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Just to give you a guideline transit 350 lwb with 12 ft ifor box trailer,van was owned and paid for trailer was hired in on a daily basis when needed traveling from Preston to hull on average 2/3 times a WK delivering kitchens so not a vast weight, was paid £1.20 per mile and paid both ways worked out at over £400 a trip some days went twice but not often one day I won't forget 2 trips with van n trailer and 1 with just van and all this was in 2007/2008 when hull and surrounding villages got seriously flooded. So your 45p I don't even think will cover your expences, more up to date like about 3 WK ago I went collecting plastic bags that had had trees in them for a forestry co with a Nissan cabstar pick up went to 4 sites in lancs and north Yorks 146 miles round trip 5 hrs £280 so at 45p mile it would be £65.70 big differenc . personally if it was 45p per mile I would just stop at home and watch Jeremy kyle, hope this helps you.

What language would you like it translating to ? If its south of manchester I may struggle a little ,

Hi you just ordered a 461, I have just bought one on sat 3 WK old only cut 2 discs of a ash stump 25" bar and chain sharpening kit was it's bargain at £550 ?

Yes that sounds about right but if trees are sub 7cm I would go a little over the 800 if its like a job I think I will get asked to do all regen and trees are about 6inch apart and about 8ft high now will be a b-----d to do.

Hi I would think this would be on a per hectare price have a search on FC site and you will proberbley find some info on this subject and pricecs but they may be out of date but yoiu will get a generally idea, sounds a bit like a job we would get offered at this time of year,if you do it get plenty of jungle formula midges and horse fly's will be a pain in the butt.

Hi all we don't do a right lot of arb work about 15-20 jobs per annum its mainly forestry work for us, but I will tell you how I came to do a bit of arb work, I used to work with a guy on a regular basis 1-2 days a week and when I was delivering my logs to customers some would ask about re moving a tree in there garden so I would just pass a phone number on of the guy I worked with,then I got to here of someone that he had been bad mouthing me about a small clearfell job that I had took weeks to do and made a total bollox of it,now this job I don't even know where it was or who did it but it was not me, so I thought to my self one day when a customer I was delivering logs to asked me about a large sycamore tree that they wanted removing, so I thought sod it I will do this myself so found a very good climber a place to hire a chipper in from and started there, most amazing thing out of this was after about 10 months of not giving any one the phone number of the guy I used to work with he rang me one night and asked if I was still delivering logs and does no one ask you about trees any more when I said yes his voice changed and he asked me if I still passed his number on when I said no he asked why not so I told him that I was doing the work, you can't climb,you haven't got a chipper and all that crap, so I mentioned the clear fell job I had supposed to of done and I just said to him if you have got a memory you might gusse what I may say next or if you had 2 brain cells you wouldn't of said it in the first place , there was silence then well did you not do it, I replied no don't even know where it is but I believe I have made a total bollox of it , he replied oh I thought you had done it , I just said do your homework and get your facts right before you open your mouth as this has cost you 10-12k of lost work and more besides as there is another team in your area now, its quite funny that he ain't spoke to me or waved to me on the road since. And on other very satisfying thing is that he has just started a relationship with a right gold digger and when the cash has gone so will she be gone on to next one .

TOTALLY agree with the get some training and I could give him some advice but it wont be what he wants to here,

If your having to set the idle speed on a new saw and it keeps slalling take it back to where you bought it you should not need to touch it.

Go on a training course but I am sorry you will have to talk about PPE basic maintained and starting a saw as the course won't just be for you unless you want to pay a small fortune for it on a ones to one basis.I would put money on it that you will learn more than you think you know so to keep yourself as safe as you can do the course, training is cheap really, a made of mine thought he knew it all about saws but top and bottom of it he knew f--k all nearly took his arm off with a saw 18 month off work and I advised me more than once to do a couple of courses the training would of been cheap to 18mths off work.

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.

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 .

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.

H what size bar and chain you running on it and what you cutting with it ? And are you felling ringing up with it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Hi what do you call large amount ? 100 200 300 tonne could put you in touch with some one who could supply.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 .