spuddog0507

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 ?

Bought it about end of January this year, do you know who married the track frame to the chipper ?

i own the tracked one in the photo in this post,

Is this the chipper in question Gary ? came from your neck of the woods !

No i did,nt and i dont think many people would of thought it would take this long ! and you never know it may be another 3.5 years yet or more like not at all, they started some road works on the M6 just after the referendum and you will never guess, the road works are now finished !!!

you could of had at least 3 years coining it in off them trailers ??? if only we had known that the people with in parliment where all going to act like a load of 5 yr old school kids and could,nt make a decision to save lives, parliment at the moment all ways reminds me of the haribo TV add,

Tedious beyond belief,, your not wrong there, we had to do a FISA refresher in Feb of this year, 95% of our work is either windblown or big stuff, the amount of trees under 15" i have felled in the last couple of years i can count on my fingers, but on the refresher we where doing small trees not what we do every day, my thoughts on this refresher course is that its just a money making thing, how often do we go for a driving refresher course ? i aint been on one yet and been driving 38 yrs now, and i would say that a car,van,pick up or a truck would kill anyone who was stood in the wrong place at the wrong time,!!,

Totally agree with the above and it has certainly got people talking about it, and when this happens there is generally a sales increase, and in the shit time of Brexit is it a ploy to boost overseas sales if so good on them, as you cant beat a bit of forward thinking and this to me is forward thinking at the top level, once over we where called Great Britain and lead the world in engineering but today i dont think so, may be this is the start of a great british engineering empire again and my hat is raised to all the staff behind this project, and i am sure John Cyril Bamford would of been very proud of this world record project,

do you think it would make a differenc cherry or clear ?

very good at biting my lip these days, mind you i have to be with some of the arseholes i have to work with, once over i would of just told him to F - - K off and left it but i so it as a very cheap load of timber and as some one has said, doing someone a favour, ?? every day is a school day no matter how old you are,,,

Had a simular thing myself a few years ago, it was at a time when yard and building was full of wood, anyway we went and did a job 1 lime 1 cherry and 2 small birch, A few weeks before i had been asked by someone for some cheap wood so a couple of days before we was to do the job i rang this guy explained what it was and there would be a cabstar pickup and ifor tipping trailer full a price of £80 was agreed ,cash left in a bag under the bin, went tipped off collected cash and home, gets a phone call about 6pm with this guy going mad that i had tipped it in the wrong place he wanted it through the car port to the top of his drive and he could only get one car on the drive, i just said calmly ok i will come back and help him move it so we loaded it up and he said i want it here,so i asked him who was repairing car port after i had destroyed it as truck and trailer wont go under, i just looked at him gave him his cash back and said that i will go and turn the timber in to £600 jumped in truck and left, 18 month later i am delivering 2 bags of the said logs next door but 1 to where i tipped the timber off originally, and this guy was telling me that no one in the street bothered with him as he was one of them that was never happy and moaned about every one in the street, happy days,

will make a point of a day up there again when its a bit warmer, all our lot are on the Santa special from Haverthwait to lake side again this year they all enjoyed it that much last year it was booked again just in to the new year,

Been on lyl Ratty a few times over the years, i take it is still running then if your doing railside works, just thinking it would be a good day out with grand kids,

there will be 100s of them ridges about round the country, and i would say you aint tryed that hard to find one ? there is posts above with them for sale in cement fiber but the ones on that roof will be asey, ring a someone who dismantls and removes asbestos they will bin loads of em, or to put a flat plastic coated ridge on, as used on box profile roofs would cost you about £40 for 3 8ft lengths and a couple of hrs to do it, not that expensive really,

first of all forget chipping brash in a woodland enviroment, if the trees are dead as you say the brash will shatter when the tree hits the ground and you will have very little brash to deal with, and what is on the floor just leave it to go back in to the ground for new growth to flureish on

wood is a bit like a sponge it will take moisture in even out of the atmostphere if it is wet shitty weather like we are getting now, i have had customers buying kiln dried logs in september (not from me) and then ring me asking for some dry logs that burn, when there problem is not the kiln dried logs they bought and now dont want to burn like they did when purchased the problem is the storage area where the logs are stored outside the back door where it dont get much breeze and even less sun, in weather like this it is hard to keep logs at reasonable moisture content so they do burn hot,

Now that guy knows what he is doing but some where in S10 he has rough do ! but top cutter in my book,

and i believe Shellby stanga passed away as well ?

Gabe Rygard killed in a car crash while filming S10, Jimmy smith cancer who was in the helicopter ??