Jackalope

To be perfectly honest, by the time chain oil has sat in the warm metal oil tank under the exhaust of a Husky it doesn't make any odds as it all pumps the same:thumbup1:

If your not wet your not working .

Need to be down to a T-shirt by 8.30 at the moment or I know I'm not earning money!

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Keeps me going at work all day

Forestry is good but hard work and poorly paid price per ton is low as can't compete with machines that can do twelve times what one man can do in a day. Worked on price per ton before lots of traveling and long days for little money and you don't get paid till timber has left site then you have to wait 30 days last time I worked on price per ton didn't get paid for 3 months. So whilst it is very enjoyable the money is just not there in my experience

On tonnage I would agree with that.

However, in more intricate work that a machine cant cope with such as cutting fencing product from chestnut, when on piece rate there is plenty of potential to take home good money

Same here in SW, same in S/E I'm told...

There is a drastic shortage of decent hand cutters in Sussex at the moment.

Anyone who's interested in a few months flat out should get down here!

Lego

If you're in the right area go and cut some chestnut for a few weeks, plenty of crews looking for cutters at the moment.... give your stress levels a chance to subside whilst someone else runs about like a mad person

blobs - Im glad others use similar terminology to myself

Also referred to as 'the sticky outy bits'

Hill and mountain running.

For pleasure of an evening but racing most weekends.

What reason do you have for needing to remove it?

Doesn't look like it would hit much if it did come down in a storm?

A tree like that could well have Bat potential so you would at the very least need a survey before you touch it with a saw.... that will be expensive.

Jackalope

I shake mine about and put on the choke just to get a little longer out them, if I don't manage to finish a cut, I feel like a failure and the saw has won!!!!!

That must be a north east habit....I do exactly the same:lol:

When only swinging will do

(My camera is a year in arrears for some reason.....)

In the hedge....or under it!?

Are they fully waterproof like the HUsqvarna's?

They are not water proof for long! Leaked like a sieve today

Am I alone in thinking that being self employed or a boss entitles you to take breaks as and when which makes a holiday less of a priority. I just grab time between gluts of work and do what I want which suits my tiny mind,I dont think I could bear to be somewhere for a set two week period pretending not to be bored witless.

 

Bob

Snap

I think I read somewhere recently that the basic rate is £60 per tree for a felling cut and snedding out/clearing up based on maybe a 30-40' tree then as the work load goes up so does the price, I fact come to think of it if I remember correct (it was a long time ago) a mate of mine charges £2.50 a foot so a 10ft tree would be £25, a 20ft tree/£50 and so on, hope this helps !...👍

If we could get rates like that for chestnut coppice we'd all be doing £250/ day and going home at lunchtime

Are they fully waterproof like the HUsqvarna's?

they are so far....but like i said, the Mark IIs were only waterproof for like 6-8 weeks:thumbdown:

Yup, kitchen wood burners been on everyday bar 5 in late June/ early July. Evenings we've had the living room fire on too.

I've had mine for a month, so far so good....I got them on warranty because my Mark IIs fell apart after 4 months so could go either way!

I,d just ban anyone who has taken part in this thread and have done

but I only quoted Anchorman!

If someone had a decent quality copy of the image I could knock a few out on the laser in wood.

I dont have a copy of the image, but if you do get on it I'd be needin one!

Wow, that escalated fast...I mean that really got out of hand.

It did didnt it!?

I killed a man...with a trident.

I saw that.

Wowser.

No wonder you ain't pushing softwood.

Not a huge difference between hard and softwood for you.

 

£28 in the yard for 3m chip wood up here.

Where are you at?

Where abouts are you?

 

Tayside, Aberdeen.......?

Upper Deeside.

I'd say that's a little expensive I'd be looking at paying £37 tops pure birch is worth no more than softwood.

 

IMO it's a mixer wood or I some time put it 50/50 with larch and sell as low grade firewood for £90.00 a cube

Maybe, but up here in soft wood country birch is hardwood and sold apart from soft wood.

We don't have handy beech thinnings or Hornbeam coppice.