to source out, Rough keeps asking for Larch and DF but nothing to sell him, your deal is sweet so look after it and this time next Rodney we will be ,,,,,,

I reckon your nipping round the back of the log stack with who ever your getting that off 😂😂 Good price that so fill your yard,,,

All timber has been at all time high of late but it has started to drop a little lately for the very same reason your asking and now most mills are near full capacity, there has been a few people i know of who have jumped on the band wagon with timber this last 18 mth, some have been lucky and got there felling licence granted back when timber prices where on the rise to say £75-80 tonne but time they got the timber to roadside it was at £110 tonne, so i think you may of mist the boat this time but it may drop say £25-30 a tonne and hold steady for another 6 monthes or so like it did in 2012/2013,, timber needs to cut to the correct lenghs and in the right stack at roadside, O/S, 4.9 3.7 3.1 mtr saw logs 2.5 pallet wood 2.2 strainer,s 1.9 bars and then chip/firewood, But felling lience first or you will be getting a visit from the FC,

I know how you feel on that one, i am on 5 tanks now, I went and looked at a infected Larch job about 6 wk ago on some very steep banks, My initial thoughts where there is some cracking timber in here and then looking round and uphill i thought F - - K this its going to be very hard work in here with loads of winch work, later in the day i was talking to the keeper and he said there had been about 5 contractors looked at it and all walked away, I dont know if Bally was one of them but i will find out in the near future,,

I haven,t been in the shop for about 18mth and on the odd visit Dick would of been on the counter and i used to ask him what he was doing behind there as i thought you would be at home counting all your money again, he just used to say well that dont take me so long ,,

There is that on the Standing estate that was supposed to be about 800 houses, seen them in front of the shop and at first i thought Dick was having them built but nowt to do with him, its happening every where our doctors that was built in mid 90s was forcast to be good till 2055 but its maxed out now, Just heard of a proposed deveolpment that starts at Hampson green (junction where you come off the M6 for the uni at lancaster) and it goes all the way to the other M6 junction where the river Lune is it consists of 9185 houses a shopping presinct, doctors, dentist, social club , pubs ,resteraunts, gyme, and 2 schools etc, god knows where all the top water is going to go as there is only one small river the Conder and that floods the village of Galgate quit often, then where is the water supply to come from e as i dont know of any new ress,s being built, its getting to the stage where something is going to give and it will end up as another massive recession ?

Ye they have gone mad this last 18mth, got a property at Slaidburn thats going to be on the market shortly and had a call last wk from a estate agent begging for it to be put up for sale, as it was valued 10mth ago and now there saying at least 20% more that the original valuation, not bad that ,,

I believe she has gone back Manchester way now ? so we could be safe once more 😂😂

Parkers arms at newton and then we went to the Higher buck and Lower buck at Waddington, if you are refaring to the Moorcock on the side of waddy fell it would of been shut or about shut at that time,

Worked for quit a few over the years in and around the fylde (Blaclpool lytham ) First one was Les Dawson and i dont need to say much about what he was like to work for, he just made a joke out of any thing we did or said, top bloke, second was Little Mo out of the Rolly pollys who was good friends with Les Dawson and again a total sream to work for , third was Sid Little again a good bloke to work for, all these 3 came from being recomended by Les Dawson, Forth was Brian London who has sadly just past away, Brian was a heavey weight boxer back in the 60s and vey interesting bloke, he used to bring us a bacon butty and a brew out every morning about 10,15am and sit with us telling us about some of the fights he had with some big names over his career, We did a a landscaping job in the early 80s for a developer that was a bit of a rush job but unknown to us this was to be the set for the chanel 4 soap Brookside, Then later on in the late 90s early 2000s we used to go in to a pub on a sat aft after shooting and some one moved in to the village and on a sat aft about 5 ish she would come in and hers was the only voice we could hear, so it was sup up n fook off for us and move on and that was her who played Jannic Battersby in Coronation street, very loud,,

Cant think of when i last got one either ? i will have to have a word with that tight bastard that employs me 😂😂

Your not earning enough,😂 i would be asking for a pay rise if i was you 😂🤣😂

Nice boards, nice bured Oak of that size 5,5mtr x 1 mtr i would think you could sell for the same price ? others may say different ? I think you and me are in a simulare situation at present, i am dealing with a late elderly relatives estate at the moment and i have a house full of old brown furniture that will be from the late 1800s early 1900s and its worth next to nothing, Why because its not fashionable at the moment and prices have fallen by 80% in last 10yrs so thats tough shit for use, your timber is very simular not fashionable and out of favour as compared to 30-40yrs ago, i suppose your timber is a bit on the lines of Ivory,, people have now woken up to the destruction that has been caused and is still being done ileagally both with timber and Ivory so people dont want to buy it and encorage more destruction, these are just my thoughts personally i would be doing a bit of homework on this timber as some will now be illeagal i would find a simular timber that is leagal and still imported and be calling it that and not what it is ? price wise i would be looking in to as well as your original price is around the 4k a cube ?

Think i will agree with that, been diverted through Livingston a few times on our way to Lomond when the M8 was closed due to RTA not been near it for 10+ yrs now may of changed ?

When ever trying to sell anything over the internet photos are a must and the better the photos are the better your chance of a sale and the more photos the better, Personally i think you might be struggling to sell at the price your asking due to the restictions now in place on the felling and exporting of some of these timbers, people are now starting to take note of what has happened and is still happening illeagaly to these trees and dont want to encourage any more ileagal destruction, i think to get good money for this timber you would need to supply the dated paper work on all importation and sale details, its ok saying its got the import date stamped on it but that could of been put on a few wk ago ?, some of this timber i know is very nice timber and back when i started work (1980) these timbers where widely available but unfortunatly have fallen way out of fashion, for the price your asking for this timber if we compare it to something that we can get hold of today and that is in fashion at present. like some burred Oak or Elm of that size i am 99% sure you would be sat there thinking i wish i had more of that, Photos on the other hand may sell your African hardwood as there is plenty of people above who have asked for photos but non as yet get the photos on and i wish you luck with it,

Self employed or cards in, where in the country, what kit have you got, are you up to speed with the job, loads of questions to be asked on this subject and as Kevin above as said the only person who can really answer this is who ever is paying you, i have had several dozen climbers over the years, some i have thought £50 a day was to much and others i have paid £150 and more but i would of paid more for one or two of them,

This sounds very much like the way i was treated by some one i subbed to in the mid 80s and there is only so many times you can be arsed about, all i did was i found myself 2 days a week with some one else that where set in stone for thur/fri then there was the odd wk when i had a few days of my own so that wk was full, the original guy i subbed to was now chasing me, he then asked me for Mon-Wed for next 4 wks at least, this didnt happen as in the 3rd wk i only worked the monday for him as he cancelled tus/wed, i later found out he had gone to the Ovel to watch cricket for 3 days, the wk after i only did the mon with him and when i told him i was else where for rest of the wk he was not happy and i just threw it back at him what he had done the wk before after asking me for 3 days for 4 wk, this then encouraged me to look for other people to work with and it soon came to the point where i was working 6 days a wk, so i know where you are coming from and there is only you who can sort this out but this problem is one of the downfalls of being self employed and relying on some one else to supply you with work,,,

I take it from reading the above you ae fairly young, and i get the feeling that you think you are being messed about ? I have been self employed since 1984 and seen a fair bit over the years, i have heard about every excuse thats been thought of over the years, Top and botom of it is, if you are good at what you do and get on with the job people/ other companys will be queing up for you, there seems to be a drastic shortage of good young lads coming throught at the moment, plenty that want to play on a phone all day but that dont get the job done, 2 lads i use now n then (1 climber 1 groundie ) both now in there 30s and i know if i wanted either of them or both for a couple of days it will be 2,3,4, months before i could get them, bothe of them are good hard working lads, work at it try and get in with 2 or 3 other tree teams etc and you will be never with out work, and dont be frightened of ringing some one else if you get a day cancelled, as there as been many days where we could of done with another pair of hands or two on site to help out,

is it to be sold on or for personal use ? if it is to be sold on it dont look good when you deliver logs with mould on them, personal use i would not worry about it, leave the tarp off now and dont be tempted to put it back on if it rains as it will soon dry out,

My thoughts are this wood has been covered for a while and the mould has started a while back, you have then taken the tarp off when the weather has picked up ? Horse chestnut is not a good firewood for a start, i tend not to bother with it much these days for the same reason you have, and if i do get some i leave it in lenghs in the building near the doors then cut n split it when moisture level has dropped a fair bit, seems to work for us,,

had a inguinial hearna about 20 years ago and i dont want another one thanks, it was hanging down in my ball sack, stood up walking about i was in constant pain, lie down and it all went and with in about 10 seconds of standing up back to a dull ache/pane, Got it done with in about 5 week, but managed to get a cancellation at a different hospital so all was good, The weeks after where not good, dont bend dont lift dont do this and dont do that, i managed 5 days doing jack shit, then i had to do something so pottered about in the garden and a bit of tidying out in the shed , Big mistake as this prolonged the recovery by a fair bit ended up having 12 wk of work and when i went back was sent home on the 3rd day and to a private doctor for a asscesment and signed off for another 6 wk, Dont mess about just get it done and if you need to go private just do it, i would not think twice about going private today given the back log with the NHS, Good luck it will be OK,

Was taught many years ago, do as little as possible for maximum return, But i dont know what went wrong supposed to be semi retiered ?? its just gone half 6 on a sunday morning and going to the yard for some diesel and then got some timber to forward out on a job so will be sat on a tractor till i start melting 😂😂😂

Looks a good crop, is there much money in growing Thistles 😂😂

This is what I mean spuddog, sometimes you have to look past the bare wages and look at the benefits. I work for the NHS as a maintenance joiner, the wages are crap, but the benefits more than make up for it. That dont happen in this day and age so often nowadays, its what time do i go home, how many sick days am i allowed and how much do i get a week ??, one thing i do tell the young lads who work with us is, DONT just think about today or tomorrow be thinking 2, 5, 10, 15 years down the line, seems to fall on deaf ears with most of them, then one lad who did listen and has worked out a few things is doing very well on his own and when he can afford he buys his next bit of kit, he dont invest money with the local weed dealer nor does he invest much with Fosters or Carlsberg either,