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Hi don't know the last one but if you are going to make a career out of climbing etc do the best tickets you can ie as I was looking and reading about chipper tickets the others day hear is as i understood it if I did a ticket for wheeled towable chipper the ticket would not cover me to use a tracked chipper as there is a little bit more to the tracked chipper, but if I did tracked chipper ticket it would cover wheeled chipper so read carefully about what tickets you are about to do and do the highest you can at the time it will be far cheaper in the long run,

Hi got a 04 plate single wheel cabstar and had it 7 years now just got 60,000 on it pulls like a train load pick up and 10ft Ifor tipping trailer with 9ft lengths of timber as much as I can get on it pulls it no probs , had 2 transits in years gone by and this Nissan makes transits look a bit old school Nissan better on fuel pulls fare better than any transit I had , more reliable than transit ,cheaper to insure than transit , only thing I can say transit was better on is more comfortable driving position and More room in cab if you run a 3 man team .

Trees planted at 2mtr centers a hectare would be 50x50=2500 trees x 10 hectares = 25000 trees @ 1 tonne each = 25000 tonnes @ 1.5 tonne per tree = 37500 tonnes if trees @ 1.8mtr 55x55=3025 trees per hectare x 10 hectare =30250 trees @ 1tonne = 30250 tonne @ 1.5 tonne = 45375 tonne.they won't be that far out, just cleared .78 hectare of sitka got 3241 tonne of it bearing in mind some large edgers up to 1150mm die .

Hi all as for the original point of this thread for firemen to have NPTC chainsaw tickets would be expensive for the authorities as the original point was sorting a windblown hung up tree out, cant just do that on a basic cs30/31 ticket relivent training would be cs30/31 first £750 then cs32 £450-500 then cs34/35 £450-500,£1750 in training + boots trousers helmet & gloves another £200-£250 total so far £2000 then 3 shifts doing the above so I would say about £5000 per man in training and kit, easier and far cheaper to have a approved contractor data base across the country with lads who are dealing with this sort of thing on a regular basis,and just out of interest how many guys on here have cs34/35 singular and multiple windblown tickets.

Hi how many tonnes have you calculated the area to ? And when you say pine is it Scotts , lodgepole , Corsican etc all have different values and end uses , so to give prices would be difficult . I got tonnage between 25000 and 45000 tonne a lot to fell by hand and a stroke processor .

Hi had a few saws over the years never had one with a clutch on it , the one I have at the moment is a old macconell towable one with 10 HP Petter twin on it pulley on end of engine crank shaft belts up to pulley on blade shaft if I give it to much to cut and blade gets stuck (only happened twice in 8yrs tho) the belts just slip on the pulley's.

I agree with the get your thyroid checked I was diagnosed with depression and put on them pills where you slept standing up , didn't take many of them , wwent back to docs in 2008/09 several times then they decided to take bloods , 5 days later ba k to docs very under active thyroid been pissing about with dosage now for nearly 10 yrs but do feel a lot better but is this not the time of the year when about 65% of the country feel depressed and down in the dumps, but I would request some blood tests asap

Hi all only thing I can say I can't say on here but you get the idea , mate of mine had 5 tonne Kubota nicked of a job in a fairly quiet area police did not want to know, what ever way the scum went they had to go to a major motorway roundabout bothe roundabouts had CCTV on but police said to much man time to search footage, theft reported @ 6.45am email received @ 9.55am case closed all his kit diggers dumpers tractors trailers rollers etc are now fitted with trackers he said its not cost a lot but has dropped his insurance by a lot more than the cost of trackers ,will be fitting to my own kit in next few wks I think its the way as some one else I know had quad stolen but didn't realize for a couple of days tracker activated police went to some remote farm buildings 21 quads 4 chippers 6 tele handlers 2 compact tractors and 2 containers full of saws Strimers blowers and mowers etc . hence got his quad back and several others got there stuff back as well.

Hi very interesting thread and J I find it hard to believe 300 pike and no 20 you live in the right part of the country for a decent pike or 2,my success over the border was unstoppable and further north I went the fishing just got better SW Scotland was not very fruitful for me best fish 18.12 Lomond , Awe , Mentieth where all very kind with several 20s of each water Lomond 27.06 (pb) awe 25.04 mentieth 24.01,keep thinking of sorti g my boat out and heading to Lomond again , all I do now is a few trips to staithes in north Yorks cod n pollack a few trips out of our coast here form Fleetwood in my own boat tope and smoothhound fishing a few bass n plaice now n then and the lake district keeps calling but I believe it's a bit different now to when I fished it hard in late 90s early 2000s or it may be just a difrent breed of angler with different ideas , as I found in the 80s fishing large deep glassier lakes just either burn or bin all the rule books cos they don't work.

Hi been there and done that years ago with not great success by the time you have got your shopping list together and all costs 2 new decent axels withe wheels n tyres will cost 6-700 quid hitch 200 ish brakes and cables steel paint or galvanised it will soon add up, and is there not some legal thing these days where you would have to get it CE , VOSA or some other making scam approved just go and buy a Ifor Williams at least you will know its legal ,it will tow a dream and hold it value as home made won't no matter how much you spend.

Hi been I few posts on this question , only thing I can tell you is Ifor Williams as they do last and they hold there value way above all other manufacturers , for what you have said 6 cube babs of logs moving hardcore kit has to be a 12x6 ifor tipper as unloading at the end of a hard day pushing that tipper control button is a darn sight easier than shovelling a load off, I have tt3015 and wouldn't dream of going back to a conventional trailer , save a Bit more dosh and buy the right tool for the job you won't regret it.

Yes all 4 heater plugs out try and turn by hand even if you have to put a socket or spanner on crankshaft nut turn engine over and engine should expel oil out of heater plug holes ? That's if oil has got into cylinders ,if it does expel oil chech oil level on dip stick to get some idea of how much oil is missing if not much turn key and oil should get spit out, may be before you do anything check oil level first as its so new if oil is down its hydrauliced oil in cylinders good look .

Hi all I know where you are coming from simonm and you have my sympathy, I may just have a rant here about staff ,in 2014 I got a job felling to waist 4000 tonne of infected larch first 2 lads bothe up for it big time 1 I nethere knew whether he was to be on site the following day till 10pm ish night before the other just wanted to talk about firewood all day,first lad went got 2 more lads 1 said I was costing him money as it was not full time (told at start 2-4 days a WK) so he went, other lad OK and still with me, another came got cs 30,31,32,34,35,38,39 he felled 5 big larch one day and got 2 hung up on reasonable open ground when sorting hang ups out he got his saw stuck so many times I lost count (f------ use less I thought) when he finally supplied his tickets cs30,31 a lawn mower ticket and tree planting certificate so he went another been in army for 7 years just come out did 3 days on flat ground put about 12 trees on the floor a day got a text on 4th morn can't make it today nether heard from him since,another done this and that and every tying else he said he had driven tractors all his life 2 hours its in a ditch on a 45 degree angle another couldn't add up so not much good on a tape measure when it came to processing poles GOOD staff are very hard to come across these days how ever I have 3 top lads at the moment 1 he is only happy when his saw is revving its nutts off ,2 by fare the most efficient climber I have ever had and 3,steady climber quick on the ground and likes to be down to t shirt by 10am as you can guess I want to keep these 3 they all work well together BUT there is plenty of dreamers and lads full of bulls hit out there.

There's a lot of people with caravans that break down car on truck caravan hitched up behind , I personally have been in the AA for about 20 years only ever used it 4 times 3 local and 1 60 mile away in the lakes with a 17ft boat on a trailer it wasnt the car that broke down it was the boat trailer axel that failed (trailer only 8 month old at the time) got boat on trailer recovered no problem , and drove car home what you need to remember is the AA have a lot of small breakdown recovery firms contracting to them and once they have got your signature they get paid regardless of how they did it.

Hi I don't see why you need insurance for recovery just join the AA as its the person holding the policy who's covered not the veichiel there for what ever car/van your in its covered being its yours a friends or a relation.

Hi when I was looking for a trailer I looked at several different manufacturers Brian James ,graham Edwards , Ifor ,buffalo and Nugent all looked good well built trailers that would do the job ,but for how long , had a Ifor for a period of 12 yes had been looked after but used heavily (5 full sets of tyres in that time) so that should give you some idea of the use it had. Bought new £1780 in 2003 sold on flebay 2015 for £1860 nota bad return ?, will all these other manufacturers trailers have a similar resale value ? I have my thoughts, one big thing to remember is Ifor have been there a few years now and sold a fair few trailers and are sought after on the second hand market there for raising the resale value

Hi another stihl ms241 fan 2013 model on 14" bar use it all the time for logging and felling if it can be done with either heart cut or sweep round so trees up to 32-36" gutsy little saw easy to start been very reliable so thumbs up.

Hi interesting project can't wait till photos appear as on with a similar project my self may be good to have a chat about this.

Hi gone through this idea myself a few years ago and sacked it off, reason why is as some has said to you load skip and try it in woods , we did 2-3 runs out loaded and then dragging winch cables and chains about for rest of day complete waist of time,the 2 dumpers as with link to flebay are only about 3 mile from me looked at them thought about them and what I could do with them but forgot about them for now as I kept having flash backs to past experience. We have had several wheeled dumpers hired in from 1-5 tonne pay load and none have really worked,the only 1 that has is a 3 tonne tracked yanmar but only carrying 2.4 MTR firewood took tractor trailer into wood and used crane to load dumper when we was getting towards end of this job I loaded trailer and took out but I only did 4 trips and it was getting harder each time 2 or 3 more trips would of been it tracked dumper about 50 trips and not much mess .

As the saying goes you can't suit everybody ! Had a similar experience like this in sept 2016 large mature oak growing out across a main drainage ditch in the middle of a Field ,water level at one side 8" higher than the other and clear of debris underneath it ,the EA said it had to go as it was holding several thousand cube of water back, land owner got written permission EA. Got one of 3 stalks on the floor when I noticed a plumpish lady behind me screaming have you got permission of the council as its got a TPO on it as its an oak tree and all oak trees have TPO,s when I said no permission of council but written permission of the EA, her reply was rubbish its nothing to do with the EA its the council ,I rang the land owner and explained the situation , he said this is 3rd time today her she's been to farm twice all ready about carting slurry, he turned up with letter and sorted but tree is still there as she put a stop to it , six WK latter she's back at farm asking for the ditch to be made wider as she had just been flooded in her kitchen and garage, some people just have nothing better to do l,am afraid if she had,not stuck her oar in she would of not been flooded.

I will stick with you " this time next year you will be a millionaire ??????.

Em,stihl 260 all the way have 4 of them 1 battered and bruised 2004 and 3 2009 models (1 still in the box) ready to replace the 2004 when it gives up ? My experience with huskys are not good had 1 years ago for a short time .1 lad who works with us has huskys 550 & 560,560 seems to be a pig to start 10-15 pulls every time and they say its right his 550 seems a better balanced saw and as for the 261 being a crock of site ? Its like all machinery if you maintain it correctly it will be fine there's 1 of my lads got a 261 2011 never gives any trouble revs its nut's of 8 hours a day but it gets looked after.

Hi I have a 54 plate 3.0ltr swb cabstar tipper had it 6 years now and has been a fantastic workhorse and it has been aides, good points are very reliable, very manoverable in tight spaces,good on fuel compared to others, parts easy to get hold of (if needed), very gutsy with plenty of power, I tow a 10ft Ifor tipper with cage sides and think nothing of loading bothe trailer and pick up to the limit or more often above limit it doesn't look overloaded and pulls trailer along happily. Bad points gears are a bit clunky,not the softest of rides in the world, seats are not comfortable (not a truck for riding long distance in)but its a work horse and I bought it to do a job that it does very well, had transits in the past but this cabstar doubly been hear the longest and no planes to get rid of it for as long as I can see , rust issues are not bad but you have to maintain things and look after them and they will be fine.