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thanks, I'm sure all older machinery is excellent value if you're good with a spanner

cool, thanks

Yes, http://http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Forestry-Tractor-Forwarder-Skidder-Valtra-/201342922210?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2ee0f92de2 only seem to be able to save about 7 or 8k a year, so if it's still on in five years I'm getting in

just the thing, saw a tractor with roofmount on ebay for 45k, is that how much you need to spend, or would that have been at the top end of second hand?

if you want to win the comp, do more, give yourself over to it, learn what devotion means, you want it to be like your training for the olympics get the best headlamp and go out into the woods in the dark and don't stop until you've only seven hours left to catch some sleep. It's like in Topgun movie, not all the flyers got to shag Kelly

The £100 - £120 day for someone who can cut a tree down without damaging anything, seems reasonable, not a lot more complicated than hedgecutting. Max £4k invested. Someone who is a fast climber, knows tree biology, is good at reductions, even on the biggest trees, and knows which decayed trees can safely be climbed, that is maybe one in twenty working climbers - the top rates are for them, coz no one else can do their job.

you don't HAVE to go, you WANT to go

I spent 1200 in Honey Bros the other week and that was rigging kit and aluminium gecko spikes, nothing wrong with your budget, unless you want GRCS, smartwinch etc. I just got the Stein RC2001 bollard, about £230, DMM small impact block, ISC small block for redirects, or small rigging, rope isn't much £100 for 50m 14mm. Also got some 12mm for a pull/tag line, and a 30m length of 8mm for a fetching line for zipline pulley. Steel carabiners and 20mm width rigging slings. The kits are ok too. I would have got the larger Stein RC3001 block if they had it in when I went. With your budget you could have the Stein RCW3001 with a little winch to lift the branch tips. See the Stein RCW3001 thread, about £750

good thread, interesting range of prices, what sort of tonnage of firewood will there be if none milled? My guess 15 ton.

In this winch we trust Excellent pictures, job I wouldn't have known what to do. Tractor winch, another thing on the wish list

ace - Dubai looks so futuristic and with those birdmen too, almost couldn't believe it's real. teleporters soon

I thought it was a bit dodgy that the one on now is using exact photos from a listing that ended on the first of march (from a different seller) the second link in my post was of the sold listing - two different sellers, same photo, same machine?

greenmech chipper on now 2008 Greenmech 19-28 woodchipper shredder tree surgeon chipper | eBay photo from a listing that supposedly sold 1 mar for 8k 2008 Greenmech 19-28 woodchipper shredder tree surgeon chipper not timberwolf | eBay bit of a minefield

Thanks for posting. So sad. I know someone who was knocked unconcious, needed a month off. Got to have the profit, but slower and safer makes sense.

with disposable earplugs

looks good, similar to the Epple hook Freeworker - Ronny Epple Throw Hook Tree Catcher - climb up high!

The 1973 TV series The World At War was reshown a few times in recent years, some of the episodes, particularly those showing the camps, including real german film footage documenting unspeakable things, brought tears to my eyes. Really was hell on earth.

approved contractor scheme seems like a cash generating machine, but at least they helped get the Research For Amenity Trees series republished

It's like rabbits - put them in an enclosure and they'll breed until there's too many for the available vegetation to feed. That's why China went harsh on it, would be another billion over there now otherwise.

been reading this and hoping it will never be me, then yesterday managed to twist my ankle, can hardly walk on it, already got me thinking how I'd be stuffed paying the bills if it was a more serious injury. I think you'd be a good web designer for arb companies if you can't climb anymore, hope you find something soon.

nice new Echo top handle 360TES last year £150 less than Stihl. Does the same thing as my old 200T, just takes a few seconds to warm up. Go Echo!

great, thanks for reply

I've been asked to quote for a low 3' or 4' fence closeboard with capping round part of a front garden. No photo, but is right next to pavement on 80's estate, sort of place where many front gardens have been covered in block pavers to put the car on. The construction doesn't bother me, but after I walked off saying would pop a quote through, got worrying about services underneath, no experience with scanners, and heard on here about stuff costing hundreds to fix. If it's right next to pavement at front of house and I have no experience of services detection should l leave the job? I've heard talk about digging trial holes. If it needs three posts along the front and three on the boundary with next door (not a big run of fencing) then is there a delicate way of digging down around the proposed six or so two foot deep holes? If the hole for a 4" post is supposed to be around 12" sq then to position featherboard at pavement edge would mean edge of post holes goes right up to pavement edge, if nailing rails on pavement side of posts? I guess it would mean hiring a breaker to dig right up to pavement edge? No previous fence just radiused concrete edging to shingle front garden.

my first climbing rope was Yale XTC plus, says on Yale website also makes ideal bull rope, being dynamic can take a bit of shock loading, also mine has done well when climbing without cambium saver, so probably would be great for dropping branch wood through a fork - not the other end of my climbing line though! I pampered myself with the new small cast ISC pulley, green one. Beautiful to look at, even if I don't get much tree work.

wow, at the top of your game there, I'd have been chuffed to have done it inside a day