spuddog0507

Sorry Andy but does that not tell you something ? that trailer has lost nearly £80 a month, £20 a week, £2.50p per day seems a lot of cash to loose, If my Ifor has lost £1400 in 5 years i will be very dissapointed ! looking at the prices of trailers (before lockdown) i would be looking at a loss of about £250 over 5 yrs, so about a £1 a week to have a trailer that i nearly use every day, I looked at the cheaper trailers to save a few quid and it just made no sense to buy one, the Ifor resale value is second to none, think carefully about it,

A bit like the bloke holding it then !!!!!

where abouts in Lancs is it, village / town ? i could be interested in it as it wont be that far away from me,

In times like this, items are only worth what the buyer stood in front of you are willing to pay, Dont expect it to be worth its full resale value because it wont be, car dealers are having a hard time at the moment and a guy i do a bit of dog training & fishing with has just bought a fresh car, looked and drove it just before lockdown and nearly did the deal, he rang the guy with car last wk and struck a deal with him at 3.5k below window price, dealer said he had only made £400 out of it,

If only we could !!!!

Sounds like one of them days when you wished you had stayed in bed, we all get em and some more than others, One of late for me arrive on site, tractor wont start, got that sorted in an hour of so, belt broke on chipper so fitted new belt, got going again pipe blew on grab fitted new pipe, then puncture on log trailer, take wheel off and then fuck off home,drop wheel off at tyre place on way home, home for half three,

Hi all, been in the timber tree game near on 40 yrs now and one timber i have had very little to do with is Scotts pine, we have felled and cleared a odd one or two here and there most have gone in with spruce logs and gone to the mill,, we have been asked to clear about 25 trees that have been blown over, the trees are in a woodland that has a lot of Rodeys in and the land owner wants minimum damage to the ground and the rodeys, so i thought i would ring the trees up in situ and cart out with a 1 tonne dumper, My main issue is from my past expiriance Scotts pine when cut and split in to logs it tends to go black and mouldy, if this was cut n split and kiln dryed then stored in a building with a reasonable air flow for say 6 months would it still go black and mouldy,??,

Lodgepole Pine does me, and am i glad we dont cut much of it, gives me a headache runny nose and a sore throat, and it leaves a awful piney disinfectant taste in my throat for a few days, Openspaceman mentioned Larch being bad, when we was cutting infected larch a few years back i or any of the others i worked with never mentioned owt about Larch,

Why you thinking of small cocks ? Yep but i think you could be right on that one , I know a few lads who come working with us and they turn up with a 661 with a 36" bar or a 500i with 30" bar, to do some thinnings on some 25-30 yr old timber when a 261 with 16" bar will do the job in hand, i have got more saws than i need but slowly getting rid of a few and i will just end up with 3 261 461 and a 660 that i bought about 5 yrs ago and it wont of had 25ltrs of furl through it yet,

Oh my God i need a 084 088 or a 090 if it involves admiring glances from sex starved housewives !!!!!!!!

Ebay has changed so much over the last 4/5 years, they are making it difficult for sellers s you say, but who pays the fees ! its the bloody seller, so as more sellers shy away Ebays income is going down, i dont sell any thing on it now, just have a look for certain items and 7 times out of 10 if there is no contact number on the add i dont bother with it, as you say all buyer protection, Had a conversation with a Ebay employee and i asked him why i could not put a contact number on my add and be charged say £10 - £20 a month for the number being on the add ???? oh no we cant do that, well good look then i wont be selling with you no more,

Yes guy next door but 1 to my sister had 2 cars on the drive on lease hire, his a Audi A6 estate i think has gone back, he told my sister he was just managing on what he is getting paid from the government, How things have changed,,,

I know what your saying on this, but i dont think people have the money to spend at the moment, been watching a few items latley that would make good money at this time of year, but they are not making what they should, for me i can buy a few items that are real bargains and sit on them for 12 months and make a few quid when i resell them, as K said £500 would be a reasonable deal bought unseen,

Was that storm damage ?

Same guy down in Somerset bought the whole stand about 7/8 years ago and been taking 25-30 trees a year out they are going for timber framed buildings, and i am 99% sure he got 2 arctic load about about 3 years ago from up around your area and ran that back to his yard,

We have 28 to take down which is the last of a 5 acre stand, they should of come down in Jan but ground conditions where shit back then and we need a crane on site to load em, Average DBH i think was 42" and cutting spec was 42ft and 36ft with min top dia 20" and some smaller log of top and a bit of firewood, Outstanding looking trees and a shame to remove really but nothing lasts forever, i dont expect to see any more of these trees either, and to give credit where its due they have planted the site with Oak again,

British,been down about 4 years, air dried and standing i guess, your right with the i guess anyway,Been down 4 years but still standing ? Some one needs to learn, how and what to cut logs at, that is just a pile of firewood that is cut in random lengths, i would put it in the arb waste class £25-30 tonne max delivered, but good on you for getting such a high price for it you have done well, Its the most expensive timber i have seen and been in the game 40 yrs, Some of the older lads on here will know about Addmiltary Oak which is oak that was planted in the 17/1800s for ship building and was extensively managed over generations, Not many of these trees left now in the UK, these trees demand a very high price like £350 tonne roadside, but where can you buy 50ft gun barrel straight clean top notch English oak logs these days, your price is as Andy says £1600 tonne, get the deal done ASAP and this time next year Rodders you will be a Millionair,

Ring Jas Wilson up they will tell you all you need to know as they made it,

Yes visqueen down first and if tou wanted to put a waterproofing agent in the concreat mix there is several about, Freeflow is one that has a good name and when mixed at the correct proportions is very good, there was one called Medusa, made by Feb and it is a powder that you add to the mix, all the old school boys swear by it, but not sure if it is still available, Steel reienforcing ? why steel, i do a bit of work with a groundworks lad now and then and have done so for thirty odd years, he does a lot of stable bases and i generally end up there with him, we used to use steel but we have not used steel for 7 or 8 years now, we get what is called as fibber mix which is what it is concrete with 1000s of fibbers in it and if its good enough for airport runways its good enough for us, one big advantage with fibbermix is, there is no steel mesh to go arse over tit when you get your foot stuck in it and fibber mix dont go rusty,

Ok mine is a older one but i will run it till it drops to bits, had it eleven years now and been the best truck i have had by a country mile, pulls like a train, carrys weight well , cheaper to insure than a transit, not bad on fuel, very easy to manover in tight spaces, only bad points i could say about mine is, it is not a truck to be travelling long distances in, as its not very comfortable, but ok 20/30.40 mile each way its liveable with, i have moved one hell of a lot of timber with my Cabstar and Ifor trailer,

Reason why he keeps trying to buy it back Mick, is the tractor they replaced it with was a Valtra not new at the time about 3 yr old, it lost drive one day dragging some big Oak and Beech stems up out of a river bottom, the engineer who came out to it said it was a workshop job, John had to go and borrow his old county back to drag the Valtra up to the top of the hill ready to load on a wagon, John who now late 60s swore by his 1164 and when he got the invoice for repair to valtra it was circa 8k and he said the County 1164 including purchase cost and repairs over near 40 yrs had not cost him that much, still a very sore point with John this and all he ever says is all that money for a fucking radio, heater and a bit of glass in cab,

I think Countys say it all about forestry tractors, used from the early 60s and still used widely today, Why well the first ones to be used widely where the Major based super 4 and super 6, then they moved on to the ford 5000 based units and continuing the super 4 and super 6 models then as things progressed the tractors got better power and better cabs, probably the 3 models used most in forestry where the 1124 1164 and the 1174, Ok there is no creature comforts in em but they have a lot going for them, first of all the major based ones where built on a back end that was like a lot of things of that era very drastically over engineered, after all nearly all the tractor pulling lads use major back ends putting 1000s of hp through em, then came the 5000 based units, some with a 4 pot engine like the 774 and 974 but the 6 pot engined 1164 and 1174 where by far the better forestry tractor, circa 120hp Ok its not massive hp but its how that hp is distributed to get the traction down, only driven a 1174 and it was a very impressive machine we moved 1000s of tonnes of shit with one towing a 20 tonne dump trailer, Ok it was not a tractor to drive many miles on the road but very impressive off road, so why County,s simple, reliable, well built,very robust, good reliable old school gearbox, good to work on and best of all no complicated electrics to go wrong, One guy i know had a 1164 that he bought in 1975 ran it with a igland double drum winch on it and then later fitted a cab mounted crane, this tractor worked in forestry from 1975 - 2014 and hardly let him down, fitted 2 new front hubs when one colapsed and apart from 2 hydraulic pumps,3 starter motors and a altinator, that was it and as he said it would all ways start even when it was covered in a foot of snow, since he sold it he has tried to buy it back every other week but to no avail,

Can some one shed some light on a question, been reading the posts on this thread from the start and the question is have Big J and Eggs recently got married ? seem to be arguing a bit like a married couple ? or is it part of a plan they have hatched to get a cut of the £75 million issued for domestic abuse ?????

Only one,s i have used are the stihl one of late, and back in the early 80s when i worked at a small saw mill there was one there that was a dream to use, handle would be 5ft + long but was it easy to turn biggish logs over, had a big hook on it that took no effort at all to get a really good hold on the log, but i would put money on it that it was from the 30s or even the 20s, felling bar total waist of time and money for turning logs, buy the proper thing you wont regret it,

Well been today and as it had gone bloody cold here by dinnertime today i hardly so any one today, 1 elderly cyclist and 1 car parked in a lay by but that car is there every day from about 11am - 1pm as its a local guy who will be out training working Labs, so what a change as compared to the last 5/6 days and and all down to the temperature dropping by about 10 degrees,,