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what about farmer friendly who wants stock running round the wrong feild let alone on the road and if there is enough room for a wheel chair sheep will learn how to use a kissing gate. a big cattle grid dose not stop them i do agree with disabled friendly acess in the right place but it has to be farmer freindly

they are good i need glass wool for mine though

i agree about the size of saw i do like a fast cutting saw but i also dont mind having a slightly slower saw as you dont have to hold all the weight but use the dogs to hold the weight of the saw. as with a fast cutting saw it is not so easy to use the dogs to hold the weight of the saw so i find it is more strain on the body and speed is not every thing

one thing i under stand is if you not working it hardish but leaving it sitting ticking over they do not like that

most look at the cost there and then for that operation but as i look at hardwoods if i can get top end logs and even better verner logs to the market in years come, is not just local but a world wide one and 4 figures for one tree. and if i get a some of these every 75 years that is a huge differance in the eccomics of managing the woods but it takes time and investment to do this to start the wood going , but when you get there it will be rewording, but the timber you will have taken out to get there will be more valuable as time gets on ie more saw logs but there will still be fire wood and i would aim that the fire wood cover the cost most of the costs and the saw logs cover the pruning cost etc with some left over they think there is no market for hardwood but there is but as conifers are seen more for timber production, and they are in easier to mannage blocks and simpler to mannage hardwoods have been forgotten about and alot of contractors are not geared up to hard woods just look at the fc how much have on conifers it is there lack of willing to enter the unkown. there are not many places growing hardwoods for production that did not stop there managment of there stands in the last centry in the uk and that is what is why they are seeing these operations as a cost as they stoped been mannaged

david i most of the wood cut in uk is from timber harvesting and the land owner has to be payed for growing his crop just like a farmer has to be payed for growing the food you eat and growing food, and timber both cost money

i think ours has about 41000km on the clock but has done lots more

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

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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