spuddog0507

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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.

Hi all looking at a possible build of a fast tow timber trailer with a gross wieght of about 5.5 tonne and be able to carry approx 4-4.5 tonne of timber does any one know of what braking system would be required for that weight, air is definatly available oil i am unsure on that at the moment, trailer will be towed at up to 56mph so a purpose built timber trialer wont do the job due to design and tyre speed rating, any help will be good to know,

have you seen the thread for Ash cordwood for sale roadside ? £60-£65 per tonne at roadside, so i think you can increase your £40 a tonne by quit a bit,

5 years ago i was buying in 25 tonne loads of part seasoned hardwood for £45 tonne today its £70 + had a haulier ring me about 12mth ago ish offering a full load of ash for £87 tonne Madness yes if your buying but a bit of a bonus if your selling, and the way i see it is it wont be long before the price of fire wood makes gas & oil look cheap for heating,

yes you are correct oak is oak and greenheart is greenheart, oak you can cut but greenheart is as hard as timber comes bad to mill and blunt your saw in about 2 cuts if i am not mistaken its the best rot resistant timber known to man all ways use on docks and quey sides for its resistance to saltwater.

a lad i work with now and then who is in to the plant game wrote his supercab ranger off about 12 mth ago found a replacment for it on a 65 plate got it transported from the NE to lancs and had it at a mot garage for a inspection and it was all rusty underneath and the chasis was full of sand so been on a beach some where and then went to exiter to view another and that was worse but about a yr older so ended up with a brand spanker,

hi got a old l200 on a 54 plate about 2 1/2 yrs ago with 146k on it wasnt dear and came with 12 mth ticket on it, tows a 10ft ifor tipper about , not great on fuel but it does the job some people say there crap but i tend to disagree with this,its got 168k on it now been very reliable with no issues but where it came from it had been looked after and had what ever it needed and it only came from a house 3 feilds away so i knew it, its not a racing car and 70mph is fast enough in it, it has very little corrosion underneath and at the moment i would not part with it as it saves me so much leg work in the woods and it is supprising where i go in it, may be worth a look,

i think you may know this with being in the milling game for a while, what would be a fare price for good clean beech 450-750mm diameter be ??? its for TCT cutting so going in to furniture, i would be interested in your view on this as got some one after 2 loads (arctic) and they have made me a offer,,

that at £60 a tonne was some big rough and i mean rough buts that where fit for nothing but either firewood or chip, rot in middle some had big limbs cut off at about 3 ft above ground level, it came down in that beast from the east winds, was about 200 tonne of it and Tweedls bought it,

big beech and oak butts £60 a tonne road side here £40 is way to cheap i could sell 1000,s of tonnes at that price up here but may be less demand for it in your neck of the woods ask £55 tonne r/s,

i think best thing to do is find simular sites in the area with same ground conditions that are planted all ready and ask the land owner when they where planted and ascess the trees for size and quality and that should give the answer, and a perfect example of that is 2 farmers near to me planted about 6000 nordman fir (for christmas trees) one farm will be cutting some 4-6ft trees for next christmas the other farm will be 2-3 years of that and its just down to ground conditions,

looking at those figures quoted sitka is by far the better option of yeild per year,

what ever you or your friend/client decide to do, first thing to do is ask your local FC guy there are still grants available and espeically for creating new woodlands, new woodland grant is or was all fencing and gates paid for, trees, tubes and stakes supplied and then a maitainance payment paid every year for up to ten years, if you was to contact the FC they would dissguss with you what payments are available for what type of trees planted, and i know they do like hard woods, one other point i can add is deer management as if not controlled you wont have any trees in 3 yrs, on a site i work on deer have destroyed about 6.5 hectare of spruce planted 2 year ago, the guys who have the stalking only go about twice a year,

but i love my job very much, but that £12 a tonne gives you the insentive to graft and make good money,self employed at it so suit my self when i go, mainly forestry work felling,extracting and do a lot of windblown, i all so work with a few arb crews but have to addmitt i do get boared waiting about but if getting paid its ok,