spuddog0507

2.5 - 3k is only going to buy you a 10/12 year old 4x4 or even older and that is not getting away from the problem of running end of life vehicles, all i see there is even bigger repair bills than what you have had before double your money at least and look for the right vehicle that suits your needs, dont just buy the first thing you look at, look at several or even dozens before you make the plunge, and be patient as patients pays in the long run,

i think i have had 11 in 38 years but the last 12 years i have been running 2 vehicles, i think for your £6770 you could of bought a decent vehicle 18 month ago and probably still had it and it still worth a bit,

hi been using quads and trailers for many years to move timber on jobs, i find them ok on flat ground and gentle slopes but as soon as the slopes turn in to long climbs i find they struggle getting traction, quads and trailers have there place in moving timber but they all so have there limitations, used to have a twin axel crane trailer behind a quad and it spent more time on its side than the right way up, and another thing on quad trailers is the load rating on the tyres some are very low and others are a lot better, in the end i ended up building my own trailer with solid corner posts that act as bolster pins and all 4 cage sides are removable it all so has a manual tipping devise that works well,

Yes got the sharpener bar and chain here, will only go on domestic saws thou or have they altered that now ? the chain is different to a conventional chain but seen a add on FB showing a pro saw with chisel chain ? i used mine about 2 times on a stihl ms210 that some one gave me and the bar chain sharpener and a pair of saw gloves i won on arbtalk by just filling a questionair in about 7-8 years ago,

Larch makes very good firewood and is one of the better softwoods by far, larch is a very durable timber outdoors,i was on a site on monday where i have some larch stacked up, been there near on 3 year now and its fine, we dont have any problem selling any blocks of larch we drop due to so much being felled several years ago that was infected with pytothera so mills are starting to take what larch is offered to them, same with the fencing guys they like larch strainers and fence posts, done a few larch recently and not that far from you some good gun barrel straight trees that would be approaching 100ft + but all gone now,

yep looks a bit like,

swinny i would leave that well alone at the moment as there is a good possability that the arse could drop out of the chip market yet, the guy i rent my yard off has a boiler 2 arctic loads a week about £68 tonne for 20% moisture 6 wks ago and first load this wk £60 tonne and second load that cam today £58.75 a tonne delivered in, another place he gets odd load from its £45 tonne for chipped arb waste may be a bit wetter but mixes it in with the other to make it go futther,

allways found stihl tapes ok i think its just down to how rough you are with them i dont think many tapes will stand alot of abuse i only know of 2 tapes that have gone tits up first one was a lad who cut the tape with the saw and second was a subby i lent a tape to and when he got to the end he kept walking !

you are joking as i know of a decent Birch that came down on thursday! may of been a bit to big thou would of been high 20s low 30s diameter,

there has been some good threads on this site over the years and one or two good debates, i followed this site for a good while before signing up, and there has been some very good well expiearanced guys on here who have now disapeared, not deceased but just dont bother any more and i some times feel the same myself, and the reason why is plain to see, this thread started as a way to may be make the site good and a bit more relaxed but about 15 posts in its getting in to a argument WHY, as said before there is some good well expiearnced guys on here with well over 40 years in the trade and some even more, but you will all ways get some smart arse kid who knows ten times better than the guy who has been doing it for decades, and the people who just wont let go dont do the site any good either, there is quite a few i know personally that either dont post or dont even bother looking any more,it could be good again but needs one or to sit back a bit, i have put posts on here just to see what feed back i get and all i can say is there is some total knobheads on here who know a hell of a lot but in realaty know very little but just like to get there pennys worth in

If its the case of a clearfell of ash die back they may have the road closed so they can stand wagons on the road and chip direct in to them, i know of one or two jobs that have been done like that of late,

Hi is this to be used in Arb or Forestry work ?

A guy up the road from me imports diggers and compact tractors from japan but diggers are numbered diffrent to the uk i looked at a kubota KH31 i think ? 3.4 tonne machine very tidy low hrs but when i rang Pv dobsons and gave the modle number the guy just japanise machine that one diferent in many ways to a uk machine and the only part they could supply was track sprockets pumps drive motors all different to uk models,,,

I dont know if this is still going on but back in the 90s and early 2000s we as a country being the UK were inporting toyota hilux surfs and mitsibishi pajeros from japan by the boat load, come to end of life in japan and exported to uk, i looked at both and not expensive for what you got,

i bought a pair of stihl ones first used them for about half a day, i think they are in the tractor cab somewhere and have been there since i used them about 8 or 9 years ago so that goes to show how good they were,

Husky tongs are about the best out there loads of others but husky i find by far the best not the cheapest but you get what you pay for, had stihl and 1 or 2 other makes which dont compare to the husky ones,

I am supprised that you have not been unendated with offers, i have a job to start shortly that for someone like yourself would be a good learning ground 4000 trees on a thinning job to come out and most of them 6 -12 inch but your the opposite side of the country to me,

just go and buy the one you want ? if you listen to every thing on here your head will be up your arse ! both the 462 and 500i have been trialed on the continent for a while now and there has been a few 462s in the Uk for well over 12 months that where handed out by stihl uk for trials, i used a 462 on a FISA course at christmas and all i can say is, if i had,nt just bought 2 461s i would of waited till may and jumped on the 462s.

Oh i dont think that is good practice at all ! i would,nt even do that with a saw thats 1 , 2 ,3 year old, and these young lads that come working with us one thing i do tell them is start saw blip throttle let it tick over 15-20 secs then build it up to full revs, if you want to rev the bollox out of it when its stone cold go and buy your own saw there is no need for it, its a look at me with this big saw and all this noise i can make, if the bloke in the shop did that in front of me i would of taken a photo of sticker with numbers on and asked him to get me another unit and asked him why he did what he did ? i dont think it would say to do what he did in the owners manual ? if he has done that with your 151 that may be your problem ?,

Not negative at all its just alot of money for a small old machine! OK it will have its use and in the right place on the right timber it would be worth its weight in gold, but how often would you have the right job for it ? i looked at some small tracked skidders called oxtrack looked the dogs and what i was finding was 5 year old machines with 120/ 180/ 200 hrs on them so max of 40 hrs a year thats only a weeks work so something told me it was either useless at what it was supposed to do or tere just was not the work for em, there is one sat in a wood in south lakes awaiting repair and has been there several years now , why has the owner not repaired it ? i do know why and i did try to buy it but he said no it wants to be 2 or 300 miles away from here.

Thats a massive bargain ! bars and chains would be worth the asking price, if i was near by i would be asking to collect this evening, and pay cash, BUT i am sure it wont exsist or its a smackhead thats nicked it out of someones garage and just selling for some quick cash to fund there habbit, wont give a contact number ? pay your money via bank transfare, no come back on that ask about paypal and i bet they aint got a got a paypal account ? there will be a address but it wont be the one where the saw is, ask a few tech questions and i bet you dont get a answer, i would say total bullshit and just a scam stay clear unless your stood there with saw in your hand and can get out the door with it once paid ? There has been several of these adds about of late that i have seen mainly adds for small diggers and tractors as thats what i have been looking at one add of late read something like Kubota 3 tonne digger 2009, 1836 working hrs, starts on the button, recent new tracks, very clean and tidy £4250.00 payment via bank transfare only, no paypal or cash on collection as we dont do cash there days as bank transfare is much easier,, asked a question no reply asked about collecting it no answer, be carefull,!!!!

it is ladybower

Got told it was quite firm other night !

Hi first 3 are on some jobs we have been doing over a few years on Crummock water for UU different place when its lashing it down or snowing its tits off thou,