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  1. spuddog0507
    As above for sawlogs Irvings at hutton roof, chip wood could be run in to cronspan at Wrexham as it aint that far. Whitfires just south of Preston for chip wood as well which will be made in to sawdust and shavings and there is another sawdust and shaving place in Manchester on Trafford park i think, The nearer it is sold to the job site the better for you,
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    Set off as a stock fencing thread this one with a guy asking a genuine question on cost per mtr, we are now nearly at 50 replies in but it seemed to take a different direction away from stock fencing at post 9 ? since then i have learnt about fencing at a £100 per mtr, but it took a bit of working out how it was £100 a meter, but i now no that i have to drill a pilot hole for every nail,,, learnt about pricing 10k tree felling jobs and then the golden egg cup that window cleaning being the best kept secret there is, and you can make £45 an hour ? a close freind is a window cleaner but he all so has a 2nd job looking after a disabled person , i will put him right on this when i see him?? as they say every day is a school day and i have realised today i am not to old to learn,,,
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    That seems very very cheap to me, we where getting £57,50 per tonne in 2019, the current market i believe is very good with chip/firewood grade softwood being about £70 tonne R/S and sawlogs now above £100 a tonne R/S, this is in the northwest UK other areas may be cheaper but if i could buy it at £35-£45 tonne i would be very happy at that, Up here they seems to be a dramatic shortage of Firewood available as the big boys like Jenkinsons and Stobarts seem to be swallowing it all up, I know one lad who has just bought a couple of load of softwood and its cost him £93,25 delivered to his yard and the haulage would be 45-50 mile so not a long way but it was dear enough.
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    Its 3 yr ago tho and it was only a temp job as its all being renewed in a couple of yr when they harvest the site, it was only 3" posts and some cheap chinease wire just to last 5-6 yr
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    Last one i did was 200 mtrs and a bastard to access being right at the very top of a block of forestry in the middle of nowhere, all posts netting and barb taken up on quad, all done by hand and i quoted £8 mtr . this is about 3 years ago, today on good ground its got to be £8 mtr at least ,
  6. spuddog0507
    Beard is the right colour !!!
  7. spuddog0507
    As above but the one we have is a bit more robust, we use it for moving timber, rocks, ragging stumps out, raking brash, crushing/making brash smaller, and best of all we use it for leveling ground where we have made a bit of a mess, this grab is fitted to a 2,8 tonne machine.
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    Well i will be 100% honest here i offered 3.5k for all the new saws and i dont think i was being cheeky ? or was i ? it left me a bit on the bone, there is a lot of gear in this building but it has just been left as it was when his dad past away, even the ashtray has never been emptied, one day it will all get moved on or the son will start the business up again, they know the value of the saws machinery etc but money is not a problem for the family,
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    I know where there is 3-4 200T a couple of 260s a 361 and a 660 all brand new still in the box,s, They belonged to a tree surgeon in the North west who suddenly passed away, i have contact with his son and i have asked about the saws, but both him and his mother want to leave them where they are at the moment as a mark of respect the said deceased, One day may be ?? That piston in that saw what the original post is about, looks goosed to me and i suspect its been in the hands of someone who starts it up and revs the bollox off it when its stone cold, not the best thing to do with a cold saw !! when these young lads come working with me and they do that with my kit they get told if they want to rev a saw flat out from cold , go and buy your own, its not a good thing to do ,,,
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    I would think it would be a crap job that by the looks of it, but you have to agree it aint a bad office view on a decent day, we get out of there fishing in the warmer months and the views looking back to shore are fantastic
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    We used to do it when we where felling all the infected Larch 2-3 years ago, all M tronic saws which we left out and had no problems, i had a piece of old wagon sheet about 4 ft square and we just wrapped the saws in that covered with brash and all ok, they got left out once from Thursday - wednesday once as it came a fare bit of snow in the early hrs of Friday and we could not get to site till the following Wednesday and all seemed OK but the lad working with me hid his felling bar and still has,ent found it,
  12. spuddog0507
    Have gusthearts not got any ? i got some from them not that long since
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    Sorry but it was sold about 15 mins after offering it to Saul, Elm is something we dont come across very often these days, but it dont take long to sell thou,,
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    I know but its all the stuff he buys out of gardens with the metal content, its not that long since i worked with some one taking a large ash down and there was the front end of a pushbike grown in to the trunk, we worked it out it had been there 60-65 years !!!
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    Very much dought that , in how many years of working with timber and buying wagon load after wagon load of timber in i can count on one hand the trees that have contained metal, last hardwood clear fell we did that 250 + trees was the worst we have had for years, 2 of the edge trees contained metal which was just fencing wire,
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    I offered You 16 Elm stems before Christmas 10ft long 16" - 22" diameter ???
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    Have you got either a 362 or 461 ? as i would rob one of either of them 2 saws and try it ! i have just had a quick look at a 461 and a 660 and it looks as they would just swap over, i would think but dont take my word for it that a 362 and 400 would be the same ? i cant see Stihl making a different front hand guard for every saw ? i would think one design will cover 3-4 saws ? Ok they may and probably have got then labled as different part numbers but thats the clever bit in business one different number on the parts list and its a few quid more !! i would like to know your outcome on this and it will be a good thing to know for future refrence for us all, that a hand guard of say a 260 261 or 361 will fit another saw,
  18. spuddog0507
    Sounds a shit hot location and with the property being elevated on that hill side, all the better, property and 2-3 acers with it very nice,
  19. spuddog0507
    No its to far south for me i would never understand them down there, !!!
  20. spuddog0507
    That looks like it would make one hell of a nice property, keep all the period features in it thou, i could buy that myself quite easely ,, nice find
  21. spuddog0507
    Oh well look on the bright side,,, scrap metal is not a bad price at the moment !!!!!
  22. spuddog0507
    I have one that some one gave me that is a wand type one, it was bought for one job when i milled some 40mm slabs of oak for a customer, he bought it, we used it on this job and he just put it passenger seat in my pick up, it came off Ebay and was about £25 but will only pick metal up in timber to approx 50mm
  23. spuddog0507
    I think a good investment for you when you get your self employed grant ?? will be a hand held metal detector that will pick metal up up to 4" deep in timber !!
  24. spuddog0507
    More than likely and if the other photo dont this might !!!!
  25. spuddog0507
    Come on man get your facts right as if you get the items you need in the right order things will go smoother . KETTEL AND TEABAGS FIRST !!

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