spuddog0507

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.

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 .