Lorn Logs

Handlebar moustache + pipe is the ultimate combination....

As above I can't find wood thin enough here to justify one, I get most of my timber from the FC and its on the big side so chainsaw and splitter for me....

Old shoppin trolley chassis under the trailer wheech the bag off onto the chassis and shove it away....cheap an cheerful

Get a pick axe handle and wind it round the ears on the bags use it as a big handle to pull the bag oot yer trailer....works fine for me....don't pull it too far on the ground or else the arse'll be oot the bag in no time...

Just seen. Load getting buried in the ground....longish lengths that would go through a processor fine. Can't see how burying timber is good for bugs, birds or anything else...bloody waste I'd say

They do, but I'm talking about hillsides littered with timber just getting left to rot away. Decent timber too, that would be fine for firewood....some stacked too, maybe 4 or 5 high, just getting left. Lucky bugs, think I might become one....

Yes, that too. Timber that's too short for the mill gets left lying on the hillside here, I could clear the whole thing with my wee forwarder and I'd pay them for the timber, but all ye get is a NO....bolloxed if ye try to help, I don't understand it

I wouldn't buy it I, not worth it. The worst thing I see is FC forests after they have been harvested with a huge amount of log, brash and stump just left lying, and they won't let anyone take it away to turn into firewood or biomass. There's a forest opposite my house which has recently been harvested and the amount of perfectly good wood just left lying is unreal. I'd clear it for free, just for the wood but they won't let anyone on with a machine to do it. An that's the govt for ye !

How about a circular saw and a decent splitter....that's my set up and I think it does pretty well unless you desperately need to be mobile or do a really high volume as said previously processors like nice wood at least with a saw and splitter you can turn anything into firewood. Much cheaper too.

Respect to anyone who has enough bottle to ask for advice on such a personal matter on a public forum. I too have been down that road, but I suffered in silence without asking for help until I went to the GP's and had two six month courses of Citalopram- big mistake. Wish I'd gone down the hypnotherapy route. Hope all goes well for you Paul. It does go away, believe me, although at times it seems like it won't.

Had an abscess a few years ago and the dentist said he couldn't do nothing wi it until I had taken a couple of days of antibiotics anyway by the second night it was so bad I thoughts pulling it oot myself wouldn't be any more sore so went down to the landy got a long nosed pliers had a few drams and tried to pull it out the minute the pliers touched it thea in was so shocking I nearly passed out and had to go to a and e where the emergency dentist pulled it out. I can't imagine anyone actually going through wi DIY dentistry

Cutting up trees next to a monastery ?

are you sawing things up on FC land? I know they dont like chainsawing unless your qualified to the nth degree and have a billion pounds worth of PL ins.....makes it difficult to remove wood which perhaps you have purchased......

Using a 16 on mine for firewood and a 20 for cross cutting etc 16 is ideal for firewood

Used husky in the 80s and they were ok switched to Stihl in the 90 s and stuck with them since have presently got a 440 ms 391 and an old 056 all of which are great and a couple of small old huskys left from the 80s which still run fine for firewood etc

Had a loan of one to take down an old hawthorn tree. Great. Very sharp on the 10" and had the branches off and down in no time. Really light to use and plenty of power for its size. I'm not an expert on aerial work and haven't climbed for years but it seems like a grand wee tool to me.

Minimal, I should imagine, most of the fires happen over moorland and scrubby hillside. Even here in Argyll where we've had a couple of big ones, I haven't heard of any impact upon wildlife. Strangely, the fires encourage more vigorous re growth over the spring and summer and I've noticed the hillsides affected seem to recover and exhibit denser fauna. Interesting. As an aside, I walked through one of the big fire areas last night, and noticed a woodpecker happily hammering away at a silver birch which was half charred !

Was out on the beach behind my house earlier this morning, it looks straight across to Mull, couldn't see any smoke hopefully it's out. Totally blue skies here today not a breath of wind but a hard overnight frost. Almost a desert climate here in Argyll these days. I felled an old hawthorn over the weekend, ringed and split it, and stacked it outside, I've just measured the MC on a split face and its 25% already, I've never known drying winds like it

Looks like there's another one started on the Isle of Mull, I can see it from my back garden, not very big yet.....and still no sign of rain either

We've not had rain here in Argyll for a month. It's bone dry. There was a massive fire at Bonawe near to where I live last week, started by careless fishermen. Most of the other fires come from 'muirburn' which is an annual occurrence in Scotland at this time of year when farmers and landowners burn off scrub and old heather from their hill lands. These fires are now getting out of control due to the incredibly dry weather, and it has to be said, by poor management of the fires once they have been set. However, I've lived in Argyll for all of my life and I've never known the hills and forests to be so dry.

Know what you mean,when i was growing up lots of blokes in my village had chainsaws,danarm,mc co,s,partner and no one used earmuffs,helmets,any kind of protection whatsoever,the saws didnt have chain breaks and i cant remember 1 accident.

Neither can I. Started at 16 got given a big old partner and told to start sending mill lumber and to do it right or else ! Learned from working with a 70 year old who didn't wear any kind of ppe and smoked a pipe continually. Happy days

That's it, big yellow fellows.... I was running them about 1989 in the mill we used em for all sorts trimming lumber, cutting bearers etc left outside in all weathers and no problems as I recall. We switched to Stihl in the 90's !

We also ran a big old jonesered and a partner both of them were good too!

I used a late '70s McCulloch in the sawmill yard for years, it was great. We ran a 28" on it and used it for tidying up lumber before it went through the mill. As above, the old metal case ones are grand but most don't have chain brakes! Last used the metal ones, never used any of the modern plastic ones

Get a MS391 and put a 15" on it for firewood and a 20" for felling and ringing. Mine is great cant fault it.