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better get a drink as well and may be some tissues and oh could you bring a dictionary please,

WHO said i was doing it ? because it was not me, and i am not predicting the future to either you or myself or any one else , just because some guy on a HS day mentions something does not mean i will be doing it , i will probably be the last to do it and as drinksloe said there are some stupid rules about and some one some where will be thinking up even more stupider rules and i aint going over the top son but ignorance is bliss

cumbria is a big county ? which end as there is a guy in preston .

NO its not horseshit, its coming and we will have to follow suit, and if you read the post i quoted ? yes its got nothing to do with refresher courses but you might find its got a lot to do with how things have and are changing all the time, when some of us started there was no such thing as chainsaw tickets and very little PPE the younger generations have PPE , HSE drummed in to them but in these days common sense is becoming more and more scarce,

photos video would be good to see J i await with interest along with many others,

changed, its changing every month, just been on a HS day welfare is now coming in to forestry dont know about arb as you would not be far from faciliteys, or in other words working in forestry, we will have to supply employes and sub contractors with hot & cold running water, clean place to eat,and a thunderbox (mobile toilet that you see on events) if the job is more than 3 days ? so if your site base is 800 yds up a 45 degree banking by the time you get to the thunderbox you would proberbly be looking for clean under wear ? several years ago me and another lad had a disgussion about this and we both said that one day you would have to have a NPTC ticket to have a shit in the woods, WELL BY THE LOOK OF THINGS ITS ON ITS WAY, dont know who would want to ascess this but some one will for £350 a day.

hi if your using it mainly for dismantles and stood on spikes i would be looking at the saw weight / power output and go for best weight/power out put that suits you, and as for heated handles my view is they are a total waist of time and if you need heated handles your not doing enough,

i will go with steve on this got both 460 & 461 both fantastic saws run both on 20" bars, there does not seem to be much between them if anything the older 460 has the edge as it screems but that may of been tweeked at some point in its life, the new 462 has some very good reviews on youtube and people speak highly of it, go for it but are they out on the uk yet.

thats the one expert ? i think , got 2 of them ones ok and one i ran over with tractor,

some stihl helmets have had a UV indicator for about 4 years now,

a 461 is a pretty decent saw and cuts well on a 3/8 chain i cant see why you would want to change to a .325 if you did change it and chain snaps and hits you ? then you end up with time of work its a dear experiment , personally i wouldnt do it, we run 461s on 20 @ 25" bars chains sharpened as per book then 2 more strokes across each depth gauge and they cut well.

is the pump a gear pump or piston pump ? 2 very different pumps with different working pressures and needing different type of hose have a look at the working pressure on the other hoses it will be stamped on.

Hi just take the smaller softwood and hardwood out leave all decent trees and if you take the softwood out round oaks to let the light in all you will end up with is oaks with loads of branches when its got more value as a nice straight pole and was the stump in the picture cut at that height for a reason ?.

petzal vertex and most petzal helmets will be climbing helmets with no peak on them so not for forestry work, unlike a stihl or husky ground helmet that has a peak and that peak is there for a reason on a forestry helmet, and lets face it if i or any one was working for someone like the FC for the first time surely you would want every thing right, lads turning up with wrong kit for the job is a big no no for me, sorry.

hi helmets are 5 years from date of manufacture and not purchase date, and inside the helmet there will be a clock face with an arrow pointing to the relivant number so lets say arrow is pointing to 10 on the outside and then another number with in the clock face and lets say that number is 14 so helmet was made oct 2014, a tip for you all when buying a helmet either look for date or ask about it , 2 lads who have worked with me over the years have been and bought a new helmet and 1 was nearly 2 years old and another 2 1/2 years old so life span only half but still paid full price, and these helmets are tougher than you think as ran over 1 of mine with tractor and i was amazed at the amount of damage i did which was very little ,

Hi J i can add make sure your cutters are carrying a whistle and large wound dressing on there person and the dressing is in date, all so make sure helmets are in date and they are proper ground/forestry helmets with a peak and not just a pudding basin climbing helmet, and first aid + F is a good ticket to have and its cheap @ about £70 per head apart from that do as asked and if you can leave the site tidyer than asked and they will have you back, good luck,

Hi , asda do a good flask its by either thermos or thermacaf ? i cant read the lable , its got a dark grey hammered finish on it and got a screw cap i always half fill with boiling water and put cap in to warm it upthen empty befor putting coffee it to it , this is the second one i have had in 8 years now current one about 3 years and first one fell out of tractor cab and i ran over it and it did,nt do it any good flasks are about 12/13 quid.

Hi all looking for a new pair of boots and had my eye on a pair of meindl wood walkers for a while now, i have read both good and bad reports about them more good than bad but one or two reports have been bad, like boots apart after a few months , i do have a pair of meindl dovre walking/shooting boots and cant really fault them except that they are not the warmest boots i have had, has anyone had bad expieriance with these boots.

if only you where a bit nearer,,,,

its not just me then ,saw pants boots t shirt hi viz vest cap and helmet on , by 2pm today and several other days had a banging headache even thou i had drank several litters of water saw pants piss wet through inside and felt like they where glued to my legs making moving about and climbing over fallen trees harder than ever , how ever stuck it out till 4.30 then worked out i had drank 4 and bit ltrs of water but not ad a piss since 7.30am, could it be called water rettension ?

hi if you are to be using this on a public highway going to and from home to woodland with trailer, it would need to be road registered, and when you do register it (if not done all ready) make sure it is registered as agriculteral this will make the quad MOT exempt and put it in a free of charge taxation class but you would still need to go through the process to taxing it but there would be no charge, you would all so need to insure it as with all veichiecls used on public highways it must be insured ,the above seems a lot of arsing about to me and the best advise i could give you is buy quad and then either find a trailer that quad will fit in or make one to suit ,put quad in trailer tow to site unload quad put trailer on to quad put tools in trailer and of you go , 250 - 450 is as big as you want to go or you will need a petrol tanker to come to site if you go 500+ been using a old yamaha 350 for about the last ten years or so and taking saws tools fencing gear etc in a trailer or in a box fitted to rear load rack, and go and do a ATV course you will learn so much about how to use one and get out of trouble befor you get in it.

photos and dimensions would be a help ,

well by how much then ? or is this just by your judgment ? oak is .94 beech is .97 so what is hornbeam then ?

hi ash is 1.28 cube per tonne and hornbeam is not listed i would say simular to beech at .97 cube per tonne .

moved a lot of timber over the years with this out fit , when we had that fantastic summer in 2012 when it never stopped pissing down from mid june onwards i moved 75 tonne back to the building in the week.