spuddog0507

Just with in the bounderys of forestry me and thats how it will stay as i cant do with all the hassel these days, and not interested in site work as been there done that, it just seems to be getting harder for some lads to better there selfs as for some lads £1500 wont be a easy find then they wounder why there is a shortage of machine drivers, brother in law works for a ground works company his boss bought 2 new 20 tonne Case machines and 8 months later they are still sat in the yard and never been out

Had 2 Transits in the past last one was a 125 model but would,nt pull the skin of a rice pudding, sold last transit about 10 years ago and bought a Nissan cabstar 3 ltr engine pulls like a steam train and as of the 10yrs i have owned it it has had very little spent on it, and as Roughhewn said 40mph uphill and thats what mine was like, all so another thing to look at is Transits are very nickable and very easy to get rid of once broken up, have a look at insurance quotes first, i went from transit at £620 a year to a Cabstar at £182 a year i think that should tell you something, cabstar is pulling a 10ft Ifor tipper about with both truck and trailer loaded and it dont struggle one bit,

Hi been reading the above replies and some makes sense but some of it dont, some one quoted £1500 for a CPCS course, what does that course involve for that sort of money ? or is this just day light robbery !, i dont know that much about these NPORS or CPCS tickets but i am doing a NPTC FMOC digger ticket next wed for a digger with timber grab and then swap to bucket for trenching, ditching and mounding, bearing in mind i all ready have the timber grab ticket with the forwarding trailer ticket but the cost for the rest is £210 so not bad price really, LGP said above that FMOC not reconised on sites which i can understand and the same is reversed, one forestry co i sub to wont accept CPCS tickets they have to be FMOC, my thoughts on this is some of these organisations are just a money making raquet and is it really fair on the average working man who is just trying to climb the ladder and open another door but them rungs on that ladder are so far apart it makes it difficult climb,

cheers on that Stubby, suppose there will be more details that come out in next few days and there was a quick glimpse of wilders jaw and the right hand side looked twice as big as the right,

Wilders fight was over in round 3rd round when Fury put the split in Wilders left ear, after that Wilder was in trouble, and has any one heard any thing about Wilder since the fight, as he looked pretty beat up to me and blood pissing out your hear aint good for any one !,

If only J, been trying to educate firewood customers for 30 years and it seems a impossible task to get them to buy in spring, only ever got through to about half a dozen over the years,

Hi a bit older than what your after but the Ford TW range where and still are good tractors with simple basic electrics but if you bought one you could use it for the next ten years and get back more than you paid for it as they are going up in value every day,

that ==== from Huddersfield ???

Dont you just love it when all that brash just shatters and your left with very little to do,

It dont look to cleaver to me but i am sure some one will see it in a different light, resin table tops may be ?

Personally i think it will come a day when we have a stove tax, why because as more people turn to wood stoves as a heating source they are not using gas oil or electric which all have 5% VAT on them, most of the firewood/logs in the UK are sold buy tree surgeons as a by product from waste they have taken away from paid jobs, OK some lads dont do much but others do do a fair amount and as most of the payment is in beer tokens and thats how its been for the last 45 yrs that i can remember, and if the payment for logs continues as it is and as the gas,oil and electric sales very slowly fall away the government are missing out on there slice of the pie, so the only way to ensure they get there slice is to TAX the home owner who hears there house with wood. And one thing i was told many many years ago buy an elderly gent was it dont matter how much money you have or have,t got the government will allways find a way to take it away from you and he allways said cash is king,

Hi steve i have lying on a site some very tight grained old growth larch, they are some trees we felled to waste about 3 yrs ago, i am on that site saturday morning with your mate looking at some other larch, i will have a look and see what i can find,

Hi put some mono on the bottom of the spool as this is recomended for braid, i think there either is or was 1000 mtr spools of whiplash available as i have them in the past, and as for the new rods being slim and light they are so much comfortable to use, when i look at my dads gear that is approx 50 yrs old in his shed i just look and think all its fit for now is growing beans up em now,

Hi just been watching the news and all i can say is what a mess this country is really in, the footage from south Wales where rivers are above record levels and 1000s of homes and buisnes,s flooded out, and with further heavy rain forecast over the next 3 days this problem wont go away it will just make the situation much worse, we had record river levels on the river Wyre on sunday 9/2/20 and this week end thats just gone storm Dennis was not as bad for us this time but i think they have had there fair share down south now i think its high time that some money was spent on this problem. Now can some one please explain how this works, the EA or back then it would of been the NRA they used to clean all the main ditches and rivers out round us, they spent 10s of thousands of pounds putting gates in from one field to another but in the early/mid 2000s all this ditch cleaning stopped and left to the land owner, one guy i do some vermin controll for has 4 farms and 2 of them are virtually under water along with 4 other neigbouring farms, when i was talking to him the other day he said he would be putting another claim in to DEFRA for flood damage and none use of land, so i asked how that worked and DEFRA have a flood fund with millions in it that is distributed out to farmers under a claim scheme for none use of land for agriculter due to flood damage, he then said this is the 5th year on the trot he has claimed and that figure is around the 50k mark, then he said it would cost about 20-30k to clean all the ditches out and get the water away, but 6 farms putting claims in out weighs the cleaning costs by fare, he all so said there is no logic left in the world but what do i care, who do you think pays for Audi Q7, Borris will be buying my next one ! He then went on to say the men in upper managment in these government organisations dont give a f - - k as long as it dont affect them and they get there big fat bonus but if they are going give me a big payout why should i bother, it was a eye opener for me that conversation,

I think FMOC trainers/accessers are a bit thin on the ground these days only guy i know for accessing is Dave Blakie who is up in the scotish borders but he travells the length and bredth of the country doing FMOC accessments, we have him for 2 days next week doing some saw and 360 accessments,

I can see my house on that picture You not been flooded out tho ?

Thats not that far from me and i remember the sign, buildings behind the trees is a factory thats been there for donkeys years and that was flooded out, more than likely on the day this photo was taken but it has never been flooded before !

I think the one i have has done 32k kilometers and i have a service sheet for it and it tells me where it was when it was serviced, its been in burgen a few times, been to the Faulklands but spent most of its life at RAF Honington, and as post above says they where serviced whether they had done something or nothing, oil in mine is like new but last recorded service was in 2014 but it will get all fluids and filters changed before it goes on the road, oil and filters are cheap compared to metal spare parts,

The way i looked at this was if it was a milatery truck it would of been built to a high spec with the best of every thing available at the time to give the reliability needed for the MOD and the off road ability from the people i have asked with 2 lads being ex milatery and one lernt to drive in one say they where pretty good at the time,

Hi ring whitehouse products at port Glasgow, they will cross reference the the part number and either supply the same parker pump or a alternative one, they are not expensive and have a very good service, order before 3pm and will be with you the monning after,

The cab is a fair size and you could put a bed in there once you remove all the gun racking, and securing brackets,will seat 3 people and you would can pick them up for a lot less than the 6.5k you quoted, there is a few about 20 mile from me for around the 3k mark and i have seen them as low as 2k they are very cheep for what they are but the only thing i can see against them is speed as you wont break any land speed records in one,

I havent converted one to living accomadation but i do own one, all have same cab and slight variations on the body type, as far as i am aware they came as either a flatbed cargo truck, crane truck with atlas crane mounted behind cab or as a winch truck with a boughton 6 tonne winch fitted underneath the bed between the chasie rails, good sound solid truck that when you look at how they are built you will not break one so easily, all of the t244 s built for the MOD where made just down the road from me at Leyland trucks in Leyland Lancashire and all trucks where fitted with a cummings 6bt power plant which are a very basic engine but very reliable,

Fake people and organisations, god you are not wrong with that one, i know quite a few over here and its hard to explain, but they have musseled there way up with just exams and paperwork but there expierience out in the field is very limeted and it makes me think some times, how they got the job in the first place but the guy interviewing/employing him will be from exactly the same background,

I think he was Manchester way. I could be wrong though i was thinking Bolton or Wigan with his accent !

every respect to you for that job, i think i could of done that back when i was younger and felt comfortable at it as well, and just out of interest what part of the UK you from ? as i feel you are very local to me,