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hi is that a high tip one ? makes life a lot more easier if it is,

hi hired a muck truck several years ago to do a simualer job to what you describe, but ground conditions where quite wet at the time found it hard work and very slow progress with muck truck ,so took the muck truck back to its owner and then hired a one tonne high tip dumper in for a day to compare progress and it was a no brainer one tonne dumper far faster and we could tip straight on to pick up and trailer, all so got the quad and trailer with floatation tyres and does work well but i have to hand ball it off on to pick up, one tonne dumper far better machine for what your doing hire cost about a tenner a day more than a muck truck but about 3 times more production,

grated beetroot and cheese with either salad cream or mayo on brown barms, and the stronger the cheese the better, i find a decent lancashire or wensleydale makes for a more flavoursome filling.

no not a member of any organisation these days, the trout where all caught while targeting pike , several lads i fished with had all had ferrox but not me and one day one lad fetched his brother in law who had never fished for years and ten mins on the water had a 9.06 ferrox as to say i was not to happy, but has the saying best things come to them who wait, 2 hrs later i took the 16.14 and the following morning had pike of 15.12 19.06 20.03 & 24.14 then 20 hrs after the 16.14 ferrox i had the 11.15 ferrox so i was on a bit of a high i told lee the lad with the 9.06 ferrox something like i dont want to fuck about with them little ens, i think the other 7 lads had about 5 pike and the ferrox between them,

some out the lake district and the pike and the 11 lb brownie are off big J s patch.

dont know why they are not in the order i loaded them in ???,

hi all putting these on for J as i was to put these on a while ago but the pc i had was running on coal,but have now got a new one that works and i dont have to wait a fortnight for photo to load 1st fish 6.12 2nd fish 11.15 3rd fish 16.14 and 4th fish 25,01

proberbly not, all beech and sycamore round here all brown and dropping leaves there just shutting down one large syc was sheddind its leaves about 3 wk ago it now nearly bare,

yes all ok at the moment, but we have the best ground conditions at the moment for about 5 years , would it of done the same job 3 months ago , i think to keep going for as long as you can in forestry it has to be 4wd and the differance between 2wd and 4wd is what a old farmer told me years ogo and thats ,its the differance between going and not going, my kubota has not been in 4wd for about 2 month now as what was about 15" of slob is now dust but we kept extracting through feb ,mar and april .

nowt because next door is a SSSI site and the loch at the bottom is a roost fo icelandic greylags that are in decline the site has loads of issues ,

yanmar tracked tractor i cant load video as its greater than 7mb, sorry about that if i new how to shorten it i would.

i think thats the later one, only about 15 machines in the uk as i know of the importer was some where about hexham ? or up that way some where they said it didnt last long when i spoke to them,

no they are built in the states , perkings engine about 40hp if i remember right , very flimbsy tracks and week track motors , i do know of 2 for sale one in yorks and one in the lakes both with very little hrs on them the one in yorks has about 400 hrs on it and i think most of that was sat powering a log splitter, some videos on youtube put in bothe forcat 2000 and oxtrack as oxtrack was what they where called befor name change

1000 acres is a big area with a lot of trees approx 1.2 million trees so thats roughly 63p per tree it would cost more than that to plant it today, take the timber off make your self a few million buy an island in the sun, and you still have the land as an investment sell the land £1000 per acre and your on a winner, you have either read the figuar wrong or there is a very big catch with it or some one is taking the piss.

that forcat is it in wetherby yorks ? if so i was watching it working earlier this year, handy little tool but limited to what you can do with them, i looked in to buying one in feb 2015 but decided to hire that yanmar as it was a far better option for us, the forcats where all purchessed with grants and when i was looking for one i was looking at 5 6 year old machines with from 125-250 hrs on them so that indicated to me that 1) they where not that good 2) there was not the work for them and to have 10-12k in something that was not being used seemed a bit of a non starter when i can hire that yanmar for £50 a day based on a 5 day wk hire then take it back when finished with .

the block of larch we felled and extracted with the yanmar, i think 4 or 5 times in an out with a conventional 4wd would of been it ,we where on the edge of some very wet peat moorland and i am pretty sure we would of been digging/winching a wheeled tractor out by dinner time, when you walked in the the track lines you just sank up to your ankels in shite, and as for steep hills it just went up em we only had it going up n down a banking about 20-25 mtr run up but around 45 degree incline ,only problem was the rubber tracks popping off on the edge of stumps but once you had sorted a run in and out it was fine i was skidding 4 lach poles out about 60-90 ft at once and it coped very well ,i have a video of the last stalk coming out that i will try and put on tonight.

This is what we hired in in the spring of 2015 when for use it was either rain or snow every day ground was saturated and the job was infected larch , fell and skid out, machine Not 2wd or 4wd but a fantastic bit of kit,

hi personally i would not consider a 2 wd in the woods, but yes they used them befor 4wd and still used them after 4wd was available the fordson major was common in woodland work for winching , dont know what your budget is but you would get a DB 4wd for 3 or 4k, this is what we use 40hp 5ft wide pulls well not in 4wd at the moment but next thing it will be pissing down for next 6 monthes

it dont look well to me may be had a run in with a cat or taken a hit falling out of nest, they cant all survive, theres a pair in a leylandi at the bottom of my dads garden i think its the 4th lot of young fluttering about in the apple trees at the moment .

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from what he tells me if it had gone to the left tree would of been over wall in to the road YES i to think he was very lucky no persons or any thing on the public highway was hit or damaged, seen some photos of the said tree it aint small by any means and its one of those situations where 5 mins extra thinking time about the job, and not rushing to get done home, showered, tea then pub because football is on that extra 5 mins could of saved alot of time and hassell in my eyes,

Hi spoke to the guy in question this morning quotes for garage door £595-£825 but quotes for the merc repaires 6.5k - 11k i think this is the main problem so far , but the insurance co have asked him if he is qualifid to do the task in hand , but they have not asked for any proof as yet, he has told them that they have taken between £980 & £1460 a year of him for the last 9 years , thats all i can say at the moment. and he now wants to go and do cs32 asap , any comments or ideas to get round this issue would be gladley appriecated so far we have had did they ask him for tickets when he took the insurance and cs 30,31,32 etc are only a certificate of competence and not a leagal requirement. any othere points to add .

its not dear then its not expensive its about right there is some on ebay in lancashire that is dead been down about 3 years or so .

school boy error yes this guy worked with me a few years ago felling dead pytothera infected larch and i did my best to tell him dead trees are a nightmare to fell by the book take your hinge down to half of what it should be as there is not as much weight in dead timber , and the heart cut i explained many times to him but sorry to say this he always thought he was mr big with his 880,

Hi all went to collect some timber from a tree surgeon the other day , when we where loading up he was telling me about a incident that happened last week, they where taking a large dead beech tree down at a private house , they took all the top off then lowered the bigger limbs down when they got to the main trunk they decided to fell it on to lawn on some tyres, pull rope attatched at the top front cut in then back cut left a nice hinge about 3" and tree was about 30" so hinge was correct size, a couple of wedges in back cut to stop it sitting back and nipping saw when they where pulling / rocking it to get it over the hinge severed itself and tree didnt go where it was supposed to go, it went about 90 degrees to the right on to a rockery, as the tree hit the rockery it launched 2 rocks of the rockery 1 about 10kg which hit the customers garage door caving it in about 12-15" on looking at the photos of this its a new door, the 2nd rock about 20kg was launched across the drive through a close boarded fence and hit next doors 4x4 on there drive the damage to the 4x4 (mercedes) i would say is 2 doors and may be getting the door post jigged out then painting, His worry now is will his PL insurance pay out ? his tickets cs30/31 38 39 NO cs32 , and i offered him a cs32 course for £360 12 monthes ago and he said he did,nt need it and it was expensive, he has now asked me my thoughts and i replied if you had a crash in a car and you did,nt have a driving licence would your insurance pay out ??? i dought it i all so said if he had done the cs32 there would be no problem, but as the insurance investigation goes on it is looking more like they wont be paying out, the garage door wont be an issue but the repairs to the 17 plate 4x4 will be a bit more that 6 or 700 pounds, now i am not a climber or domestic tree surgeon my work is in forestry with a bit of domestic work, alot of you lads on here are climbers/ tree surgeons how do you see this unfortunate event and for those of you who are doing the same thing as above with the same tickets just have a think and get the correct certification; i will post a update on this when we learn more , and i have been asked to put this on here as the person in question is on this site and a few of you from around the northwest will know him so to save him the embarassment he has asked me to post this, all views and comments gladly welcome being good or bad,