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This will give you a far better quality of customer than checkatrade et al. And much cheaper, but does require legwork.

On 06/03/2020 at 11:10, Shiny steve said:

hello, do you still have the larch If so has it been felled yet? I could be interested in an artic load. Steve 

Hi Steve 

Nick from Elmsdown Forestry came up and took a look. He's keen on the timber so will have first dibs on it. I await an update from the trust on when it may be felled so will chase them. Your name is second on the list 

many thanks 

I was going to have a punt at a White Oak . Common in the U.S. but as you say not so much here . .

The leaf is certainly very similar. But not being common in the UK hard to tell. If you are near the tree again would be worth comparing other ident factors. Good starting point I’d say

Evening all. Didn’t realise the 880 was history. I have one as new, never used, did start it once on Aspen just to feel the power. Bought  the saw to start milling with, but that never materialised. So, although it has been started, it has never seen any timber, does that make it secondhand? Maybe it’s time to sell?

Quercus garryana. White oak.

Another for loquat

Nice idea Felix.
 
Other things that does my nut in are clients who want a multiple tree quote where they want a breakdown of what each tree will cost.
 
Tell me what you want done, I'll give you a price, it's not pick'n'mix.

550xp mk2 from your list.
I haven’t used any of the new top handle saws in anger. Still using my ms200 and spud tweaked echo 2511 which is epic.
Tbh I’d say you won’t go wrong with any of the brands but if you are just buying one I’d stick with a 2stroke machine at the moment. Battery saws are getting better but not good enough to be your only option at this time.

did ya tug it over with a tractor and winch?  I wonder how much grunt that required?

Handy reach on that crane .

It’s Friday and chucking it down so I went for easy climb today.

Anyone know a chip site in or near Hindhead, Surrey? Tip site directory doesn’t have anything particularly close. Thanks

A mate of mine gave me the updated edition, entitled 'War and Piss', for Christmas. I think that Neptune's Kiss is my favourite to date:

Suspected nonce. Or at the very least aware of Epsteins noncery, which makes him complicit. And a nonce.

Chipwood makes pretty good money at the moment. I was asking about location as it'll influence the price a bit. If you were local, we might be able to help with the harvesting or point you in the direction of customers.
 
Larch makes superb firewood, but getting firewood customers to take it is the issue. There would be sawlog material from the stand too.

That is a ridiculous condition, and I don't know anyone commercially planting larch. To do so is madness with the endemic status of phytophthora ramorum.
 
Anyway, if the site is to be mulched, ground impact isn't going to be an issue. I'd just get a harvester in and clear it out in a few days. It's going to be the most economical way of doing it. Whereabouts is the stand? 

8-12' Strainers,
Or split into posts.
Log cabins, beams,
Teepee poles,
1/2" cladding etc etc
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So I have been allocated 3 acres of Larch plantation to fell for a charity based trust. I carry out a reasonable amount of Arb work for them already but they would additionally like me to fell one of their plantations.

The felling is part of a landscape report and plan that is required to achieve certain planning requirements for a new building elsewhere on the site.

It’s rather ridiculous and for a variety of reasons that are not flexible but the larch is to be felled , then replanted with ... Larch.

Access is very good and the felling easy. I will attach a couple of pictures but my main point is where is the best value on the product to be had ..?

The trees are around 60ft tall and not particularly big at DBH so I’d imagine not much use for milling. I only do small scale firewood processing I’d imagine Larch although it’s good firewood to have a low ish value. ( no one in this region sells softwood logs)

I’m thinking Biomass maybe it’s best value.

Post felling the area will be forestry mulched before being replanted.

Some of you guys specialise in small

Scale forestry so I thought you may have some advice to share.

The spec is a planning condition and therefore not flexible so just advice on the end material please.

Thanks in advance

There is a woodland near where I live that got sold off in plots.
 
I was there a couple of years ago, full of bloody wigwams and shit like that.
 
Awful.

If it looked a bit battered that might have been our trailer!! It went in for a power pack a while ago but we haven't got round to picking it up yet which is in our favour as our yard it full at the moment!! To be fair Steve has always been really good with us but at the moment he's pretty much running the whole place on his own. I think he's had a run of bad luck with staffing problems. If you're definitely interested its worth persisting or try to arrange a meeting with Steve - i'm happy to answer any questions I can and I'd be happy to meet with you sometime to take a look at ours - what sort of work do you do?

Hello mate - yup, all from Riko. Bought around 6 years ago and it's been a great bit of kit
 
We've recently had a power pack fitted so we can use the timber crane without plugging it into the Alpine tractor
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Afternoon
 
We've not done a great deal of felling work so far this season so I'm looking for cordwood I can process into firewood at home to replenish stocks!!
 
We have a small forestry trailer/timber grab so I can collect by the trailer load (trailer is 3m long)
 
Interested to hear if anyone has any road road timber available? I'm in Hampshire (near Hook) but we're near to Berkshire and Surrey county boundaries
 
Many thanks - Tim

That’s a real tidy job mate, thanks for posting

Well not on a Sunday but Friday mornings oak reduction looked reasonable. Firewood orders in the afternoon.
Had several nice oaks to climb on Thursday and this one Friday morning so it was a nice end to the week.