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Go back and give it a go for a day or 2 and see how you get on, open doors in to forestry work dont come a long that often and as for the football chat, well i am with you on that one can you not get them talking about the womens world netball championships, a lot more interesting than football,,

Forestry is not a job you just walk in to and be on the ball from day one, cutting to spec takes some getting used to, when the tree hits the ground you need to vissualy assces that tree and work out in your head (quickly) what you can get out of it to max out cost at road side, there is a cross over point from one product to another and as some products are more money roadside than others you dont want some thing cut at 1.8mtr when it could of been cut at 2.2mtr and that log worth a couple of quid more, We do not cut 1.7 or 1.8 fence posts any more that timber goes in the chip stack at 3mtr less cutting time, less arsing about with calipers, less forwarding time all for about £5 a tonne less, the numbers just dont add up on fencing posts for us, Drinksloe said buy a logging tape and while you are there buy your self a set of tree calipers as well, the only thing i can say about spec is that we cut several product lengths out of each tree and some are listed below, 450 and above would go at 2.5 mtr over size 500 - 350 4.9mtr saw log 500- 180 3.7mtr saw log 250 - 150 2.2 or 2.5 strainers 220 - 150 1.9 bars these are just a few as there is so many different specs to cut to it takes a bit of sorting, on a recent job we did there was 7 different specs 2.5 o/s 4.3mtr saw log 3,7mtr saw log 2.2mtr strainers 1.9 bars 4.9 mtr jump poles and 2.5 mtr chip,

No not a problem at all with them i have had one since 2013 and the fuel solenoid went about 3 months ago, when i took it in i was given a printed diagnostic report saying fuel solenoid but the thing that supprised me was 389 working hours on it which i thought was quite a lot for a small saw, got the fix done and now back in action on a regular basis, use it for snedding out as its light and a ballsy little saw, proberbly been the best saw i have owned and i have owned quite a few over the years,

£42 aint that much to have the right piece of kit for the job is it ? and i wont use it that often, i said that and how wrong i was, now have 2 800mm ones and a 1200mm one all get used thou,

CS34/35 singulare and multiple windblown,

you do right by getting the correct certificates (not licence,s as quoted in the email) i have CS 30,31,32,34,35 ATV , EFAW+F and several FMOC tickets and i dont regret doing any of them as if i did not have them i would not be doing the job i do which i love doing and really enjoy,

just had a look on there website and it dont give you much info about what there chainsaw courses consist of, i personally would not bother with that and just go down the NPTC route at least if you do that your certificate will be reconised by most major UK companies and as you said your money wont be wasted,

hi never heard of that qualification number, its not NPTC or lantera so what organisation is doing all that training and ascessing for £700 ? be carefull

best answer to this problem is tractor with loader and forklift on 3 point linkage,a tractor is a very versaitile tool as there is so many options as what you can do with it, if you have a small holding you would find many other uses for a tractor as appossed to a tele handler, with a tractor you could spread shit,saw till,mow grass, bale grass,run a firewood processor, run log splitter etc etc the list is endless, could you do all them tasks and more besides with a tele handler ?????, i have a old 1970 david brown 780 with loader and a sanderson 3 point linkage forklift at the rear manages to do every thing i ask of it and it aint sat there loosing money as its more likely gaining value,

Its only ten years old ,not lasted long then need another ten years to get your money,s worth,

yes and same to you, i have been for a dozen bottles of Pendel whitch and going for some more in the morning i think a head ache will be on the cards for boxing day. ???.

experience you cant buy,,, nice quote that Eddie,, i tell these young lads that come with me from a collage, read all the books and sit in as many classes as you want , but you will never learn it like you will do when your out on site doing the job, what it says in a book is not quite the same as what goes on out on site,

just read that and i for one would be 100% behind the farmer on that one,

AA contractors sending unqualified staff out with a PTO winch, now someone said to join the AA contractors list has it would bring me up to speed on risk ? to take a tractor and PTO winch on a site with no proper training is putting all on site at risk, because if your stood in the wrong place using a PTO winch is deadly, FMOC tickets are not the easiest to aquire as there aint that many guys doing the assessments, but as you say matty stood in the wrong place, pulling masses, pulling angles and where to pull from, you learn the basics in FMOC training but you will learn a shit load more when your out there doing it day in day out.

Shit happens, i said that several posts back, and it always will do,

Oh i understood it but the way it reads is if you write a risk assessment and do a method statement nothing will happen, and to become a AA approved contractor why would i need that to get up to speed on risk and how to manage it ? i do plenty of risk assessments with what i get involved with i run up to 8 cutters and they are all hand picked and if they dont come up to speed along with being safe they dont stay, simple as that,

Hi i think there is a misstake some where here CS30/31 would be cheap today at £700 and its generally 5 days plus a day for assessment, chipper 1 day £120 - £200 depending on how many are on the course, CS38/39 has got to be 6 or 7 days at about £1100 so if some one has offered all 5 for £700 in 5 days i would be asking some questions as how they can fit it all in to 5 days, i dont think its possible to do that be carfull,,,,

Hump someone he,s never met before, they always say dogs end up like there owner,s ? ? ?

got dogs my self mark and i am from a farming back ground so i see both sides, and for some ones dog to have a bit of fun with someones lively hood i dont see funny at all, and when a farmer askes you for a lift for 10 mins and you have to help him drag a carcase that is still pumping blood out in to a trailer its not nice and then he says well thats another £250 down the pan ,BUT its not the dog that is at fault its the the owner and if you cant train and keep a dog under controll in my eyes your not fit to own one, own 2 labs myself both from very good working lines not an ounce of fat an either of them and neither of them rarely go out on a lead and never had a collar on either but a collar out in the working field is no good, the second photo was the work of a pointer which was shot the morning after and delivered back to its responsible owner as he called his self,

if its in live stock you are totally within your right to pull the trigger, a relative of mine had a lot of trouble last year with dog walkers letting there dogs off on his land amongst sheep with lambs, he lost 14 sheep and 9 lambs in a week last year due to dog owners letting there dogs off, he armed his self with a go pro camera and the correct fire power for the job, 3.45pm a couple come through gate in to field with 2 staffies and a bullmastive, none of them on leads with in 60 seconds the mastive was hanging on to a sheep and the 2 staffies joining in shortly after Neil the land owner/farmer shouted and whistled the dogs 3 times and they still carried on and then the owners started shouting there dogs and they still carried on 30 seconds and 3 shots all 3 dogs laid dead,dog owners came marching up the field shouting and playing holly F--K with him and asked what the hell he was doing he just smiled and said protecting my live stock from rampaging dogs, yon can imagine what the rest of the conversation was like, the boys in blue arrived and calmed the situation and it was 2 very different stories then Neil handed one of the police the camera and played it back he just looked at the dog owners and said to them, well its not like what you said, its a lot different would you like to watch it, bothe declined, and they asked the officer if was going to arrest the farmer and the officer said what for he has done nothing out side of the law, they where then told to remove there animals from the field, it turned out they where from chelsea up here in a holiday cottage on a easter break, Neil shortly after recieved a soliciters letter asking for compensation for the dogs so a counter claim was sent back with video and photos but did,nt hear owt back,

so a method statement and risk assessment will stop things happening like the video at begining of this thread ? well i didnt know that, and then when its happened you draw up a new plan ? bit late shutting the stable door when the horse has gone, No paper work on this earth will stop accidents happening, shit happens and it always will do WE are all human and not one of us is perfect,

its barmy when it comes to bunny huggers and some one like your mate just doing a bit of vermin control having a run in, the law will always be on the side of the bunny hugger , i would go and but one sheep put that on the land, next time the dogs came on i would be doing some vermin control as long as every thing looked right round me,

Ok but timber prices have took a hike this last year with an average increase of 37% we as a small forestry co have never had prices like we are getting at the moment and the only thing i can say is long may it continue,

Hi as Khriss says 600 hrs for this engine is nowt i would expect 15-20,000 hrs out of it, who fitted the oil bath fillter ? so this will be the 3rd engine in 630 hrs its either bad luck or you need to change your maintainace program and the air filter system, as i have said in many posts oil, filters and service parts are very cheap as compared to engine rebuilds,

As stubby says no BS or lolar marks? i would,nt use em just hang your pop bottle and fag packet on em should be ok for that, i once bought a cheap snatch block rated at 4 tonne and destroyed it in the first hour, cheap chinese copys not worth buying ,