spuddog0507

And i stayed up all night for this !!!, i thought it was going to be a big release premier with red carpets and crowd control way you was talking, i thought we would of seen it in action milling something or even herd it running ??

I would be wanting more than £70 a tonne for Elm saw logs, thats less than softwood chip prices, J quoted £220 which is about where i would want to be or even a bit more, we cant compare Elm with Oak really as due to its scarceness now a days and yet if you mention it to any one who does a bit of milling they rip your arm of for it and good Elm saw logs are not easy to find,,,

I allways think if its cheap, simply dont bother as you will be forever repairing it, i was looking at there timber grabs after some one i know bought one and the first thing he did was take it apart and weld some gusset plates in it as he said from his expieriance it would not last long with out the plates added, another guy who buys a bit of timber of us has a firewood proccessor that he swears by but he wont be in a rush to get his wood done but he only does about 3-4 tonne a year for his own use, as the saying goes buy cheap buy twice i have been there and my look on this now is save/borrow the money to buy the best machine/item to do the job, it will pay in the long run believe me,

that will be a interesting build project as there is a fair depth of water between Scotland and Northern Ireland like 800ft in the bueforts dyke which was all so used as a amunition dumping ground at the end of WW2, this amunition will of been dragged about by trawlers over the years and disspearsed every where, so should make some interesting news bulletins that one,

As Pete has said tickets would be a good start and it would certainly get you a couple of rungs up the ladder, as you live in Cumbia give Cumbria woodlands a ring as they do chainsaw courses etc, when you ring them ask if there is any grant money available, as there is sometimes and its only available to those in Cumbria, as the saying goes if you dont ask you dont get, Good luck with it all,

I wont be reading much on this post as it just winds me up HOW us as tax payers in many ways do not get a say in how our money Yes our money is spent, HS2 i think is a total waste of our money for several reasons, 1) they cant manage the rail system we have now, 2) said it will cut journey time from the north to london by 20 mins BUT how many times will this be achieved ? 3) will it get used and will it be profitable ? will we as the public ever get to know the facts n figures on how our hard earned cash used to fund HS2 is actually doing, like is it making more money to be spent on other causes ? i very much dowt that we will be just fed a total load of Bullshit as per usual,, About 12 months ago i read a independent report on HS2 and how it was to be funded, this made some very interesting and down to earth facts, the money that is to be spent on HS2 if it was divided up between all the local councils there would be enough funds to fund the NHS properly, all care homes could be brought up to standard, all schools could be brought up to date with sufficient teachers, all council run leisure centres could be funded properly , several parts of the country that have had sever flooding could be sorted out with long term flood defences, and the one that really affects me and many other people who drive, the cart tracks that we call roads which we drive on, all could be sorted out and made good like they where 20 years ago, there was many other facts that where stated in this report where HS2 money could of been spent on more needed projects, We now have a government that is handing out money left right and centre due to Covid-19 so it looks like the roads will have to wait another week or 2 and its not that long since we finished paying back the debt to America for WW2, and here we go again spend spend spend borrow borrow borrow, when will we ever learn never i suspect, Just let me escape to a remote desert island with Kylie and sheryl crow and that will do me,

that one is a very grey area, it would all depend on who caught you and what you was doing ? if HSE caught you they would have a field day,

I havnt read all the other posts past this one, last post on first stage, i would be talking to trading standards and i would be telling Stihl UK that and dont take any shit off them i am sure you will be in the right, it all sounds like a massive headache to me that dont need to happen, good luck with it all,

We have one like that up here, tractor sales n service but he is a Husky dealer as well and if it cant be fixed with 2ft addjustable , 3/4 socket set and a 7lb lump hammer, it cant be fixed, they are US,

not worth cleaning just replace it about 40p each, mine all get one every 6 months if we are out felling regularly,

i did a ATV sit astride course about 8 year ago and went from preston to Lazenby up near Penrith, it was a eye opener for me and i lern,t a fair bit on the day, the guy who did it was called John Jones and he is still doing it and he is not expensive either, he supplied the bikes and trailers, we had 2 bikes one with manual foot opperated gears and a fully auto one as well, all quite new kit and a decent bloke as well,

Yep your right there, but the law is the law, i thought it was for every one but it seems not to be like that, 2 other thefts i know of where treated all most the same way as the 6 tonne Kubota, one was a 2,5 tonne machine where the Police wernt bothered one bit, untill the owner spotted it on a traverllers site still sign written in his name then they said they would talk to the insurance company ??, and another one of late was a Volvo 2.8 tonne machine that went walk about 7 yrs ago, then the owner identified it on a ebay add as there was a addition to the machine he made and fitted for his own purpose, this machine has just come back to the UK from Spain and where ever it has been it aint been doing much as it went with 2300hrs on it and has come back with 3100 hrs on it, the owner of this machine has had the police involved and they have been very very helpful and we cant think why ! only thing we can come up with is the officers involved may be thinking they might get a trip to Spain (at our expense again) to investigate where and who it was purchased from,,,

They havent got the man power or time to check camera footage !! well thats what a guy i work with now n then was told by lancs constabulary when his 6 tonne kubota digger went walk about on a ifor williams trailer behind a silver land cruiser, footage was off house CCTV where he was working and which ever way that digger went it had to go to a Mway junction which all carry CCTV cameras, this case was given a crime number and case closed in 2 hrs,,,,,, is this the service we pay for when we pay our council tax mine says Lancs constabulary £186 but whats it for ????

Trust you to notice that one !!!!!!!

Why 6.2 mtrs and 3.4mtrs ? saw logs are mainly 3.7mtr and 4.9 mtr, most mills will take logs down to 200mm tops

Thats the same guy i go to for anything cabstar related, top guy all ways helpfull and a top notch service as well,

Why bother with Ebay and have to go through all the hassall if some one arses you about you are getting offers off lads on here, just say what you want for it and you will more than likely sell it in a very short time, you seem to be very bothered about come back on you and i cant understand why ? As stubby said people buy cars and crash then injuring even killing people, that is not the fault of the dealer who sold the car to them, its opperator error !!!

There is a fair bit to consider here, can it be straight felled ? or looking at it it has some top on it, how much damage cane you get away with round it ? if its to be partly dismantled thats time, the scare at about 7-8 ft looks suspect ? if you get it down and its rotten do yo still have to pay for it ? it could be some very expensive firewood!, if it was me i would walk away and look else where for a couple of logs that are down all ready and can be inspected for rot etc, as Trigger said at £200, if it was sound but you will not know that till you put a saw in it, that price would be ok, work your costs out and what you could possably get back out of it, the dessision is yours,

Atlas or Hiab crane on 3 point linkage or on its own chasis behind a decent tractor, a guy i know had a Hiab on the 3 point linkage behind a MF 390 ? would lift about 3 tonne ,

when you have very little or zero mechanical expierance and money is no object a chainsaw he bought 5 yrs ago, used once then went to it 2 yrs later and wont start, i would of bet on a fuel issue, ?, but he decided to swap the sparkplug from a strimmer and said that seized it up, said if i didnt take it he would just skip it,

Wrong spark plug seen it many times, how can it be free with out plug in and then one revolution when plug refitted ?? Had a saw given me a few years ago and was told it was seized up, took plug out and turned over fine, fitted correct plug fired it up stuck it on flebay £345, thank you very much,

Cabstar i have is a 51 plate and has never had any liners under the bonnet as such, and i have had it 12 years now, never ben a problem for me,

I think you need to think carefully on this and one point to really take in to consideration is that, someone has just spent/handed out a awful lot of money with in Government and put the country in to massive debt, this will need to be paid back, and the way i see it is if they can get a few quid back here and a bit more there they will do, i can see a few more people being employed by DVLA, VOSA, HMRC and customs & excides and put out there to combat all the evasion, One guy runs a car breakers salvage yard and up to about 5 years ago it cost him nothing in fuel to run 2 7.5tonne trucks as they used the diesel out the cars they brought in now he says he cant salvage enough to run one but he gets enough red to run the machines in the yard this will be known by government and i will bet a large amount that there will be more roadside checks taking place in the not to distant future,

Been reading the posts on this thread since it begun and one thing i aint read is, Is this for arb work or with in forestry ? as there are massive differences on the regulations between the 2 with using a tractor and forwarding trailer for haulage, Guy i know of up here got pulled with a tractor n trailer with a digger loaded on it about 2 year ago, so far its cost him 20 odd k and it aint finished yet, then another arb lad with a unimog now on his arse,

Yes seen that a few days ago and made me laugh but we will all be there one day !!