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Transport guy hauling out of Montrose dropped a few ton of the Birch that were oversize for firewood processing, 250-400 diameter, I only wanted to mill a few logs just to see how it turned out. End product was some lovely clean straight planks so considering the price it was a very worthwhile endeavour.

I’ll have to give credit to big J Les I did pick his brains on a number of occasions ref the build spec etc and it turned out to be sound advice. I’m sure it will do over 5m in length, but as you say having a loader is a big help.

Lol im sure i expressed my gratitude for your knowledge and much valued advice previously J 😆.

Nothing to hide price wise, all In with the options inc extra length on bed and wider head, HD chassis option and extra hydraulics etc it was 27k inc Vat, I’d probs change a few things on build sheet now with benefit of time on mill but I guess you won’t get it right first time 🤷‍♂️. I’ll mod and fabricate a few things to suit myself over time but for now it’s a case of tweaking and learning every time out especially on max width cuts. . One thing I’d wholeheartedly agree with is the comments on loading etc, having a loader on-site makes a night and day difference to a days work/production rate.

Short term bottom line mentality Mark and no long term vision 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️Sad but a feature of successive governments for years

J the answer lies in training and investing in our own people and companies not existing for the bottom line only. The jenga comparison you mentioned briefly is a pretty simple way of getting across to people the problems we are gonna face in the future if we don’t change. That firm who has 6 lorries parked up !! offer to train some keen young lads and pay them a decent wage. Government help with tax perks for training etc of course should be in place but sadly whilst we got brexit we are still geared up to the idea of a huge pool of skilled labour that someone else paid to train to pick from and drop as it suits. The long term strategic plan to make the best of the situation is yet to materialise unfortunately and quite frankly may never.

Listened to a article on R4 a few weeks ago regards this and whilst people will try to politicise it, without fail the drivers spoken to complained about poor rates of pay especially from a few well known operators and use of agencies by the supermarkets. The EU drivers are split into well paid professional drivers from Holland, France,Germany etc and others, the others are what the operators seem to be missing. This was the views the UK drivers were giving. The answer rather than run to the EU to fill gaps is to invest and train our own people, all the companies moaning no doubt miss the cheap Labour pool that the EU offered. It always pisses me off that companies want ready made trained people regardless of where ever they come from yet won’t invest in training our own young, short term greed that long term benefits no one. Training and investment in the young right now should be an absolute overriding priority including skills such as HGV driving. HGV driver shortage is nothing new hence reducing the age limit from21 to 18 a few years back. it’s just MSM dramatising something and encouraging those who want to beat the political drum.

What was illegal???

Maybe so but I don’t think he’s ever gang raped underage teenage girls so how dangerous he actually is may well be open to interpretation.

Did 2 tours in NI during the 80s and thatchers policies on dealing with the IRA were 100% right. Gloves off no mercy. No time for the citizen smith left wing benefit of hindsight bullshit on that subject Mark.

Where you based bud ??. PM sent

Cant disagree with that Mark. Been like that for a while bud, wonder how much pain and suffering this pair have contributed towards. The shaping of a war leader 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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I often get overwhelmed with the amount of work involved in milling 😆

Always good when the client is happy to see the timber from a felled tree being given a new purpose rather than just being chopped up for logs 👍.

About £70 for the bare unit. I didn’t expect much Andy but it’s seriously effective at cleaning up all the crap off the mill at end of day.

2021 Les

Milled some Larch for a guy today courtesy of recommendation from Andy 👍👍 cheers bud., What a cracking location, wasn’t even taking much notice of the milling in reality with surroundings like that. Had the chance to try out the little dewalt blower, absolutely cracking bit of kit for keeping things tidy and cleaning up at end of shift.

500 cruised it

Anything 2 stroke from that era is fetching silly money even the plain old FSIE. Stranraer beach race 88-89 I think , NOS 86 CR500 from custom and comp (Bikesport) cracking tool and nowhere near as bad to ride as is made out. 3hrs the duration was, slept well that night. Remember Scott Gardner passing me on the beach straight laid flat on his bike with his feet hanging off the back 😀. Anyone who was into the off-road scene back then will recognise a lot of the stuff in the paddock 👍

Hi All just wondering if anyone has had any experience of ordering parts from Cooks USA or is there a supplier over here ?? Cheers

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I’ll sort something out before end of summer Mark and hopefully once all restrictions etc are done 🙏. Ive a favour to do at some point for a mate in Dunfermline with the mill so it’s not that much further down for a few days.

No Mark Not had much opportunity to tell truth. Andy seems to be getting some good stuff around his area but it’s hard to come by it seems up by me.

Yes