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Oh thats not good, hope your ok, they where the better tractors as well, very reliable and pretty much bomb proof, it that would of been a newer tractor, it would of been in a much worse state than yours, as Matty said buy it back for a yard tractor and try and get it for as little as you can, i would be ringing Wilsons on monday and asking them what they would give you for it then you will have some leverage with the insurance co, wheel rims i would think will go back to near the shape they should be and will be fine for in the yard, i hope it all works out in your favour for you,,,,

Worth its weight in gold in a situation like that, and you will get a lot done in a day even tho its only a small machine,

Still raining, so we have had 36hrs of it so far with one let up at about 5ish last night for half an hour or so, local river peaked last night at 4,14 mtrs, it has been running over the top of the banks and spilling out on to farm land most of the night and still is, just spoke to a lad on the edge of this flooded area and he has just said there was about 5-6000 pinkfooted geese on his and farm next door yesterday, geese have come back this morning and where looking a bit lost as where they where yesterday is now under 3-4ft of water,

that logosol debarker is not good as being chain drive, compared to this Swedish built bely drive one a bit more user friendly but yet still being very agressive and getting the job done,

Been raining here since about 4pm yesterday being monday and it looks like it is set to continue till thursday morning the EA have put us on a amber warning and last time that happened was storm desmond and we had some severe flooding, we had 3 days of rain last week that resulted in about 4" of rain and now we have another 6" forcast, going in building today got a raft to build ,,,,

Experianc and knollage are two big players in a lot of industries and more so in arb and forestry OK we all have to learn and as the saying go,s every day is a school day no matter how old you are, i lernt a lot of a old guy i worked with back in the late 70s80s and i still do some things he taught me as i havent come across a better way of doing that particular task yet, i now enjoy passing my knollage on to the younger lads and when some one who is at Myerscough collage doing a 3 yr course and they come working with us and at the end they say i have lernt more here on 6 months than i have at collage in 3 yrs it makes me think what are they teaching them in the 3 years at collage ? Machines and attachments have come a long way in the last 30-40 yrs some have been vastly improved and a some are basically the same as they where years ago as they cant really be improved, i have just bought and sold on a Kreman 122 mini loader, machine would be some where late 80s early 90s OK a bit rough n ready but function,l it wont be a lot different from your Avant but your avant will be more of a machine than that one was, so some thing are the same concept but improved over time,

Not for a week or two like 35yr since i last had any thing to do with one and at the time it just seemed to be a waste of time/diesel/machine hrs for us, watched a lad on a Avant moving timber about 12 month ago with a free rotating grab and he made it look a very difficult but there again its like a lot of other things , operator expieriance , what he moved in a afternoon i could of moved in a 1-2hrs tops with our forwarder, But we are in to production and tonnage not just moving a lone tree from a domestic job, I was all ways told to buy the best bit of kit/machienery you could to do the job and that seems to work for us, i have had cheap kit that are supposed to be up to and do the job but it never seems to have worked for me,

I would say that one that would be up there and classed as common has to be Sycamore grows any where and on some sites we work on they crop up every where, we did thin on a re-gen site that had been birch and 1 row of sycamore on the western side of the woodland but there was far more re-gen sycamore than birch we cut 1000s of 3-4ft syc off,

I was there with that last year on a small hardwood clear fell, we went one morning with one edge tree left to tip in, put gob in then started back cut and hit metal trashed 7 chains on one tree and 4 of then i had sharpened night before, when we could see what it was it was a old wrought iron victorian tree guard the ones with the half inch round bar, the tree had just grown round it,

just out of interest whats the difference in cost between the 2 ? i was pricing grabs and rotators early last year for a project that got put on hold and i found there was a fair difference between different makes but you get what you pay for in this world,

That wern,t a good start for you, it must piss you off when that happens but thats the problem with timber out of domestic gardens tho,,nice bit of wood that,

How many years do you think it will be before that is reached ??? it wont be in my life time thats for sure, i have said now for many years Man will destroy his self, did we really need to put a man on the moon ?, do we need to know if there is water on mars ? do we really need to keep digging big deep holes on the earths outer shell as the more we do it the weaker it will get and one day we will all end up in space when the earth explodes,,

Does anybody or organisation really know how the biomass thing works ????? for example when Covid started we had all these so called experts telling use what was going to happen and how we where going to deal with it and how we where going to get it all under control and all would be back to normal by summer, well thats been and gone and look where we are now !! up shit creek again, we have all these so called Dr,s not the ones we need in hospitals the ones i call a Dr of **************** all,one who plays about with rocks and tells us about a dinosaure bone being about 80,000 year old ! your guess and my guess is just as good as there,s, I think the same goes with the biomass one body will tell you different than the next and just the same when you read about it on the net, if we all listened to the so called experts we would all end up tied in knots with our heads stuck up are arse, this is my view yours might be different, The met office will be telling use next week that we could be entering another ice age because we have had a bit of frost & snow they did in 2010,,,,

I watched all that and was waiting for the credits coming up at the end, Director Rough Production Rough hewn Pooductions Ltd (PLC) wardrobe by Primart Hair by Vidal so soon Get that saw on that Panther mill in some decent sized timber, When you did that video it was only in small timber, i know the 881 will have plenty of power but in the small timber that saw seems vastly over kill to me, i know you have used a 461 on the logosol and how does that compare say using a 20" bar with the 461 in timber of that size ? the 881 looks like it ate it but i would expect that in that size of timber, i have seen a video some where with a 362 with 16" bar milling boards out of 10" logs and it looked liked it coped very well,

I would say just buy the best you can , so that would be a hydraulic one, if you bought a freely rotating one i can safely say you will think its ok at the start but it wont be long before you realise its just a pain in the arse when you have to keep jumping on and off to rotate the manual one to the right position, then when you are coming through a tight space and you have a log bigger/wider than machine you will need to get off the machine and buy the time you get back in the seat Jim McGravity will of interfeared and the log will be back in the same position, to just push a button is much easier and far more productive and less stressful, just buy the fully rotating hydraulic grab, you wont regret it, was there not one for sale on here around or just after christmas or i could of seen it on fleebay or some where seem to remember it was around the 2k mark and looked as if it had hardly been used,

I think the biomass thing is about the biggest scam there is in the world, i think if you can afford the initial payment for the boilers and get on a RHI payment your on a winner, bloke in yard next to me has 2 glen farrow boilers that cost him around 90k and he has allways said they paid for themselves in 18 months now they are paying a ten year mortgauge on a £750k house, there is tip sites for chip all over the place now and some people are doing ok out of it the arb lads go in tip a tonne off and at some sites there will be 10/15/20 lads tip off every day, 2 sites i know of, one takes about 70-80 tonne of log and chip per week, all the decent hardwood he has 2 lads sorting it out and splitting in to logs the rest goes throughtt a big chipper, this guy was farming 10 year ago and now rents the land out sells the chip and firewood all year round and he says he has never had as much money with so little worry, A few years ago they where shipping logs in to Hull from Sweaden and Finland to feed dracks power station most of this wood went to dracks but if you can make sence of this bit and understand how it can be green energy, some of this log was chipped on the dockside and loaded on to a smaller ship and taken back across the north sea to Holland ? the logs came past Holland the week before on the way to the UK ?? Then in the house of commons there is one bloke ticking boxes who is giving RHI payments out for people to create green heat,, and the bloke opposite him is ticking boxes for reductions in Co2 emmissions and global warming ,,,Its all wrong and same old thing the left hand dont know what the right hand is doing, but thats the people who are paid 10s of 1000s pounds to do the job ,,,, the only green energies we really do have are wind, water and sun and 2 of them we have used for many many years with great success, but are they not good enough for todays needs ??? we have had rain here for nearly 48 hrs now the river is nearly at the top of the bankings, we could of used some of that with out harming anything, i could go on about several other things related to biomass but as i said at the begging its all a massive scam,

Yep timber is going up every week at the moment and this is a knock on affect from lockdown one when we where not bringing any thing in Guy in yard next to mine makes and erects ag building and he got wind that there was going to be a timber shortage so he all the 9x3 15ft purlins he could and that was 2 artic and a 6 wheeler load, mate of mine has a small sawmill and he is very busy at the moment just cutting 3x2 4x2 etc for builders personally i think saw logs like spruce n larch will be at £120 then £130 then £140 a tonne and so on, i was talking to one of Tilhill,s managers yesterday and he said they where flat out planting and planning harvesting sites for this year but he reckons they have,nt got enough contractors to get it all done this year,

Still pissing it down here in the North west and it started yesterday morning about 7 so been at it 24hrs now and forcast through till about 6pm, so its in the building today for me splitting logs again,

Hi and welcome your logs that you are buying at £50-60 a cube are a cheap deal for you, dont knock it or think some one is having your pants down because there not, spruce saw logs at the moment are nearly £100 a tonne roadside, I was offered well over £100 a tonne for some smallish Elm that where in 12fs and diameater from 16" - 26" so £50-60 is cheap, just keep buying if in at that every one is happy,,

No, not with out he owned a golf course up above Newcastle ? one owner before me and that was the golf course it came off and i cant remember the name of it,

Yep that sounds about right, ,one thing i think i can say safely at the moment is, since this Covid started 9mth ago, i have come to the conclusion that there is a lot more people with only one brain cell than there is with 2 brain cells,,,

Yes but there will be a weekend wood warrior some where who will go and do it with his new Aldi chainsaw and think he is getting the bargain of the year, Priced a job several years ago near a friends house which was about a dozen Leylandie,s, bloke at the house said i was way to expensive at £550, so he did something simulare and got them done for the cost of a new telephone wire, new guttering and a ne sky dish, it dont pay at times to scrimp,

Does it say Hyster on it as that looks very very much the same as what i have on the back of that David Brown and thats a sanderson,,,

I think this one i have is a fairly old one as i think most of the later ones had the sideshift as standard, i do keep seeing them coming up for sale but most are making strong money these days like about a grand or one i so before xmas made 1280 so look after yours, they seem to be sought after at the moment but that dont supprise me as they are a very sensible attachment, i can take mine off the tractor in about 3 mins,

Its a Sanderson 3 point linkage double mast fork lift, i use it for stacking IBCs with logs in 3 high in the building, tip IBCs out with it, move lengths of timber about with it, unload and load my pick up n trailer with it, i do all sorts with it and it is a very useful bit of kit, and the good thing about it is it didnt cost that much as i swapped it for a old £180 Yamaha quad that bought just for the wheels as mine had seen better days, only bad point about that forklift is when i am stacking the IBCs up and am putting the top one in place there are times when i wish it had a sideshift on it, but we cant expect every thing for next to nowt,