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  1. Marsh Monkey
    it's a really simple one but don't know if i'm just feeling a bit thick after a month of deep water scrub clearance my chain brake went on my ms 200 got a new brake band and noticed that the link pin between the handle and the mechanism was also broken so got a new one of them. Every time i get ti assembled the pin wants to pull itself up and out of the hole it sits in the side cover and i can't get plastic to sit on correctly so i can trap it in there is there a knack to it or is it just a whole bunch of swearing till it finally fits... help please
  2. Marsh Monkey
    Don't talk to me about waterlogged nearly sank the iron horse today taking the site apart i would include photos but daren't take anything electric on site...
  3. Marsh Monkey

    Norfolk

    Marsh Monkey replied to Bird's topic in General chat

    gotta get my trosh on reeds won't cut themselves
  4. Marsh Monkey
    it's like francis drake and the cloak over the puddle.... very effective As for the charcoal idea i'll ask the site manager, i'm happy to get it all to the edge of the site reckon you could build something to stick the kiln on as there is at least 2inches of water over most of the site, i'm not lying when i say wet.... i'll put some pics up when i fall in tomorrow
  5. Marsh Monkey
    ah well maybe i'll just go try a day treat it as a bit of a laugh and if i make enough for a pint on the way home i'll have it and not bother going back without a skyline
  6. Marsh Monkey
    oh pretty much all i burn is alder in my fire at home seem to spend my life murdering defenceless alders in the name of conservation
  7. Marsh Monkey
    Thanks for the replys to be honest it's more the fetid bog part that scares me... reckon its a good 400 yards to anything that could be considered as solid ground so couldn't get a forwarder to it. i've got a iron horse that'll prob skid out about half a tonne a go but only at walking pace and i'll still have to build a bit of corduroy over several really wet bits (over the top of my chainsaw waders) reckon it'll take at least a week to get it out so don't know if the time it takes is worth the value of the timber
  8. Marsh Monkey
    i've been working on a fetid swamp for the last month along the side of it has been a bunch of 18" plus alders my guess is bout 60 tonnes i reckon i can get them to dryish land but was wondering if it's worth it.. i was figuring they may be worth a bit as firewood unless anyone wants to make a load of clogs the site is near king's lynn
  9. Marsh Monkey

    Winchin'

    Marsh Monkey replied to kav's topic in Video forum

    just got me my first proper winch and it's a great feeling watching that tree just slide up out that brash pile
  10. Marsh Monkey
    kinda figured but we were quite impressed with it on site not bad as the fire was about 25m away
  11. Marsh Monkey
    i managed to get a dead silver birch to burn from the top down, took 2 days but was quite impressive, well i say burn smoulder, or is this not what you meant...
  12. Marsh Monkey
    euromats...a site i do work on bought a **** load we've nabbed them for work on various bogs they've got me out of a few holes in rather damp places Euro Mats, Ground Mats - Grassform £1.20 a board a day
  13. Marsh Monkey
    another one for the krpan don't let the name put you off just got ours and we are constantly amazed at what it'll pull
  14. Marsh Monkey
    if you got your PA6w just spray off with round up we use a 20% roundup solution direct on to cut stump normally hit a 98% kill rate in the worst of boggy swamps, one of the site we use this method has an alphabet of designations after it and they've never questioned the method
  15. Marsh Monkey
    chainsaw waders are the answer....i'm in mine from now till jan. every year it feels so good to take them off....
  16. Marsh Monkey
    i just want to know how you keep your portable winch looking so nice mine always looks like its fallen in a bog....start at filby again in 2 weeks can't wait for the floating fires to start
  17. Marsh Monkey
    boy is there a market for thatching straw, i cut reeds for thatch in the broads, you gotta get the right variety of wheat and find and old boy with a reaper binder to harvest it for you and a thresing machine you can charge for people to watch you harvest it!!
  18. Marsh Monkey
    so it looks like hammerlin is the winner...i'll get the lady on it forthwith
  19. Marsh Monkey
    how much do you get what you pay for? the wife has offered to buy me a new barrow for my birthday, romance ain't dead, i got a gransfors splitting axe for xmas i feel she is trying to get more wood round the back of the house. anyways any sure fire winners as i killed the last barrow in 2 years of log shifting
  20. Marsh Monkey
    cow muck , well rotted of course way better than horse but check that the cows haven't been grazed on fields that have been sprayed with graz-on or thislex it knackers your veg big time...
  21. Marsh Monkey
    but for the work your wanting to do i reckon you want a rapid mondo the big one its an 18 hp beast, have seen the boys from the hawk and owl trust blatting stuff down which they then bale up witha mini baler to get off the fen
  22. Marsh Monkey
    I use a BCS with a 13hp kohler engine which is too heavy, too juicy and the steering brakes jam on if it gets wet and sits for more than a couple of days oh did i mention i were on a marsh, i also have a grillo GF4 which flies along on a sniff of petrol all day has been abandoned in a marsh for a 5 months and still went first pull of the cord....i love my grillo oh did i mention it really light so when it sinks into a hole in your marsh you can lift it out on your own without putting your back out:thumbup:
  23. Marsh Monkey
    i've got a MF35 and i love it but you are paying for the name for sure, on the community farm i help out on every know and again they have a ford 5000 i think they paid about 2k for and i'm always quite envious of the extra grunt it has.....another smallholder mate has a kubota 1710 (i think) which has always seemed a little gutless for anything other than rotovating
  24. Marsh Monkey
    depends what time of year its either, i kill trees or i cut reeds there ain't no surgery on the broads:lol:
  25. Marsh Monkey
    Are you on irstead staithe there my broads location geekness is coming out off to cut and burn 2ha of reed there in a coupla weeks...

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