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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

got about 20 tonne of sycamore to sort out, just outside your backdoor at Grindleton,

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,

Happy new year to you all, at last something of interest to me that i can comment on, been selling firewood for over 30 years now, some years only small volumes and other years much larger amounts, there is one thing i have found is that you will never educate joe public in to buying either green/part seasoned timber in lengths for them to self process in to logs or in logs all ready processed outside the log buying season, the summer just gone i have adds out since April selling dead dry softwood in 8ft lengths for self processing, on average i have sold one load per month from April - October and then after the first cold snap about one every 2 week and then when the second cold snap came 2 or 3 load per week after that we come to silly season the 3 week run up to christmas when i am here there and every where delivering seasoned split logs every day up to christmas eve, i have tried my best over the years to sell part seasoned split logs to no great success as of yet whether that will change i dont know ? it may do as timber demand is rising, tried discounting it to tempt sales but it still dont work, i will try and push it much harder this year as i have a lot of hardwood to process this year and have not got the room to store the amount i have, the way i see it is the average log buyer will hang on to there cash until they really need the logs and just pay the going rate for split logs,

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 ,

should be her in the police station as hunting/chasing deer with dogs is not leagle and on some one elses land is poaching any way, and why his he there ? it should be her ? monday morning we where out goosing got back to my mates car wich was parked just in through a gate when we got back there was a note on the windscreen which read STOP SHOOTING HERE i know your car next time it will be your dog, 2 trail cameras going in the hedge next time one either side so will catch them and go from there, but one thing i will say is that it will be some one who has just moved to the area and dont like what goes on in the country,a woman has been to the farm and asked if he could stop spreading shit near her house Tony just said yes i will. going for my dinner now, then carried on afterwards and she was there again got totally blanked, letter of her day after, Tony just said silly bitch,

we all cut corners , and your not telling me you do every thing by the book ???

is that turn right at first set of lights, left at the T junction, 2nd exit of the roundabout, ? i think i will give that a miss as i dont think i could get back in time for tea,

where is AB Trees based ??? could help if not fare away,

we all cut corners now and then and get away with it, this guy did cut corners by clearly not using a gob cut that he has proberbly done before and it worked ok, but this time he didn,t get away with it, it looks nasty and i hope the guy is ok, but he will of learnt a massive lesson with that, one thing that springs to mind with me is that it was,nt by chance a Friday was it ?