Will C

20 hours ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

Poor guy .. living in Norfolk.... they are all nuts up there ....

17 hours ago, oldwoodcutter said:

Eh?

That’s why I fit in! I’m a Suffolk boy dragged up in the fens, you can be any kind of nuts in Norfolk - “That’s normal for norfik boy!”

9 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Well done for getting through, and welcome to east anglia!

Cheers, I’m on the Norfolk/lincs/cambs border. 

I’m not posting for sympathy I don’t need it, I’m posting to share an experience that may help others or create a few laughs!

I will start mid June last year, home life hadn’t been great for a while, then I was told 3 times in a week if you don’t like it you can leave and I don’t want this anymore. The last time I replied with I think your right and it was done. 
 

I brought my now ex wife out of our small woodland where we lived off grid ( with some help from family helping with the mortgage side of things)

I genuinely thought I wanted to stay on the Isle of Wight that had been home for 14 years, then after a trip up to east Anglia to weld my cousin’s truck up for mot which led to a offer I jumped on. 
I was offered a space to stay for a month to have a break, I couldn’t afford to have a break so I searched on here and spoke to to great people. 
Firstly Larry @Talking Elm Tree Services in Norwich who said he had a few days a week he could give a climber, I was set so I headed up for a month ish. (If you ever get the chance to meet or work with Larry, him and his team are a great bunch who work well with great humour. 
secondly I met Mike who runs The Norfolk Arborist. Who also needed a climber a couple of days a week. Again Mike and his team are a top notch team who do some cracking work.
 

then an idea was floated that maybe I should move back to this part of the country partly because I met a fantastic woman who gets me as we or on the same level of nuts!

I was duly offered a place to stay until I sold my place on the island and brought somewhere else. 
 

As I started to move (7 trips for me and 1 artic low loader!) my truck shat it’s self big time on the A12 towing a loaded trailer! I rebuilt it but had to have so much head work done it uped the compression enough to blow the rings out, the truck was out and I was broke!

shortly after this I tore my rotor cuff big style, I was out, the first few days I couldn’t evan put a t shirt on! Unfortunately I let Mike down with no notice on a big job. 

It took me best part of 6 weeks to anything like recover in this time I looked at other self employed options then a job came up as a fitter and tractor driver, I took it mainly to allow myself time to recover and partly because I wasn’t sure what to do next!

since then  my relationship with my lass is good, not bad considering we only went for a pint!

Last week we brought a house together after both coming through a divorce with a similar back story and I’m still working at the job split between spanner work and tractor driving doing mainly highways verge mowing and hedge cutting

It’s a funny world, just when life covers you in shit the sun is shining on the other side!

I miss the trees but life is good. Thankyou to all here, flicking through this place kept my mind occupied in the dark days, I will still drop in but not so much at the moment. 
 

Cheers Will. 

40 man days? Duck me, does that include travel from new York every day? 

Any one in need of these books? There in as new condition but been sat about a year

Or 5! Never been looked at but some storage marks. 

currently listed on arb ass web site for £100

open to offers, happy to post. 

Work out your over heads per day/week once you know that your half way there, once you know you need to bring in x per day plus enough to grow, pay for repairs, have a week off in the summer etc then you look at the job and think I can do this in x number of days 

add the two together and your somewhere near. Also once you have a price always add at least 10% if it’s connifer as it will be 10% + bigger than you think it is 🤣

There is no minimum area for a forestry barn, read the planning book. I got a 15x10m barn on 3 acre (1ha ish) of woodland 

On 16/01/2025 at 17:07, spandit said:

I planted this hawthorn hedge about 10 years ago. Decided to lay it. Used hazel stakes and binders from my own planted woodland and did most of it with a chainsaw. Used a billhook on the smaller stems. It's not as flat as I'd like and I snapped one of the larger stems (tiny sliver of bark left so may survive) but it's fairly level.

Nicely done

The 300 is a poor choice imo. It’s heavy, cumbersome with poor balance and don’t get me started on that bloody button on the side! It’s alsofar out preformed but a stihl 261 or husky 550. 
the 220 on the other hand is a cracking saw

Round this way it’s 100 upwards for a good groundy, there is one I will happily pay climbers money to on a big rigging job, he is good at it and I don’t have to worry what’s happening on the other end of the line! Others are only just worth (on a good day) £80-£100 to drag brash, any further instructions and you can see there tiny brains explode! 
if you want to earn decent money turn up on time, be useful and always have your dinner and sharp saw to hand. 
some places would rather you use there’s others prefer you to take your own, this is usually reflected in the day rate. 

Another thing is to treat the company’s kit with the same respect as your own or you won’t be with them long. 
 

The gap should only be credit card thickness 

1 hour ago, eggsarascal said:

Thanks fella, didn’t think I’d be back in a pile of bricks just yet, but winter is hard roadside. Have you started your van conversion?

 

Missed out coming your way tomorrow, mate of mine delivers garden furniture, he’s running down to the IOW tomorrow for a few days.

For the minute I’ve decided I’m finishing my old vw camper rather than side tracking on another project, it will come tho👍

Nice one eggs 👍 good luck with the new venture

If the flip line has no ce mark or id how are you going to get to loler tested? I wouldn’t test it, to me this says it’s junk. It may well be fit for purpose but if it can’t be tested expect your insurance company to walk away if anything goes wrong!

They can be a bunch of twats sometimes, others people reap what they sow. 

I’m in the process of building a van, a safe box is now on the to do list! 
 

as to the possession, maybe you need a hidden box as well 🤣

I didn’t think they could do drunk in charge if you were obviously making no attempt to drive ie in a camper living life?

Either the blade to anvil gap is wrong and it’s catching or the drum isn’t centre in the chamber and the end is fouling on the body. Would be my fist thoughts. You won’t get any specific help until you tell us the model? 

I was driving a tractor and potato harvester at Brandon in Suffolk. Initially thought it was a Chris moyles wind up on the radio then it became obvious it wasn’t! I didn’t see the pictures till the next day. 

Where are you? You might find someone local to you can help

I’m pottering clearing the barn up, could of been stump grinding but it’s wet as changed my plan!

might evan get my old tractor out for a bimble to the shop! 

On 19/08/2024 at 18:24, Acerforestry said:

Let me clarify the thread title, I cut for one of the larger chestnut fencing suppliers in the UK and occasionally we need more people on the saws - I have placed ads for the company as I have been on here a while but on the last few occasions we have struggled to get response. I'm a realist and know the money is generally on domestic arb but where other than here and maybe Woodlots are they supposed to find cutters, any advice welcome cheers 

Where are you? 

Not sure on the starter set up on them but on a lot of small engines there is a Solinoid separate to the starter, you can bypass this to see if it’s at fault. If you run the starter direct the solinoid may be faulty if the starter fails to go it could be that. 

have those got a pull start as well? If it will start from a pull you know it’s a starting issue if it won’t it could deeper electrical 

6 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

That would be fine.

 

If you fell hard enough onto that setup to find a weak point,the fall would be the least of your worries.

 

 

I don’t worry about the fall it’s the sudden stop at the end I don’t like the sound of - quote Fed dibnah ( I may have miss quoted but the  meaning is there! )