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buy as good quallity axe and you will be amazed by the differance lol eg gransfors burcks

nice one dean at the last count we had 2000+ pipistrelle in our house so it quite common for us to see them out flying during the day

it very easy done mate i posted something in the wrong thread last night

that well in how dod they get it out and what was it doing lol

yes you can guy forks night and the 12 july lol

yes and more lol

:ditio: to what muldonach says rember time can be of the essances as they can keep going down i hope it does not happen to you but it can some times cheeper to leave it there if its that bad Forestry Memories Image Library = List

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it's BP in some if not all of there offices you have to hold the hand rails going up and down the stairs

treemedic vreter look nice trailers gollum what do you think of the farma 6t i need to see some of these trailers actually working as this is not making life eassy.

ps dean we do do the same as well

shoots contribute a large income to the estates in more ways than one, and one of the big problem is owners putting the shoot first which is understandable and keepers know there job can be own the line if the season does not go well and the uncertainty on how it will effect the shoot. There for they do not like to risk it as it not £100 but thousands could be at stake, and this means that forestry ops have not happened there for it has been vicious circle, And I am ecourontring this problem with some woods I manage the uk reliance on conifers and FC drive for timber production over the years over has lad to the lack an loss of knowledge and skill in required the multipurpose forestry has not helped and the difficulties that come with multipurpose forestry, and a to manage a shoot and to carry out forestry is very hard to do well, ( it worse in NI ) and for it to and the timing of the operations for is not easy and often the work has to be carry out in small operations making it very expensive to carry out forestry operations and they have to be taken slowly as the woods have often been necutalated makeing it harder again lol I am we probably going to invest in our on forestry gear as gives us our own flexibility in the woods, due to the diffictaly in managing woods with a large shoot. We have suffered from this our selfs and know how hard it is to do lol but this has created a woods that have become neglected have meant that there is a large amount of dead wood, and trees of high wild life value, and lots of fungi, and barn owls and lots of other endangered species lol and it the high number of old trees lol and the benefit from this out ways the risks and cost dealing with this problem as you do we do as dean dose himself, and the likes of David Humphries Hamadryad love there fungi shoot and David created monaloths from his dead trees to reduce the risk to the high foot fall of Jo public, do you want him to fell them as they dead, and at higher risk of falling over as ‘dangerous’ even though they been reduced. The difference is shoots have a very low foot fall and where a risk is identified with a tree they do deal with it, but they are also bound by restrictions that are also placed on the owners by the department of agriculture through grants extra and even forestry certification means that you should leave all standing dead wood in situe, but I do agree with blazer and hamadryad and I drop dangerous trees (path side trees more very few in the wood ) but I also try to leave the dead wood exctra and it near impossible to check every bit of a wood, ps how often do they do the drives as it an important factor, and the risk to a member of beating line is higher from a dangerous shot than a tree falling on you as the beating line is spread through the wood so the risk is higher but it is lower that a path as the tree in question as it only passed a few time a year but if near a paths or lanes it a different matter, and as dean said he would not do a higher risk woods in bad weather. And we do the same, its not easy lol and I wish you all the best of luck

old hand how much do you have to do as and where abouts are you based as we have a chain swipe and could work some thing out

dean you do your own servcing and i find that can be very anoying at times as it eats in to your time very easly. it can corurse lots of stress as you know you got to do it.

i hope yve and all have been treating you well ps i take it it was good fun

Traditional loggers i would agree on this one too, as people get all the wrong information about horses from happy hackers exctra, i would say that most prople do like to be able to turn the key of walk a way leaving a machine sitting there it sitting there, partly because the kit is very spicilised in extrating timber, and there for they struggle to find work for it at times, and one of the only pices if machinery that come to is a tractor based unit that can be used to can also be used agri work when forestry work in short supply, but they are also highly spiclsed too cope with forestry work so they tend to be parked up as there no point using due to the shear cost of adapting another one when you could have had twice as much work out of it if it had not been used for agri work. you can just about do the same with a horse (turn the key off and walk away) buy turning it out to the feild for a while, you still have to check them daily and it only takes 5 minutes at the most, and its also good for them, unlike a machine. this is the down side of a horse. the cost of keeping a horse is far lower that most realise, as you can keep a horse on just over an acre (though most horse owners fail dramtaicaly at this due to there lack of grass managment so need over 2 acres, this is my biggest thing that bug bugs me about horse owners at times lol), yes shalter exctra as well so to keep exctra and if youworking them daily most of the time you should be able to get a crop of hay off the sone of that area to. so the only things you would need to buy would be some extra hard feed for when they working hard, but if you dont manage your grass it cost lots more in sumplatry feeding lol hence why people say horses cost lots as the owners dont manage there feilds too well, the vet bills exctra are not bad to bad if you catch the problem early just as with any machine, so the cost to care for a horse for a year is about, £1000, and the bigest benifit of a horse is it versitilly in a wood in the jobs they can carry out, be it singing using a logarch, forwarder (even ones mounted with a crane.) bracken rolling exctra, the they faily quik to singging timber out of the wood as they are able to chose lots of diffrtent paths . then there the benifit to the wood to of less damage to the eco system it also been lighty scarified to, no racks are need so you reduce the chance of wind throw, the list could go on, and with secondary extraction by forwarder be it a horse drawn or a machine the use of horses in woods is still a very viable method eccomicaly in it own right let alone all the other benifits, it is also your friend in the Now how manny of you have pets, that cover there cost of keeping them, you have them oftern as a compaions and take them to work to sit in a cab all day. well you get to work with your horse it gets to know you as his master, the comunate with you as well (just like dogs dogs), they got voice activated controls giving hand free control (no manchine can do that), you can also ride it too giveing access to lots of other fun things in the way of hobbies to do to, i would agree that a lot of do a lot of things in forestry with out machines i just feel horses of over looked in comiersial forestry at times, not just that a machine will decrease in value while a horse will increase in value the more work it done to a certian extent and can also provide a replacment if they alow too :thumbup:

whats it is to have farm kit lol

i just feal they under used in this job at times lol

no just get hedge cutter with a saw blade lol if it not to heigh lol

the cost of the petrol is huge lol to the cost of 2 stroke oil for 1liter of petrol its only less than 13p at most lol if you buy it by the liter its far cheeper than single shot things

sounds like the soloninnode i would thump it and then try it again it sound if its not engaging fully

what i can not belive this

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yup thats what geoff offerd first lol or a silky