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If u buy at auction the car will not be stolen, the auction company check that, many auction cars won't even have a log book and u have to send away for it. Depending on the auction house/price of car it may also be HPI checked, really after a garage an auction is 1 of the safest ways to buy plant/equipment Someone i know got caught out buying an od tractor to sell at auction, turned out it had been 'stolen' 15 years ppreviously only to turn up in a different shed. Just an insurance scam He someohow found out before he put it in the sale as auctioneers would not accept it and managed to get his money back eventually after threatening a few things

Been a long time since i worked on the railway (and even then just a grunt on a saw/harness, so never knew who paid for wot) So things may hav very possibly changed and things are far tighter money wise. But i know we have limbed and felled hardwoods (never done much work on cony's on railways as more for leaf drop) in private gardens sometime well of the tracks abd definately well outside the 5m clearance zone we cut as standard. I was of the impression that we were cutting the tree as a freebie to home owner and NR was footing the bill, as i'm pretty certain they won't have any legal right to make u fell/top them IF trees not actually unsafe. I know i also looked at quite a dodgy decayed beech for a family friend inbetween 2 powerlines (but not over hanging) and the power boys cut the tree down for free and by rights didn't have too, and it was a real pig. Yet other times i've asked the elec arb boys to fell trees rather than side them and they haven't, (fell would of been easier and i said i'd tidy up the tree) when they were cutting the lines throu my wood, so it depends on who u speak to. To me it seems a bit of a bullying approach by the ralilway trying to get private folk to pay for works in the past they would off paid for themselves (with owners permission) Possibly get an idependant survey done if any trees really are looking dangerous, generally cony's aren't that bad for blowing over or snapping out if single stemmed. I might imagine independant surveyors might be scared of giving many assurances thou with the railway so close, it might give u an idea wot sort of timescale u have to wiegh up ur options as long as no imminent threat of the trees falling down immediately. If u all contacted a solicitor/CAB etc as 1 any costs would be shared equally so might be worth a punt, at least u know then where u stand. I bet if u could speak to the right person at either NR or a there deveg squads u might get a lot more sense out of them rather than some corperate/legal stoge. But as has been said by most if u have to pay the simpliest and cheapest option (might not even need railway contractors) would be to straight fell al the trees into the gardens even if it meant taking the odd garden fence down for access or room for felling the trees. But u all will have to make some sort of joint decision, if someone in the middle decides to fell there trees suddenly it will put the trees to either side in a far higherr risk of windblow than they were originally. Ps. NR have said tres are a 'cause for concern' i'd imagine they class almost any tree withing 1 tree length of track a concern, they haven't declared them dangerous. Does that mean anything legally? Esp if u got a reputable independant in who said the trees were safe enough/not dangerous immediately?

Haven't got a clue about that but it did happen probably about 5-8yrs ago now. The old boys were absolutley spitting about it and so was estate office as they had 2 staff on saw course So if the training is the same why would not pay the sligt bit extra for the NPTC version, i know i wouldn't have any other

Not all forestery companies recognise lantra (and i did say the training was the same) I know 5-6 old retired boys got kicked of the local estate where they tidied up firwood, all had to do training at local college and forestry company who manages it wouldn't recognise them (think 2 estate staff done the same course too and had to take a reassesment to nptc) But if ur not on a Fisa site ur 10-20 yr old Nptc is still valid. For the slight extra money i wouldn't have any other ticket

No thats just handcutters in there chainsaws. God knows wot a harvester gets throu in a a day (albeit it desiel too thou)

It really depends on wot u want to do. If ur to be based in N scotland or nw eng there isn't masses of tree surgery/arb work, most companies are pretty small 1-2 squad outfits, so also not a lot of job vacancies or money in it (well compared to see of the rates i see on here froom down south) Unles su go utility power lines/railways etc If it was me i'd go 32 large trees, see if u can get into more forestry work, plenty of that in the 2 areas ur looking at and still be handy for arb work if u go into that in future. Even windblow (as they were the basics to get on FC ground in the past) but plenty other fancy titlted courses now, not even sure wot some of them are (assisted fell and dangerous trees, emergancy work etc) But a trailer ticket is a good shout EFAW+F is also the norm on most forest sites I wouldn't bother doing any Lantra courses, not really worth the paper there printed on some forest companies won't recognise them (and have a 5 yr expiry date) The training is prety much the same its the paper work Ps Just to add, i dunno if u know exactly where ur likely to settle but might be worth phoning up some local companies in that area and ask if they/other companies in that area have many vaccancies/jobs very often. Arb companies are usually easier to find than forestry companies. Least then u might get a feel for the work in th earea u want to go to which ight alter which tickets u do

For the OP for low/hobby use as others have said not a lot of point in buying 20L at a time. Even mixing 5l (combi can full) of 2Stroke might be far too much. Might be worth consdering using aspen instead? No shelf life and meant to be better for saws (have to admit never used it myself) Stephen P many folk working in forestry will be using 5L most days throu there saw so quite handy filling a 20L or 2 + couple of combi cans at wknd and mixing it up so u know everything is mixed and u have plenty for the coming week. Just a simple case of pouring it into ur combi, no faffing about after work Easy to forget if u come home and put feet up

I take it hit and miss boarding is wot i'd call vertical boarding (ranch style tunred 90)? U can use any width of board u want really and thickness would depend on how strong u need it and how far apart the timber rails are. be easy to have ur inside boards thicker than outside so u can stack logs against them Normal spacing would be a board width but u can easy bring the spacing in which should help stop any rain. Normally on a fence it would be 4" boards with a 3" gap sometimes even down to 2" for extra privacy and thats on a 11/2" rail

Possibly i'mmore surprised that troleys that take chippers don't have stablising legs for loading, like a trailer would have to stop them flipping. Been a good few years since i've been on the tracks but they were always bad for flipping when loading

Plus the odd time we've took chippers of the trolleys its quite easy to get them stuck trying to cross the rails esp in wet or frosty conditions the tracks just spin on the rails and won't climb up. To be fair with a turntable u shouldn't have to reposition it that much but there is often plenty of pnsticles on the track on bigger lines that u have to avoid

Must admit i'm surprised they still allow it. Spent many a sat nite pushing a jenson on trolleys, very easy to push even up hills, but i wouldn't say its very safe. We usually had 1 pair for chipper and another pair for gear and genny/lights Usually/can be a pig to load, have seen both the chipper tip over and trolleys fly up (ramps are on a ledge over the wheels) In fact i mind 1 shift boys hanging of the spout to keep chipper upright and others standing on far side of trooley to act as a conter balance. That night the head H&S boy was there watching the fn and games and never said a word, the week before he put me of site (well back to van to get replacement) for having 1 mesh square out of visor broke, i complained so he put his pen throu it. Also seen once when turning the chipper on the trolleys 1 of the trolleys rise over the other, was well dodgy as well up track so no way to fix it if chipper rolled If the side pins were in it wouldn't have happened but never seen a squad yet put the side pins in, or even have side pins on the job

Also need to think anout harvesting/extraction costs. If good going a harvester might only take 1-2 days so any low loader expenses might seem expensive, same for forwarder. Wether it is a hand cut and botex extraction or a set up like BigJ's on here

It sounds like ur about to fail the 1st attitude test, to be fair the boy should be paying u but not surprising ur not cutting. I know nothing about chestnut coppicing but can see where the boy can be coming from,, If u can't judge every stem and access which type of pieces u should be cutting out of it he could be losing money. If ur constantly cutting strainer sized wood to posts or long stuf that should be rails (guessing strainers/rails will be the money pieces?) he could very well be losing money. Or if ur cutting to wrong specs and putting them in the stacks he could have loads refused where he sells them. I've been cutting for years and admit i wouldn't have a clue about chestnut coppicing, would imagine i'd end up stacking for a few days too (althou noy for free) Its the same in forestry for hrvester drivers need to know the prices for each piece, demand for different products/how big the pile is at roadside and assess each stem althou the harvester will help but to be quick u need to be doing it by eye Ps I'd buy a loggers tape so if they ask u to try cutting u have the gear, not much good without a logging tape. And used for other hand cutting work so not wasted money if u don't get on with this job

I hve a tipping trailer for my quad and quite a handy wee trailer, for general use hardcore, leafs, hard core etc. But the hieght of the ground doesn't allow the tipping mechanism to full tip before it hits ground/the pile of stuff u have dumped. So u end up with a load of 'skid mark' piles instead of a decent tidy heap. Never used it with timber so not sure how it would work, not sur eif u drive away would be enough wieght on the deck so it didn't just drag the logs along with u. Must admit i just hand ball them on/off have thought about tie a rope/sling/choker rond the whole load and driving off so they pull out the back, but u still need to stack them anyway so not a lot of benefit. I' imagine a wee compact tractor or normal tractor with loadr would be by far the most versitile as it can do so many other things with hydralic spools, linkage, towing etc. Other machines may be better for specific tasks and more specialised rally all depends wot ur wanting and how u want to use it. Everyones circumstances will be different so will machine choice

Ur not so bad if ur upgrade is cheaper. With the diggers i think u start from scratch again with ur bigger ticket. I think i'd still be trying to borrow a bigger tractor for the day (or tie some extra wieghts on urs to get over the 2.5T ?) just to save the hassle of needing a 2nd ticket/upgrade as u will be doing the exact same things anyway.

I take it it is a different ticket for sub/over 2.5T tractors (just like 360 digger tickets)? So if u sit it in a small compact tractor u then can't (well not ticketed) to jump on to a full size tractor/winch? But fine if u do the bigger tractor/winch ticket If so J i'd be hitching ur winch on to ur new big tactor then it covers u for every thing

I'm pretty certain with the new courses/numbers etc these courses have changed and is now just 1 ticket for windblow. In the past it was 2 tickets single and multiple as spud says, i think single allowed u to go into windblow of about 7-12? stems (depending who u asked) and multiple was going into acres of pick up sticks

The only tickets worth doing are NPTC the rest are jusut a waste of money. Some old retired boys used to cut firewood/scavenage windblow on the local estate and had done for years, then the forestry managemnt company wanted all saw users to be ticketed, the whole lot of the went away to local agri college got training and forestry company refused to recognise it as not NPTC. Have u work for the 360 and dumper tickets? As they go out of date if u don't do enough hours every 5 yrs, i thought about doing mine but that put me off. Got a few mates who have lost tickets after changing jobs and now are meant to start from scratch again.

Is fr jones not inabout london somewhere, been out at honey bros near guildford many many years ago when on railways. No idea wot else is in that area. U don't mention wot u want the saw to do? Would u even be better with a corded 240v saw if just using it in the back garden, be quieter than petrol and cheaper than both

Out of courosity why are u topping them and wots the timber used for?? Was surprised just how close to the road u were dropping some big tops down. Also this may seem a stupid question but near end of the video u were buggering about with a orange climbing line and small pulley wot was that for? Only thing can think of for pulling the bigger saw/petrol up the tree? As u looked like u were just on ur spikes otherwise Also why/wot is the notch u cut in the tree top i heard u commenting on the radio? Wild guess so heli logger can grab it?? But looks close to the road for heli logging Apologies for stupid questions but never seen 1 of ur vids before Cheers

Must admit for an electric i'd just go for a cheap screwfix 1 (or similar) I've got a Titan prob about 50 quid many years ago and never missed a beat, i used to have a lot of walls, concrete and patio slabs + kenne at my old house+ pick ups/quads so it got a lot of use sometime 3-4 hours almost constant use and still going strong. I might of had it 8+ years now, my bro bought an even cheaper 1 still going strong god knows how old that is. My dad treated himself to a decent top end matika and prefer the cheap 1's to it. The patio heads are really good if u have concrete/patios to do and make a good job To do a proper job on bodywork of a car ur far better with a hose/brush, fine for a quick job or doing undersides. But my dads expensive 1 is just as bad on car bodies

Must admt i'm with difflock here, don't think it is just as clear as they seem to have made out, unless things have changed recently. I know a agri contractor got pulled by the polis a few years ago, he thought it was likely so had already got written advice fron the head traffic cops for scotland. Basiclly he was hauling muck/dung in dump trailers between 2 farms quite a few miles away, because he had the contract to spread the muck at a later date he was allowed to run red, if the farmer was spreading it it was classed as haulage so white. he ended up getting a written apology from the local polis over the way they treated him and the traffic officers attitude to him and his workers There has been lengthy threads about this in the past for arb and red desiel, if its to haul and sell firewood from domestic arb i doubt it will be as clear as made out.

Fair play to u J for making an informd decision. Must admit got a lot of time for vegans as atleast they care wot there eating, most hunters are the same. Its the other hypocrites that annoy me shout about things like this but them live on packaged horse meat from supermarket, simply don't care wot it is, where it came from, or how it lived/was killed as long as cheap. Or the vege's running about wearing leather, might as well go whole hogg and just wear fur! I get the trophy hunting thing is a hard concept to grasp even many stalkers are pretty anti trophy hunting, until 1 makes in front of their own rifle, they'll soon shoot it then thou. I used to be pretty anti it till i read up on it a bit more. If it wasn't for those trophies expense most estates couldn't afford the stalker, and surroubding businesses would lose incomes too. Really how many folk are going to go on holiday in very rural scotland throu the week throu Oct esp if weather bad and kids still at school, yet hotels and B&B's will be booked full for 6 weeks with boys coming up for the stags hoping to catch the rut. There is something brilliant about going out with the rut in ful swing esp 1st thing in morning esp if some sika about too, got the reds roaring and sika whistling, even as a non stalker the noise is unbelievable. Also because of the high price for trophies it lets stalkers take more normal 'clients' out on the hinds/does which is all subsidised by the stags. Some places u can go out on the hinds for as little as £150 a day, thats paying ur stlkrs wage, posibly estate rifle/ammo, landy, argo/pony/tracked vehicle, posibly a 2nd person to drive the extraction vehicle, larder and chiller up to modern standards. Not making any money at those rates but it gives working lads a great chance On a well run higland estate those antlers on the stags head really aren't that different to u felling a prime (ideally just over prime)mature tree, or a farmer/stockperson showing a prime animal. They only exist throu good management practices. Just as u will have planted, sprayed round it, beat it up, possibly a few selective thiinings to give that tree the light nutrients it needs The stalker will have done the exact same with the deer, watched a load of young stags, shot the worst (either ill or genetics) left some and then every year shot a few more of that crop only leaving the best/biggest beasts. There is actually formula that tell u how many stags (and hinds) u need to recruit (born) every year to shoot a certain number mature adult stags, considering it will really be 10-12 years to make a trophy sized head. Really a balancing act as the stalker will want the best deer to sire as many offspring as it can to carry on the good genes, BUT after the rut in oct/nov the best stags will have faught and shagged themselves to skin and bone an early harsh snow/weather could easy see ur big money pay day die on the hill of starvation (great way to go out thou too much fighting and shaggin ? ) Really in my opinion shooting trophy class deer year on year is the best u can do in deer/habitat management, just the same as a farmer producing top cows/bulls/sheep or crops or a forester constantly producing trees above average year on year, it doesn't happen by accident. If u want to look at some truely terrible deer management have a google about National Trust for Scotland and the disaster they have made at Mar lodge 1 of the most famous red deer forests in scotland Or wot the John Muir Trust done up Assynt summer of 2015 (i think) and shot 86 stags and left them all lying on the hill to rot away, no effort to extract the vension (talking 8T of vension left) All the neighbouring estates which rely on stags for money had to cancel their entire cull for season, even now years later still a shortage of mature stags. If a hooray henry/toff land owner had done any of the above it would of been all over the papers but because its done by charities nothing is said

RIP Sheepys dad But if this is true and the 2 have been charged with firearms offences that is very bad news for scotlands hunting estates. It also should be challenged by some of the scottish shooting orgs, like many on here who do know abit about FAC law its quite hard to predict or understand wot they could of been charged with This has been brought about purely 100% by public opinion/backlash and that should never happen when ur charging folk with criminal charges. The goats would be wild/feral common all over scotland in some places and the sheep could easily be claimed the same. I didn't agree with her shooting the sheep, but can understand it was actually better for the estate and the sheep than being carted of to a slaughterhouse to be made into a pie, The lass has a tv show over in america on hunting so the ammount of bad press tthat could do to shooting/stalking in scotland is immense As an aside on a foresrty type forum both goats and shep will cause massive damage to trees in scotland and u wouldn't believe probably the biggest killers of goats in scotland are generally 'conservation' charities. Some of those rewilding charites (NTS, JMT, even RSPB) have a prety much zero tolerance on goats and shoot them on sight, often leaving the carcas on the hill to rot. Ps Trophy hunting not really my thing either (mainly as i could never afford 1) but those few bigger trophies with the really rich geusts/toff's is wot pays for the stalkers/keepers wage year round. Sustainable trophy hunting is also a very good form of 'herd' management if ur managing ur deer herd or land/habitat badly u won't have any trophies to shoot. So if ur producing trophy grade animals year on year ur habitat must be spot on and ur beast's fit and healthy, wots not to like about that. All a bit more complicated than just walking out and shooting the 1st animal u see In tree terms bit like managing an area of woodland so u always have 'X' ammount of big trees to fell every year, a balance between leaving them to seed for future and not cutting too many down but leaving space etc, so u should always have some more coming on.

The breathing excercises aren't very hard and the lass that taught it said with practice u can do them anytime say while driving, watching tv etc I think the excercises are more to test/improve lungs than how u breathe, thats wot the tapeing ur mouth was for to train ur body sub conciously at night and get it in the habit. Throu the day u just have to conciously try to nose breathe. Or if ur really doubt it (wich i totally understand as taping ur mouth up is not a normal thing to follow advice from some internet numpty) tape ur muth up the now while ur doing something easy say watching tv etc, so absolutley no chance of anything bad happening to u. But i really would get proper advice too and not trust an internet numpty and eave a big tag to pull it off with. West i dunno if u have asthma or not but i generally prety much ignore most dr's advice on asthma now i have had it so long i generally know my own body/asthna pretty well now (althou wouldn't want others to follow if they don't understand there's), there always mumping that i never take my daily puffer and never seen the asthma nurse for years. Had to see 1 a wee while ago as moved house/dr's and my blue (ventolin) instant relief puffers were full of sawdust and dented the other was 5 yrs out of date. Swimming is really good for it and like many things the fitter/cardio vascuarly u are the better it will be (even thou u have a demanding job, ur body will get used to it)