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spuddog0507

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  1. Oh I have 25ltrs of a aceitone it came with a job lot of paint, cool will try that, DONT put it on plastic thou, some plastics will be destroyed by acetone as aceton,s main use is for cleaning brushes and rollers in the fibber glass trade,
  2. Trashed a 461 last july on a windblown clearance saw ended up ramed in to woodland floor and the result was about £190 for back handle/tank, exhaust, front handle, chain brake/front hand gaurd and sproket/side cover, then another £85 for bar and chain, saw at the time was just 12 mths old and had done very little work untill this job came along, i was sick as f--k when i picked the saw up out of the ground and so the state of it, but better the saw than me,
  3. Some photos of the site and said trees would help your case, 15 trees 20-30 tonne ?
  4. its not just me then ? i thought to my self this morning, god i can strip a engine down, inspect, replace what needs replacing, rebuild and get running again, but i cant even put a ink cartridge in a printer, !!!!!!!!!
  5. this will do your sleep problems the world of good ? i am sure! its like owt else if you do it every day its easy, i have just put a new ink cartridge in my printer and just felt like throwing it out the window after several attempts at fitting it, its working but the low ink indicator light wont go out and did,nt want to try it till it did, so tried it now there is paper all over office floor, F-----G great,
  6. trailer bed high,t on 10 ft tipper on 12" wheels is 26" and wont be any higher on a 12 ft trailer,
  7. best addvise i can give you is just get a 12ft ifor tipping trailer and you will not be disapointed at all, i got to a stage where i was sick of handballing/ shoveling so i just thought bite the bullet spend the money and i bought a 10ft ifor tipper and i think its one of the best money/labour saving items i have purchased, came home from a job last night at 7.30pm truck and trailer loaded with chip just backed up to a chip pile tipped trailer, un hitched trailer backed truck up to pile tipped that off hitched trailer back up and away, it proberbly took me 1 man 15 mins to tip 4 1/2 - 5 tonne of chip, shoveling/raking it out would take how long ??,
  8. i know now,t ???? according to some,,,,
  9. Nearly sugested that i come and give you a lift for a day or two, but if you going to be like that i will go and fell some 100ft rhodeys in stead,,,,
  10. you will never get that roof on before christmas,,,, when did you start it 2000 & what ???
  11. Hi i have a 3.0ltr cabstar but it is only a single rear wheel, i think the gross weight is 3200kgs and the towing capacity on the vin plate is about 5800kgs ,crap really, had the truck 13 years now and i cant fault it been ultra reliable and the best thing about it is with the 3200kg gross weight i would not need a tacho in it, truck will pull like a train and the weight i put on the truck and trailer is a bit OTT at times but it dont look over loaded and pulls fine,
  12. get then corners up 4 or 5 courses one day, then just run it in day after, much faster 200 blocks a day,
  13. not FSC but i looked in to a FISA registeration a few monthes back and it just seemed like i was paying them to let me go to work, i think registeration fee was around £250 + VAT and they took about 25p per tonne of me for every tonne i sold wheather it be log form or chip,
  14. what ever engineering solution you come up with ? it will only need doing again and again in the future, from my past expierance in this subject there is only one answer, as we can not stop the forces of nature and that tree is only going to get bigger as time goes on and push the wall out even further and even lift the footpath, then thats another problem for the the property owner, once brick work is opened up like that it then becomes more vunarablle to frost damage and that will just accellorate the problem to some extent , remove it and plant another tree to replace it,
  15. Dont know what he is on ? But i would,nt mind some to give it a go <<<<
  16. an old bloke i worked with 35 years ago gave me so advice one day and that was, if its got tits or a engine it will give you trouble,,,
  17. havent been to look at any other fields yet as 3240 acer takes a bit of getting round !!!!! and yes we do have a lot of pigeon shooting, ,and wheat round you that went in 2 wk ago is that high all ready ? its not all put in in sept/oct you know,,,
  18. if your a farmer, apply for a more in depth licence ,, NON are of any use to any one and its costing thousands in lost revenue at the moment, 36 acre of wheat been stripped out just down road from me at what expense to the guy who owns it ? he hasent time to go cant put gas guns on as every one moans about them starting at 6am and as it reads,it has to be the land owner and who is doing the controlling, the licencing will be a lot different than it was 4 wks ago and when it will get sorted is any ones guess could be weeks or even months yet ? and this issue will break some small farmers as some are counting the cost all ready,,
  19. I think it will as there is no licences that are fit for purpose sorted out yet and how long this will take is ? how long is a piece of string ? you only have to go back to 2001 foot and mouth no shooting for 8 months and crows,pigeons and magpies just seem to explode in numbers round us, but the numbers of blackbirds,thrushes and song birds where dramatically down and that was just one breeding season,
  20. But Chris Packham wants to save all the corvides that do the damage to all the song birds, i think you had better ask him as he is a expert ? in this field,,, may be he could explain it to us all where the song birds are going but it would only be FAKE news ??????
  21. 1990 kubota L3250 40hp been abused for several years now extracting timber and still going strong
  22. i think i will need 1 or 2 more yet ?
  23. next week for me ?
  24. did i say i did,nt like it No, pearsonally i think the FISA refresher could be a lot better i found it very basic like back at cs31, on the day talked about saws, safty proceedurs, and setting tirfor winch up and got to fell 1 small tree and anothere cs32 sized tree (just) not allowed to do windblown thou , but windblown makes up about 60% of my forestry work, i think it could be included if thats what you do most the time, or am i wrong on this ?
  25. Got a saw in my hands nearly every day but just had to do a FISA refresher course at a coast of a lost day and £200 ish for 6 hrs doing the things i do every day but it ticked some boxes and thats about it oh and got a certificate that said i had been there, the thing what gets me is we all drive and there is more people killed on our roads in a day than there is in forestry and arb in a year, but do we do a driving refresher NO, i could possibly see this coming as another money making scam where if you are of a certain age you will have to renew every 2/3/5 years,

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