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As steve says and posted, should have Stihl stamped on the cutter, and the photo steve put up may have some age about it, as for may be the last 3-4 yrs stihl chains have had some little dimples in the drive link to aid oil distribution round the bar, other chains just have plain flat drive links,

Doing the same run tomorrow twice first will be about 10.30 ish then will be going back about 3 ish to load for monday morn, Hate to think what tomorrow will be like but the weather will play a big part as its set for temps to really drop tomorrow ?

Been extracting timer this week and what i have seen is beyond belief, hundreds and i mean hundreds of cyclists going past our hard standing stacking area next to a B road, its been a all day thing every day but afternoons have been very busy, most was in couples but there was some groups may be up to 12-15 and one group about 40ish all riding side by side, its not good practice given the present situation, then at the top of the woodland we are working on is a public footpath and thats been packed out all week with walkers and today i have been to change a wheel on a trailer and with in a 6 mile drive probably came across 40-50 cyclists ( or road lice as i call em) hogging the road and every lay by or where you could park a car there was one in it, my thoughts are just let them get on with it and let them do what they are doing but it will be the likes of me who will be laughing, dont go near any one and not worked with any one since all this shit started, and horses dont get me going about them, most are ok but some are total arseholes,

first of all it is not a big tree ? looks to be 25-30ft max so not big at all, it looks like it would just fell out thats if there is no phone lines going across to the building, no rigging or lowering so £1000 way to much, ok i would do it for that by all means but a more sensible and fair price i would say £450-£550 2/3 men chipper truck etc, easy mornings work then another job or 2 in the afternoon,

What your asking is you want a machine to take 50mm of the end of a 300mm round from arbe waist so you can pack it in to a nice neat package for sale, i think your barking up the wrong tree here, from 40+ years of being in the tree / firewood market, i think if you go and buy a machine to try and do the above i can just see it as a wast of money, and it would be far quicker doing it with a chain saw, what your after is a machine that will do what you want, and sometimes there is not a machine to do that task, but nothing is impossible, one thing i will say is arbe waste is very time consuming as nothing is the same length, the machine your after i think you need to build yourself and then it will only have the one use ?, chainsaw, hardwork and a lot of time may be the best/quicker/cheaper way to process your logs.

Chinese cloned 660 ! I would not touch one but some people would, and how they get on with them is very debatable, another site i am on there is some lads who have them and with what comments i have seen about them, some say they are Ok others say there fantastic, but that man who said that his last saw was a 35cc Ryobi, reading the add, item location Chelmsford uk but the item is still in China takes 2 month to get here, personally i would stick with what brands i know and what brands i could get parts for with out waiting weeks,

Slider next to log NO thats a big part of why your cable is coiling, when you set the chains leave about 10 links between log and slider, i dont have same winch as you mine is a Igland 4501 and there is 1 nut that you adjust the brake band with and then a external large hex nut you can fine adjust the brake,

Hi only problem with trees out of someones garden is as Roughhewn says metal content, it spoils the look of the timber and dulls chains/bands, forest grown you will not get any metal and it will be nicer timber, Ash logs £70-90 tonne Oak logs £90-140 tonne Beech logs £ 75-100 tonne the above all vary as to the quality of the logs as some are much better quality than others, admiralty Oaks which where trees planted many years ago for ship building bring silly money but where do you find a 40ft Oak log that is straight clean and defect free in this day and age, there are not many left in the Uk today,

Just take it off and put plenty of mono on underneath, but make sure that the mono goes on tight and level, been thinking where i got the 1000 mtr spool of whip lash from, i think it was from Uk hooks on the isle of white, just google it and ring him as he sometimes dosent put every thing on the website,

Is this something else that has come across the water from Europe ? Pytothera in larch ash die back and the other one with the moths on the oaks ? if we keep going like this we wont have any trees left,

Hi, read your post, then went and had my dinner and thinking how i could reply with out sounding harsh, but J has replied first and put it in a very good manner. 50 pound a tonne standing hardwood thinnings NO the prices J quoted are more like it, now if it was elm of oak may be but depending on quality ? J conversion of timber to split logs are about right, The cost of felling, processing (in the woodland in to movable lengths) then extracting to roadside, then transport to yard all costs money, add all these up along with your £50 a tonne timber value and your at some where around the £100 a tonne mark, you could buy it in for less than that !, proccessing in to firewood/logs you say wont take long, the volume your quoting is 20 arctic lorry load + you wont do that in a wk or 2 believe me, then you will need to have the space to work and some where to store the logs your processing with out them going black and mouldy which dont look a good product when delivered to the end user, you say you have a tractor but is it up to the job ? forestry is about the harshest work you will put machinery in to and it takes its toll, you say you need to buy forwarding trailer, processor , and build a kiln this also will cost and before you know it you will of spent more money than its worth and you will end up working your arse off for very little or even nothing, One thing i am going to say is you say you have little expeirience does this also mean with saws and the felling process ? as felling trees safely and correctly is not just a walk in the park, trees will hurt you and even kill you so be very careful, i have been in the job 40yrs and heard a lot of nightmare stories in this time, so be very careful, read the replies you get on here and you will get a better understanding of what you are up against, to be very honest when i first read your post my thoughts where good look your dreaming, and here comes another jam butty million heir, just think about it very carefully some times numbers on paper dont always add up to the realastic numbers of the practical side, Good luck,

Typical, just sold one 1500ltr bunded complete with pipe nozzel and 110v pump, we removed it from a large factory where they renew there tanks every 5 yrs, was going to set it up for myself but a bit to big for me,

never done it but i could imagine it being a nightmare with DVLA and insurance, just buy one thats ready to go, cutting and chopping is a lot of work/time and at the end of it you might have a vehicle thats not of any use to you, Land cruiser pick up ? Hilux surf pick up is there such a vehicle that would crop up on a insurance brokers list ?

Is this of the DVLA website, ? as i have spent many hours on there looking for something that relates to AG weight ! Reason why, i have a vehicle which is plated at total gross wieght of 11200kgs with a tare weight of 6250kgs, but the said vehicle is now AG registered so is the gross weight plate now void ? I realise that this is a very grey area but its something i cant find much info on,

try 07 not 08

HMRC will look very carefully at all claims and those who have not played by the rules will be made to pay it back with a bit more besides, i for one will not be bothering with any grants loans etc as for what i would get would not be worth the hasell, looked in to universal credit the other wk and that seemed to be far better and eaiser to do and it will all so allow you to work a bit, as long as you declare it ??, i tend to think the SE have been shit on from a great hieght this time, but if you have been SE for longer than 3 yrs and have made plenty you will be ok, but for those who are either just starting or are on seasonal work and dont make much they dont have much option but sign on and make what you can of it, one thing i can see happening is that more SE like plumbers, sparkies garden maitainance will be asking for more cash payments, but thats where the government have pushed em to, we all need a SE self help fund tucked away some where, Some of us have been in simular hard finanacial times before with no government help but this time there is help if you are prepared to seek it out so for the younger generations just think yourself very lucky, I for one was pottless back in the mid 80s interest rates at 18% working 1-2 days a week really struggled to make ends meet and if it was not for fishing and shooting, meat on the dinner plate would of been once or twice a week,

There is a company in Southport Lancashire Called Glassplies i have dealt with them for over 30 yrs all ways helpful and they supply about every resin on the planet in both large and small amounts they have a website and do mail order, Hope this helps,

Yes and thats near on 30 years ago, and if any body thinks its going to be a walk in the park to day and be so easy, well it ain,t the person in question will have some serious questions to answer and believe it or not HMRC will know the answer before the question is asked but you will get your chancem but you will have to have a fantastic memory and be very cleaver to avoid any penaltys, good luck,

Dont think this will be as easy as every one says ? but i could be wrong, no NI payments for 10 yrs, no record of a fixed address, not on any polling register, first thing there going to ask is where have you been ? when did you get back ? was you earning where ever you where ? i think all this will be very hard to explain and get a way with, as most if not all government departments are all linked together and in this day and age it will not take long to find out, and if he said he had been over seas they could ask the same questions else where ! if he said he flew in, sailed in or came on train through the tunnel his name will be allocated to a seat or some thing, i think this needs some very careful thought and may be some sound addvise from some one who knows and deals with issues like this, i think one big can of worms and one massive headache, and if he is not careful a estimated tax bill could be dropping through the letter box, one small step at a time with this and plenty of thought, Good luck,

That will more than likely be rotten/hollow it dont look a big tree ! but it looks in bad shape!! there probably just cankers, we did one in late oct and i was going to ring you but tree was not worth the effort to even try and move so it stayed where it fell,

Sometimes you have to addmitt defeat ! i know where you are with this as i am working on a solution for the exact same thing myself at the moment, its not easy and its not cheap to work out which is the easy or even a reasonable solution to this problem, but unfortunatly some stems will have to be ringed up as it would be just so un economic to try and remove, i have had nightmares about some timber that i have seen ringed up for firewood over the years and it has been some top notch stuff, if tour thinking of moving a 8.8 tonne stem you must have means to transport as 8.8 tonne is a big stick, We cant save every thing and we have to let some go, watched a video on youtube a couple of wk ago where a bloke was putting pippy oak stems in to a big chipper, and filling arctics up with chip, stems probably 20-30", thats a criminal offence in my book,,

Thats not social distancing !!! Borris will have you,

at least theres fuck all on the roads so you can have a good look, you will be getting the steering wheel snag,ed on something ! be careful, !!

Reminds me of Ali G that fit ,fit,fit, No you go back,

Hi Mine was up for renewal on 17th march with Treesurgeon insurance, now taking in to consideration we dont do arb work, ours is with in commercial forestry so the sites we work are in the middle of no where, they increased there handling charge from £50 to £125 this year and that was in the small print hardly any one can see, then put about £60 on the price which took total cost up to just shy of £500, when i first went with then 5 yr ago cover was £192 for our work so its a big increase really, then on the last day of cover i got 3 emails and 3 Texts with YOU MUST PAY NOW in the text ,which i take offence to as its trying to pressure you in to paying !!