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i was wondering what the felling rates were nowadays as i finished peicework back in 1998 went to work on a private estate but somedays i miss it like hell the only reason i finished was money and a very wet year and i was feeling down and couldnt shake myself out of it we only had lots of 1st and 2nd thinnings and a little 3rd thinning and any clearfell was like a roof of a house we had to stack everything 8 foot posts 12 foot rails all the pulp' there were 10 rows of trees between each rack so we would throw the wood 5 rows each way. but looking down each finished rack was a pleasure to see all the stacked wood ready for the tractor and trailer we got paid as follows 1st thinnings fencing £12.50 mtr pulp £7.50 mtr 2nd thinnings fencing £12.00 mtr pulp £6.50 mtr 3rd thinnings fencing £ 10.50 mtr pulp £6.00 mtr clearfell timber £5.50 mtr if you burnt your brash clearfell timber £4.50 mtr if the tractor burnt your brash clearfell pulp £4.50 mtr but looking back if the sun had shone:biggrin: and a nice stand of douglas had come along:thumbup: it would have been happy happy happy there is nothing like sitting in a stand of douglas having a cuppa watching and listening to life if the work was close enough i would take my two wheel drive international tractor with a linkbox to work and bring home firewood in lengths every night which was a good bonus if not the car and walk in low stumps tidy brash good stacks everybody happy

there is a dolmar kms4 wankel engine here is the item number 2309 6442 9161

douglas smells lovely on first and second thinning the sap sacs help waterproof your saw trousers when stacking :thumbup: rowan or mountain ash stinks even worse when you burn it :thumbdown: cat's peee:thumbdown::thumbdown:

there are so many cones every single year tomorrow i will get a photo of some cut wood and you can see better

thanks for that i wouldnt have guessed that one: the branches which we cut burns well and it is very easy to split:thumbup:

i will have a look at that on my wifes facebook it has the wire bracing between all the stems out of interest what sort of age would this tree be approx..

hello it is in north devon on good soil sheltered by a nice oak and ash woodland

i was wondering what type of pine my mind has gone blank it is another quite big one around the base it is 17 foot 10 inches 5.48 mtrs

hello i just took these pictures yesterday and i thought i would share them with everybody this tree is a superb specimen i was hoping someone could tell me where the biggest plain tree is in the uk i put my logging tape around the base and this is the measurement 27foot 9inches 8.44 mtrs i was suprised :001_huh::thumbup:

today i was reading that harold wilson closed more mines and put more people out of work in his two terms of office than MRS T did in her three terms of office and he is described as a left wing hero ''hello'' '' lady thatcher may not have slain all her dragons she fought but she certainly fought them'' is there a thread about micheal foot , neil kinnoch, harold wilson , who were routed out on election nights by the unpopular MRS T:thumbup:

well said iam the same worked hard all my life never claimed the dole once. if i never had enough money just worked extra hours simples:thumbup: i did a stint in the late eighties roofing at the dockyards on peice work on some of the high buildings you wouldnt beleive how many dockyard workers had sunbeds, seats, hideaways these sort of things destroyed industry and wasted public money :thumbdown:

iam glad:thumbup: we only had tooo wonder what it would it have been like without MRS T at the helm and another thing all the goverments after mrs thatcher be it labour or conservative didnt change hardly any of her policies she put into place how many of these people who are buying this awful song in the charts were actually born or even heard of the singer/ song:confused1:

if you went to a pub quiz and was asked the question name two prime ministers most peoples answers would be margeret thatcher and winston churchill:thumbup: she led this country when young and old would work and get there hands dirty when most people were cash poor and time rich now people will cry to brussells if they break a nail and iam not talking about the women:001_smile: now we are cash rich and time poor i know i would sooner be the former any day R.I.P MRS T.

Hmm..tell us more..I'm at west chill..would like to know about this/these trees.. hello yes there is a douglas in heywood wood at eggesford it was planted circa 1840 near the old eggesford manor house there are loads of footpaths and parking only half a mile from the tree this link might help http://www.bidefordpost.co.uk /opinion/ stewart-beer/2092

i always prefer a nice bottle of singleton which is so smooth or a bottle of mc callan:thumbup::thumbup:

has anybody heard about the douglas fir at the forestry comission woods at eggesford forest in devon :thumbup:

excellent old photos good too see them:thumbup:

paddy goes in a pub and orders three pints of guinness and sits down, barman comes over and says to paddy'' why down you just have one pint and i will bring the other two over'' paddy replies '' no '' let me explain i have a brother in canada and a brother in australia now we all go to a pub on a friday at 8pm and order three pints of guiness to drink to each others health this carries on for a couple of weeks then on the third week paddy comes in and orders two pints of guiness barman thinks oh dear one brother must have died the following week paddy came in and ordered two pints of guiness and the barman says to paddy'' iam sorry to see one of your brothers have died'' paddy replies'' what do you mean'' barman says ''you have only been ordering two pints of guiness lately and i thought one of your brothers had passed on'' paddy replies ''no no my brothers are all fit and well, it s me i have given up drinking :thumbup:

i was trolling through ebay and found this dolmar 153 saw for sale which has only had 1 tankful of fuel through it here is item number 2512 4152 7536 http://www.ebay.co.uk/dolmar153 :thumbup:

just seen this saw echo 600 ebay item number 2309 3941 9338 :thumbup:

ok thanks for that i will change it back again i think tomorrow and give it a go cheers:thumbup:

did you find the dolmar bar deeper and heavier than the husky bar my 5105 is on the 13'' husky bar and at the moment been cutting un brashed sitka and it is going so well ''''it has an appetite for destruction''''' :thumbup:

i see abbey sales down at tavvy are selling this model on there website better to see:thumbdown::thumbdown:before one makes another mistake:thumbup: or is it that is the question

i have two older mcculloch saws a 10 10 automatic and a promac 850 super and they are both running well:thumbup: now they are made in the husky corporation it looks very similar to the husky design ie model 445e but maybe a big thumbs down:thumbdown:

has anyone tried a 3/8 chain on there saw at all just wondering how it was running in hardwood