openspaceman

Yes but heizohack and tractor plus 360 with selectograb plus operator for the day and diesel costs about £1000 to run and you'd be lucky to get through 100 tonnes, so free on lorry cost in excess of £10/tonne. Great when you could deliver in at nearly 30 quid a tonne but loses you £6/tonne now.

It prevents a long sliver being torn from the butt as the hinge breaks

I give up is it newspeak for something? I gave up buying timber when I couldn't sell it for more.

Read your first post, you mentioned quarter girth when I think you mean girth. Both the equations I gave to illustrate my point give 10 Hft as the answer

I agree, once you get fruiting bodies of dyers mazegill it's often not long after that the stem buckles

Either mid girth in inches squared and divided by 16 or mid quarter girth squared and divide the lot by 144 to get back to square feet (Hoppus) e.g..10 foot long 48 inch girth log =10*48*48/144/16 =10*12*12/144

Does the carb simply adjust fuel in relation to revs or are these autotune things more sophisticated? Huskys were infamous for vapour locking in the 70s and 80s When will Stihls fuel injected models reach the market?

As I replied; Hoppus foot is the square of the quarter girth in feet times length. If you have already calculated true cubic feet then as there is a difference of Pi/4 between the two measures you can just multiply true cubic feet by 0.785398163 to give Hoppus ft

measure around the middle in feet. divide this number by 4. multiply this result by itself and then times the length.

Is there a tongue in cheek icon? As they say you can lead a horse to water... Having broken many rules in the past I try not to be too prescriptive when I post on the grounds that those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

HSE suggest they are allowed in a few circumstances but for planned and routine jobs a MEWP should be used

This seems to be the crux to me, and I think ivy has great amenity and conservation value, this tree was on what was formerly railway land, traditionally railway land was kept clear of trees by hand cutting. As a result an awful lot of rail side trees are of coppice origin. This in itself increases the hazard as the lever arm increases. This one had already lost one stem toward the garden and it was decay from this breakage that had weakened the stump and exacerbated the fundamental base union of a coppiced stump. The other lesson is that decay mechanisms that cause this sort of structural failure need not show any symptoms in the crown or foliage.

Eggs I bow to your expertise on the subject but these things need priming. I'd go for a submersible and small genset, the submersible being hung off a bit of rope to suspend it clear of the bottom so it is sucking in clear water.

I'm not sure of the status of this notice but I agree if you read the paragraph above the one I quoted it says that clearing up after a hedge cutting operation is allowable, so the same should be true of an arb job in a garden. It still wouldn't hold for a job in a park or development site as I read it. Nor would you be covered if you just went to the garden to pick up arisings.

Not so, the carriage of goods is restricted to a forestry or agricultural undertaking. This would not include the carriage of arb waste or timber from a domestic job.

What figures were they using? Our dryer aimed to move 1 litre of moisture out of the wood for an input of 4MJ of fuel. We estimated with further capital expense it could get as low as 1.5MJ. There was also a trade off with heat energy (cheap) and fan power for circulation (expensive electricity).

Amongst other things it must have full suspension in order to go more than 20mph on the road lawfully.

As I understand it if the work is agricultural, forestry or horticulture you may still use red to drive to the site in an agricultural tractor. The only issue is if you haul anything to or from the site, when it becomes transport and is subject to all the rules on operator's licence, goods vehicle licensing and tachographs as well as needing DERV fuel. From HM Revenue & Customs "I have a gardening business. I use my tractor to cut and treat the grass, get rid of weeds, cut hedges and perform tree surgery. I take my tractor on the public road to travel to and from where it will be used and I also go on the public road to reach the outer parts of the trees and hedges. Can I use red diesel on the public road? Yes, cultivating and managing gardens is horticulture and so your tractor would be on the public road for a purpose relating to horticulture."

Problem was lack of step by the heel for the spurs to locate

probably anthracnose, are there lesions on the shoot?.

Yes that's the firm, owned by the co op and we too moved to the Stihl green boot when they came out.

They look like the ones specified by FC and made by the CO OP. Wore out a good few pairs.

County Commercial Cars were an old fashioned firm with an ethos before the era of "just in time" I suspect they held large stocks of parts and the later tractors built were only using up these parts rather than being new production.

Yes they were cheap to run and frugal on fuel, I'd reckon on extract and load two artics on about 25 litres of gasoil. Remember the first wheeled ones derived from the crawler and were skid steer only. In my early days I used to exchange letters with one of the Tapp family and spoke and visited Dave Gittins when he bought the firm (out of receivership??) At the same time FC were developing an all hydrostatic articulated skidder which Roadless put in production, its manoeuvrability seemed a bit pointless. I was looking to hybridising a hydrostatic drive to give some of the attributes of a forwarder and enhance the skid steering with the aim of also using it for mulching. On the braking: the basic machine weighed in at 4.5 tonnes and the brakes were fine, Tom Osborn had some with goose neck dumpers which imposed a lot more weight so he equipped some with external disk brakes. I always fancied this conversion as my 1124 has nearly a tonne of grapple loader on the roof, half a tonne of bomford blade on the front and 0.6 tonne of double drum winch. This can be a big problem in high traction conditions if you don't remember to stay in no lower than third.

I agree and it's only hard on the brakes if they don't lock. It is also only of academic interest when you are tushing a 50ft log out or pulling a trailer with 2 bays of pulp. My first was 10 years old when I bought it in 1978 and was still working, if a bit battered, when I stopped, it currently awaits a bit of TLC as it's needed on a windblow job on a mates farm in Hampshire. The second 1974 model is working in semi retirement with farmer Rod and I hope still running and the third 1975 model festers in a field near here but still runs fine after years of forestry work. They all look like wrecks.