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Saying that your NPTC qualified and being NPTC qualified is 2 totally different things that could be miles apart, with out seeing NPTC cert,s when i employ some one i just take it with a pinch of salt till i see that certificate, the travelling people will tell you anything and just fill you full of bullshit just to do a job like yours, sorry but its not good at all, i would be ashamed to send a invoice for that work,

A lot depends on what timber it is but to give you a rough idea, chip wood which would be the bent, twisted partly rotten timber stuff that is stacked to one side when extracting and a few years back this timber would of been left behind for mother nature, but today it has a good value, 3 months ago this would of been around £70-75 tonne roadside, but has dropped a bit of late but i am sure it will rocket back up in the next 3-4 weeks, saw logs usually demand a bigger price than chip wood but they have both been on a level playing field of late,

Any one worth there salt can make a decent living out of forestry work, with out the ear ache from the customer, We buy blocks of standing timber, go in fell it, extract it sell it its easy but as you say you know jack shit about forestry so leave that to them that do, you need to know your market on timber like who will but what spieces of timber and where you can get your best price for it, this is something you will not learn over night,

spreading faster than Covid these tip sites today , wont be any room for owt else,!!!!

its just mould and it will generally start on the outer sap wood, Scotts pine i find is about the worst and it will start to show in a couple of days after felling, Larch is another one thats bad for it, a mate of mine milled some Larch cladding and 24 hrs later was showing the blue mould,

Thats a big chunk of timber, biggest problem is moving it, the one your standing against if thats 10mtr long and a estimate of mid diameter of around 125cm that would come in about 10.5 tonne, that would take some moving even if cut in to 3 x 3mtr lengths, most cranes on timber wagons would not lift that ? then there is ground conditions to cope with as well, mill in situe and move with smaller machinery, its a shame really that so much timber like this just ends up as fire wood and it shoudnt do but some times its the only way to get the job finished,

Things like a 170 with 25" bar to cut 6" softwood could only be in America, i dont know what it is over there but they all seem to need to have the biggest saw they can get there hands on but are only cutting small timber for firewood, One guy puts posts on another site and sorry but i have to laugh but he posted some photos of a FS350 pick up loaded with lengh,s of wood ready for splitting, this had took him and his 14yr old son from 9,30 - 3,30 and they were parked next to the stack of timber, but he did say they only had a short lunch break !, looking at what they had done and the shape of them 2 i tend to think the lunch break was from 11 - 3,

I seen that one, its just OTT to me,

Stateside they would run a 42" bar on a MS170 but it would have to be ported of course, the big thing now across the pond is a Barkbox exhaust mod and some of the crap i have read about this item and the improvements it makes to a saw, i cant believe the manufactures have not thought of it ?, 20% increase in power on my 20yr old 036 running a 30" bar and she rips,,,,,, thats the type of comment i have been reading,

Yes i am with you on that one, like you say money is not a issue these days as my life syle is very cheap, i only really need to do 2 days a wk now a days as out goings are minimal, i have a plan for the future which involves a bit of driving to and fro and pulling leavers at each end which will make life easy, as long as i can get out and work my dogs on shoots next season, do the odd tree job, a bit of windblown clearance and sell a bit of firewood i will be happy, all the best and take care,

Well as exciting as it was, Happy new year to you all, as some have said The Tv tonight was crap, about the most excitement i had was from about midnight for about 20 minuets when the fireworks where going off i had 3 labs, 1 pensioner at 13yrs, 1 fully paid up member at 6yrs and 1 trainee at 20wk old all running from kitchen to living room and back again several times and then just sit and stair at me as to say can i go and get it thats the 2 older ones the pup came back on its own a few times and the look on her face just said WTF is going on here, what have them 2 had i haven,t

Not had Airstreams i have only ever had the woodwalkers which last me for about 5-6 yrs a pair but we are only on the woodland floor so no concreate or tarmac to wear the soles,

Oh thanks mate, No seriously I want less worry not more at the moment, As i get older i want things to be easier as i dont feel like doing as much as i did a few years back, this driving 50,60,70 miles each way is not getting any easier either, all the best for 2021 as i think we are going to need it as i think there is come life changing changes just round the corner for a lot of people, take care,

Hi have you had Meindl boots before ? just that i have all ways found them a very tight fit and need to get either a half or full size bigger than any other boots i have bought,

Hi does that run a 3/8 or 404 chain ?

We get in to north yorks quite a bit working, What are you actually after ??

If you put another couple of candels in there could you get it down to 3-4 month !!!!!!

still a fair bit of larch round me with only the odd block being infected, there is some blocks about 2 mile from me that are some decent sized trees like 600-700 DBH but they are on on one hell of a steep banking above a river, i only know of one block that has been taken in last 12 months with in 20 miles of me, 5 years ago we was every where felling them and on some sites we fell 100s of tonnes of what i would of said where very healthy trees, on one site where they harvested approx 3000 tonne and replanted with spruce has loads of regen larch coming through and we left a small block off about 200 trees that where in a very bad place, them trees are still there and are 100% fine but where earmarked to come down, So did the FC get things right or not ? i tend to differ on that one and think we felled trees that where not infected and in some good sheltered areas to, One site we felled about 600 tonne of 20-25 year old stuff over about 5 blocks and there was only 5 trees that had been confirmed with PR on that site and they where about a mile to the east of the blocks we felled, i tend to think we felled these for no reason ?,

What stuff would you use to seal them with ??

We felled a lot of infected Larch a few years ago, most of it was felled to waste and just left where it fell to rot away and left to mother nature, over the 4/5 years we was doing this we worked on several sites and as time went on some things changed and some didnt i will tell you what i know if it helps you out, 1, All sites had to display signs at all public access points stating it was a infected site and the risks involved with the spread of the disease, there was all so signs displayed that where aimed at the public visiting these sites giving advise on how to prevent the spread of the disease like mountain bikes should have the mud removed from the wheels and the rest wiped down, dog walkers should clean there dogs feet, all people should clean walking boots, shoes wellingtons etc, 2, For us working on these sites some of the above applied to us as well as along with some other regulations, we had to brush all sawdust of our clothing before leaving site each night, boots had to be cleaned and we was given a disenfectant spray to spray on soles and leather uppers of our boots, when saws where worked on at home at nights all the debris from the saw when cleaned had to be bagged up, sealed and disposed of correctly. 3, As Drinksloe above said the timber could be used for a few purposes like sawn products and biomass but you had to have a movement licence if you where hauling the timber or a processing licence if you where processing the timber, the infected timber could not be used for firewood purposes straight from site, i always understood it had to be stored on the infected site for 2 years before it could be moved and processed in to firewood, but i think some of these restrictions have been relaxed a little now, 4, The Rodey side related to Phytophthora i dont know much about as i only went rodey bashing twice and that was twice to many, but Rodeys do harbour the dicease with in there root system, I hope this helps you out and there would be some information to add to the above from the FC website under the plant health section,

You watching Prissoner cell block H again !!!!!!

If you was up here in Lancashire i would put you in touch with someone who would pay you for your waste timber as long as he had room for a tub grinder, 8 tonne digger and 2 tractors and trailers and it would not matter about MDF or chipboard, There must be someone near you with a boiler that burns waste wood who would take this for next to nothing of you,

Was blowing a gale and hammering in down here till about 11 ish rain now eased off but wind still there tho with more rain forecast through the night, and some tit agreed to go Goose shooting at 6,30am, Cant wait !!!

Yes i understand what your saying, this site is not what it used to be by far, it used to be lads doing each other favours, helping each other out and sharing information and knollage but now it just seems to be a place for bitching for a handful of very sad individuals with FA else to do but to try and take the piss out of genuine people with genuine questions, I and many others on here (some still on here but some have long since left) where once young and knew very little and had to ask for help/addvise on some issues we where not clear on, but on here you ask a genuine question and you seem to get some genuine answers but it wont be long before some smart arse is there shooting the original poster down and some of people who have replied with real answers and this just seems to be a handful of people, i have not been on this site for 5 wks untill monday of this wk and its still the same old thing bitch bitch bitch,

I have had this several times over the years, bought some of them wildlife cameras and put them up, caught the guy with in a week who works next door, when i asked him if he had owt to tell me, he said know so i asked him when he was going to pay for the logs he had taken, what logs ! saked him if he wanted to watch the video, got payment of him, and before anyone says have you got warning signs up No i havent but the cameras where installed to moniter the rat/vermin population in the building and it was just his bad luck he got caught,