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Does,nt matter what saw it is as you can cut a fairly big tree down with a small saw if you know what you are doing, looking at the cut it aint a big issue is it ? gob cut a bit big and if back cut had been level from where he started it would of been ok, if no one was hurt its fine and if that would of been on a NPTC accessment it would of been talked about then candidate given another go to correct his faults, we cant get them all right, when i look at some i have done, some have been right dogs dinners and a 5 year old could of done better but if you are felling 40,50,60,70, trees a day i think 1 or 2 f,,k ups are acceptable, looking at the cut i would say 12" bar on saw so should not be a problem and why cant he log the stem up with a 12" bar ?,

i find it pretty amazing that a piston the size of a egg cup can go up & down so many times per minuet at such an amazing speed, 121,572,000 revolutions is quite eye opening really for such a small bit of kit, but after picking up another lads 241 the other day i did notice a difference in power between mine and his, his is about 12 months newer same bar & chain but pick up is quicker and had more power and sounded a lot crisper but saw will have not done any where near what mine has done. i had,nt noticed the drop in power untill the other day but i would,nt as it would be so gradual so time for a new one then ,

Hi all what is a lot of working hours for a fully working pro saw ? reason i am asking is that i have just had a stihl ms241 in at the dealers with a starting issue that i did not have time to sort out, how ever the issue was something i would of still been looking for as it was a fuel solinoid valve , when i went to collect the saw i was given a diagnostics report all printed out and on one page it said working hours 368.4 would you say this is a lot, average or low. the way i look at this is if it was a car sat on the motorway at 60mph for 368.4 hrs it would of covered 22,104 miles, now there is a massive difference between a 1ltr car and a 42cc chainsaw and when i looked at it this way i was fairly impressed that it was still running at all, it has been a good saw for me and had very little problems with it apart from a couple of plugs needle bearing change regular and a good clean on a regular basis and the air filter cleaned weekly, so made my decision it will have to be replaced as it wont last forever, 368.4 hrs i think is not a lot for a engine but a 42cc single cylinder engine revving its nuts out on a daily basis i suppose its a fairly large amount,

Don't know what it weighed but don't reckon it was anywhere near 2 ton! 26'' x 8' 6'' larch felled 3 years ago, anyone care to guess? fresh felled would be in the region of 1030kgs and if its been down 3 years and its lost 20% moisture it would weigh approx 824kgs,

stuart best place for pumps pipe fittings etc is whitehouse products at port glasgow on the clyde so not that far for you, they will send you a catalouge thats like a phone book with pictures of components (in colour) and they offer a fantastic delivery service order before 3pm here for 9am next day hope this helps,

decent hardwood arb waste whats decent and whats not ? will pay dependant on quality and what would you pay.?, as got some ash beech and alder on a job your way in about 10 days or so.

came back other day from chatburn but went west bradford waddington bashall eaves slightly over loaded so stuck to back roads,

its not close enough to where they where tapping in to the mains water, sewer and elec on chatburn road outside old hospital about 3-4 weeks ago, just that they had a lot of problems with water main,

some beech ash and oak mixed and its some big (600-900mm) rough stuff just got sold near us at £60 tonne road side,

Hi was this today ? and where abouts in the town was it ? just that my sisters fella has just finished services and ground works on the old hospital site,, if its round there its just some thing i can take the piss out of him with,

sorry should of been on end of last post i think your bed mounted branch logger is a far better idea with bagging system on it and may be a second trailer behind forwarder for bags ?.

J, brainstorming its no good, it just ties you up in knots, if your planing on selling the chip on as payment forget it as its a lot of work for very little return, we tried this earlier on this year as a trial same thought as you bed mounted chipper and crane feed it borrowed the chipper that i was going to mount on forwarder a kwickchip 8" and it was a night mare feeding it with crane and it was much faster with 2 of us feeding chipper by hand and to do it with a profit at the end if any is just not worth it ,was chipping in the wood into ifor 10x5.6 tipping trailer with 10x5 ply sides and nissan cabstar pick up again with ply sides in the so getting about 12 cube of chip on @ approx 3 cube per tonne = approx 4 tonne at £52 a tonne, i think weigh bridge ticket was 3960 kgs then i had to deliver it 12 mile it just about paid wages, one pick up and trailer and a pick up load in a 8 hr day, the high lift grain trailer wont lift high enough to tip in to a wagon looked at that and now the weather is on the turn it just makes it harder and forwarding brash out with our size of machines is not a viable venture either ,large forwarder clearing brash off a eurotrash site earlier this year £6 a tonne for brash to road side then chipper chipping in to walking floor arctics 30 mins a load,so for me its back to that good old fashioned way of burning the brash much eaiser and quicker, drawings for bed mounted chipper are here some where,

Hi been watching this with great interest, J are you planing on selling the chip on ? or just chipping to waste on this issue, as some good points bring made here but i cant see any thing about what your doing with the chip,

i agree with J on this all cutters are different, different speeds different technquies make for different out putts a good cutter on say 350 DBH spruce 15+ tonne per day and some one new to the job less than 10 tonne a day, the job i am doing at present is a old windblown spruce site and i am only getting about 20 trees a day out but dead dry stuff so only about 6-8 tonne a day, but bear in mind trees are blown in every direction there is, so its like a massive game of pick up sticks, if trees where all standing it would be a different ball game and i would of been done long ago, next job some 600-850 DBH straight tall beech trees and i will put in the riegon of 18-20 tonne a day on the deck.

3.7m =3.7 meter product lengh, 18cm TDUB = top diameter of sawlog under bark

Hi how big area are you talking about ? the blue book is your bibble when it comes to forestry work, what you cutting ? whats the ground like ? is access good or poor ? it all plays a part in the pricing of jobs,

just get a proper one dont bother with the chinese stuff kubota first choice yanmar second this works 8-12 hr days 4 or 5 days a week been stood out in woodlands for last 6 years and never ailes any thing only from abuse ,

hi i was working in the north of the lake district recently and while driving on A66 from penrith to keswick there is a big section of willow planted along there and there is a large section of willow just north of penrith J40 on M6 dont know if its a viable venture but somthing has to change as we wont have any timber left if things keep going the way they are.

Well got some interesting news today, while having a conversation with one of the forest managers from one of the UK,s major forestry companys he said that them and a few other big forestry companys are going to drive the price of timber up for biomass as every load of chip is spoken for before felling liecence is applied for he all so said this will all so applie to saw logs and fencing matierals its not here yet but 18 months 2 years it will be and they will be taking smaller trees to suit the biomass market like 15 - 20 year old = smaller machines and lower costs for harvesting , and this applies to both hardwood and softwood and they are all so doing some growth trials with euquliptess and some strains of popular, so if you have a bit of room and can stock pile a bit of timber it may pay dividends,

Well it has,soft wood prices have never been as good as they are now for years, £43 tonne R/S for softwood chip, bent shity twisty stuff and wood that is rotten on the outside this would of been left behind in recent years but now there is a demand for it and it seems to have a decent value, 3,7 mtr spruce sawlogs again R/S £65 tonne 3 years ago they where £28 tonne R/S and chip was £24 tonne delivered in, I for one just find enough hardwood for my own log customers but just recently have secured a few small hardwood clear fell and thinning jobs from 80 - 200 tonne so if hardwood firewood is £60 - £70 tonne R/S i might just make a few quid for a change,

Gary i believe that poland and lithuainia are cutting and exporting timber at a alarming rate that by the year 2025 there wont be that much left, so that is not from a substainable source at all.

you was doing some work in your garden last week ? when you wanted the chainsaw boots , now your doing the occasional shift with some groundwork guys but not using a chainsaw ? why would you want to wear a pair of chainsaw trousers for ground work ? twice as heavey when dry as a pair of work pants and about ten times heavier when piss wet through ,beats me this one ,, next week you will be on the cadge for a helmet and climbing kit to prune your grannys apple tree and then week after you will be wanting a chainsaw or two, ? ? ?,

NOW before you all shoot me down, my thoughts on kiln dried logs from over the water are a big NO for me the reasons why are as a island nation we used to be fairly free from diesiese both amongst animals and plant life but as time goes on we seem to have more and more issuses first of all we have lost a lot of our larch trees due to pytothera , the first case in the UK was in the southwest not that far from that big green house called the eden project, where we imported all these fancey plants,shrubs and trees from abroad then pytothera is found in the SW then spreads up through wales the northwest and up the west coast in to scotland , i for one spent over 2 years felling to waste infected larch and what a waste of good timber that was, so did that come from the eden project ???? i did raise the issie with the FC and they said they would investigate , and then we have that other great invention called the channel tunnel linking use to mainland europe and then we get this thing called ash die back that first appeared in the SE so did that come through there ? both great projects under that great leader toss pot Tony Blair , so back to importing kiln dried logs what will be the next big tree diesese we bring in to our country ? as there will be one, so for me its a no on importing logs sorry but just my thoughts.

yes done my best to get some customers to buy in the summer monthes by offering then the timber at reduced rates through may june july and august but not many seem to bite ? why i dont know, may be its as they are going on holiday and havent got the money or its money they dont need to spend untill the wood is really needed ? and trying to get some of them to change from just hardwood to either a 50/50 mix or just move to softwoods like larch and douglas seems like a major task, they tell me softwood is crap but when i do then a delivery the log store is half full of cut up pallets and fence posts which they tell me burn really well but a bit quick, i have left a small bag of larch with a few customers and asked then to burn it on its own and then i get phone call , them logs you left i used them last night they where fine burnt well plenty of heat and no ash what where they , larch i replied and this is a customer that has told me for years that softwood is crap now got him converted to 1 50/50 load and 1 load of larch/douglas ,

how many tonne do you want ?