spuddog0507

there is several addverts like this on f book and other sites they are truely taking the piss, one add read very large oak tree that i want removing from the bottom of my garden main trunk is 40 inch in diameter so exellent for making something out of, i would like someone to take tree down and remove trunk and the small branches in exchange for this very valubable piece of timber as i would like to keep the log wood for my fire, tree must be 200 year old and weigh in excess of 20 tonne, one guy i know went for a look and tree was about 40 cm not inches rotten at the base and full of nails where some kids had had a tree house in it, to remove was up a incline of about 20 degrees on a lawn for approx 25 mtr then a flight of 8 steps then round to the front, this is about 3 yr ago hence the tree is still there when john looked at said tree he explained that it was of no value to any 1 and gave him a price of £600 to remove was told it was to expensive, unfortunatly this is what we have to deal with at times,

as woody says, and if that fails if it is sticking in the same place it may be a bent ram, ??

last few times i have been in old Dick is in the back counting all his money and his lad just wants to sell me a husky which will never happen with me, lads i work with who use huskys seem to be all ways fixing them and its not as if they are old saws either,

yep i agree with that the old 260 bomb proof along with the early 261, then it all went sadly wrong, 1 lad who works with us bought a new 261 in 2015 4 month old in for a rebuild then again 5 months after the first rebuild then another 4 months and it was in again so he said fuck it after that, but the new ones are a different saw they feel better balanced and seem alot more zippier,

the latest 261 has been vastly improved, saws from about mid 2017 where vastly improved on balance ,handling performance and reliabilaty with the needle roller, had one for nearly 12 months now and no issues what so ever and its not as if it is sat in a van all day or at the side of a chipper because its not its working if a forestry enviroment as a de limbing saw when we are felling edge trees its just done a 5 week stint along with a 461 and been useing 7-8 ltrs of fuel a day between both saws .

yes i have been on the cabbage and collie as well and things a starting to move a bit now, will be at storm force by about half eight,,,,

yes heard that one myself it will have more issues yet as well,,

some poor tree surgeons van proberbly,,,

i bet it was stolen ????

NO i am going to keep your 460 instead, ??????????

i think that could be the man was with him on a FISA refresher last thurs and it just made me think twice about getting a 462 after i heard that, but the thing that piss,s me of is that in august i bought a 2017 461 of a lad that would of not had 5 ltrs of fuel through and sold it with in an hour of owning it and now i wish i had,nt,

Well i just dont see the point of arguments like this, when 99% of the people stating what will cut what and what saw will be best when they have never seen one yet alone used one, i just see it as stihl and husky competing with each other, for me its the old school toys as the more technolagie that goes in to saws the more time they will spend in a workshop when they go wrong, i was thinking about a 462 but having second thoughts now after spending last thursday with a lad who has had one since last may, ok revs its nuts off cuts well but has blown the bottom end out all ready, 8 wk with out it and from what he said its a 362 bottom end and i allways under stood if you more power through something you should uprate some moving parts ?, i see trouble ahead captain, for me its 461 660 but i do have a old 460 that i used yesterday first time for a while and it seems to be better than the newish 461 i own,now weather the 460 has been played with i dont know but the 460 461 & 660 i can fix myself 462 ? and 500i i dont think so and it will be some time before the stihl mechanics get up to speed on repairing them, and its got a primmer bulb just like a ryobi or a bag of shit saw out of B&Q, thats going backwards to me and something else to go wrong, so to top it off i just dont see the point of buying the new modles till they have been out some time like 2 or 3 years but some lads will buy them as soon as they hit the dealers just to say they have one, and sorry but its these lads who are going to be saying either best saw i have ever had or biggest bag of shit i ever bought, lets see what happens,

cant see how that works ? i have a ifor trailer with cage sides that holds 4cubic mtrs of split logs but when i bring that trailer back to yard full of rings and then split rings up i get 5-6 ibc cages of split logs, so my volume goes up once rings are split but that will do as you have just increased the air gaps.

hi are you looking to buy a nail gun ? as i have a Bostich qun and nearly 4 boxes of nails 3 boxes 60mm and 1 box 38mm it was bought by someone who was going to make thousands of pallets but only made about 30 then it all went tits up, i dont want a fortune for it just want it out my way as i have no use for it PM me if interested,

why do most of the interesting videos i watch have shit music on them ?

i was going to put your name forward ?

outrageous you may think but when you look in to how much effort goes in to felling and extracting some small parcelles of timber along with the machinery needed to do the job and as you said its getting harder for you to make a decent profit with logs, but you will of had it good for a long time, its only this last couple of years when us as a small scale forestry co have started to make a little bit more money than we have for years and its now got to a stage where i can pick my jobs, last friday was a perfect example roughly 70-80 tonne of beech ash oak and birch on a rocky crag at the rear of a stately house land agent wanted us to extract uphill and pay him £25 a tonne,, this rocky crag is between 40 & 70 degrees , he wont let us extract downhill which would be a shed load easier and faster for us, when i asked him why not downhill,there are sheep in the field, so i just turned round and said your not making it easy and left him with something to think about and that was, if we have to extract uphill we take the timber and you pay us £25 a tonne as well and if we extract downhill i will give you £15 a tonne,went and met him again today and we walked up the crag about 10-15 meters going uphill he slipped flat on his face, i just said your only carrying a clipboard and your on your arse, get a saw in your hand a couple of wedges and a 10lb sledge hammer and then see how hard it is, when we got to the top he was puffing and panting and i just said come on only 49 more times up and down and then you can go home, he didnt take me up on that and he just said its harder than i thought is that, it may be best to go down hill, all he wants now is £25 a tonne of me but i am sticking to my guns on this one at £15, if i had to pay his £25 i would not even make a wage out of it given the terain we would be working on,

sorry i cant see how you can write a template for any forestry job and use it time after time as every job and job site hold different hazzards i.e ground conditions,gradeant,loose rocks etc you get the picture, i have been writing risk assessments with in forestry work now for quite a few years and if i had a pound for every one i have done i would be quite well off, just after christmas i wrote some thing on a risk assessment that i have never written before and that was very very wet spongey ground with very high water content then had to ammend this after lunch, with up to our knees in water as the moss layer on the surface started to break up hence 2 off us piss wet through, are these cutters ticketed up for windblown ? or just some lads with a saw ticket like CS31 ? as i said before it should be the cutters with the expierance doing the risk assessment as they should know what they are looking at and know the risks if they do this task on a regular basis.

yes you will need felling license for that many trees , get in touch with your local FC guy and get then to walk round with you and he will explain the process to you and it will not be quick,

morning as a cutter who does a fair amount of wind blown clearance i can not see how you can write a method statement and risk ascessment on clearing windblown trees when you have told us that you are unfamiliar with chainsaws and windblown clearance, from my many years in windblown clearance i can tell you that nithere you or me could write what you need with out being there looking at the job in hand as every tree will act differently and as cutting in windblown is one of the most dangerous jobs you will come across in forestry work, the trees if cut wrong can create a very dangerous situation for the cutter and let me stress a 2 tonne tree under tension when severed will not stop and wait for the cutter to move out of the way, there is a lot to be considdered and predicted by the cutter in windblown and its not a job for the faint hearted, best addvise i could give you is take the volunteers with you to ascess the site and ask there expieriance and you take notes on what they are telling you and then write it up, from my past expierence its usually the cutter that does the risk ascessment and method satement not some one who knows nothing about the task in hand, both yourself and your volunteer cutters be carefull as there is a little more to this task than most people realise, good luck and stay safe,

how much you looking for ? have some spaulted beech ash sycamore and possibly some alder and hornbeam? where in west yorks are you ?,

been trawling the net all last night and to night and i have just come up with 2 options one is a ex MOD container trailer that would need very little work to get it to where i want and the other is a old stepped arctic trailer the ones with the small wheels on em both would be a cheaper option than starting from scratch with a new one, so i will have to make an execative dession and work out which would be the better option, then i will let you know how it works out.

look ok got BF goodridge AT2s on the back of a l200 makes a big difference and as the saying goes nothing ventured nothing gained,

there not a bad old truck at all and your 04 plate with the 3ltr in it is a proper work horse and pulling machine, i have one and yes the are crap of road and you really have to be gentell with them when on grass if i was going to fit 2 new tyres to the rear i would go for a good all terrain tyre my self,

built by myself and ag engineer who has built a few trailers and several forwarding trailers in his time, looked at a trailer he built 25yr ago the other day and it will still be working in another 25yrs.