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  1. spuddog0507
    I would think a job like that will be a walk in the park, it will have some very good benifits and i cant see it being a hard pushed job, One of the biggest F _ _ K ups i made was not applying for a groundsman job 30 yrs ago at a high school about half a mile away from me, it was not the best pay by far but there was only so much grass n hedges to cut in the week, the bloke who got it said it was the best job he had ever had , 8 - 4 mon -thurs 8-12 fri, 30 days holiday + BH sick pay and pension scheam with the option of paying extra in yourself, It is still run with a 3 man team as it was back then but the school is half as big again with new buildings, car parks and hard sports areas so today there will be even less to do,
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    A few photos from the last couple of years, and dont take any notice of the date as thats all to cock, 1 pollack 12lb 4oz 2 dissgussing who we selling to today Findus or john west ? 3 cod 15lb 12oz 4 pollack 10lb 8oz 5 what we catch of the fylde coast during the warmer months tope i think it was 44lb ? part of a 12 fish haul one eve with fish from 32lb - 48lb (its a photo of a photo)
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    Yes i can imagine that at present, its taken near on 12 month to sort the inheritance tax side out, so now waiting for reply from HMRC then probate can be applied for, the solicetor we have says she can get probate rushed through in about 3-4 wks ? i some how dont believe this as every thing seems to take her half a life time to do, and as i said to another family member our solicetor is about as much use as a windscreen wiper on a submarine 😂😂😂
  4. spuddog0507
    FFS you have thoughts with you, i am dealing with something very simulare to this at the moment and its a bloody big headache, We have a farm house attached barn and a fair chunk of land, i just hope yours is a bit easier than what i am dealing with, we have no Will, the house has not been lived in for seven years and its just been a nightmare so far, surley for the probate value lower the better ? and what you do need to remember the valuation is at of the day of passing, so if its in the current climate we have now timber prices are high as compared to 18 months ago, i hope you get it sorted and good luck with it,
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    Hardwood or softwood ? is this for a forestry opperation like clear felling it or thinning or is it a value you want for insurance purposes ?? the later would involve a bit of work calculating the volume and value,
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    Hi i used one for a day a couple of months back in some 20 - 30" Sycamore, and all i can say about is that i was very impressed with it, it was fitted with a 20" bar and it felt very well balanced, throttle responce was good and it seemed to deliver plenty of power, TBH i really enjoyed using it for the day and as now i am getting older it felt a bit lighter than the 461 i would use all day dropping hardwoods and the 400 did not seem that fare behind the 461 if any, infact i have considered getting rid of 2 461s and getting a 400, I dont think you will be dissapointed,,,,,
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    I think the price on beech saw logs may vary a little from different regions but i think £70 a tonne delivered in is very cheap, we was getting £90 a tonne roadside 2 years ago for winter felled good clean forest grown 400mm MTD in 2.5 mtr lenghs, i dont think there would be that much call for it at this time of year tho, I think a few phone calls would be well worth the effort on this subject, or if you just talking the odd log here and there out of some ones garden then £70 a tonne for it to go as a saw log is dear as 99 logs out of a 100 will contain metal of some sort and there for i would think £40-£50 tonne max,,,
  8. spuddog0507
    Personally i would not be letting money be the dictator on this subject, from my own personal expierance on this over a few decades now buying saws, today i all ways buy from my local dealer as when something goes wrong with the saw it all ways gets sorted in a very reasonable time, i learnt this many moons ago when i bought a saw from away and took it to my local dealer to get it sorted under warranty and it went in the que and was near on 4 wks before it was fixed and back with me, check what parts back up is like ? Stihl and Husky should be fine but i believe Echo is not good and as for Makita i would not have a clue, buy the best saw you can and look after it and it will be fine, have you considered any thing that is used ?? as you may get a bigger saw for your money,,,,
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    I have usually found the marine fuel line to be a far better quality, not cheap by all means as it is silicone based but does last a lot longer than owt else, for example there is a piece outside my back door that i use when arseing about with outboards and its been kicking about outside for near on 20 years now and its still OK,,, Preston marina on the docks, Glasson marina at Glasson dock would help you out but i would think there would be some where at Skipton on the canal that would help you out, used to be a old guy at Barrowford but i think he will be long gone ? and i dont know if any one took it over, i will ask a few people,
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    Its all right doing that speed but you can soon end up in trouble ? been going out to sea since the 70s and learnt a bit about on the way, only every hit 2 items out there, one was a submerged chest freezer that was just below the surface and i am glad it wasnt 30 seconds earlier at a much greater speed but we had just turned back on our selfs and running back up tide to drop anchor on a bank, the second one was a partly submerged rear tractor wheel that we just rode over and this was in the river where we launch, there is a lot of debris floating around out there,
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    And another £20 a tonne on that here in the northwest, had 2 calls today for 2 small amounts of Larch and another earlier in the week,
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    We do a bit out of the fylde coast when both weather and time will allow, boat is ready to go and just need the right tide and weather and i will be out there, it dont seem to happen like it used to, i used to shoot all the way through Jan, work my arse off Feb,Mar,April and May then when the tope and smoothhounds arrived in june and the weather was right i would just go 2,3,4 times a week and go to work 2 days if i had to, then later on in the year when the Bass where hear in there hoards i used to cash in on this big time by just going and fishing either 5 hrs of the flood or ebb depending on tide hieght, happy days back then when i could make 2 wks wages in one morning,
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    a small mill near me had some Larch logs 300mm + diameter at 3.7mtr and they worked out at £138 a tonne delivered including VAT
  14. spuddog0507
    I dont like him either ,never really watched anything with him on it over the years, and now i watch nothing with him on it, he is a total tosser as far as i am concerned, and he knows FA about countryside management ,
  15. spuddog0507
    These Reliants are in a Probate case i am dealing with and will be for sale in the near future, and what you say did cross my mind several wks ago, as if one of them was put back on the rd and painted up yellow with the correct sign writing on it, it would be one hell of a way to addvertise your company and people do notice things like that,
  16. spuddog0507
    There is a Robin on the net with a Cummings 6bt in it, he calls it Throbbing Robin 😂😂
  17. spuddog0507
    Was going to put a roof rack on as well but you put me off now 😂😂
  18. spuddog0507
    I been thinking about a second car/van/pickup recently and i was looking at one the other day and i think this is very practical for what i do, i can put the rear seats down and get 3 labs in during the winter, will be ok for a few saws cheap to tax cheap to insure good on fuel cheap on tyres as it only has 3 to replace what do you all reckon, would it be ok ???? estate version or would the van be a better bet ?
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    Interesting point, now you mention it we have a lot of Pheasants left and not seen any young this year so far and we all so have about 800 ducks left which i have seen some sitting on eggs in various places but i have not seen any young ducks either even tho most have hatched, i am sure there will be some about somewhere, but last night i was watching a field that has just been covered in slurry and Rooks, Crows and Jack daws there was several hundred of them and they wont help matters at all,
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    If your buying a truck for work purpose,s does it really matter about the fuel if the said truck does the job its all tax deductable there will be plenty of people on here including myself who have made bad decisions when buying a truck/van to be used for work, and it all boiled down to a few MPG, worst one i ever did was buy a Leyland DAF 200 petrol it was so expensive to run i only had it 6 wk then bought what i originally wanted a Peugeot 305 1,9 diesel van and they where worlds apart, kept that for 9 year,
  21. spuddog0507
    What is there to discuss ? its Ash, its dead, and it tends to be quite dry, or is there some thing technical about it ??? Dead dry Ash just burn it,,,
  22. spuddog0507
    I had a 54 plate l200 and that was pathetic on fuel best i ever got out of it was 29 mpg and that was on a 300 mile + round trip and mostly A roads and motorway, put a trailer behind it and it was down in to the teens, Now run a 3.2 05 plate shogun and its noticably better than the l200 even just knocking about round home, i would say average is in the region of late 20s, the big thing i found the l200 sat at 65mph was reving its nuts of at 3000rpm shogun at same speed is about 1400rpm, and the performance diffrence is miles apart l200 0-60 you need a calender and shogun gets there on a stop watch, shogun id very good to drive with plenty of toys if you like that sort of thing only thing i use is heater and radio + heated seats when its cold,,
  23. spuddog0507
    Yes but i can put loads of other attchments on the 3 point linkage ae well, takes about 5 mins to drop trailer off and fit a 4.2 tonne winch, the tractor has many uses as apposed to just one job like the log bullet, i was working along side a log bullet ealier in the year and i was moving more timber out but it was over a mile extraction to stacking point, and tractor much faster once on the tarmac drive,
  24. spuddog0507
    And if i remember right the ladder framed one that was for sale just after i built mine was supplied by Rytec at Malton in North yorkshire
  25. spuddog0507
    A ladder designed chassis would be far more stronger and would have a lot less flex in it due to design, but bear in mind the one i have was originally built for behind a quad but due to the terrain we was working on the trailer spent more time on its side than right end up due to width only being 1.2mtr wide, we devised a way of having the width adjustable from 1,2mtr out to 1.5mtr so it could work behind both quad and tractor, if i was going to make another it would definatly be a ladder frame tho, and the small wheels seem to travel fine over most stuff but sometimes it pays to just pay that extra bit of attension to where your going and pick your rout in and out,

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