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we get one or two decent views now and then !!

hi if you know of any one else who wants some proper pitch pine which are nail free, i have several lengths of 6x6 pitch pine which where reclaimed several years ago from the old wooden structure of the big dipper on blackpool plesure beach, and a hand held metal detector for about 20 quid of flea bay would not be a bad investment,

had that one this morning and i am pretty sure the one i had yesterday about my BT internet conection that i hav,ent got was the same guy from the far east ? just be careful he was,ent on phone long after i told him he was a paracite,

Hi we did some infected ash last week up in the yorkshire dales weight was very noticeable, went to move a log and it was very lite compared to non infected ash and one good thing about it when they hit the deck nearly all the brash shattered off em thus making the site easy to move about on, i am not sure if you got your numbers right J but i would say what we had was more like 20-25% down on weight,

Bloody hell rough have you got yourself a proper job ? instead of dossing about every day !

Thats why we have started dealing in scrap metal !!!

Sorry but as i see it it has been going on for 10s of millions of years its just that some one with HSBC & a TSB degree who gets paid a good salery noticed it and raised the point, we have all this technollagey today but does any one really know how it works ? or does it actually work for its designed purpose ? back in the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11 we had some quite harsh weather all the so called experts with in the met office decided we were entering another iceage, ! then from mid june 2012 it did nowt but rain till christmas then they where banging on about global warming ! the met office cant forcast the weather accuratlly for any more than 3 days, so what ever is predicted about global warming, i am sorry but the way i see it is, is that its just something for the highly paid so called experts to talk about. Now can someone please explain this to me if you can ? because i do not understand this at all, now with in our wounderfull house,s of parliment there is one MP handing out RHI (renewable heat insentive) payments to people who are willing to fit a boiler and burn either wood chip or log to create heat either for heating or drying floors, i know of several around us and the heat they create is quite intense, then sat opposite this guy handing out money every where is another MP and his job is fighting globle warming, can some one explain how this works please ? or is it just a load of shit and a jobs for the boy,s situation,

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simon archer from Formby he is woodwise on here top man and his work says it all,

yep been there done that, thats good addvise stay on the flat, your job sounds very much like one we did a few years ago felling larch to waste up hill by the time it stoped sliding down hill it hardly needed any snedding,

just stay where you are, as the saying goes, if its not broken don,t fix it

i know a few who have done well over the years, one guy doing council contracts on renewing footpaths taking the old york stone flags and kerbs up, shipping the stone off to London where it was worth about 3 times as much, another guy buys container space on ships then sells the space on for a nice profit, another guy used to buy stacks of timber from the FC like 5 or 6000 tonnes then sell it on for 1 or 2 pound a tonne more, and a relation who would be my gt uncle ended up with a million or 2 out of collecting and selling paper and plastic animal feed bags from farms etc,

Very unusual for that to happen ,but know how to run a saw ? and as for insurance well if you dont have a driving liecence would your insurance pay out if you had a road traffic accident ???

not winched in and away from power lines ?

i agree with you on this one western hemlock not scotts pine or leylandi,,

where do i get a application form from ? is the overseas trip at christmas shopping in Tihland ?

i get your point, but if machinery is maintained correctly and not neglected it will give service for many years, there are far to many of these people in this day and age who just say F - -k it i cant be arsed i will grease it, check oil and water tomorrow and they say it again the day after and the day after that and thats when things start to go wrong OK not on that day but at some point, all my machinery is checked daily for oil and water and greased every other, and my view on that is that oil & filters along with a few tubes of grease are very cheap compared to down time replacing metal parts, the guy who originally posted this thread dont sound to expieranced to me and the best addvise i could give is to go and do a NPTC training course and ascessment on winch use and i am sure he will learn plenty, like does it need a loler cert ???? no it dosent HSE state it dont and on the HSE website has been there for many years for every one to read, several years ago i asked a training organisation to do some training and ascessments for a couple of guys and i was told that the forwarding trailer would need a loler cert, when i said no it dont, he argued with me that he did and it wasent very happy when i asked him if he actually knew what he was doing with in his job, the price for training and ascessment per person was £1160 + VAT per person for 5 days and we supplied the eqipment ,,

All forestry lifting cranes are loler exempt so i cant see a winch needing a loler cert, As loler regulate lifting and loading a winch is pulling so why would it need one, worked in forestry for a fair time now and never heard of this one before

I think for a transit its not that bad, i was paying near £600 for a transit 10 years ago, then bought my cabstar and was paying about £165 for that and when renewed early this year it just broke the £200 mark at £208, i think transits are dear to insure because they are easy to nick, and when broke up the parts are easy to sell,with the amount of transits that nicked someone has to pay, and it wont be the insurance company,it will be you ,postcode has a big part to play as well, i use a company called willsons in manchester been very good but never had a claim,

Same here tryed to buy a winch of them about 4 years ago i asked i tech question and never got a answer, gave em 4 wks rang again asked same question,oh i will find out and ring you back in about 10 mins, well i am still waiting!, rang wilsons morning after asked same question got answer straight away, ordered, paid for it and was here morning after at 10am and dragging spruce and larch out with it by 12 noon, so that was my expeirance with them,,,

yep some of them italian 50s where fast one guy who knocked about with us had a malaguti not the best looking machine but for 50cc it was quick 70 + and if memory serves me right i think the exhaust split in to 2 and had one either side and i think it was 6 speed as well, a bit more refined than a fizzer but it kept breaking down,

No bullshit hill near us but if you knew what you was doing with them, yes they would do 60mph + with ease, a lot of people rant about ported saws being so much better than stock saws, so why cant a FS1E be made to greater speeds ? straight out the box a FS!E would do 56mph, several of us round here had them doing well in to the 60s, and one machine in particular would pull 72mph on the flat with a reasonable bit more down hill,

Yes around the £200 mark back then and it was a lot of money, a mate of mine Phil has recently bought one of a lad he knocked about with in the late 70s, the bike has about 350 miles on it from new and is as it was when put in a shed in 78 reason for the low miles is it was bought and ridden for just over a month then the owner at the time came off it on a corner with cow shit all over the road, original log book, hand book and the bill of sale and HP agreement, bill said £212 to pay,, Phil gave £300 for it BARGAIN,

back in the late 70s worked in a saw mill cutting rails.posts and pointing posts etc ,and dare i say it we did over 8000 6x3 posts for the M55, one of the partners there was a right character, very broad lancs accent, very striaght forward with things but yet honest, when he asked me one day what i was going to do with all my money i said i was buying a moped Yamaha FS1E, he just looked at me and said oh, well if its got tyres or tits it will give you trouble, then another day he asked me if i had started wanking and how far i could shoot, all i can say that at that moment you could of lit a fag on my cheaks, then one monday morning he was asking me what i had done over the weekend and did i manage to get any bras or knickers off, then asked me about getting to 1st or 2nd base,the conversation at times was not a bit but very crude, but i now find myself doing things like this,its not long since i told 1 young lad we had a puncture on the digger, he replied will any thing go right today then at dinner he was shouting across the site, found it its got a nail stuck in the track, i just left it, day after i was telling him about tartan and comouflage paint and how it was just one colour when you put it on then it all seperated in to its tartan and camo colours, his dad rang me that eve and how is son had been telling him about this clever paint that was tartan or camo and how it worked, his dad just said, i was struggling to keep a straight face but i did and i showed interest,he just asked me to keep it up,

whitehouse products @ port Glasgow on the clyde got about every motor and pump thats ever been made, and the service is fantastic order before 3 pm be in your hand morning after at 9 am.