spuddog0507

i take it its the 3 ltr older one or is the the new 2.5ltr ? start with the fuses,

how small are the trees i.e 200 300 400 mm ? and the only thing a steel wedge will do that either plastics or ali high lifts wont do is fuck your chain if you touch a steel wedge,

sounds like your a bit pissed at what your neighbour has done with his tree and what he said to you about your job being easy, but you have to remember some people are quick learners and naturals at some things and others are just hopeless, 1 lad i know and i have watched him carefully on some other companys jobs has got a cs30/31 and i do not know how he got it, only thing with me that comes to mind is the asscessor on the day was stevie wonder, your neighbour may be the opposite and may of taken to it like a duck to water , ask him for a sat morning and see what his reaction is he may supprise you ,

hi all depends on what it is ie red turkey english, with it being a small plot its not had fencing fixed to it has it ? is it fit for beams , framing have a ring round and see what people will pay you for it then work your costs out + 35% - that figure from sale cost and the figure thats left start by offering about 50% of that you can always go up with your offer but you cant go down,

dont know about a design fault more like a over sight on stihls side, they increased the out put of power on the 261 and continued to use the same clutch drum and bearing as the 260 , one dealer i know does a mod on them by machining the clutch drum out to take a heavier bearing and it seems to work well

i dont think any of them are its just down to the muppet, who either maintains or supposed to maintain it how many people on here take the clutch drum off and grease the bearing or replace the 70 pence needle bearing on a regular basis like once or twice a week if the saw is used regularly and lets face it in the present climate we have grease does not hold its viscosity so quickly vanishes, had a lot of stihls over the years ( inc 261s) and had very little trouble with any of them ,BUT one guy who worked with us had a 261 2014 and all he did to that saw was put fuel n oil in it and clean the air fillter now n then , 2 years later he tells me its fuckrd loads of play in the clutch drum ,we took it of put new bearing in and it still had play but no where near as much , put a caliper on crank shaft and it had a slight tapper on it ,so he took it to get it sorted about £300 later he had a saw that had no play in the clutch drum, so i gave him a £1.80 tube of grease and 2 spare 70p bearings and told him to grease it more often as if he had of done it more than likely been ok.

Hi all got an emergancy job on in blackpool on thurs chipper is on an other job and could do with a tip site for brash in the south shore area of the town ,can anybody put owt forward, many thanks ,

hi speaking from past lessons learnt , i looked at the debon trailers about 3 yrs ago when i was looking for a tipping trailer, looked at the 10x6 3 way tipper but trailer had its issues for me, price was right , but when i hunted round on the net for pre owned ones the value was a fraction of an ifor , found about 3 trailers for sale 2 in scotland and 1 in leeds the one in leeds was 18 mth old and was £1995 and the 2 in scotland went in a auction and made about a grand each, not good on the second hand market , personally i would just go and buy an ifor may be a little more expensive but you will all ways sell it and get most of your money back as ifors seem to hold up well on the second hand market, just my thoughts,

hi how big of a trailer do you want 8x4 10x6 12x6 ?

Hi i think you said something there that may be needs a little more thought, husky dealer near me is better at putting saws back together, why would that be ? my personal view is small saws husky and any saw over 60cc stihl all the way, if your may be going to use it up trees a lot i think i would be having a look at the 462 72cc and only weighs 6kg and will run a 25" bar, the reviews on youtube all seem to rate it, just my thoughts.

that groundies brain looks a bit mashed up !!!! is that with the climber shouting about 3 million instructions at him in the course of a working day ????.

hi, i dont climb so cant vouch on that one, but i do go grounding for a couple of lads when i am asked i always say can you post me a holiday form as i find 95% of that quite easy, now today been in some wind blown spruce saw pants glued to my legs by 10am bitten and harassed by horse flies and many other fling things all day finish 3rd bottle of liquid at 2.30 and said bollox to it at 3pm got back to truck 29 degrees, but hardest job i have ever done by far was cutting to waste infected larch on a 50 -70 degree banking that was 1.1 mile long by 140 mtrs deep, fantastic job up hill and down hill all f,ing day .had one leg 2" longer than the o,there when we finished,

hi when you said skid steer i thought space would be tight but what you have described should work , just try it and no your not thinking to simply at all, as simplicity is reliability and a old bloke told me that 40yrs ago and how right was he.

hi you should just be able to add another spool block on to the end of the spool bank providing you have enough roon then pipe to rotator,

hi some one on here was looking for cedar a couple of weeks back it has a good value and people will pay for it have a look round on other sites like woodlots you will sell it.

hi i will go along with J on this and would all so be interested in the figures as i think i am way off on a price i put in on one job, but on the other hand another price i put in was for a hardwood clear fell with some big straight beech in it (500=800 dbh) should get 50 tonne plus of the beech out of it and got a buyer at £3.60 hoppus foot, all so some nice straight oak poles about 12 and buyer will collect, and the rest approx 120 tonne firewood, ground is fairly flat and very dry (even last winter job could of been done with ease) longest extraction is approx 100 mtrs, the above i paid £12 per tonne for and i should make money on that on the other hand been asked about a first thinnings job in some spruce 12=15cm dbh 2nd crop so a lot of stumps and crap about on the ground , there has no figuars dissgussed yet but the more i think about it, its do the job and retain timber with no payments either way , timber would be either chip or fencing, less work in chip but less money , fencing needs to be more accurate on cutting to length all thoughts welcome.

your talking 2 different jobs in 2 different locations for 2 different customers yes you should charge travel from base , i would, but not if i am all ready there and if it was additional work on the day it would be £45 per hour as more than likely every thing we would need to do the additional work would be on site and set up ready to go. last time i was asked to do additional work on a job we was taking a ash down and customer asked about 2 fruit trees both past there best but only 10"-12" dia so not big quoted her £30 a tree job done in about 50 mins and a happy customer, from this been back to hers got another job of her brother and just got a 2k job of her daughter, so with not being greedy has lead to about 7 days additional work.

got to agree with above, if you are all ready there thats a traveling cost you didnt need to charge i think the 70 80 quid would of been fair for the extra work( thats 88p per min i would take that all day long) just take what you can get if its 30 40 quid take it and DONT give him any abuse and say thank you and remember bad news travells faster than good news, and if he his a domestic elec you never know he may put your name forward to some of his customers for a job or 2 in the future, and thats how it works ,

i started using it about 30 years ago when we where fishing in the lake district and getting eaten alive by midges , i first aquired it from trevor moss who ran the tackle shop in gainsbourogh , as far as i know it was developed by the MOD for the SAS and marine cor who where stationed in borneo hence the name jungle formula.

hi got same problem but the little bas====s did,nt appear till about 10 days ago and seem to be more each day we have been using jungle formula with outstanding success been on it about 5 years now comes in pump spay or roll on but find pump spray best and dont just do your exposed skin spray your t shirt as well even got bit by one through the finger on my glove at wk end.

seems to be alot of different opinions on this subject, how ever i think i will just carry on as i am untill i am told other wise, but the original question was does any one know the permisible weight of a trailer before it needs testing/ plating,

dont matter what is best size for your machine but it does matter when if comes to go on a wagon and go down the road if your haulier can only get 1 bay on wagon @ 3.5 and 1 on trailer you wont get full weight on but haulage cost would be the same , ask a few hauliers around where the job is and most will say 2.5 or 3 mtr lenghs.

bloody hell J whys it madness ? to me that would mean that you make more coin out of it and i cant see owt wrong with that. can i ask why 3.5 mtr ? you wont get 2 bays of 3.5 s on a wagon and i think you will struggle with 2 bays on trailer 3 mtr would be better. saw logs very good at the moment and most mills will take down to 18cm tops or larch of that size makes good strainers either 2.2 or 2.5 mts and better money than chip.

on sat about 6 fri 8 thurs 8 all brash and logs moved with little digger and loaded on to trailer, most logs stacked at roadside now.

i will do my best as its very simple, basically its down to gearing like the pic above small sprocket on drive end the a much bigger sprocket on the receiving end , most pto winches 540 rpm in and about 50 rpm out , our igland 4201 retrieves the line at 0.9 mtrs a second and will still do that when there is a couple of tonne on the end and it takes some effort to keep up with it across a woodland thats got brash every where, if you are going to buy one buy new if you have the work for it or pm him about the one above that he is taking to burnley auction.