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You say hundreds of tonnes ? if you could give us some dimensions of the timber, ie diameter at breast height and a rough length of the main poles along with a rough estimate of the plantation size, some of us could give you a good idea of what amount of timber there is in there, at i guess i would say the bulk of the timber is 10-12" dbh and some a bit bigger depending on spieces,, 10-12" dbh hardwood is very saleable at present,,some photos would be nice as well,,

From past experience of boring a 25mm hole in some oak at a depth of 550mm, it wernt good to do but i was going with the grain, i think across the grain would be easier, use plenty of candle wax on the auger bit and for gods sake keep pulling the auger out to clean the hole out or it gets blocked up and the auger goes solid, (had to split one length of timber to free the auger) and take your time as i burnt a £140 Boch SDS drill out after 2 holes,,,,

Is there reason for a 3 day course ? Doing my 5th one on 15th April and all have been one day courses, first one was £50 back in 2010 the one in 2 wk is £110 per head,

Thats what we do and they usually come out ok,,

If you ate that many beans you would need a new arse hole 😂

Yes its madness really,, the guy who obtained the slings for me was a mobile fitter for the civil engineering co, but unfortunately now retired, i would get a phone call from him and he would say, there taking the compound down tomorrow on such a job and there is all the 4x2, 4x4 and about 100 8x4 sheets of ply all going in the skip if you want some lads will load you up just drop him £20 on the load all, its ridiculouse what the big Co,s just bin but its like you say skipping it will be cheaper,,

Slings i would say should be inspected on a regular basis regardless of age, for what we do with them and how some get treated is a bit beyond belief at times,, i was once asked to get a bag of slings out of a van one day, slings where minging ,covered in white fluffy mould/fungus with the added stench, when getting the 2 slings out needed for the job personally i would not of used them, a odd nick n cut here n there along with outer canvas ripped, i have 2 bags of 3 tonne slings that came of a big utility job and the job spec by main contractor stated one lift only with the slings then in the skip,, madness,, but in reality its not when your lifting something thats 5 or 6k and a pair of slings is £40,slings are cheap really for what we do with em and i think should be replaced regularly especially if working with staff on the ground and swinging timber and in or around public places,,

Think them lads need some driving lessons, him in the van several attempts to reverse in, and well him in the digger, well just say no more!! all i can say is i bet he did,nt have any Tonka toys as a kid,🤔,, Good stop that, nearly lost his digger but gained a van and trailer, my mate had a 6 tonne Kubota nicked just out side Bolton a few years back and Plod didnt want to know, reported stolen at 6,48am case closed 8,37am,,

That grab is fine, I can do a lot with it like push, drag,rake and stack brash with it , rip stumps out with, reinstate ground we have chewed up a bit, moving and stacking logs is fine with it, it does take a bit of getting used to but for the price which is about 1,2k I call it a good piece of kit, loading wise its fine and we loaded the trailer below in about 40 mins a few week back, front 2 bays 2.5mtr and the back was 5mtr lengths,,

They have had a change and its a bew presenter tonight,

Yes i looked at the Riko ones and some others supplied by ryteck, then decided to build one it was originally built for use behind a quad but spent more time on its side than on its wheels do we redesigned it for use either at 4ft wide behind a quad or at 5ft,6" when behind the tractor, 3tonne on it when behind tractor but some times it will of been more, 3mte beech n oak thinnings soon start adding up,,

ment to add photos to last post,,

Tractor and trailer does ok for us, i was working along side a log bullet mini forwarder on a job 2 year ago and i could move at least twice as much at a time and when your on a long haul it makes a diffarence,, then there is the resale issue as well, a small tractor will appeal to a much larger selling audience than a purpose built forwarder,, i think i would get back what i paid for mine and about the same for the trailer and crane, we use a little 2,8t digger with a fixed grab and it works well in thinings as we stack the timber ryde side and windrow the brash with it as with it being a fixed grab you can rake or push brash with it which i find is very labour saving,, Going to look at a job next wk where some windblown has taken a drystone wall down so its price for windblown clearance then rebuild the wall, could be 25 -30 tonne of timber which will be ours for the removal of it so tractor n trailer and the winch come in to there own in this situation, we will sever the trees and winch back in to the woodland whole, then sned and process with in the wood hence no brash to drag back, it all works out most days then one day you get every thing going wrong !! get your trailer with crane then make a braket up to swap grab between trailer and digger, but when you put it back on tractor put half a gallon of oil to dump out of grab n rotator as you would be putting hydraulic oil in to the back end of your tractor which aint good but the other way your UTO out of tractor in to digger would be fine,,

Read most of the above and some good points made, i have a small outfit that i use on mainly our own jobs or salvaging wind blown timber that we have been paid to sort out, as most of the work is generally down footpaths with in blocks of forestry from 100 - 900 acres it makes cense for us to run a small tractor and forwarding trailer, we all so have a Igland 4.2 tonne winch for it as well, it all seems to work well and even tho when it comes to the timber salvaging its at my expence but it works, main of the timber we salvage we process in to firewood our selves and sell on,, the trailer i have is about ready for a bit of a refurb and the crane needs a bit of attension as it was only one of the cheaper ones and was bought to do 2 jobs but thats 10+ yrs since, knowing what i know now i would not skimp on the crane as there is some very good small cranes out there today, only done a few paid extraction jobs with it and i was charging £28hr with a £2 a mile transport charge 1 way, i like extracting with mine and only problem is getting me off it,,

Yep no lying in bed this morning,,if that is a genuine add and that's the price ?? It is dirt cheap,, it would cost about £800 to put a set of decent tyres on it,, parts would not be much of a problem as there is a few guys up n down the country breaking this size of tractor now,, iseki seem to be one of the better built smaller tractors and are up there with Kubota,,

No tip off to the police, the body was seen by a local lad walking his dog, there is no formal ID as yet and i would say that will be tomorrow, we will all get to know who it was, but there was a lad in Lancaster called Dan Hives that went missing on 10th December, again by the river Lune and not the Wyre, never seen or heard of since ? it is quite possible this could be him yet and not Nicola as the Police have not said weather it was male or female ?, given the high tide time today at 10,25am and the hight off 9,4mtrs which is quite big along with a stiff SW wind for the last few days this body i would say has been out at sea and come up the river on the leading edge of the tide, Body was spotted floating at 11,35am !!!

Just had a simular issue with a truck, steel tank tho and there was loads of a brown like jelly substance, we got some out the tank and left it in a jar and yes when we had that frost a few wk back it did freeze up,,we just drained the tank and put a camera in it and there was a substancial amount of what looked like brown frog spawn on the botton and sides of tank along with a fair bit of rust so just bought a new tank,,your plastic tank would steam clean out ok,,

Not right sure what volunteers are doing ? but i need to ring a lad i shoot with in the morning as he has something to do with organising search areas, i will keep you posted,,

I aint seen it on national news for a few days now but on our regional news every night, all so a lot on local FB groups, the police are now looking for a tatty red renault van that was parked on Hall lane the morning before (approx 200mtrs from the bench where nicolas phone was found) where this van was parked it would mean crossing the river but the next bend down stream its very shallow and would of been a easy crossing may be knee deep, i have said from day one that there is a 3rd party involved in this case ??,, One thing i will say is this family have been let down badly by the police on this one, they kept ****************ing about searching the same 2 or 300yds of river day in day out, then 2 wk later decide to start searching down stream, i am busy tomorrow but i think tues and wed i am going to go and join the search would of done it earlier but been working 7 days a wk for last month,,

3 - 4 days yes may be, this stretch of river i have walked many times and spent hundreds of hrs fishing it and i would say it aint a easy stretch to search, last thurs the 2nd of feb the river would of been carrying approx 18" of extra water so sorry to say if she did end up in the river , which i dont think, she will be out to sea by now, i know a fair bit about how Morecambe bay works with its tidal flows and currents and winds as well, personally i think there is someone else involved in this case !!!

I just cant see that amount of river being searched properly in a day and once they get 5-600yds down stream the water clarity changes due to it being tidal,,

Personally i think that slate should be beded down and the gap on the LHS should be pointed up and not left looking like that,,

I do as well,, there is nothing that points to her just clearing off, i believe from one or 2 locals that knew her, that her home life was good, she had a good job and mothers dont walk out on there kids !!, Now her job would ring alarm bells with me a being a mortgage advisor she will of turned one or two down over the years and even more so of late with the increase in interest rates !!! ,

It is, but the tide times didn't coinside with the time she disappeared, there was approx 3hrs for her to be spoted, the river where she is thought to of been is quit deep just below the bench and will have rock walls so she could of hit her head ? If that's the case it is possible that she has gone out to sea !! But I still think some one has grabbed her,,, there is a lot that don't add up on this very sad case,,

She lived at Inskip but went missing in st Michele's , the river is tidal up to the small weir you may of seen on the news, but that is only on the big spring tides, on the other big tides it will reach approx 1/2 mile below the wier, but one thing we have to remember is that morecambe Bay has the second biggest tidal range in the UK