spuddog0507

Manx Norton's, Honda 250 6 cylinder late 60s works race bike revving round to 18000 rpm , any Yamaha tz 2 stroke , Peugeot 205 t16 , British Leylands late attempt at the WRC metro 6R4 I remember watching them in grizdale in 84 and thought to my self after 1st one went past where's my ear plugs ,the Lancaster sounds awesome there are loads of great sounding engine even old countys sound good when there being worked hard.

Sad case , had a work college on the dury for the case , haven't got the full SP yet.

I totally agree with the above the trailer is there to be used if you put stock board in with rocks like that you will proberbly create more of a problem , steel is cheap for what it goes through and lasts along time.

Sorry about this but you asked, as said before groundie no helmet ear protection or gloves 4/5 people including guy holding rope not a helmet in sight(may have been one on ground near guy with rope) you say it was on a building site? Who was running the job ? As there is something else that stands out to me besides helmets gloves and ear protection there is no hi viz vestsor jackets on site! The guy on the rope has a white husky t shirt on that's cool but not worth a sh t if he gets hit, you need to pay not a bit but a lot more attention to your guys ppe helmets gloves ear muffs and hi viz are not expensive and its up to you to make sure it is worn, if I catch my lads with out it I tell them get it on and keep it on till you leave site I give em all 3 verbal then tell em if you don't want to wear ppe look for another job.

What's the difference between good w--k and a egg! You can't beat a good w--k ....

Mick & paddy up in court, mick up first he got fined £500 for shagging a goat, paddy got sentenced to 3 years inside for acting it,,,,.

SORRY new order!

Yes cult she sells sanctuary top track , all so blue oyster cult don't fear the reaper and about the same time the iconic track blue Monday by joy division.

I do watch TOTP every week on series link and yes there was some rubbish and plenty of it , Kim wild had several top 10 hits some OK but she was the dream of many young lads in 80s she still tours today doing 80s revival gigs.

The 80s what a decade for music ,miles better than today's crap ,some very successful bands and solo artists from the 80s simple minds , u2 ,stranglers , clash, dexys ,human league ,specials ,bananarama ,guns n roses, in excess, tube way army, bon jovi, billy idol , men at work, tapu, and the lovely Kim wild even Slade had a chart revival in the 80s after ruling in the charts in the early 70s.

Looking at them could not make my mind up if they where Chippendale, warring & gillows or Davenport ? Then I read the title again leylandie not heard of them , sounds Italian to me, But your right some one will buy them ! Proberbly a dizzy footballers wife from alderleyedge.

Dog tooth cut comes to mind which you should of done on your cs 30/31 ? If it had of hit you it would of hurt ! There has just been a bloke killed in the scotish borders with same thing flung him about 20 mtrs through the air against another tree tho, so it pays to learn your cuts and pay attention to what ur doing, but we all cut corners to save a bit of time and it don't always pay, stay safe.

Stihl ms 241 on a 14" bar no probs in 3 yrs 362 I believe is a good saw a mate has 2 and he says plenty of power and ain't let him down yet about 12 month old now but he works in forestry so it won't be sat there doing nowt it will be revving its nuts of 7-8 hours a day.

Hi went to a woodland management show / exhibition last Saturday got talking to 2 guys and stump grinders on diggers came up , one guy had worked in new Zealand on eucalyptus plantations 25 tonne digger didn't have enough oil flow for a stump grinding head so he ended up Puting a 340hp cat engine with pumps and a 80 gallon oil tank a 2 oil coolers on the ballast weight, he said it would work of digger hydraulics but at only about 25% of what it would do of auxiliary engine .

Hi I have bothe stihl and husquavarna tongs small stihl ones and the bigger (28cm) I think husky ones these big ones I would not be with out they save so much back bending and when timber is wet they still get hold pick rounds up and drag lengths about just a e,tension to your arm but with a better grip.

???? I think he meens about 5 - 10 mins .!!!!!!!!!

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.