spuddog0507

You say you are new to selling, but work the you and probably others with you are carrying out ,whats the expirience of the people on site ? are they up to speed with the felling of trees with in a woodland enviroment ? have you got machinery for extraction etc, there is a lot to consider at times and if all put in to practice correctly makes the job run faster and smoothly, The timber personally i would forget the hanging on to it and seasoning and thinking its worth more as it wont be, best way i can explain this is if its dry you will fill a wagon and drag to the top of the bolster pins and probably have below 20 tonne on, if its wet fresh felled it will only be 2/3rds up the bolster pins, so with fresh felled you would be getting paid for 4 loads as apposed to 3, so if you worked it back and taking cash flow in to consideration your far better felling, extracting and getting it away asap for you maximum return, and another thing to consider if you have timber led about it tends to grow legs and walk and more so now a days,,,,

Snow and hail late yesterday afternoon then temps dropped to below zero around dark, snowed again from 6pm - 7pm, then a heavy frost and more snow over night, just been stood at front of house and sorry and the cense of some drivers today worries me, one guy approx early to mid 40s just come round the corner of the housing estate like you would do in June but this morning he has slid across the road smacked the kerb with front near side wheel and pushed the tyre of the rim, oh dear,, there was a bit of bad language,, 😂

Your right there, This guy no matter what trees they are only ever sees the timber as firewood and nothing else, at times i find it strange that some people just cant see past the end of there nose !!!!

Hi reading your original post and how you describe the trees, have you considered milling the oak in to slabs for table tops ? reason why i say this is that a friend of mine has recently (last september) just ringed a oak up where the main stem was near on 4ft in diameter and over 12ft long, when he showed me the photos of what he had done, i just thought WTF, i explained that if he had got it milled up in situ in to say100mm thick slabs and sold them and proceeds he would of got would of paid for it being milled and bought him a lorry load of more user friendly firewood rather than cutting 4ft rings in to six so he was able to lift em, his face said it all !!

You got to start some where and it sounds a bit like whats going on with my tractor, your engin is a V1050 so it will be same set up as my tractor and i now have to turn it off manualy now at the pump as solenoid works one way but not the other and i am sure i will end upwith same problem as you in time,,

I take it this will have a electric stop solenoid on it ? check that the wire to the solenoid is in tacked and not broken or check it with volt meter or test screw driver, in fact if you listened to it while someone else turned key you could probably hear it snap open, if not take stop solenoid out remove plastic plunger and spring and it should start but you cant stop it then ?? to stall a chipper is another question,,

Some of the auctions back in 2013-2018 had massive numbers of lots like 1-2000 and some of the items went for next to nothing, the truck in my other post came out of one of these auctions in 2017 and in this auction there was approx 200 of the DAF trucks and you could of bought just a normall cargo version (no hydraulics winch or crane on them) on a hammer price of 12,13,1400 quid, now i think thats a lot of truck for very little money,,

Witham,s are just a MOD surplus disposal site, but if you have the time and patience you can get some real bargains from them as no reserve on any thing they auction, i have bought items that have come from withams and every thing seems to of been OK, but we have to remember everything with in the MOD has to be right and you will find that when cars, vans, trucks, plant and machinery is usually serviced regardless of cost and most are over serviced, Truck below came from Withams 1993 with only 38k kilometers on it, and none of the modern day electrics on it, so happy days for me,,,

It and he is real all right , he is very well thought of in hia home town of clitheroe, i am pretty sure he is the grandson of ex TT sidecar racer Norman Burgess who i used to see a fair bit of as he lived next door but one to my uncle,,

It's a thinning job so fresh felled , it wo t be dry by a long way,,

Your weights are a bit out , 2,5 14cm M/D 35kg 4.9 20cm M/D 142kg 5,5 24cm M/D 230kg, If you are doing this by hand ie man and a chainsaw the fence posts are just not worth doing, we havent done any fence posts of that size now for near on ten year as there is just far to much time involved in it for half a days wage, just put all the smaller timber in to the chip stack far easier to handle and stack than the small short stuff,

I think some of them weights are way off , i will have a working out session and post back

Went through all this about 10/12 years ago, i really wanted a alpine but after watching one at a forestry demo day i decided against it , so it was back to the drawing board and a re think was in order, looked at medium sized 4WD tractors like ford 6610s case 784 884, made the decision and purchased a Kubota L3250, about same size as a Grey Fergi but with 4wd and 40hp, been a good machine and extracted a few tonne with it now, been reliable and its stood out in all weathers, never missed starting when needed, and i think the resale of a tractor like this applies to a far wider audience than a alpine does,

Been bloody cold all week this week, mon tues wed it never got above freezing, Thurs we had a very delightful ! degree with a chill factor of -5, today Friday it started to thaw this morning ,then a dusting of snow, then from about 3ish it went below zero again, then another dusting of snow which made for a very interesting drive home on untreated roads, just been out with dogs down lane and its done a tad more snow but its slippy under foot, my young dog has been down twice and the older one when i called em back came to me but just slid about 10ft past me looked at me as if to say FFS take me back home where its warm in front of that fire 😂😂

Have you got a fetish about injectors ? why start with a £300 - £800 job ? why not start with the cheaper option of £45 ? if its not the £45 option thats causing the problem it wont be a issue as £45 is not the end of the world but then that possible problem is eliminated, If you go the other way round injectors out and possible head off it will turn out a expensive starting point ??, from past experience with injectors on Kubota,s they have always come out with ease,,

It wont be the injectors ,its more than likely the diaphragm diesel pump that is located to the left of the injector pump, it runs off the cam shaft and a replacment is about £45, takes about 10 - 15mins to do,,

Yes McConnel, and its still got the brass badge on it as well, McConnel built hundreds of em for the FC, they where towed to site and just used in the woods for like you say pit props and there was versions with a ripping table and fence on em and used for ripping split posts down, they where developed for the big push after the end of WW11, they are still a good machine today so would of been state of the art machines back in the late 40s early 50s,,

Dont own a petrol crosscut saw but i have owned this old girl for about 15yrs , it probably wont pass any HSE inspection, but is solidly built, reliable, economicial and it does its job very well, will cut 12" with ease and i cant make it use a gallon of diesel in a day, Engine on the bench is a Petter 10hp twin cylinder that starts first swing every time, according to engine number and Petter,s records the engine was made in April 1953 and still doing a days work, they certainly dont make em like that any more,,

What do you call the right money per tonne ?

Might be for sale after christmas ? but might be a bit big for a small digger how big is the digger ?

Dont think i could afford to run my saws on aspen at £18 a gallon, it would cost me above a £100 a week in fuel for a saw on a busy week,, It dont cast me that to run a 3,2ltr shogun, since the E10 came out i have only bought the super unleaded fuel like Shell V power, had no issues what so ever but i have noticed one or 2 little differences, 1) the saws seem to run a bit sweeter than they did when i ran them on just standard unleaded, 2) We seem to get a bit more run time out of a tank of V power as compared to the older standard unleaded, OK it may only be a couple of minuets extra run time per tank but over the day/week/month it adds up slowly but surely, Ok the fuel is a little dearer to start with, but working it all back it does save a few quid in the long run,,,

You meen the pump is running directly of the crankshaft which your fan belt pully is fitted to, was it lifting fine before with plenty of lifting power ? then suddenly went to nothing ? first thing first is there oil in the resaviour ? when was the filter last changed ? is the pump shaft still rotating when engine running ? if all above all OK , get in there with a spanner or 2 Your not going to repair it with out doing something, get pump off and connector check connector, check pump shaft is rotating but not to freely, there should be some resistance,, personally i dont think a new connector and pump would break the bank for that, whitehouse products would be well worth a call for new pump,

Well i totally agree with this, i have someone who comes now n then and will do a days work in exchange for a 5x3 trailer load of logs, he aint got either the cash or the space at home to do it, so he comes to my yard on a sat with his butty box n flask and just plods away for the day, and another lad who comes with us just for the experience of being there working on a timber extraction site and he works with a local domestic tree surgeon, he wont take cash or beers off me he just says he should be paying me, this young lad just wants the experience on a saw which he aint getting at work,

Andy not every thing in life is all about money, some of us really do enjoy what we do and i am one of them even now i still enjoy a few days on the saw, extracting timber with my little Kubota or cutting and splitting firewood in the building, i would think some people who have been doing the job 40plus years would be fed up with it but i still really enjoy it,,

Yes there is a fair amount that keeps coming to the surface, if we get a few dry summers and then really wet winters it seems to appear, I been on a shoot today that is just on the edge of what we call the moss land, very peaty soil, this is where the bog oak rises up to the surface, the last field I was on today is just stating to flood up and if it keeps raining there will be about 2000 acres under water till march/April and today its been very hard walking today it's only just started to flood up, photo below is just a example i reckon in next 5/6 wk that fence will probably go under water, the said field has not been worked for 45 yrs as we know but next spring/summer it's due to be reseeded and leaveled up, could be interesting ??