timberonabike

+F first aid qualification if you want to work for any big organisation signed up to FISA.

Curlew above is good if you just want cover. Be aware that not all frames have the same length legs and some manufacturers are easier to extend. Long time since I worked in marquee industry, but a lot of kit that gets shifted on will have expired fire tickets if that is important to you.

Must be flat soft ground. Don't know anyone have anything below £10/m around Mid Wales recently.

Coed Cymru or one of the many forestry management companies like Pryor and Rickett could help with some ideas. Depending on crop age Continous Cover would be worth a look, Pro Silva/Phil Morgan as mentioned above - smaller physical and financial inputs/outputs for a gradually increasing crop/land value. Depending on location, your friends wood may be in the Phytophthora pluvalis area which impacts on W.hemlock, just another form and NRW visit to get movement licence.

Big digger, can rip them out and re-bury them on a bit of site not being built on. It's what I've done for forestry tracks anyway, 13t minimum for 2' sitka stumps.

Tripod ladder on top of the patio table then 😆

Not had a harvester in for a while, but 1000t used to be the tipping point for them to turn up and not cost you if they are also marketing the timber. Fuel rates have gone up a lot since then though. Possible to do by hand cutting, just a little slower. Try Aron Roberts, think he is working for Pearsons these days in North Wales and they have small scale forestry kit from memory.

Whatever cut resistant ones I can pickup when the previous ones wear through. They don't go through between thumb and finger or at the finger tips as quickly as regular gloves. Cutting on the saw I have some Mechanix CG that look pricey at first, but better value on cost over lifetime for something that is actually hand shaped.

We have an oxdale for the stuff which is too big or too knotty for the processor. On the floor works well for putting big rings under it. Keep meaning to get some longer hoses for it so that I don't have to take off whatever is on the back of the tractor.

Having had a block of Lawson Cypress, it's not that bad. The piles left behind by a previous forestry operation 30 years before were certainly pretty hard when we encountered them. We also milled some for garden fencing, dried it and sent for tanalising. We were quite happy it sucked the tanalising tank dry, the owner wasn't 😄.

I've made use of cattle grazing to keep bracken and brambles in check. Bit weather dependent as they could easily trash the ground. Usually come to the woods as they come off the hill at end of October and have until the weather turns. We get 10-20 of the heifers on a 30ish acre site. Where we let them in affects where they tend to congregate and graze. Need to be something quite hardy, our neighbours stock spend the summer on the hill and love stripping bracken. Think they are Belgian blues? Another tenant has Dexters that can stay out for longer as they are lighter, but also don't graze as much or wade into big thickets.

I used to have a 4x4 Octavia, that combined with high miles and being dirt cheap meant it seemed to go many places with only a tendency to tear the flexi for the full rally experience. Don't get the petrol 1.8t, it was less fuel efficient than the Porsche 944 we had. In seriousness, cars are easier to get hold of, nicer to drive, generally had an easier life and easy to insure.

On the plus side of being behind, I get to split in the sun rather than the rain. This lot went in yesterday, need about the same again to fill it and then repeat for the next 2 bays.

I know someone that built some log stores the same size as the French Doors on his house. He just lifts them into place in front of the doors with the tele handler. 3 cube of wood available 4 steps from the fire with an insulation improvement for the single glazed doors [emoji1]

Based upon Kelly Kettle performance I would go with Larch brash and Lawsons Cypress as they have given us the easiest lighting and quickest boiling times.