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ring barked some larch several years ago and then was sent to fell them 20 monthes later the timber above the ring was fine but where we was cutting below decay had set in, called at kentucy on way home and the people in the que in front of us kept looking round at us, it wasent till i got home canged boots and pants went to price a job and returned home to a fowl smell in the house, i was looking all over for where the dog had crapped but found nothing , then picked saw pants up to hang on door and all came to light the bottom half of the legs along with boots stank of what i can only describe as the worst dog shit smell on earth, the morning after the other guys on site mentioned it one said he went round house checking all the bottoms of foot wear, and the other guy had got in his van then got out as he thought something was dead in there,

Hi J got a lad with me at the moment who has had a lot to do with alpines the one they have is about 65hp antoinio carreres or something like that he says the terrain is a big issue flat or gentle slopes ok but where they had it reacently was quite rocky and again ground clearanc stuck on top of rocks slipping and slidding sideways and cant get traction on steep mulchey woodland floor he looked at my kubota and said wider more ground clearance bigger wheeels on back make for better ride over stumps, i think in this low impact side of the game you could spend a shit load of money and still not be much nearer your actual goal of doing the job swiftly and effiecently, seem to have been there a few times with quad and trailer extraction,

391 or 441 ones a donkey and ones a racehorse or as a few lads above have said 461/462 now there a different saw to the 441 BUT why would you want to carry all that weight about all day ? if your in there most days go for the lightest saw you can get away with, i work in commercial forestry and use 241 14" bar and 261 16" bar most of the time but we do run 461s on both 20" & 25" bars and mainly stay in the truck but do come out for the bigger trees now and then, but do my arms know that i have been running a bigger saw,i would look at the 362 with 18" bar as that would cope with stuff up to 800mm diameter comfortably, and that husky with new chain on cutting 20cm beech 2-3 mins sounds like a right fart box of a saw and proberbly wants chucking in the bin as 2-3 mins is barmy get a better saw and you will more than likely do 3 times as much in the same time, and if you get a bigger saw and you say you have done your ground saw ticket but which one have you got ? the one day bassic home owner one or have you done the 5 day course cs30 31 ? every tree acts differently and when you come to dead dying and rotten trees be carfull as you may not get a second chance, hope this helps you out and stay safe.

i watched the first vid last night on youtube, if he is a pro at his job i will plat rocking horse shit, has not got much idea about severing wind blown nor when it comes to cutting the length off he looks like a bloke with zero expierance just read the comments posted on youtube , some of the other vids on youtube are nearly as pathetic as this one ,

got some of that on betamax, vhs and the double sided (where you got twice as much on one tape) video 2000, got one tape some where, porn one side, scott and charleans wedding on other but nowt to play it on these days.

late 90s while triming a hedge back to put a footing in for a wall, just stood up in the hedge was a set of old 12g barrels well rusted to the extent that they where pourous the lad whos job it was took them and cleaned the lump up and exposed a date stamp of 1871 i think he still has the lump,

urban tree guys ? yes could learn a lot of us forestry lads when it comes to wedging trees over, its not that long since i went to move some arb waste for a crew and what i watched for first 20 mins of being there was very entertaining for me, 3 young lads trying to get a 12-15 ft beech stalk over about 24-26" dia over with 2 5" wedges a claw hammer and a short felling bar, i stood and watched these guys sweating and arguing, then i asked them what they where trying to do,i asked one guy to cut some wedges out of the timber on the drive while i went back to my truck for a maul got back and had it over in about 2 mins, one lad said f--k me i wont forget that one,

hi all been using this a lot recently and saves me a lot of time and effort its a great help for me in my later years,

if your snapping the wooden insert on a high lift your not hitting it square on, i have never snapped one in 30 years but a lad who works with us now and then has snapped a few but then when you watch him swing a hammer its addvisable not to be with in about 50 mtrs of him as its hit, miss, miss , miss then hammer goes flying through the air ,

bit hard to call this one Rob as every now and again you will buy a chain packaged as stihl BUT its a oregon chain in the package, old stock may be but stihl did pack oregon chains a few years back lad who works with me bought 5 chains packed as stihl but 3 of them where oregon chains,????,

same as above another 20-25 years yet at the moment looks like a few sawlogs and the rest fencing posts and strainers ,

well at least if its running on brash it will be co2 neutral , i heard the owner has pattent pending and going on Dragons den with it ?

worked in woods and picked up with my dogs on shoots for 30 yrs now and never had a tick on me but i have removed proberbly in to th 100s of dogs but as in last post on this subject i said its quite easy to spot a tick on a lab as compared to a goldie , cocker an springer and yes vet may be right on this one but when i see one its removed right away. and please see other post i have put up about ticks on us humans and please take the time to listen to the interview on radio lancs,

sorry to here about your dog and as for the ticks i think your vet is pulling your chain i have had working labs for 30 yrs or more and taken a lot of ticks of dogs and never had any health or ill tempered problems, when we had that fantastic summer in 2012 when it never stopped pissing down from mid july onwards i was out 2 or 3 days aweek picking up and was taking 2 or 3 ticks and some times more of 2 dogs every time we went out but a tick on a black lab is much easier to spot than it would be on a goldie ,

he was in his last year of 3 at myerscough collage and he came to me to learn a little bit faster than he was doing at collage and he openly admitted that he was board and pissed off with the speed things happened at collage, like in a mini bus at 10am 1 hour drive get kit out then dinner then talk for 1/2 an hour then 2 hrs split between 8 of them and then set off back to collage at 3pm, so he was not getting much hands on, he worked on site 2 days a wk for 6 mths with me, had him felling trees snedding off and cutting to length and he came on in leaps n bounds first month or so i would not of thought of employing him but at the end i would of, but i dont employ any body only subbies , i did,nt pay him much as he had to come up to speed and he wanted to learn but since have had him do a couple of climbing jobs and he has done well and got on with it swiftly and safely and he is good to get on with as well, next one that comes from collage will either be US or a right clever prick, lets see what happens,

been looking at this myself so found time and courage to ring dvla and it may be easier for you than me as the truck i was looking at is 4 WD and was looking at changing taxation class as well for me theres a lot to do with forms and photos so hence why my head is up my arse at the moment,

they would proberbly more interested in getting home and getting out for a beer or two and a odd spliff, the lad with me went and got him self a book after i pointed out to him that if some one asked him to go and price a job, asking him to quote for removing a birch, ash and a elm and reducing a beech and a maple but customer wont be there, i asked him how he was going to price it if he did not know what he was looking at ? answer i don,t know, so then asked him if he priced it and got the job then went to do and again customer was not there and he removed the birch ash and maple and reduced the beech and elm and thats not what the customer asked for and when customer returns from holiday and finds his prize maple that his late wife planted has gone he more than likely wont be very happy, so i pointed out that as a professional tree surgeon and he did some thing like the above, he would proberbly not get paid and all so he would look a right prick, so knowing your trees is quite an important part of the job and lets face it in this day and age bad news travels faster than good news ,

so from reading the above posts both myself and many hundreds of other people are towing trailers every day and braking the law, me old shape L200 and 10 x 5.5 ft ifor tipping trailer plated at 3.5 tonne L200 rated to tow about 2.8 tonne , and the cattle auction just down the road on monday mornings there is a que of landrovers and pick ups all with either twin or tri axel cattle trailers behind them , landrovers ok for weight towing but not many of the pick ups will be if what has been said above is correct about the towing viechale and the plate on the trailer ?,

one thing i would look at is second hand value in years to come ,from my own observations a stihl seems to be between £60&£100 more for a second hand machine as compared to the husky equivalant but husky is the more expensiver saw when new ?, and i find stihls are easier to work on

i know where you are coming from the youth of today are more interested in going home rather than getting the job done, and as for what they learn at collage? , well i cant answer that one but a lad i had for 2 days a week from myerscouh collage said to me that he had lernt more from me over 6 mths than he had at collage in 3 yrs, and the thing that got me was tree ID he new nothing at the start and told me that they had done a couple of hrs on tree ID at the beginning of course, so in a woodland and asked him to fell the lodgepole and birch , which are them , thats where i realised what the f==k do they teach them and who is teaching them,?????,

eh yeh,, for 35 years thanks,

when you was making money out of the firewood i was not making much out of the timber, but today same amount of work and believe it or not i am starting to see a more healthier reward from the timber side and yes the hauliers do do well out of it if they are buying the timber then selling on, i now sell direct to mills and get them to arrange haulage, and the firewood we now sell to private punters in small loads 2,3,4, tonne as nearlly every man and his dog who have a stove has now got a really powerfull chainsaw from either B&Q or Aldi etc and one of them clarke elec log splitters that make is a bit easier than a axe but not as fast as a axe.

j cut is bassically a step cut that looks like its gone sadly wrong but as slack say its for over guide bar stuff and if done correctly you shoud be able to see the j on the stump its a slow release cut and works well on big trees, the others are your normall step cut and a cut called a v cut again a slow release cut that works well on smaller trees, guide bar under tree cut up 20-30mm then guide bar up one side of tree on a 45 degree angle repeat this process on other side of tree then with guide bar level from the top alline 45 degree cuts and start cutting downwards keeping an eye on the cut for opening up when cut starts opening ease of on power and finish off gently and when this is done correct you will see a v on the end of both sections of timber, and as shillo says get ready to jump, a guy i know got popelled 38 mtrs through the air and how far he would of gone is anyones gusse but he was stopped by a tree and when he hit the tree his feet where 8ft from the ground, his injurys broken pelvis 2 broken thighs and from the tree that stopped him broken collar bone, arm and 5 broken ribbs in this back , so be carefull,

Sorry but i cant see why you think £70 a tonne is mental when you look at what work goes in to it , processor sized ash 4 trees per tonne fell, sned and cut in to 2.5 mtr lengths then stack, timber has been purchased standing say £20 per tonne cutter wants paying £20 per hour then £10 per tonne to get it to roadside dont leave much at £20 per tonne proffit , then compare the same said 4 trees in some ones back garden and they would be priced at what 6 7 8 £900 or may be more for dismantle and removal , about 4 months ago i was helping out a arb team for a few days when customer asked about the removal of a apple tree while they where there they quoted her £120 for what looked like about 10 mins work to me for 3 guys, so why not £70 per tonne ?,

Ok who has been spying on me ??????????????