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.

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,

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 ,,,

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

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,

Have gusthearts not got any ? i got some from them not that long since

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,,

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 !!!

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,

I offered You 16 Elm stems before Christmas 10ft long 16" - 22" diameter ???

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,

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,

No its to far south for me i would never understand them down there, !!!

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

Oh well look on the bright side,,, scrap metal is not a bad price at the moment !!!!!

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

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 !!

More than likely and if the other photo dont this might !!!!

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 !!

Yes if you want got this if any good ?? compleat with no nails !!!!!!

Not my fault !! You will buy crap because its a Fiver cheaper !!!! That bolt looks a bit harsh,, You should of been sat with me an hour ago and heard the conversation i have just had with another lad who works in forestry !!!!

Just lean it on the ladder rack it will be ok with a couple of straps round it, !!!!!!

Scotland is a big area City/Town /Village May help a bit as haulage is not cheep these days ,

The tongs in the Ebay advert you posted are totally crap, i bought a 2 pair deal of ebay about 18 mth ago for some young lads to use as they where £12 a pair and £12 was enough for them to loose compared to £40 a pair for the husky ones which are far better than any others i have used , these of Ebay are very soft metal and i am not joking, if you pick a log up and sneeze they bend and twist,,,

Far to much variation in timber at roadside these days, once it was all about the same price from one end of the country to the other, if big J was with in 50 mile of me i would be buying the lot of him at that price,, A sub contracting harvesting crew where getting £95 a tonne for soft wood chip at roadside in may june july last year and this timber was some crappy windblown lodgepole pine, next guy you talk to says its £50 a tonne then the next says its £75 i think alot depends on the supply and the demand, forestry seems to work in cycles around me, like there will be timber ever where you look or ask thats for sale for 4 or 5 years then there seems to be next to nothing for a couple of years then it picks up again, The likes of Stobarts and Jenkinsons dont help matters either because if they are short of timber they can pay more than what i would pay for it, so its a bit of a vicious circle at the moment and given the recent price hike in sawn timber its only going to get worse,,,