spuddog0507

Yep Bucking Billy Ray what a prick, seems all gob and wind and runs a fleet of crap antique saws, the rest the show is fine,

you where a bit slow there Steve we have just had Bonfire night,,,, only 362 days till next one thou !!!!

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As stubby says you get what you pay for, the chains i find either dont sharpen as well as stihl or oregon, some of the rototech chains i have had there will be one or two cutters that are either hard or to soft ! there does not seem to be a hardness consistancy on the cutters, only time i now use rotatech chains is for cutting arb waste up dont use them on the forestry work any more, Oregon chains i find to be about the best for price and durability, only thing i can say about rotatech bars are they are heavey,,,

Hi there is a guy here in lancs with a mobile woodmizer mill he is on £350 a day plus a bit of traveling and blades so you may be a bit cheap at £30 an hour but if it will benifit you in the long run with this guy having a good supply of timber, your may be not that far off and there is one thing i all ways say is look at these things from every angle, and dont just think about tomorrow think well a head especially if you think there could be more to come from the same source, the guy above is not mad busy but steady away he dont addvertise any where but if i rang him it would be 2-3 wk before he could do owt, Have a look round and you will come up with a realistic answer the guy who is rushed off his feet with work is to cheap, the guy who sits at home 4 days a week is to expensive, i am sure you get picture,Good luck with it as well,

dont know what happened to the original text that was in this reply with the photos ! it aint loaded up,????

i was,nt going to say owt but when i was talking to Ball,y a few week ago we was on about this and he said about 1,5 tonne and the newer machine a bit better at about 2 tonne, but was reading all replies above and just amazed that one will lift 8 tonne ????..

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,