spuddog0507

Your jack is best thing on the big edge trees, was a guy i worked with last year had a ratchet wedge which he used on the bigger inside trees (straight up and not weigted one side) then a combination of jack and wedges on the outsiders, i dont think we can get away from banging wedges in with sledge, after all its a method thats been used for many decades now and seems to work well,

What ever your on ! i will have one please,

Hi i went through this about 6/7 years ago and ended up with a ifor 10ft tipper that gets used for many things, got rid of a ifor plant trailer and a ifor flat and bought the 10ft tipper, we move tracked chipper about with it along with a kubota tractor that just goes on with Igland winch fitted, we dont have any problems with moving either machine about, tows well,stops well and i dont find it unstable at all,others will tell you different but one thing i will stress is go for the one with the smaller wider tyres as it lowers the bed hieght down making loading not as steep, to be very honest about this a tipper serves all sorts of purposes and saves so much time when unloading log chip etc as its just push a button, you wont regret buying one as i have said many many times its been the best 3k i have ever spent,

Ally Mcfeel or Mummy blows best both worth a watch !

You got a pipeline as well now ! is it oil or Gas ?

Whats this ,i can ask her, that is not politically correct, it should read i can ask it !

you can go and F - - k yourself as well and whats with this zimmer frame job ! can you get me one cheep or sumit, you havent got Ting Tong to get me one have from the Duty free shop ?

Sorry but Gold is not at a all time high, the all time high for gold was 2011/2012 and todays price as of opening this morning gold was £1295 oz at close today it was £1275 oz, now i make that a £20 drop today and this has been the trend for the last 2-3 weeks,

Gold price has dropped a little lately along with many other things on the stock market, i to would hang on to it as it will rise again as soon as this corona virus thing gets sorted, i was looking at some money from a ISA a week last friday and the surrender value OK but buy monday it had dropped by nearly 2k so it will get left, and while on the net had a look at gold ,silver copper lead etc all prices down,

I had this a few years back with a lad saying he has CS 30,31,32,34,35, along with a load of other tickets, he supplied the CS30,31 cert and said he could not find the others as he had recently moved house and there was still a lot of paper work boxed up, so i took his word that he had the others, then when we came to fell some big larch like 100ft + and about 30" across at the bottom, his performance said it all, he did,nt have a clue about cutting big trees, cant do it as my saw wont reach to the middle from both sides, then when he finally did supply tickets CS30,31 pole saw, lawn mower, planting trees and some others, if i was you, get him to bring his tickets and you photo copy em and then you have seen them, never do what i did as its OK untill something goes wrong then its you who is in the shit,

Looking at it, i would not be getting to exited about it looks like it will have a lot of rot in it and its on a fence line so will be 100% sure it will have its fair share of metal in there and just below the bird box there is 2 horizontal lines ?? whats caused them ?

Yes and your todays plumber would of just gone over the old silicone sealant, took an hour and charged about £70-80, i know several plumbers and there is only one of them who i would employ and he his old school but he knows his stuff and will not cut any corners or bodge owt every thing he does is A1,

Dont be silly, do you really think some one in upper management could work out that cameras would be the answer ? would,nt be enough paper work with cameras and dont forget they probably went to either Oxford or Cambridge !!!!!

No wounder you got a bad back with that ? is it your set up for a bit of high reach pruning ?????

well going off another post on another thread about expensive logs, some said he had lost his but plug ! so ring shake will be a bit slack,,,

Just after Christmas i had to go and get some white diesel for a pickup that had been in a building for a couple of months and just been driven in and out, only drums i have have all had red in them,put £25s worth of white in on top of about a pint of red in the bottom of drum and with a sight test i would of said it was 99% right with no trace of the red,

Thats what i will do, along with many others,,

I will second that, we cleared a building out about 12 mth ago and in the building there was a Iveco pick up that had not run or moved for over a year put jump leads to it and it fired up almost instantly OK a lot of smoke but that was to be expected with it standing so long, over the 2 wk we was there we moved it several times and hardly any smoke after but the thing what amazed me was the mileage it had done 387k and it sounded as it it had done next to nothing, i would consider one with out a hesitation,,,

you will upset him ! dont be suprised if you see a dummy fly past the window when your washing up later,!!!!!!

they was on about the grand national today on local radio and the out come was let see how well we can contain it as at the time of the national is due to run it should not be that bad, they are expecting it to peak some time in may june july but they cant be sure, mayor of liverpool said we will just have to wait and make a dessicion nearer the time. there was 2 new outbreaks 12 mile south of us today 20 mile from Aintree and there is one on the Wirrell, other shows talked about was crufts FA cup final and sporting events with no spectators allowed in, i think we wont manage this virus and a lot of events will be cancelled,

it wont affect agriculture horticultur, forestry commercial fishing they will be able to claim the duty back, and i think some buissnes,s will be able to apply for some sort of exemption licence like quarrys and civil engineering firms, the abuse has gone on for decades and as i said about the guy who breaks the cars its not long since he told me he had a writen off BMW X5 in on a 69 plate that was full of red, this is why its coming to what it is because of things like this,

that will go through as you say then them who are entitled to the lower rate i.e farmers, commercial fishing, forestry etc will be allowed to claim the duty back, this will stop joe public running cars on red and one guy i know who breaks cars up used to run his recovery truck of the diesel he removed from the cars but not nowadays as he reckons over 50% are on red, a one colour fuel would be better but fuel theft will rise from farms for sure,

It did go for that but it was top notch timber that had been managed very well and it was not small either i heard a rummer from someone who knew the guys who felled it and i heard that the average DBH was around the 850mm

There has been a big change in the last 10 years with in the supply of timber, 10-12 years ago i was buying windblown larch and spruce for £600 and that included haulage out of north Wales, for a capped wagon and drag about 18 tonne so it was cut split and sell day after, around the same i was picking up wagon loads of hardwood Ash ,Beech,Cherry,Oak ,sycamore etc from the local estates and some of this had been roadside for 12 months or more and that was £800 a load, Today your lucky if you can find a load and if you do it will be top dollar, i was looking at a job in oct last year that was to start mar/april this year and all 2100 tonne of timber was sold all ready for biomass, but it was not cheap either he had been offered £57.50p per tonne roadside and most of that was dead ash and small hardwood thinings. One guy who i am in touch with regularly is a harvesting manager for one of the big players in uk forestry and there aim along with one or two other of the bigger set ups is to shorten the crop rotation down to 25-30 years and chip whole trees on site, this practice will hurt a lot of people in the firewood sector and leave them with 2 options 1) carry on as you are and not move forward ,or 2) import firewood thus putting more pressure on the resources of timber in eastern europe, personally i think we will get to a stage where timber or should i say firewood will be a high class luxury as it will be so expensive. unless we have a massive turnaround in the way we create our electric, And as to put in another example of Government organisation fuck up, the power station at Locherbie was designed to take and run of all chip from the brash coming out of commercial forestry in southwest scotland and the boarders, but again they are running in with wagon after wagon load of good 3.7mtr saw logs, so who ever was in charge of the mathes on that project needs to get back to school, one thing that jumps to mind on this is Clint Eastwood in the film, A few dollars more, where right at the end he says to Lee vanclife, thought i was having trouble with my adding there old man,

If you use it for next 5 years on domestic stuff and look after it correctly it will still be worth good money then may be still £400 and you have 5 years out of it, i run 2 461s and when the 462 was launched i thought trade both 461s for a 462 but thought better of it as the 461 i can fix myself as no electric computer control on them,