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Well if it keeps raining like it has so far this week ,you could all ways build a raft with them,

There was a Dodd and Wadkin planer thicknesser and spindle moulder combination machine on flebay about 10 months ago, situated in Burnly and if i remember right planer was 20" wide, add said in good working order and used daily up to 3 months ago, buyer to remove as it is on the 3rd floor of a old mill, either dismantle and take down staircase or could be craned through double doors on 3rd floor, it made £182 which would of been just above scrap price,

Very nice that Simon,

you can get away with putting a lot of things through, food is one of them i have done, as a family we all ways go out for a pre christmas get to gether that includes a 3 course meal and a bar bill, my mother allways pays for it, but on the day i pay then get most of it back in beer tokens but i put it through as a christmas party for me and my subbies, all outdoor clothing goes through with me from wellies, boots, coats and over trousers, all wellies are Hunter coats Musto and boots meindl dovre, all expensive but they do the job well, i have been asked by my accountant why i need to buy a £350 Musto coat for work, i just tell her you have heating on in your office and a roof over your head,we work out in the wilds of lancashire and north yorkshire and sometimes we are 2000ft above sea leavel with no heating or shelter, so why should i not have a decent coat to work in, same with wellies and boots for the job i do i want to be comfortable at work as some of the places we get to are very remote, photo below is a great place to be on a dry day but its shit when its raining, sleeting or snowing, just about 3 mile from civalisation and no phone signal at all, and of all the time i have spent on this site i have only seen one other person up there and that was the Grouse keeper,

you supprise me there, i have bought a few things there like a 660 and a blower plus bits n bats but i have never taken owt to be fixed, know a few lads who have tho and reports are very mixed, it dont seem the same place since the younger genaration took over, asked for a price on a pair of boots, got the phone call 3 wk later with price, by that time there was a new pair on my feet, its to far out for me as its near on 20 mile each way i just use Horns or Mowerpower as its now called only 2 mile down the road and i get a good service off them,

are you on about the stihl/husky deeler here at barrow ?

cheep skate ! and i bet you found it on the hardshoulder of the motorway,,,,,,

you will buy shite thou ??????

Same here i just dont see the point of HS2, and rail travel is something i have never used for the very same reason you will not use it in a hurry again, inconvenience i think they call it, last time i was on a train was back in the late 70s on a steam train on the Settle Carlisle line, and that i plan to do again either on the Flying Scotsman or the Jacobite (train used in the Harry Potter films as the Hogwarts Express) its not that long since a friend of mine went from Lancaster to Manchester on the train and had a total nightmare of a day 2 changes, then a late train, then had to wait about 2 hrs at wigan for some debris to be moved of the line, His words never again, next time i will drive and just drink coke,

i havent bought owt yet as not been well, only been out the house about 10 times in the last month,had this cold/flu thing since early october and after several visits to my GP they decided to treat me pnemonia in early december so saws have been bottom of the list,

buying cheapest does not always work, i tend to buy from my local dealer like 2 mile down the road, ok it may be 40-50 quid more but if saw fails and i take it in for repair it goes straight to the front of the cue that because i bought it there, a lad who works with us now and then bought a saw online and when it took to the same dealer as buy my saws from he had to wait nearly 3 wks for his saw to be repaired, so buying cheapest is not always best,

Yeh but that person doing the costing has been to university and gained a TSB & a HSBC degree in mathamatics ! there is a website that accounts for these people its called Thickasfuck.com check it out,

that is something like we get offered, just a massive tangled up big mess,

If you want a proper game of pick up stix we cleared this in 2018 1.75 hectares of spruce windblown on some very wet ground and before any one says it, why didnt you get a harvester in, ground conditions just to wet ,

Big trees are not to be messed with if your not sure on what your doing, a 5ft diameter tree can be cut down with a saw fitted with a 25" bar if you do the sequence of cuts in the right order, and if it is rotten it becomes a lot more dangerous and needs a different approach and different cuts and if it is all weight one side and different cuts again just be very careful and if your not sure employ some one who knows what they are doing, we did a job last year where we cleared 180 big beech ranging from 3ft 6" to just shy of 6ft diameter not trees to be messed with, photo below is of a tree approx 5ft cut in to 3mtr sections,

Sad news that and thoughts with his family, thats the last 3 incidents i have heard about have all been north of the boarder,

Yes is a kubota 40hp, dont get stuck any more than any thing else its just finding that balance of how much to load the trailer in different ground conditions, we worked a very wet site with it a couple of years ago and traveled on a brash matt on the very wet sections , we extracted just over 260 tonne in 4 wks so not that bad,

been using it for 7 years now and it does very well, but dont take this the wrong way as the saying goes there is drivers and screw drivers ! one lad who works with us he could get it stuck on a wet towel but he hasent got a clue,every thing is flat out and that dont work with in forestry but many years of expierance does,

used to use a quad and timber trailer but trailer spent more time on its side so not a good idea, but if your jobs were all on flat ground it would work to a extent, been there and done all that several years ago and it was a total nightmare on our sites so i took the plunge and bought this,

combi can would be more than 2nd hand fuel tank, just could,nt be arsed going for it thou,

Hi mended a plastic fuel tank of a quad a few years back that had been chewed by mice, took tank off and filled with water for 24hrs then left it with fuel tap open and cold water tap trickling in to it for a few days, left to dry out then fixed the area with leak with a red hot glowing knife and bits of zipp ties, worked fine

from my understanding of high pruneing its always done leaving a 1-2" clean cut stub on the main trunk as to eliminate rot and decease setting in, that machine is only ripping the branches off, thus allowing pockets of water to settle in the cavaties and allow water in causing rot and then resulting in the timber be of low quality when harvested, we worked on a site with some Douglas several years ago that had been high pruned all trees had 2" pegs that had been painted on the cut end and all had to be cut off with a saw flush to main trunk, trees all took down with harvester then dragged to landing and sorted by hand then harvester sorted the tops out, but the stems where cut at 30ft and went for telegrath poles,

Never mind zimmer frame,, just thinking with the way i am at the moment, is there enough to make coffin ? i might heed one yet,,,,,

Hi had a simular issue a few years ago with a diesel sawbench that i run inside a building looked at other engines and then experimented with a extension to the exhaust, made up an extension and it worked ok, just fixed a stainless bit of flexi pipe to exhaust and then fixed that to a new upright piece of exhaust pipe and works fine.

Simon Archer his user name on here is wisewood