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Felling or dismantaling ?? there will be a big price difference ? need more info, more photos, to get a better idea of what you exactly need, can it be felled out in to a clear area, any power/phone lines in the way, is timber to be left on site or removed, ?

May be one less drink the night before, ????

Yep it will do, from my own experiance with Hornbeam is cut it and split as early as you can as if it is left to dry out some it starts to go hard and the longer you leave it the tougher it gets, we have some at the yard that has been down about 12 months but its not big stuff only some thinings, but i did aquier some several years ago that was felled and left for 12 months before it was extracted due to ground conditions, then stacked and i then aquired about 15 tonne of it and it was rock hard, hard on saws and hard to split on the splitter, but it made fantastic firewood and had some lovely spaulting in it,

We applied a few years back and it was a nightmare, form after form to fill in and a interview, then site meetings, was told if i applied and anything changed in the time between applying and recieving the grant, the application may be withdrawn, its one of them where you have to work at there speed or dont bother, from applying to recieving first payment was going to be 15 months then payment over 4 quarterly payments so in total over 2 years to get sorted, you can do a lot in 2 years, so hence we binned the idea and did it alone, The woman who i was dealing with said she had 15 million quid to give away but no one was applying for it, i am not supprissed at that it was just to slow,

Have you just spoke to someone in a office ? they will always need hand cutters as machines cant do it all, Edge trees, big trees inside and there is always a few on steep out of reach bankings where the machine cant get to,

Rotatech chains are ok but they are not in the same class as Stihl n Oregon yet ? when in a forestry enviroment we only use either stihl or oregon chains as they hold there edge better, the rotatech chains we have are used for the bit of domestic arb we do and for cutting firewood up in the yard, and as for the files only use stihl 5,2mm on all the 3/8ths chains, i have bought other makes of files and just found them to be crap, but its like everything else in life you get what you pay for, pay little and it will either, not last long or it wont be up to the job,

we cut that pipe with a chainsaw and have done for many years now, it wont do any harm to anything as it is a relativly soft plastic,

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,