luftwaffe
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It doesnt get any better it gets worse, try having a couple of teenagers with attiitude who does little to help and costs a fortune to keep, the older they get the more they want,
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Richard Court Forestry Engineering
luftwaffe replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
How much does he charge per hour? -
A few questions for the gang... what is biggest bar I can fit on to my 560? Secondly, in percentage terms how much more power can I get out of the 560 if I get it ported, also will porting increase the revs too or just increase power. Thanks.
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Good time to buy shares In stobart, one of the non executive directors has bought 50k worth yesterday at £1.00 per share, recently sold half their fleet of lorrys to wipe out the debt and to invest in 4 other avenues of business and they pay a dividend of 6%. shareprice at a 4 month low. DYOR.
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Lol. It means in welsh lingo, who's boy are you then, when someone asks who'your father, but to be honest you dont hear it much these days, lets have one of yours.
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Right then. Sarnie = sandwich, cizzer = cider, scrumpy = scrumpy jack cider, pom = british, plant = machinery, sareen = peacefull ( I think ). Not sure on the rest of them,'..... here's one for you, ' who's booy at he then ? '
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You like a saw dont you stubby!! .. I must admit I'm a bit of a stickler when it comes to warming up engines, wont rev the truck in the morning until its had 2 minutes of warming up first, 5 minites for the county where I am greasing it as it warms up, this formula has served me well.
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Do you chaps ever warm up your saw engines by letting them tick over before reving them from a cold start? I normally give mine inbetween 10 - 20 seconds from cold.
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I never use the spout to fill the saw with chain oil from a combi can, it takes too long, just unscrew the cap off the oil filler on the can and pour the oil in the saw.
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The Burning Issue - Truck MPG becoming a major headache...
luftwaffe replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Arb-Trucks
I know what you mean, each day at home take the skidder out to where the van will get to in the morning then let the skidder pull the van over the rough road leading to your work site dropping the blade on the skidder slightly to knock out the ruts on the road ad you go, used to do this a lot at one time. -
If the site is as wet as you say it is then I would be looking at a spring time start when the days are longer and dryer than an autumn start, also with a skidder on site if the forwarder driver feels the ground is too soft to travel on after all the brash is in place after my above post, fasten the ropes off the skidder to give him a constant gentle pull to keep him moving.
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Skyline or skid the trees off the boggy areas, dont go on the the bad areas without having a proper thick brash mat only acheived by a harvester and then felling the trees that are out of reach by the boom by chainsaw from both sides to get the brash from areas outside the reach of the machine, even after you have done this you can keep felling the trees and skidding them to side of the brash mat to further thicken your brash mat, you would have one hell of a brash mat with all the trees from a width of about 100 metres all in the same place, we do this method quite often.
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Hi, would anyone know why my 560 de revs uneven and takes more time than it should to drop from full revs to tick over, it also conks out after 10 seconds or so. The saw is 6 months old.
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I thought that the osa's had Fiskars cranes on them.
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So why take the screen out? Yes take it out and give it a clean with a wire brush every so often, I have tried it with the screen out and it just makes the saw more noisy.
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Tesco going down what do you all think thanks
luftwaffe replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
Well Mike Ashley of Sports Direct has taken a 0.28% stake in Tesco on wednesday, personally I rather Morrisons as they own 90% of there stores and pay a 7.50% dividend compared with tesco who only own half of their stores as i understand it and only pay a 3% dividend, not to mention their debt of £6bln and pension deficit of £3 bln. -
Why dont they get a machine in to do it? Too many variables to say what to charge like terrain , species, tree size etc, if they are going to extract the timber by forwarder then the ground is suitible to travel with a harvester, for which it would only take about three days to complete as apposed to man on a saw what take weeks or months to complete, but knowing the highlands its probably plated on steep rocky ground for for which you fell sned and winch the trees to a hard standing ready for conversion into the required sizes.
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Very true, but if you stop and think about it these middle men aren't getting fat out of it either. By the time they pay their insurance's, office staff, office bills, and so on its not a get rich sc heme for them either. What I find is happening is the agents are paying the land owner more for the standing crop and paying the contractor less for cutting and extracting due to modern machinery getting more and more efficient as time goes on. So the real winner is the land owner who sells the trees.
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its because they are not brought up to work with their ipods, computers etc, through in H + S and thats what you get.
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I use a couple of cheapish light waterproofs that usually get wet through in a few hours, once the first one is wet through I change over after bait, cant stand putting on wet coats again after I have stopped for a break, I remember a few years ago my mother in law bought me some heavy duty fishermens waterproofs from some ex army navy store place, bright yellow and seemed like they were half an inch thick, they creaked and cracked with the slightest of movements, a total non starter for working in the wood but I just smiled with enthuiasm and said thats just the job, I didnt have the heart to tell her after the the trouble she took to get them,, I took them to the skip the next day never to be seen again.
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Well said and spot on.
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Oh its probably only the men in black out for jolly on a sunday afternoon.
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The 0.28 grapple is a bit on small side for a lorry, its what they use on small to medium size forwarders, all depends on how big your crane is, the o.28 will handle most timber but the o.36 size would be better.
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using 4x4 to pull trailer in the woods?
luftwaffe replied to blacknora's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Get any similar size trailer to give you a feel for how you think it might go, riko or otherwise, and a few loads not just the one,.... cant you hide the said tractor at the back of the wood at night etc and park it a local farm at weekends, ask the locals I'm sure someone will help. -
using 4x4 to pull trailer in the woods?
luftwaffe replied to blacknora's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Well thats easier than going in to the wood itself, but if it wet now after a dry summer how will it be after months of heavy rain? i would still go with the tractor and winch setup as its a proven and cheap setup, can you get a trailer to put behind your truck and go for a dummy run in the wood to see how you get on without spending on the riko trailer.
