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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,

Yes a guy who does my diesel pumps & injectors up here for me has one called Lancashire bomber all major based except the engine which is out of a 1980s ford cargo truck, the engine as original would of been some where in the region of 120-150 hp but he has it now pumping out around 800hp and all that going through a standard major back end, tells us a lot about how things used to be built as compared with our throw world we live in today, and another thing about the old stuff is it so easy to work on, another guy i fish with over on the east coast has a 54 E1A major that he launches a 28ft boat with of the beech, i would not like to say how many times that tractor has been stuck and left on the beech for the whole thing to be submerged in salt water for 6-8hrs, when tide receads he then just goes and recovers it back the to the compound drains all fluids changes all filters messes about with it for a few hrs refills every thing and he is then back down beech launching his boat again with it, but he will of done this so many times over the years he will know every dodge there is,

You cant have to much power, there is a few angles of how to look at this with old school kit, 1,, they are not to expensive to by now, for your budget you would get something that is fairly decent, 2,, this age of machine was built when the UK was booming in engineering and most things back then tended to be made out of proper steel and not tin foil, most machines of the 50s/60s/70s tended to be vastly over engineered and thats why they are still about and in use, 3,, most machines of this era tended to be very simple and in my book simplicity is reliabilety, and with them being very simple it makes repairs very easy to do and parts do seem to be very cheap, 4,, electrics on the older machines tended to be very very basic as well and dont tend to give any trouble, 5,, what ever money you spend today on a older machine will be a wise move as it gives you a machine to work with and that machine will be going up in value as you use it so its a win win situation, i have a old 1970 David brown 780 that works round the yard, it had loader on front and fork lift on the rear only let me down once in 11 year when some arsehole ran it out of diesel but back up and running in about 10 mins, all ways starts even in the coldest weather and when the beast from the east came lad in yard next door has 4 fast tacks a few loadalls and a old Bonnser side loader, he managed to get one load all going and the bonnser was the only one that started on its own, my 780 started ok, its nothing fancy but it does the job it was bought for and for me its worth its weight in gold to me as it really makes things very easy for me, The other tractor i have is a 1990 Kubota l3250 which is of simular size to a grey fergi but the Kubota has a bit more going for it, again it is very simple on the mechanicial side, its 40hp, has 4WD, very manoverable in tight woodland, pulls very well, has a shuttle gearbox which makes life very easy in a woodland, it has a full cab with all glass, it has a cab heater and best of all it has a wireless fitted that works, all in all for me the Kubota wins hands down but that is for what i am doing with it, Going back Fordsons where the first choice by many people to work in forestry the old green standard fordson then the E27N then the Majors and then later the countys which are still being used by many today, this should tell us something that the Fordsons/fords stood up to the abuse a lot better than many other makes did,

Well said and thats my take on it as well, got 3 Stihl dealers with in 12 mile of me and 2 husky dealers and 2 Echo dealers, for me my nearest Stihl dealer 1 mile away wins every time, Ok it may not be the cheapest place but not that bad, bought a few new saws of him now and if i need any thing its usually in stock, and last time i took a saw in for repair it was half 4 one afternoon and got a phone call day after at 11am, its ready to collect, i cant argue with that one,,,

Hi ring this lad up he breaks cabstars up and he knows what he is talking about, he is based in sommerset some where allways a prompt service of him, Cabstar Uk 07530 232473,, hope this helps you out,

I, I, whats this then, a Scotts man giving something away ??? Has this Covid got to you or is it the cold weather we are having ?? stay safe mate and we will have a catch up soon ,

The FC used to do them but i have a feeling its no longer available, not the cheapest of books either, last one i got about 7-8 yrs ago and about £40 ish after lending some one my other one that never came back,

What price you looking for ? for it to be removed from site asap,,,