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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,

yes there was a fair chunk of willow growing just north of junction 40 M6 but not been up there for about a year or so so dont know if its still there and jenky,s are chipping on site both brash and chjp wood, they have chipped brash and log on a few Tilhill sites i have been on and brash on a Eurotrash site all in lancashire and hauling it to Lockerbie 100 mile (how eco friendly is that for a carbon neutral power station) but not seen any stumps ripped out yet, a haulier from down here had a wagon and drag up there 5 days a week hauling chip wood from up the A7 back to Lockerbie but that went tits up about 12 monthes since,

Oh my thoughts on your planing officer would be what a a---hole he would more than likley have a lot more important issues to deal with than yours . so if i am extracting timber out of a wood and stacking road side on agricultural land ,and lets say its a busy time for hauliers and i cant get it moved for 6 mths or more i have to put a planing application in for change of use of the land and then when timber has gone submit another planing application for change of use back to agricultural land, what o total load of bollox , no wounder the councils are in a mess and they do fuck all productive they just piss about with petty tupney issues, Oh sorry we have just got a new swing/play thing on our playing field, it has cost about 4k and now it seems its not fit for use ,what a fantastic desision that was by the council on our behalf

if the timber has come out of forestry works i dont see any problem as forestry is in the agricultur sector all forestry tractors hauling timber can run on agri tax (free of charge) and run on red diesel, now if you was hauling sand with tractor it would need general haulage tax (approx £400) and white diesel, so stock piling /storing timber out of forest works on agricultural land is agricultur related as growing trees is same as growing wheat/barley/oates its a cash crop, if it was domestic arb waste being stored on agricultural land it would be a very different story , hope this makes sense and helps you out,.

hi i would say £10-12 per tonne road side but i think you will struggle on that one in that area as the new power station at Lockerbie was built and designed to burn all the brash and chip wood out of the borders,dunfries& galloway and Lanackshire , but someone got there sums sadly wrong on that one as 18 mth since they where taking saw logs in there to chip and burn as the volume of brash had been miss calculated.

you would have to have cs32 befor you went to do your cs 34/35 singular and mulltiple windblown and thats not for the faint hearted, so who ever told you that you needed cs32 before 38 & 39 is pulling your chain,

i still do ?,

mine is 2004 and i cant find 4 glow plugs can find 1 in the inlet manifold tho,

hi had a look this morning it looks like it has one heater plug in the in let manifold that is situated on top of the engine if you look under the engine cover its a square moulding in the inlet manifold with 2 elec items the top one looks as if it could be a heater plug , but not 100% on that good luck and have some plasters ready as they are so awkward to work on ,but at least theres one thing you dont have to do it very often.

its definatly got heater plugs or plug it may be just one in the inlet manifold i will have a look at mine in the morning and see what i come up with,