spuddog0507

No not that bothered about any work at the moment, had a cold/flue thing now for 13 wks and its getting to the stage that after several visits to my GP its starting to make me think do,es he know what he his doing ? will be back at end of this wk demanding answers and a better treatment, then after that is i can get sorted i will be having a few days shooting as missed several all ready and not happy about that, got 28 big oaks to get on the floor either late jan or early feb, then every thing else can wait another wk or 2 as i have one or two lifelong goals to settle and one is to catch a 30lb + pike from a 100% natural water so thats most of mid late feb taken up then i suppose i will have to go and do something, we have a 38 hectare clearfell due to start march/april so there will be some big edgers to get down which will keep me quiet for a wk or 2,

do you get paid for a full day if you do a full day ! and him making more profit as you put it is fuck all to do with you, thats how small firms keep going, are you aware how much it costs to run a small outfit, be thankfull he is finding you work and if your not happy get out there and find your own work and get set up yourself and then it might hit home that its not all about turning up at 8am and going home at 4pm, Just had a young lad that has moaned and winged about several things in his first month with us never happy about any thing you ask him to do, he his now looking for another job, and another thing is you work in a very tight knit job where a lot of people know and talk to each other and bad news travels faster than good news in this job be careful what you say!,

Well there is times in life when you really need to keep things to yourself, and this is one of them, the way you have worded it and as i understand it, you want a full days pay for half a days work ! you say that you get a job done and then the boss puts another job on as there is time left in the day to do it, and the aggrivates the shit out of you, your words , i dont see any thing wrong with that at all, a days paid work is a days paid work, or have things changed ! what you say in your post that tells me as an employer you dont want to do the extra job, but yet you still want paying ?, thinking forward and how many other people are reading this and are thinking the same ! i dont think you have done yourself any favours here, Good luck but shoot self in foot comes to mind,,,,

1.2x1.2x0.8 = 1.152 so yes your right its not far of a cubic meter its over and if that bag was full of agregate it would be over 2 tonne and i think you will find legally they can only put 900kgs max in a bag and it is a single use bag only by the builder merchant,

Yep they have gone up and i believe they will go up again when we pull out the EU, got a 660 of Dick Liegh when 661 came out and it was £748 , remember (just) when the boundry was moved and at the time my grandad had the snow ploughing contract with west riding county council for keeping the road open from Dunsop Bridge to Long Preston, remember him being out nearly every night or day for about 3 wk in the early 70s,

And he run over by a speeding Labrador in the dark one morning !!

Bloody hell Swinny i know your not that far from Yorkshire and just still in lancashire but your starting to sound like a yorkshire man with prices,,

Been out on a shoot today and one lad there i was talking to has used both 462 and 500l in both felling big spruce and hardwoods and windblown he said there aint a lot between em but 9 times out of 10 he just picks the 462 up as he said it just feels better in his hands and its a bit better on fuel, 462 is on a 20" bar and 500i on a 25", but like he said today do you need a saw with a bar bigger than 20" and answer to that is no i dont only every now and then and for those times when i need a bigger saw n bar i will just give my 660 a run out, 462 is looking like what it will be for me,

thanks for your input on this subject its much appriecated, a bit old school myself and i have to addmit i do like things i can fix myself, but as tech in saws is going we wont be able to fix owt our selfs before long, Huskeys i was put off them many years ago when i guy i worked with ran em and they never seemed that reliable, at that time i would of been on 038s ok a heavy saw but it kept going and its still used today buy a lad down the road for firewood, Huskeys have never done owt for me since then but one thing i always look at is trying to keep things local i have 2 stihl dealers with in 10 mins of me nearest huskey dealer 45 mins so for me it makes sence to buy stihl,

Out sidders will be its main task over the year, but got some nice gun barrel straight big oaks on one job to do which will be 30"-36" dbh with the odd one a bit bigger, so was thinking on the lines of having a 500i on this job as i think these Oaks would be a good testing ground for one,

Had a bit of a do with a 462 about 6 months ago and i thought it felt pretty good and as you say not a lot of difference till you get to the price tag, both the 462 and 500i feel well balanced and both have good pick up and produce a noticable bit more power than a 460/461 but as you say the older saws are workhorses and all the 460s and 461s i have had have given very little trouble if any only thing i can remember is putting a new oil pump in a 460,

thanks for that and yes i did notice a bit of kickback and chain chatter when boring in to a log the other day, and the pick up is very imperssive, and the weight and power makes it one to really consider, i all ways thought 460s and 461s where very good saws but this 500i is something else as i see it,

Hi all just wondering if any one on here uses a stihl ms500i on a fully blown commercial forestry basis Not ringing a tree up in some ones back garden for an hour with one, would like feed from some one who uses one for 7-8 hrs a day, reason i ask is i had an hour on one the other day and all i can say is what fantastic saw, picked it up and it instantly felt lighter than the 461 i use every day and then when i cut some rings off a length of sycamore with the 500i it seemed very imperssive, cut well and just seemed to get on with the job a lot faster than most saws i have used, so thinking of replacing a couple of 461s and it more than likely would of been the new 462 but since using the 500i it now comes in as a serious contender, so if any one out there is using one daily is it doing for you what it says on the tin ? has it been ok for a month or 2 and not been any trouble as i know its relativly new tech and generally there is some problems to iron out,? , thanks in advance for replies,

Yamaha Honda Suzuki all about the same and in my eyes only 3 worth a shout if your going to put them to work, my old 350 yam has been so reliable over the 12 years i have had it and it hasn,t had a easy life at all, its moved several hundreds tonnes of timber over the years and taken 1000s of fence posts out,

Its a strain of beech, we took a fair few of em down about 10 month ago, bark very course and the timber is very heavy and dense, we have about 15 tonne stacked in yard, and pretty sure Rough hewan took some for milling !!!!

Hi good to hear your mum is ok but its as the saying goes, better to be safe than sorry, a lot of us have all these issues to come in life and at times i would think they can be quit worrying,

Hi can i correct you there Meindal i allways find the other way, if i buy a size 10 they are very tight so i get 10 1/2 and much better, every thing else boots shoes & wellies all 10s can you not go and try before you buy, i would do to be sure,

A guy i pick up with his daughter works in the NHS and is very high up, i was chatting with her at a function about 12 mths ago and she said they could not get staff to come in to NHS employment and if you remember about that time there was TV adds for nurses GPs and teachers on tv every day, there was all so that many finanical cut backs in the NHS as well which is probably why the service is so bad, but the burning question is ? if the money that is being spent on HS2 was shared out between all the local councils our NHS hospitals, doctors surgerys, schools and roads could all be sorted out and be back where they where 10 years ago, and that would be a better position than they are today, so if we was not to have HS2 which would suit me as it is something that we really need ? i would choose a better NHS and roads over a bit faster rail link to London,,

cheers steve,

There not that more productive, on a site not long since with a small purpose built forwarder and my old battered outfit and there was only about 5 tonne difference at the end of a 10 hr shift, but there is one thing that comes to mind is the opperator expierence the guy on the purpose built forwarder had only been on it for about 6 months and he addmited he was still learning, but the purpose built forwarder only has one use as my tractor has several roles, 2 days after extracting, trailer unhitched of my tractor and winch fitted on, 5 days winching then another 2 days extracting, then week after topping a horse paddock off and moving shit with tipping trailer, so i think its 6 of one and half a dozen of the other on this issue, but thats my view,,

There was one set very much like the set in your video up here just north of preston a few months ago on the A6, lights up and working and a section of road coned off but nothing going on work wise, later in the morning there was a accident on the M6 that closed all 3 south bound lanes and 2 of the north bound lanes, all traffic of the M6 was diverted down the A6 but the said tempory traffic lights caused a 37 mile tail back after 4 hrs, all roads around us where choked up till near on midnight, and the amount of these sets of lights that are used nowadays are beyond belief,

Hi a mate here has a 2.2 ranger ltd only about 15 months old and wont of done a thousand miles a month, so its not quite like your issue but it has been back to the ford dealer with the same issue of the clock not resetting after filling with addblue, his truck was in about 5/6 months ago for a new sensor fitted to the addblue tank which on some rangers is a problem that repeats itself as the addblue affects the sensor, it is not a easy fix either as the tank is not the easy to get at and its the rear skip/body off, hope this is of help to you,

Hi feel for you on that one Stubby, have 2 labs myself not big dogs at all but very solid for there size we where out on a shoot picking up the one in the photo was returning with a duck on some wet ground and it was in that much of a rush when she returned to me with the bird there was no chance of her stopping and she just took me clean of my feet, ouch and piss wet through and shit up.

Here you are Rough, get your panther mill out, a fair few quid there !!

So thats what happens up your street is it ?