spuddog0507

Hi at 8ft they would be approx 1.6 tonne depending on moisture content,

My first thought was, he was going to be asking for a cure for a chapped arse ???

she sounds all right on the phone ? but knowing my luck she will be about 25 stone in which case i would get more than my fare share, and looked at my 460 and 461 this morn and your right it wont fit,

is it the same as the old 460 ? if so there is a shop on ebay called stihlasgood she is called kim and is very helpfull i have had a fair bit of her and if ordered before 3pm allways here morning after,

Todays world is not like it was 30-40 years ago when i was at school we had a bit of respect for the teachers not like today where the kids rule the class room and thats where it all starts at school, as the youth of today just dont want to work and they would look at that video and say i am not doing that, i would of jumped at the chance to do something like that at 15 instead i ended up working in a saw mill making 8000 6x3 posts for the side of the M55, when i get a new lad working with us i can generally tell with in an hour or so if he will be any good or not by the way he handles a saw and if he looks shit scared of it i will try and put him right but some times i might as well bang me head against a wall and its these guys that generally have the accident first,the guys who look like they will be ok will be,

well one way to look at this is just look at what the zero (electric bikes) have done on the isle of man at the TT they have come on so much in the last 5 yrs and are now lapping at over 100mph, so i cant see why saws cant end up on battery power, BUT how big a saw can be created to run on battery power in commercial forestry ? before you need a Quad bike and trailer to get all your batteries there with out killing yourself before you start, i can see a saw like a ms261 being on battery power in the next 5 yrs, but for a saws like a ms461/462 i think is a long way off yet, i have just bought some new litheum batteries for a drill and what a differance to the old nicad ones,

Hi my dad has one on a 04 plate he has had it 9 yrs now and it has cost him nothing to keep it on the road only tyres, brakes and recently he has put its first replacement exhaust on it, its been 100% reliable and lives outside all the time and body work is mint, its a 1.8 petrol and last time i drove it it was returning 37 mpg, if he was to sell it i would,nt think twice about it but i know he wont be selling it as it has been so good for him, i think its got about 80k on the clock so not mega miles on it.

your not wrong there Khriss on a job at the moment with some big beech in it and there is one or big lumps in there, 1 cubed up to 12 cube and will hit the deck with one hell of a crash, and i love it,

In old money cs32 was and still is medium trees the old cs33 was large trees over 750mm and this still does exsist as felling of large tree and crown break down,i agree with you Kriss a tree of 380mm is not that big really, but to some it will be massive, its not that long since some one rang me and said i have a very big pine tree in my garden thats swaying about in the wind and all the earth is moving round the base can you come and take it down, got there looked at it and customer said you wont do it in a day as some one else had said day and a half, it was under 12" and about 20-25ft tall, 2 hrs done and 2 brews as well. photo below is a big tree saw is 461 25" bar stump 52" across,

how do you get 0.9 of a cube out of a 850x850x850 bag which = 0,614125 of a cube if they are selling and advertising them as a cube, thats not right and breeching some trading standards some where, if i was in your shoes i would mention that and if they dont want to play ball just ask them to come and collect there logs, give em 5 working days then tell them you will be charging a storage rate,

i will buy that one, classsic yes, a ford 6610,7610,7840 tw 15 tw 20 tw25 or if cash was no object i would go for the full monty county 1164 1174 or any county would do me but my dream would be a super major roadless,,,

Just a point if your not up on the type of machine your looking for, get some one who knows about them even if you have to pay them it could pay dividends for you, there is a lot of machines out there that have been neglected early on in there life and that all reflects later in the machines life, i would say your better off upping your budget and getting something newer, lad down the road from me bought a MF 4wd about 3 years ago but has spent more on repairs than what he gave for it,

video on youtube severn valley ratters using plumber terriers to great success

Hi if you do buy a trail cam get one with black LEDs as if they are acctivated in the dark they don,t show up, and you get to keep your camera along with the footage it has captured,

Yes but he has had it 11 years now and only been serviced regularly and he has just put his 2nd set of tyres on it so not that bad really but to be moaning about an exhaust as the original one should of lasted longer,

Hi i remember it well, some good points there you raised, i remember having a bath by candle light on a regular basis, my Dad being put on 4 day wk then 3, then 2 and then being laid off for 6 wk as there was restrictions put on the amount of power a company could use, i remember we burnt most of our daily bin rubbish as there was no bin collections for wks, back then my dad had a very good firwood round we had a deal with a sawmill that we took his slab wood that was all cut on site with a fergi bench on the back of a David Brown 25D we had a shed at this sawmill and storage space, we where selling logs in the old 50kg yellow or blue ICI fretilizer bags 5 bags for a £1 and as coal was in very short supply to the public for heating we where selling logs nearly every day as he was not at work, but this didn,t last long as there was no power for the mill, so the miners strike had a massive knock on effect and if she had not done what she did the miners would of basically shut the UK down, i could,nt even play the records i had bought, and at this time i was listening to the likes of The Clash, Pistols, Sham 69, Gen X, Blondie, Members etc and i still do they where good times, but there was some shite chucked in to the mix as well, watch something on TV a few week ago about the late 70s and there was some footage i had not seen before which brings me to the point of the riots and looting that all so took place around this time, and the footage was of John Craven (with dark hair but same style as today ) reporting for his own news round with what i would of said was a flack or bullet proof vest on with bricks and bottles being thrown behind him not good but the country had been driven to this point by its own people, the life we have today i think stems back to the Thatcher era as there is some things she put in place that are going to benifit some of us now in our 50s, i was looking in to my pensions not long ago and basically when i make my mind up of when i am going to take 1 out i wont know what to do with it ? sat having a brew with my dad in the summer (about 3 wk ago at end of feb) having a chat and he said to me that he has never touched his state pension yet, but then moaning about having to fork out to put a exhaust on his car,,

hi noticed some out round here about 10 days ago, its a good point you made and sumit i will take notice of was in a woodland on sat morn and some sycamore buds just starting to open up in to leaf, hawthorn in sheltered areas are in leaf now,

any one else for this tree ? its for sale,

Just to put it bluntly to bloody many,,,, ms 181 fart box ( for sale ) ms241 ms260 x 2 one with a de-barking attatchment ms 261 ms 341 ms 460 ms 461 X 2 ms 660 08s 038 054 and a shity ryobi i had given by a elderly log customer

dont even make good firewood,,,,, timbers i try to keep clear of are Lime, willow, popular and Horse chestnut all very time consuming and boring,

hi where abouts in cumbria you based ?

Good point there, as there is 180 trees in this stand and approx 50% are beech with some trees being around 5ft dbh so not Micky mouse trees at all, this is the only one in this stand but there is another one with some rippling but its high up the trunk and no where near as pronounced as the ripple in this one,

you beat me to it as i have been asked the same question now several times and i cant answer it, so may be someone can ?? i think its some sort of stress related issue ? but proberbly wrong,

You know what you can do with yourself,,,,, i dont mind one or two small wrinkles but there,s just a few to many for me there and they would take some face paint to level out,

Hi we have a hardwood clear fell to start on Monday and while i was there this week i noticed this tree in the middle of the stand so will NOT be full of nails and washing lines, it looks a interesting piece of timber and rough diameter i would say 500-550 it may be bigger but will get a better spec when this monsoon has eased off, it must be worth something to some one for milling, if interested please PM me,tree is still stood and could be left for a few week yet the said tree is located near J3 M65,