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dito above about the castle nuts

what happend to the liner that it need replacing excpet not being swept

i still add to mine every so often:thumbup:

our dealer is good at fixing machines not that i need that much with husky's and as husky are what he sells that what i use, and our nearest stihl dealer cant fix a thing to save there life i picked up a husky 245r strimmer out of his scrap metal bin and all it needs is £50 of parts and it has not done much work as it was still very tidy and to by the same new now is about £600 quid and so that is why i have husky over stihl but we use the stihl dealer for nuts and bolts etc as there so close for the farm

the fc yeild tables give you % mortality but they wont help much as there are too manny veriables type of trees is one thing what are there managment objectives ie tidy up for what reasion, age of stand, rack layout if any, what operations have been done in the the wood before, Basal Area, wind through risk, soil type, location, rain fall, amount of wind blown damage trees / dead trees, quality of trees, site terrain (is it steep) my advise is to go see the site as if he is not telling you any this info stright off it gives me the fealing they not sure what to do with the wood, espicaly if they dont know what species of trees are in the wood and dead is need in a wood and at times you have to fell timber just to make dead wood for certifaction

that fun

560xp

ha we do that on a quad so that you could reverse out of the hole you got your self on too and it dose work very well

very sorry to hear this

i dont mind the 550 on 15" running a 13" at the minute but might go back to 15" but i am tempted to try 18" to see the differance but if i am cross cutting all the time then it a bigger saw but for felling i like a light weight saw and it would also save some bending when cross cutting smaller stuff as i am over 6'

it can also be very hard on your tractor

you forgot the cow

what surface is your yard as skid steers are hard on the sufrace if it is not hard if you turning all the time and it not

a loader with a quick hitch with forks, dung grab, 3in1 bucket, normal bucket, cage

forestry is long term crop but lots of people take the short term view ie it will do and lack the attetion too the detail cause they say it costs more which i fell is crap for example a harvester operator pushes to get through a wet patch in steed of leaving it and getting in the motor manual fellers in they end up blocking the drains and then cant get the timber out because it to wett

get the collages to do more forestry not just arb would be the step

i would say about the same as it still has to turn the front drive train in 2wd

well said ps they were talking about getting exmilitrary lads in to farming the other day on the radio

you cant compare them construction is a secondary business but forestry a pirmary business ie it produces the primary inputs need by secondry and business, forestry is the same as farming not plumbing as they are untimaly the same they growing of a crop be it grass for a dairy farmer or trees by a forester and they all have to sell ther crops to make there money, but secondry business want the product at the lowest cost possible so they drive the price down if they can eg harvesters have been used to drive down harvesting costs down so the growers used them as they got better returns for the operations as they can reduce labour costs and this has ment that saw operators have had to compeat against the machines and when work on site that machines cant work on they have to compeat againest machines mills will reject logs than have not had the butt flare removed or bad sneeding by a saw operator but accept them from a harvester,

thats about right

we went to a diesel quad but it was just to heavy and killed drive shafts and backup was bad. so i was glad i keep the 450 but if you want something that is more usefull get a UTV (ie a mule) not a quad they are about 10 times dearer to run than a car,

well said agrimog it is too true. am struggling to find cutters and they are not good at leaving the timber tidly presented for extraction. and it not just the steep sites but with the increase in ccf we will need more hand cutters, we are going down the line of a horse combined with mechanical extraction

dont ask as they not that good asz you would think

they are good shock used them when in auz and i would say they hard to beat

i am ashamed by some of the coments. and rember what hapened to hunting:thumbdown: