spuddog0507

some things in life just seem to be put there to make your life as difficult and awkard as possible at times, i do a fair bit of work for one of the uk,s major forestry companys and paper work it self is nearly a full time job and in my eyes 90% of it is a load of tosh but it keeps some one in a job some where, some one not far from you will have a CS32 just post on here i am sure some one would do it, i would if you wern,t 200 mile away, then just go and do CS32 yourself and then when the same issue crops up again no problem, the climber who had the PL ins claim who has just done his about £450 but when he was sorting this claim out he reckons his time back & fourth to soliciters has cost him 3 times that, the claim was 15 k + and he says it was one big lesson lernt,

i can see there point and i think you may find what they say is correct you are not qualified to fell stem if larger than 380mm, its ok in domestic arb but now may be stumbling point, i only know 2 climbers with cs32, one works with me now and then and the other has just done his after a very hefty claim on his PL ins and he was shitting his self that ins would not pay out, how ever his leagle team got it sorted but at a cost, his insurance said they where going to look in to this issue of not being qualified to do a certain task and they are to start to ask for copies of certificates when taking PL ins out . your easy way out is take some one with you or employ em for a couple of hrs to take stem down who has CS32 problem solved.

full time 9-5 monday to friday every day is every day like the farming community, dont know where i am but very rarely have a day off and most days are any where from 8 - 16 hrs dont think twice about stoping on site forwarding timber out when every one else has gone at 5 and i may be there till 10pm, was going to have a week or two of this summer but when i planed it it all went tits up on the first day and ended up with 1/2 a day off over 16, some people say i am crackers and some say i have a slate loose ? but i know where i want to be in buisness in 5 years and i cant do it with out the funds to finance it and thats why i do it,

24 large trees 8-10 mtrs high ? 300-600 mm wide ? they look like spruce ? 8-10 mtrs is not a large tree its a small tree, 300-600mm dia at 10mtrs high ? they must be single trees with shit loads of hairy brash on them and they look like spruce but your not sure a deffinate id would be a help as towards value aned what is your cutting spec and what end product ? days work for one man felling and then extract to road side day after,

go and do your cs32 first, then give it 6 months or so and then approach the cs34/35 but dont scimp on the training for windblown as you will learn a lot from a compitent trainer/cutter in windblown, if you find a trainer thats worth his salt it will benifit you and you wont do both for under £600, if you was nearer i could of done some with you and sorted a acessment out for you but where to far apart, good look and do your home work befor you start.

Hi a lot will depend on ground condition weather its flat,on a slope or uphill and down dale this will reflect on price offered for timber, you will not get a exact figure on timber tonnage it would be + or - 20 tonne or so, timber prices are quite good at the moment but you have to take in to consideration that they can soon drop as well, prices of £8 - £12 may be a little low but i have not seen the site, you say your in north west cumbria if your not right at the top i would be happy to come and take a look at it for you, and give you a better idea of what the job would entail, if you wanted to chat further about this you could PM me on here, P,S i am only just south of Lancaster.

My thoughts exactly, and there is a saying in life that comes to mind and thats, you need to learn to walk before you can run !!!!!!!!!!. It can not be lernt from a book,,

God do i know where you are coming from on this one, just been asked to deliver some logs 47 miles from base told him £40 delivery on top of log price ok i will ring you back tomorrow to arrange delivery, he rang me back 7 days later to offer me £20 delivery fee and i want then on sunday around lunch time,( bearing in mind this drop is in manchester) i said i am not coming at that time it will take me a life time to get there with all the shopping traffic so it was left at that, he rang me today (sunday) at 3pm asking if i could deliver this evening i asked him what he had done yesterday and today, football and out for a few beers sat,got up at half 12 today and done nowt, i said i was out all day yesterday till 7pm last night set off on first drop this morning at 8,30 and done another 3 loads since i am now on my way home and thats how its staying, i tend to agree and wounder if some people have got more than one brain cell, sometimes i get the feeling that they think they are your only customer and i have been waiting for that phone to ring for the last 12 monthes and when they say i will pay cash, what else is there ?

still after 35+ years doing the job i still class every day as a SCHOOL day, as no 2 situations in the tree job are the same,,

my take on this is, you can sit and read as many books as you want, ok you will get the general idea, which will help, but you will never learn it like you would being out there on site doing it, what it says in a book and what actually happens on site can be 2 totally different things, for example i had something happen on friday and the law of physics was saying that could not possibly happen but it DID thank fully i was stood in the right place if i had,nt of been stood where i was who knows, and when your messing with trees that are 2,3,4 tonne they dont stop when they get to you,

cheap that J, one guy up here wants £350 for the day if its 1 or 2 people and if its 3 or 4 it goes up £60 a person for the 3rd & 4th, he dont do much asscesing and i cant think why ? he is very close to me but he would be my last call for 2 reasons 1) expense 2) every thing has to be text book perfect and if its not one example of this was a lad did 32 gob was right hinge was good but back cut and gob where about 15 mm out of paralel but back cut still above gob on bothe sides, so he made him do another one,

i dont know how much you have looked in to this ? but i dont think you can do CS32 & 34 in same day ? have a word with a trainer and take his addvise and may be do 32 and gain some expierance with bigger wood for a while, and if your doing winblown dont do the singular do the multiple CS 34/35 combined together, windblown is a different ball game all together and is not for the faint hearted and please be carefull, we do a fair amount of windblown and its a thinking game working out where to start for the best approach and whats going to go where ,,,

Yes 2 or 3 fills per tree nearly a job for some one else that fueling up, did 9 trees yesterday and 2 of em where monsters but had the wind behind to help and hardly had to swing that hammer only on one,lad on machine said we would be knocking on the door towards 30 tonne ,

are you planning to do this on the same day ?

been felling edgers last week for harvester and some of the brash on the outside of tree was all most a tree its self could of run a cs31 course just on the brash been using a 461 on 25" bar and still having to do heart cut a sweep round on one or two of them and if heart cut had,nt been done i dont think they would of gone over, its nice to see some one using the same practice as my self with cutting the brash back and leaving yourself a clear working area along the tree, nice vid but again crap music saw reving its nuts of would be better .sorry.

well you would of done the same as what i did that day and that was , get the F - - K out of there, saw can be either fixed or replaced in a day or so, i cant,,,

that spec on the link is a load of bollox 40 45 & 50cm max bar for 461 catalogue states 45 50 & 63 cm bars and bar that stihl recomend is 63cm 25", what i can say is the 461 is fine on a 25" bar, been on it all week this week felling edgers for harvester and its ok on 25", i did run it on a 20" till i trashed it and that did cut, shoud,nt need a saw any bigger than a 461, from what i have seen and heard of the 462 its a light saw with good fast power delivery, just waiting for some one i know to get one then i can have a play with it,,

finishing 4pm on 24th pub for 5pm till 10pm, dinner with family on 25th and then at my sisters in the eve from about 6pm till proberbly 3 or 4am party on Wayne,, late start boxing day and more than likely feeling shit due to timothy tailor and moorhouses poisioning back to work 27th 28th picking up on a shoot 29th then work 30th 31st not that bothered about going out new years eve but will proberbly end up going any way, and end up shed,ed and walking home in the wee hours, 1st jan i wont be that fast if i go out and will be sat there all day feeling sorry for my self and thinking, how did i get home last night, back on 2nd and back to normal and the days will be going the right way by getting longer, if its raining over the holidays i may have a extra day or 2 and watch mary poppins or gonr with the wind or some other shite,,,,

nuttella spread or penut butter diluted with veg oil to the consistancy of paint, put on a piece of ply or plastic, this works a treat as they have to stay still to lap it up then just pop em off as they appear, did this not long ago as some one said they had about 10 rats in a building 37 first night 31 second night 57 third night 23 forth night then he decided to get some bait and put that down, bait went as fast as he put it down for first wk, then what ever you moved there was a dead rat or 2 behind or underneath,

just what you need pay your money and get F - - K all, but thats what happens when you buy on line, there is so much scamming going on on line and on ebay and facebook as well, on line its easy just set up a website and email address take payments for goods, dont send goods because there aint any to send, close it all down and set up another website etc very easy way to make money,i have had several emails of late from what is supposed to be BT asking me to update my account and check bank details and if not correct, correct them, yeh ok, emails coming from non bt address and the spelling is much worse than mine proberbly from some one in Timbuck too who wants to raise funds to buy a new Donkey,,,

first thing you need to do is calculate the volume of the cylinder in cc, then work out from PTO speed and gearbox ratio and this should calculate the cc of the pump required then that should tell you how long the cycle of the splitter will be, you may have to get a bigger cc pump to gain speed as you don,t want to be standing there waiting for ram to come down for long, but on this you may have to sacrifice a loss in power to gain speed, when i built my splitter it took a bit of working out with engine rpm and cc of pump per revolution,

Sorry about your loss . they just want there hands chopping off, will be some low down scum selling your items some where for very little to fund there drug habbit ? its about time some one came up(if its not been done allready) with a micro tracker system for times like this and i would of thought insurance co,s would be funding something like that as it must cost them 1,000,s each year,

would,nt it be easier if you turned the lights on,,??

i know that but one lad who is very pushy and would not take no for a answer just used to take it then tell me an hour afterwards so fitted new hitch lock and swaped wireing over and got a phone call one day i cant get your trailer on my car, there is something wrong with the hitch, yes its locked then a bit of a argument started so i just told him to fuck off get your own trailer and then i can use mine when i need to use with out chasing half way round the county for it ,