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I'm on the fence whether to go or not but I could be convinced if I could lift share with someone. Based in Sunderland and can leave Thursday night.
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Small Suzukis are great. Cheap, light, reliable, go anywhere. For that reason, I always recommend people get Land Rovers. I like the idea of competing against people with massive handicaps.
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When I was younger I (naïvely) kept at crap jobs thinking that I'd eventually be rewarded, trained, moved up etc. Never happened. In fairness, it could have been because I wasn't good at the work but that was not the case. With one particular job, I passed up the opportunity to travel and do some very cool stuff because I "wanted to see how this job would turn out". I was doing two or three days a week for under £10/hour... That's my biggest regret to date. I now tell kids that the good thing they think they're onto is probably not that good (you know deep down) and they shouldn't be scared to drop it for something potentially better. If the grass doesn't turn out to be greener, you can easily get another mediocre job. I've got angry at myself again writing this. Learn from my fuckwittery, get out to Germany and slay some trees!
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Stubby is a gent!
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Danke.
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I need a pair of spikes. I will spend up to £80 for a second hand pair in good condition. Please contact me by PM if you have a pair to sell.
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Chipper battery + Inverter (£20) + Standard charger = Fuel efficient chainsaw. Extra points if you have leisure battery setup in the truck (with inverter obviously) so can charge with no engines running. Or just ask the customer.
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What bars and batteries are people going for? How was the balance? I'm planning on the 10", a 180 and a 115. Worried balance might be too far back.
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Much is said about "homeowner" saws against "pro" saws. Small saws are light and quite fast enough for a lot of work. The low weight is key. I can go at a good pace all week with a small saw. A heavier saw tires me out more and makes me slower at everything else. Small saws are cheap as chips: Stihl MS 170 - £169 Stihl MS 181 - £275 Stihl MS 261 - £678 Also, some of the "homeowner" saws come with features like the Stihl ergostart, which is fantastic. Small saws are great for 95% of the stuff 95% of us do. So what I'm saying is please leave the small, cheap, productive, intelligent choice of saw to feeble poofters like me. I like competing against worn out masochists with bad backs, sore shoulders and no money. That all said, this thread is about firewood, probably the best exception to the above. Standing in one place, having a table/stool to put the saw down on etc is a time where a bigger saw is probably better.
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Very impressed at your dedication to get that lot out but I imagine processing in the woods (maybe with a branchwood logger for the smaller stuff) would be much more efficient in future.
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I paddled from Stratford to Langham flumes today. Saw some stacked willow brash and sideways stumps that look to have been cut within the last two or three days. The stretch was clear. It's Sudbury to the Sea is this weekend and I think the maintained navigation all gets checked and cleared (weed mainly) in preparation.
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198 mature poplars to fell Coalville.
AHPP replied to benedmonds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Since we're playing the hypothetical pricing game: 1) Clear ground. Big (~500hp) tracked mulcher. £3000? 2) Clear ground. Smaller tractor mulcher(s). £1000 3) Fell trees outwards and backwards (leave them lying in a herringbone pattern). Two cutters and one bloke following them fuelling and sharpening saws. £1000 4) Massive chipper with a crane/winch and drive it up the middle. £9000? Shoot chips where the tree came from or into big lorries/trailers. £ no idea what that would cost or what people would pay for the chip. 5) Let some other poor grind them. Double the price for safety, add some profit. Call it £30,000 if my price guesstimates were OK. -
26-year-old mature student seeking work over summer before returning to pen-pushing next academic year (September ish). I come with PPE, a Silky and a good attitude. I will turn up on time. I will deal with customers politely. I will treat your kit very well. Equally happy to ground, climb, drive (standard post ‘97) or do other stuff like firewood processing. Experience in domestic arb, commercial arb, ground clearance, woodland work and firewood processing. No tickets, just competence and hard work. References available. Contact me by PM or phone please. 07929 855913. Alex Purser
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I know. Questions beget questions beget questions! Thanks, folks.
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I think I want it to dry slower to prevent cracking (which I believe cherry does more than average)?
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I have a small cherry crowding an oak. It's only about 12" DBH but it's straight so there should be a few canoe paddle shafts in there. Since I only really need the crown gone to give the oak space, would there be any benefit in (a)ring-barking it, (b)pollarding it or ©both and leaving it to dry standing for a couple of years? I'm hoping it might split less fixed to the stump (drying cherry splits badly if firewood is anything to go by). Would it dry well like this or am I just as well off felling in winter, milling, (maybe painting end grain to slow drying) and air drying normally?
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How do you find the 160?
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Can you not burn it?
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Somerset farmer defends 'prison' style fence built to stop dog walkers straying from path | Mail Online Own up. Who was it? Doesn't look cheap.
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You're up early, Paul. I've been burning the midnight oil. Exam in 6.5 hours' time.
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Rent him a **** mower that doesn't owe you anything for very cheap. You never know what you could spark.* *Probably nothing but what's life without optimism.
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Costa Coffe et al is weak milky rubbish right?
AHPP replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in The Lounge
Getting proper pangs from reading this thread. I've been drinking instant since my cafetière broke. Just bought a cheap macchinetta to give that a go (can use it at home and out and about) and might get a proper benchtop job if I want to do clever milk stuff. -
My take on EU money: There are simply so many conflicting, biased and misleading statistics and reports out there that ordinary peasants like us can't possibly know whether we get more out or less out than we put in. Even if we do "know" whether we net lose or net gain, the actual figure doesn't matter. If we are losing money, we need to ask ourselves whether we are getting something in return (are we benefiting enough from free movement of goods, people etc?). If we are winning money, I say we're not really. All member states pay in hard fvcking cash, nice lump sums. The important factor is not what we get out, it's how we get it out. Spain gets out nice big lumps of cash and builds roads with it. The UK gets out thousands of thin streams of funding for cretinous social projects and other bullshit. The money is spread so thinly that it practically evaporates.
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Fixed it for you.
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Learn to fish. The guys down on the Wear often have some good looking catches. Need to establish a trading relationship with one of them.
