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Looks like it could be a bit of a exciting challenge that one, couple of decent ratchet straps, couple of slings, a good snatch block, a tirfor winch and a couple of hours should sort it out,, ratchet straps round bottom where its split, the use of the correct slow release cut to sever it, by the looks of it it wont roll out in a month of sundays, sling round bottom of main trunk,, snatch block elevated up the tree behind and drag backwards n upwards and it should drop,

i would guess that the black paint is bitumen, and bitumen is the way i would go for 2 reasons, 1 it goes on well and will protect the metal well, 2 its a log store and the black bitumen on the tin will absorb heat during the day and this will help dry your logs out, back in the late 70s i worked at a local sawmill and the old guy had a tin lean to on the back of a building that was just painted with bitumen and this really warmed up in the day, some days it was my job to barrow some logs across and stack em up in this lean to and some days the heat was unbearable, he just called it his solar shed,,

Well done and i suppose that will be 3 homes Angela can tick off her list,, just crack on with it and get done what you need to keep the planning in place ,,

TBH i woudnt just put a gasket on it as it looks like that has been leaking a while, if its a machine you use a fair bit do the job right regardless of cost, get it skimmed and valves re cut while its off, the V1205 is a good old school engine and was fitted in a lot of machines espeicialy ransom mowers,,if it had been a V1705 i could of helped you out as i have a recon head sat hear,, where abouts in the country are you based ?? i do use 2 engineering shops up hear in Lancashire and both top class places,, i have just had a head refurbed off a David brown 780 3 cylinder skimmed valves re cut and 3 new valves supplied along with all gaskets and it was £186 ,,

There was some chippers and a fair few of them that ended up in auctions up n down the country about 6 years ago, these chippers where from councils up in Scotland the 2 I looked at where totally fooked underneath and both needed the chassis rebuilding, this I suppose was due to salt on the roads up there,, one that I was very interested in was from Strathclyde and all looked well till you looked underneath, can't remember if ut was the diesel or oil tank that was set in between the chassis rails and the tank was virtually porous, yours could be one of these, ??

Basically as what Dan says, over the years i have found felling live trees and then felling dead trees are 2 different games due to several reasons, firstly dead trees dont tend to have much weight in them, second dead timber is very brittle and if it is rotten as you say. the control with hinge direction will be near on zero,

yes, as the tracked ticket takes in refitting and re tensioning the track correctly if one is thrown off,,

As said above its bassicaly ok till something goes wrong and someone gets hurt and then someone will be in the shit,, one thing i will add is if you do go for the training and tickets do a ticket for a tracked chipper as that will cover every other chipper, if you did a ticket for a tow behind chipper it wont cover the tracked chipper, i know its a bit arsey but its not long since some lads up here where chucked of a railway job for using a hired in tracked chipper and only having the tow behind certificates,,

speak to rototec at shefield they would probably make you some if they didnt have em,, have a look on there website as last time i looked it did give you dimensions on there,,,

Seems to be getting harder to find half decent staff these days Chris, supposed to be starting this job todaty18th june and its been set in stone for a month now then when i ring the guy who was coming he tells me he cant be arsed, WTF are they on ?? next thing he will be ringing me looking for work when he is skint !!!

You would 🤣 now that could be interesting 🤔,,

Morning, after being let down this wk i am looking for some one to help out on a 4,8 acre birch thinning site we have, this would ideally suit some one who is at Myerscough collage who has a odd day free during the wk and wants to gain some experience in felling trees, this situation i call, earn while you learn, and i will take time out to explain and show you various technics while working along side each other, this would be ideal for some one to fast track there experience and skill set, must have at least CS30/31 own PPE saw, fuel, oil can be provided if you need more information please dont hesitate to contact us by either PM on here or give us a call on 07763013024 Regards Gary,,

Yes maybe and guess what he wont be coming on any of out sites again , but most training lads i know are all the same and they teach there candidates to cut as low as possible in relation to what you said, wasted product,, when i was extracting the timber it was saw logs on out side up against bolsters and then i was hand balling short lengths in to middle of trailer, i think i asked this trainer if the EEC had changed the laws on bending down, hence i got a funny look of him,,

I all ways thought you had to take Es to listen to it, it never did owt for me either,,

There is a few things to think about here,, 1,, i would think you would need a felling licence in place first,, 2,,i would make sure that who ever goes in to your woodland, fully understands the process of thinning and what you want done, as i could just see it virtually ending up ruined ??, 3,,several years ago i let a trainer who provided training for a local council on to one of our sites, it was explained very clearly what was required and TBH it was a right shambles of a job, saw logs cut at 3.5,3.6,3.7& 3.8, stumps left 2ft high, timber lead at all angles, this probably cost me 2 extra days when extracting the timber, on off tractor measuring logs cutting logs etc 4,, what is happening to your timber ? will it be left in nature piles or will it be extracted, there is a bit to think about when letting some one who is young and keen with a chainsaw loose in your woodland, personally i would be there suppervising and labouring myself,,

First ones where at the yard 3 wk ago and only 3 of them and seen em every day, then last Saturday there was 5 and now there is about 20 of em, The pinkfooted geese have only just left this last wk and to think 8/10 days ago there was 10 - 12,000 feeding away 2 field,s behind my yard, geese are usualy nearly all gone by late march, then only so first brood of ducks about 10 days ago and thats late,,

yes i know how it works as spend half my life either in a auction or on a online auction, yes we do get some bargains and yes some items make much more than i am prepared to pay,, The point i was trying to make was that the big Co,s are willing, or was willing,, to pay over the odds to may be ensure a steady supply of timber into there yards,, i cant really comment on todays FC auctions but as in my original post i was stating what my past experience was,,

I tried this about 8/9 year ago, back then it would tell you winning bid price per tonne once auction had finished, and yes you guessed it the winning bid was all ways 50p 75p or a £1 a tonne more than i bid, i would sit there and look where the location of the timber was from me then work out haulage costs and come up with a final price per tonne, I never won a auction and last one i bid on i put a bid in at £5 a tonne over average cost and still got out bid, personally i think some of the big biomass co,s have it sawn up but you can all ways try, A harvesting co have done a smallish job (400 tonne) near me consisting of ash oak,beech sycamore birch etc all good processor sized firewood and its gone for chip at £42 a tonne, i would of gladly given £60 a tonne for it and as a firewood producer this is what we are up against,,

How many tonne of timber will the 4 of you get down in a day ?? the 1000 to 1200 sounds a bit o the steep side ??

TBH i would just pay a bit extra and buy a tipping trailer, i have had several trailers over the years and the one i have now a 10ft IW tipper saves so much time and effort, there is days when i think i could do with a bigger trailer but do manage very well with what i have, if you buy a tipper now you wont look back and be thinking i should of got a tipper, there will be times when its lashing it down and your all ready cold n wet and you think jesus i have to unload this now, tipper you just push a button and 2 mins you done,,

I have said it for many years now , that man will **************** this planet all together, and its getting nearer every day,,,,

Once towed it back to yard with pick up one day in late January when it was raining about 12 mile, kept stopping every mile or so for first 4 or 5 mile to check temp of tyres and no heat generating in em so just carried on steady away,,

there the same wheels n tyres i ended up with and TBH they have lasted well, i would go for tandem axel as apposed to single axle, it will travel better , much more stable and wont make any where near as much mess as a single axel, photos above are 1 is in its first chapter wjth the shit 6psi tyrs on it and designed to be used for behind a quad, the rest are as it is now, and one thing about building it yourself is you can build it as you want it, hope this helps you out ,,

Well from past experience i can point a few things out to you, depending on what weight you plan to carry ? bear in mind you will put more on than planed at times, personally i would forget the single wheels and go for tandem wheels set up on rocking beams, take note of the load rating on the tyres, some on ebay that are not worth bothering with as load rating is crap and they only run at 6psi, head board definatly as it will save on damage to digger, if i was to build another i would go for a ladder frame over a single spine as far more robust,, i will post some photos later on tonight and see if i can dig out what wheels n tyres i bought,,