Jackalope

£40, not a penny more

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Hi guys,

Anyone in the North east- (and I mean Scotland not down in Newcastle ) tell me what green birch cord is worth roadside?

All 4-18" sticks.

Cheers

If its 20 year old broad leaf with lots of scrub etc. 1 man will take about 2 1/2 weeks. No man cuts a chain a day and if he did it would still take 2 weeks. 10 chains to an acre amazing how large a chain is when you measure it out.

 

I'm working as a two man team with a telehandler with a log beak to burn all the brash in 22 yr old nut at the moment and takes about 6 days but this is with no hand burning. Timber is extracted every other day so were not tripping up over timber stacks.

 

I've worked on a rate of £1500 an acre before and worked out at £75 a day and had to take all standard trees and edge trees in 35yr old coppice.

 

A good by the ton rate would be £23 a ton still would work out at about £1600 an acre if its a 70 ton block.

 

Try going on a day rate but you will have to work hard to please the land owner as you will have the odd slow day where not a lot happens.

 

If your paid £150 a day you need to at least be cutting 10 ton a day and be a cutting god to be worth that on your own.

 

In the end road side ash is only worth £40 a ton roadside after buying, cutting and forwarding.

 

Hope this helps.

Very good post

Oh bad times.

Plastic bag and a couple of good elastic bands, jobs a good-un!

Good man, Hope you've got your flack jacket on....no doubt the bunny-brigade will be along shortly

Walking up and down my chestnut rack counting the stacks of green gold I've cut that day Blue crayon & a notebook, two of the most important tools in my bag!

Steady 10mile trail run this morning to loosen up the legs after yesterdays hill rep session

Well that was many seconds of my life I didn't get to waste

In that scenario sure I guess it would work.

90% of the time it wont though.

Pause the video at 16 seconds and to my eyes the clog looks like its pre-split or scored, there is a cross/lines over the top of it.

Perhaps he needs a target mind you!

Have you had MEWP's and Working at height training?

Here come the Fun-Police

I don't work for a bank so I'l be working.

Coming down in reams and begun to settle on Deeside just now.

My 15month old 560xp totaled itself last month- took it to DM's in Sussex- not where I bought it. They looked at it, told husky what was up.

Next day Husky had warrantied my saw, no questions asked just come in and pick up the new one.

Well done Husky,

Your right it may not be a advertising forum but I know there is a lot of guys on here who can't afford to pay our over inflated prices for new gear. My thoughts were to try help out someone who is starting up or not able to stretch to a out the box saw. I'm offering a high quality cheap 6 month old saw which is also on arb trader.

 

Also didn't ask for your opinion on what was a better power unit.

Try these Sip's, they are really comfortable, breathable in warm weather but warm enough in the winter.

They are quite well fitted so dont snag on brash ect whilst working in forestry.

https://honeybros.com/Item/SIP_Innovation_II_Standard_Black_Design_A

I expect a few guys will suggest these, they are great value for money.

Do you want a complete chainbrake with adjuster, or just the adjuster.

Just the chain tension adjuster, nothing to do with the chain break- the threaded screw you can see on the side plate (is what I bent) with the pin which fits into the bar.

Hi All,

Im looking for a chain tensioning mechanism for my 2013 560xp, I bent the screw slightly back in the summer but it was still usable until this week.

I've found some new online but they are extortionate so hope someone has a used one on a spares & repairs saw?

Obviously expect to pay something fair for it, hope you can help.

Jackalope

As you sound like a generous bloke £50/day- plenty of guys I know would'n't have given him so many chances.

Where you based?

Referring to Sussex, currently in West but worked across both East and West, and Hampshire& Kent for that matter.

I work in commercial forestry- I have nothing to do with domestic Arboriculture.

I'l say two things I've noticed from this side of the industry;

1. There is a huge demand for good hand cutters, we could be working double shifts 7 days most weeks.

2. We often have guys whose profession is in Arboriculture and has been for 2-10 years come out to 'fill their spare days' (Some times 3 days a week regularly).

Jackalope

Not meaning to divert the thread any further, but reading a few comments there about the lack of hand cutting work between Rhody clearance and over-sized soft wood.

Currently there are three different firms advertising online for hand cutters in chestnut production.

I'd say the 4-18" trees in that sector are about the ideal graduation/ step up between two extremes.

The works out there- you've just gotta go find it, step up to the hard graft and not expect to become a millionaire.

I've spent a lot of time in the woods hand cutting only and you end up thinking all this through and doing your sums.

I work on the basis of paying for the initial cost of my saw over the first 100 full days it works. (So for my new 550xp it costs £5.45/day for the saw.

Then obviously chains, bar, grease, fuel & oils, (these all vary depending on which saw im running- whether im in hard or soft wood, size rah-rah-rah.

Anyway currently a 550xp in chestnut coppice im looking about £7.00/day in costs. (2 weeks & 1 file out of a chain, 3 months out of a bar, 3L Petrol, 1L Oil).

So £12.45 before considering PPE and running the car to site.

Obviously this drops significantly after 100 working days for the saw- just my personal preference to 'pay for it' in a certain period.

It's an expensive job for sure.

Whether its worth the extra cost or not I couldn't say ( I run XP oil in both my new huskys and am religious about not borrowing fuel from other cutters using cheaper oil though).

It will void your warranty on new saws if they have a carb problem and Husky test the residue and find you were running inferior oil.

Magpies are notorious for working up&down and in&out hedge rows searching for song birds nests, these they will raid of eggs, young chicks, any un-fledged chick will become a meal.

I use half rabbits as a food source when using a decoy bird in a larson cage.

No doubt they eat meat.

Most of these companies recycle shipping boxes, so some packer in a warehouse just goes and finds the first box that is bigger than the item and bingo we end up with over sized packages!