spuddog0507

Does that block with just the bolt stuck out of it not lift up ? i have a saw with that set up on it and the block flips up and is a cold start, push the trottle forward and lift it up...

You looking for one ? i have one coming up for sale,

Been taking notes for years now Khriss 😂😂

Why do you think its insane for a CS30/31 5 day course + another day for the accesment by a sepperate indipendant accessor ? this course is your key, which could open many doors for the future for you or who ever does it, The cost of the CS30/31 course has not gone up in cost that much in the last 10yrs, i put some lads through it in 2012 and it was £680 a head back then, I have read your reply and the others above, there are some good points made and lets face it we all have to start some where and 99 times out of a 100 its at the bottom, i have had lads come with us straight out of collage after doing a 3 yr full time course on Arb, and when you ask them whats that tree and it takes em 5 goes to get it right, all i think is WTF have they been taught ? bit its more like the determination and will to learn of that person, i have been in this game a long time now and i have seen so many changes over the years in peoples attitude to work and boy have they changed, but then again alot of things have changed, i have had lads come and go over the years and the first morning on site they are told if you want to talk to your boy friend on the phone you can do it at 10am 12,30 or 3pm but not in the time i am paying you, this is the biggest down fall of some lads and some good lads as they just cant keep off phone and i dont know why as the msg just does not go in, some of your comments in your posts would steer me away from you as you just seem to be worried about the money, But let me say one thing and that is you need to be looking forward and be thinking of where you want to be in 2.3.4.5 or ten years and set your plan out and work towards that goal, I have seen so many very good lads not make any thing of there lives, but they could of done and 2 lads spring to mind straight away, one i am sure he would of had is own company by now and employing other lads, he had good work ethic, well manard and very well organised, the other lad worked his arse off and again well organised and well manared but unfortunatly he fell off the road due to a women f - - - - - g his head up, Another thing to compare is when i first started work in 1980 i was on £32 a wk and a pint of shitty Youngers tarten bitter in our local was 40p a pint, so i got 80 pints of beer for my weeks wage, your money is very simular and yes i know beer varies a lot more these days from pub to pub for the same pint, I think you need to sit down and have a chat with your self and sort out where you want to be, what you want to earn and most of all what would make you the happiest as its no good being in a job if your not happy and enjoying it, i still enjoy my job as much today as i did 40 yrs ago, So i think you need to sort yourself out first and be thinking of what you actually want from life, so i will wish you the best of luck and stay safe,

dont know about that got bored with it before and fell asleep,

I have never read any thing about 15 mile being a limit but1.5 km yes i have read and is a limit but as others have said it will affect us all at some point as when it comes in the powers that be will be red hot on this subject, if you have a tractor with a shit spreader behind you wont get pulled but if you have a tractor and tipping trailer loaded with stone you probably will get pulled and checked over,

Is it really ! Horticulture and Arbourculture, two totally different words with two very different meanings, Ok there may be a slight cross over in some cases but far from it in many cases of arb work,

A lot of people are thinking Arb work is Horticulture ? i understand it that it is not under the same unbrella as Horticulture ? Horticulture is growing plants,trees.shrubs for food use i,e fruit n veg, i have read a lot on the use of red diesel in the last 12 month as i have just spent a chunk of my hard earned cash on a project that is to be used for both extracting timber and transporting timber back to base from with in forestry work, for the said project to be taxed and insured as agricultural and run on red diesel is fine for what we are going to be doing with it, but if i was to go to a arb job and remove the timber or Arb waste as it is classed with the said project it is a total different ball game then and i would be a long way from being leagal, The lads who run a tractor or unimog for Arb use and have it taxed n insured as agricultural and run on red diesel and think this is fine, just have a proper look at what is permitted ?, from what i understand is the only time a tractor or unimog working in Arb and can be taxed n insured as agricultural and be run on red diesel is when it is working on roadside trees with in the highway boundry, for general arb work they should be taxed n insured under general haulage and run on white !! I did post on this site a few month back about i guy i know with a Unimog and some one ran in to it when it was parked up at a job and he is up shit creek now with DVLA (taxation class) VOSA (roadworthiness of the Mog) Customs and excise (fuel duty) HMRC (frauding the government) and Greater Manchester constabulary so far its cost him about 30k and it aint finished yet, so is red fine in arb work,

Quite aware of that thanks,

Was this a block on the west side of Keilder here you refare to as i know of some Sitka that sold for around that amount but it was a couple of years ago tho, and i believe they where some very very decent sized trees with a average DBH of 800mm and went off site in 40ft poles,

I know Yamaha called that system, Auto Lube, first bike i so that on was a FS1E 50 DX some time around 76/77, but there was a mate of my dads that was in to the Scott,s and he educated me one evening about the Scott being 2 stroke, water cooled and having 2 tanks 1 for petrol and 1 for the 2 stroke oil, and at the time i thought the Suzuki GT750 water cooled, Kettle, was a first but i was only about half a century out,

Thats the one, they where raced at the TT but never did anything and thats probably where Kawasaki got the idea from ?,

Another Great British invention stolen by the Japanese !!!!

Had a do on a KH250 many years ago and back then it was quite quick, the same lad later got and still has it and only rides it when the sun shines and thats a Honda NSR 400 and that is a missisle on wheels, it goes very very well and handles just as good i think its a late 80s bike but will live with todays 600 750s on the B roads, i will stick with my 1954 Triton these days thanks,

There will be all sorts of companies and operations that will still be allowed to use red diesel, i think some people are making a mountain out of a mole hill with this subject and its just like any other forum is you believe what every one says your head will be up your arse, I cant see the QE2 being run on white diesel ,

Have you ordered a jigsaw ? Festool with a big blade works best and makes me about a £1000 a day just picked a 3 million pound job up today and with a old lady at her bungalow and i am now fully booked till June 2155 and might have to get a new van yet,, 😂😂

We dont really cube it up as when it goes down the road on a wagon its in tonnes and over a weigh bridge then invoiced in tonnes, Fresh felled larch is 1.11 cube per tonne and to give you a better idea a 3.7mtr log with a mid diameter of 300mm is 0.26 cube so roughly you would get just over 4 logs per tonne,

£35 a tonne, have you been out over the week end with that window cleaner/tree sugeon/fencing contractor 😂😂😂 If you can get it a that price dont hesitate just buy it as you would make good money on it if it was just for firewood,

FFS J £118 a tonne for Larch logs delivered in up here but all logs 300mm + i would be trying for another £15-£20 a tonne over next couple of loads if i was you J, you will not get stuck with it at the moment as timber is in very short supply, and sawn timber has taken a massive hike in price like 35% since December, i was going down M6 yesterday and so about 10 or 12 wagons loaded with sawn timber on from BSW at Carlisle,

Can i ask why a 3 day course ? we have only ever done a 1 day course with +F and thats for one of the UKs major forestry companies, if you have done the course/ticket before you will only need 1 day, dont let people tell you that you need a 3 day course as there is some people out there that will just take your money off you, we do ours with a small company called Lakes first aide and obviously based in the lake district which is under an hour traveling for us, 2-3 of us go and its £70 for the day and certificate,

One of my firewood customers is well in to his Kwakers, he has a dinning room, a utility room and a garage full of them and i would say he has well over 20 of them at present and his aim is before he retires is to have one of every model from every year they where produced, not be a bad investment i suppose,,

And heres me thinking i was going to be looking at a 1970s motor bike with a triple set of nice All speed expansion box,es, and it turned out to be a strimmer,,🙂

The main trouble he had for doing feather edge was the size of the saw, its just to big for doing feather edge at 2 mtr cut, when he did it it was only a trial, but only doing one 125mm slab at once was to time consuming for the saw as when he is doing just 10mm boards he is cutting 8 125mm slabs at once at 16ft long so there is a massive production loss doing feather edge, he has said he may work on something where he can cut several slabs at once for feather edge, he did talk about setting a multi cut up for feather once,

That jig in the video is very simular to what a mate of mine made but his was not operated with hydraulics it was with 2 pieces of threaded bar and a nut gun, worked ok but was slow as he had to go and either slacken it off or tighten it up every cut, hence now he just cuts 125 x 10 mm boards for his fencing,

That i would say at that age should tip what your saying no trouble at all, you say it trips out on a pressure relief valve, they can be turned up or down and set at a given pressure, it this truck has come out of a big co or council depot, it may well be turned down, as to make sure the truck was not overloaded, what ever the pay load is the valve will be set just below that, i had a very simular problem several years ago, with a spool valve on a log crane, would not lift very much at all, so bought myself a hydraulic pressure gauge and put it in back of tractor tested it there, 2000psi put the same gauge on a pipe on the trailer and 1050psi, turned the pressure relief valve up till we got to 2000psi on crane problem solved , gauge is about £10 and worth having in my eyes, i think this will be your problem, as that body when made and fitted will of been tested, and the other thing is there is a lot of the younger generation out there who have not got a clue what they are doing with stuff like this and some one could of been arseing about with the valve, but looking at your set up, it looks right to me as main lift point is forward of centre, have a look at the pressure valve first,