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  1. spuddog0507
    Hi I agree with some points and disagree with others , know 3 machine harvesting crews and they are not on 23k a year, well above that, one guy I sat on machine with a few WK ago was saying most mc drivers are on cubic MTR rate and will earn above £200 for 8hr shift when there away from home and in a caravan yes 14 15 16 hr days but what else is there to do miles from anywhere only drive machine and get more timber down = £400+ a day the guy I sat with did 13600 cubic MTR in 6 and a half WK OK it was some good mature sitka averaging 1.89 cube, in arb your working hrs are restricted in forestry there not, the days of hand cutters in forestry being paid well are on the way back because as most posts above are saying arb is the way and no one is wanting to do forestry work, so them who do go into forestry will make good money,I do both but find it far easier in forestry than arb with more satisfaction at the end of the day.
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    Do you know any one else with one you could compare yours with ? As I would think a new saw should be OK as the 661 is rated to have more power than 660 . I would be looking at trying another one as your dealer may be filling you with bulls--t ,I have a 241 that gets a lot of use,at the start it was pants tryed another one of a lad and different saw all together more power quick throttle response told dealer to sort or money back please ended up putting new ecu thing on it never been any trouble since but dealer told me it was fine there's nothing wrong with it .
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    30" should be fine. Is it big stuff where you can bury the bar full length or sub 30" ? I run 660 with 30" but only for ringing up big stuff like 36"+never used it to fell owt as always use a 460 with 20" bar. Is your chain sharp ? As our 660 cuts well when sharp but seems to dull off after 4-5 hours in beech syc oak etc but will fly through larch spruce and Scotts pine all day long.
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    H what size bar and chain you running on it and what you cutting with it ? And are you felling ringing up with it.
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    Hi on o2 here but on a sim only deal unlimited texts unlimited minutes and 5 gig of internet use (which I never get any where near the limit) £13.50 a month and bet a new phone every 2 yrs of my daughter.
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    Hi do you understand where compression and tension appear in the timber you are cutting ? I don't know what saws you use but if you have ever bought a new stihl chainsaw it will come with a handbook that has some very simple pictures of how to cut timber with compression and tension. We all get saws stuck from time to time a d some more than others , we cut a fair amount of windblown spruce ,larch etc and perfect example is one lad who works with me he will get his saw stuck 2 or 3 times a day but I keep telling him use the correct sequence of cuts and you wont . and husky did do a book with some very good colour photos and diagrams in.
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    Work in several large areas of what I called forests but about 3 wks ago when out with my senior forest manager looking at a job on a 865 acre site and I called it a forest but was corrected on the subject and told a wood is 1 - 999 acres forest 1000 acres and above when i asked about a copes answer was not worth bothering about.
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    A wood becomes a forest at 1000acers and I think a wood is 1 acer to 999 acres don't know a out a copse
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    Sorry but our tree officers here are never in a rush only when it comes to 4.30pm can never get a site visit before 12pm then it takes 3-4 wks to get a answer from them,once asked for a 8am site meeting poor bloke nearly dropped dead don't start till 9am was his reply , ended up 11am site visit,not good for me having to leave another job but just have to work with them
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    Sounds about right for a council employee, but you go and start cutting trees down and they will soon be on your case (they may even sacrifice elevenses to be on site that day) its the same with a lot of things in this day and age where other organisations and people have more of a say at what you do, than you do your self, but unfortunately we have to slow to their speed which is all most STOP.
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    Hi what do you call large amount ? 100 200 300 tonne could put you in touch with some one who could supply.
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    Sorry to point this out,but if you are worried about safety issues with them and you say £65 is a lot of money , just look at it from this angle a trip to hospital and a couple of weeks of work would cost you more than £65.BUY NEW.
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    Hi been running a still ms241 on a 14" bare since 2013 I find it light nimble easy to start and cuts well other lads who have picked it up all say f--k me that cuts and it does, I wouldn't think twice about another, other ease 260x2, 341,460 and 660 but first one I pick up is the 241 even when felling big trees up to what I can manage with a heart cut.
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    Hi I hope this helps you what you said about 1man band is correct if no risk to others no HSE lawes applies, when it comes to forwarding trailers with crane fitted no loler rules applied as if you read HSE pages forestry forwarders are loler exempt, I have forklift on 3 point linkage on tractor only use it myself and I under stand it that I don't need loler certificate.
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    All so common practice in UK now a site I have been on recently all brash and chip wood to be stacked roadside in next few weeks
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    A guy about 7-8 mile from me has done it cargo engine with turbo pulls like a train and goes like **** off a stick 38mph but he says its not safe at that .it looked good sounds fantastic and performs like a 75 k tractor of today but his is 48 yes old .
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    Hi good to fell easy dressing out felled about 3500 tonne on a steep bank that was felled to waste due to being infected, had nightmares about it as it was a site with very few infected trees and some cracking straight 100ft poles with 600mm dbh
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    Hi 120x30ft building (1/4 of 120x120 building particained off) small outside storage area for ibc crates pallets etc and a big yard round corner (100yds away)where I can get several arctic loads of timber dropped got water and electric in building £100 per calendar month.
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    I find the above hard to believe I have a 51plate cabstar 30k on it when I got it 6 years ago got 63k on now pulls Ifor tipper about loaded and well loaded it had been looked after before I got it and looked after since apart from servicing (on a regular basis ie every 5-6k) its cost me 4 tyres 1 exhaust, 1 starter motor,1 battery and 2 front shockers over 6 years ,just been to Cardiff to collect a dumper in it on sat 496mls round trip 65-70mph worked out 33.8 to the gallon, so have i a shed load of money to spend on mine in the future,?.
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    You don't hang about you lads !
  21. spuddog0507
    Yes and foggy had one in bsb and was on one when he had his epic battle with hislop onboard the 588 Norton on the isle of man in 1990, I just wish I could get Ben to part with his but its like every thing else he has you ask , and its I will get round to it, but he never will.
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    Hi yes I think its correct title would be Yamaha fzr 750r exup owo1 I am sure its on a G plate so that would be 89/90 so that should be correct as I think they first appeared about 88 ?.
  23. spuddog0507
    It snapped a con rod big hole in engine block, but as I said Ben is Ben he can't leave any thing as standard every thing he gets he has to do improvements to it,but never gets owt sorted properly ,my mate can do that, his garage (30x60 ft farm building) is full of unfinished projects or things he has f----d up, the one project I wouldn't mind is a mid/late 80s Yamaha 750 exup with about 3000mls on it he's said he was going to get it doing 180-190 mph I don't think the factory race bikes did that ?,its all in a box in about a thousand pieces.
  24. spuddog0507
    It may be a returned uigate milk float with a chip box on and a new shinny tow bar .!.
  25. spuddog0507
    Good things and bad things about this, a guy I shoot with got a new ranger 65 plate (sure he said it was about 210bhp as standard ? Tell me if I am wrong ) after about 4 months Ben being ben had it re mapped to about 255bhp 6 WK later it through a con rod nearly destroyed the engine totally took it back to ford, they new what had been done and when so they said the warranty was void, £5400 for repair all to get a extra 5 mpg , he wasn't right happy when I said £5400 would buy an awful lot of diesel.

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