spuddog0507

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,

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,

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,

J is about bang on with rates, i do know of the odd harvesting crew that will pay up to £180 a day for a good cutter with the expieance, i was recently doing some spruce edge and over sized trees for a harvesting crew and got £12 a tonne of them working on a average of 3.25 tonne per tree doing 7/8 trees a day, had 8 days at it but had to have 3 days off after i got finished,was totally F - - - - D,

a bit shit that but the tec we have today makes me quiver, thats why i dont go near it as i would do something like yourself ,for me its landline number with answer phone, mobile with answer phone and a email address on pc at home answer one or two calls during the day but just sort it all out at home and if i need to ring back in office hours do it morning after,

whats NPTC level 3 unit 313 for then felling and crown break down of large trees over 760mm for then, ?

what was CS33 felling large trees over 760mm is still there, its nptc level 3 unit 313 fell and crown breakdown of trees over 760mm, i was having the same thing out with a FISA guy a few months back as i was lead to believe it was no longer but it is its just been worded different so you cant find it and it dont say how big the tree is untill you go on the acessment quertiun page on the link, but its like many things in life, if they left things alone we would all no where we are, but some knob thought they would try and fuck us all up by changing all the unit numbers and there trying to make the industry safer ??????

Yes, where to mam,,,,

hi for me its a old mcconell cuts up to 12" can log and plank with it, take it in to the wood and work in there with it, twin cylender petter diesel on it about 12hp, according to engine number the engine was manufactured in april 1953 and i would be very sure to say its the original engine, starts first swing in any weather and i cant make it use a gallon of diesel in a day, works well for me but i dont think it would pass any HSE inspection tho,

thats a proper fat boys breakfast

ifor trailers will hold there money better than any othere trailer out there which says a lot to me, as butters said new trailer every 2 years for £300 which works out at approx 40p a day, now thats cheep to have a new/newish trailer , the ifor i run is a 2014 10x5.5 tipper that is worked to death and nearly always overloaded, 2 services with dealer and 1 set of tyres so far, not had any problems with it as yet,

there are some good winches out there but one or two seem to be better than others and one thing i will stress is after sales service, a few years ago i went through this looking for a winch to go on a 40hp kubota and in the end after trying to buy one from a company down south i just bit the bullet rang jas wilsons and had a winch delivered the morning after, ok it was a bit more money but after sales has been fantastic, at 15 month old a pad came adrift, snapped the drive chain and destroyed the pad, rang them to buy a set of new pads and a couple of split links for chain, no payment was taken on the day but following morning parcell arrived with new pads, drive chain split links and 3 new sliders and 3 new logging chains along with an invoice for £00.00, rang them and asked about sliders & chains and was told have them on us for your trouble, i think that was a good jester and i have often thought would i had got that else where ????? i dont think so,

if planted at 3mtr proberbly at about 30 years but will have a lot of top in them , if they had been planted at 1.8- 2mtr would of made better trees and thinned at about 12-15 yrs would of been a better option,,

some people above are saying cabstars dont carry the weight well ? well i tend to disagree with that, but you can make your own mind up on that one, had mine 14 years at the end of Feb and i can not fault it at all, carrys weight well and dont look over loaded pulls ifor 10ft tipper about most of the time and pulls what ever you put on it and what we put in the trailer, have been on a weigh bridge with pick up and trailer loaded with beech and sycamore but i dare,nt say what the weigh ticket said,,,,,