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  1. NI Tree
    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,
  2. NI Tree
    thats about right
  3. NI Tree
    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,
  4. NI Tree
    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
  5. NI Tree
    dont ask as they not that good asz you would think
  6. NI Tree
    they are good shock used them when in auz and i would say they hard to beat
  7. NI Tree
    i am ashamed by some of the coments. and rember what hapened to hunting:thumbdown:
  8. NI Tree
    on one can do it as it to hard to predict what the markets will want 50 years down the line who would have though all this biomass harvesting was going to be the case today 40 years ago all you can do is try
  9. NI Tree
    i up as i cant get to sleep
  10. NI Tree
    i would off set the hangers as it is simpler and less to go wrong
  11. NI Tree
    steve that usual do it all the time ps in ireland tractors are the cars of the 16 year olds
  12. NI Tree
    got a combi drag just need to find the motive power for it i have to agree with john about how well made some are made and this inferulanced my choice of getting a horse
  13. NI Tree
    tcd that an easy site lol
  14. NI Tree
    for spuds i would run a feild trailer am condering setting up a silage trailer with duel floatation tyres with offset hub centers and rear streer axels or copping some lpg timber trailers for some of our silage ground but if we do get stuck it not good news we ran trailed forage harvester on duels as once we whent through the crust stop and go get the 20m tow rope or better still a tracked dumper and have an elevator to load the boxes out of the feild
  15. NI Tree
    i take it it is running super single they one thing i hate
  16. NI Tree
    with a reach of 300 to 500 miles
  17. NI Tree
    david you missing one thing the becon on the tractor but other wise a good job
  18. NI Tree
    nice one diff lock i just hope this dose not happen Forestry Memories Image Library = Bogged ploughing tractor - Benmore in Shin Forest
  19. NI Tree
    better put than my long winded effort lol
  20. NI Tree
    how much tree work do you as from you site you seem to do a lot of fencing and hedge laying mainly so what diameter are you cutting for each job, ie do you use you saw for trimming posts cutting binders. etc and then keep the 357 for felling and logging
  21. NI Tree
    if i was you dont put all your eggs in one basket but you are doing more maintance and hedge laying by the sound of it so a small rear handle would be idea even one of those husky battries power saws keep one saw as spare ie the 357
  22. NI Tree
    a horse look like it would be easier on the ground
  23. NI Tree
    we do the same but you end up ofgetting something as it happened so long ago ie a 60p transister for an inspection lamp ha we had a kitchen dinner party so brough in a extra table but it now were we fix all these sort of things lol
  24. NI Tree
    it the postage that adds up on these jobs not the parts it dearer than the parts
  25. NI Tree
    but its the differance between £20 and £2000 it pays to be patient and methodical and there only a mosfet and only cost 2.37 of rs

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