SteveA

What is it? I cant see it as its on facebook.

Personally, i think what you are doing here (or should I say aren't doing) is great. It's very easy for humans to step in and tidy things up but it's much harder to leave things alone. Nature produces some amazing and unpredictable results, but only if we give it time to do it's thing; whatever that may be?....

....struggling with putting up multiple photos from the ipad.

I see nothing wrong with leaving the occasional fallen/ heavily leaning tree where it is safe to do so. A fallen tree is a great environment for inreasing biodiversity. We leave some of our big fallen trees dotted around the farm to use as work benches, work areas, eg; like this old oak: [ATTACH]142395[/ATTACH]

awww, hope she gets better soon. Give her a whip on the backside with that broken aerial, may chirp her up a bit?

Just ordered a Fiskars X27 axe ... cheapest i could find was at FFX Tools @ £46 inc vat & postage: 6411501225009 fiskars 122500 x27 splitting axe 915mm

Would also be good to have some extra competition in the UK as I think current prices from the Big 2 saw manufacturers are very high. The Dolmar is very well priced in the USA and the quality easily compares. +20% V.A.T not helping here either.

There are lots of Dolmars being used in the USA but (as far as i have researched) very little reporting of problems. Quite happy to use my Silky Saw as a backup! There's always lots of other jobs to get on with on our farm so not too concerned about chainsaw service/ repair times. But if i was a full time arborist I'd want a husky as backup.

I'm surprised they would respect the European Dolmar warranty if it's got different innards. All feels very vague. To be honest though, if the dolmar is alot more reliable i'm not that bothered about having a warranty, and anyway, if it does go wrong i can fix it myself!

Funny thing is that neither The London Stock or The Telegraph inspire me; quite the opposite. Now, if you said an old aged pensioner came out with a cup of tea and biscuits for your workers because it was a cold, wet & windy day.... I'd be interested, and full of congratulations.

That's good to know. But is there an equivalent UK Makita to the Dolmar 5105? Beats the hell out of me why Makita dont just get on with selling Dolmars properly in the UK without all this faffing about!! Rant! Cheers

Looks ace; a job to be proud of.

....and ripping out barbed wire.

Use your cheapo welding mits for a while, then come back, read through the comments here!

Be good to hear your thoughts on the Dolmar 6100, when are you expecting it to arrive? I'm guessing it'll be a bit more powerful than the Husqvarna 560XP. Will be good to have a UK price list

I'm looking at getting a Dolmar 5105 A dealer suggested that I get a Stihl 261 instead as according to him the Stihl has a better name.... but I've looked up reviews of the 261 and have noticed people mentioning having reliability problems. Also been looking at the Husqvarna 550XP and some people (not all) are having reliability problems. Same with 560XP. I haven't found anyone reporting problems with the Dolmar 5105. Thoughts?....

Here's me stood in front of our two year old boys tractor....

My first cordless was an AEG; bought well over 10 years ago and remember thinking to myself "spending over £200 on a drill was stupid"..... but the battery only failed a few months ago! The drill did sooo much work- from drilling metalwork on cars to a 3 storey house renovation. Incredibly reliable. I decided to try milwaukee, for the next 10+ years?? time will tell...

i did alot of research and decided to go with a pro drill. so, about 6 weeks ago I bought a Milwaukee M18 FUEL. Got the best price from Ray Grahams, delivery was very fast and received a text saying about courier date & times. Unfortunately I had a hiccup with the chuck.... but it was good to test out Milwaukee customer Support; they were stunning! A courier turned up and collected the drill and it came back within 4 days with an even higher quality chuck fitted. I guess they had some early teething problems with the M18 FUEL chucks? Hopefully they ironed out the problem. The drill is well built and incredibly torquey. It'll wrench your arm around if you let it! Jobs i've done with it so far are: - Dis-assembled a 100ft polytunnel (hundreds of screws, including some very long ones). - Assembled a pallet wood cold frame - Drilled about 50 logs for fungi dowels (about 1,000 6mm holes, mostly drilled into hornbeam). The battery charge lasts aaaages. I decided to go for milwaukee as they make some other great tools as well and wanted to use the same batteries (the expensive bit). eg, now looking at the M18 FUEL LED floodlight, and circular saw, and..... and!...... Hope this helps.

True, to make it cost effective it would have to be used regularly/ or for part time extraction it could be a useful tool to hire-in. Could also work as a co-operative machine, but I haven't seen any arb co-operative networks.

re| Vintage tractor rules Yeah i agree, Vintage Tractor Rocks, man! .....better get me coat

Ha ha!.... and a skint grinch at that! Certainly is way too commercialised, consumers need to stop consuming all the crap and bring back the green Santa.

Gotta be a con, surely? Are the police investigating this one...... not much time left so they'd better get their bids in! er, i mean skates on....

Is that German for something?

Happy Xmas!!! Here's my tip: Don't wipe your arse with a broken bottle