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Because of the problem for land owners to manage tees next to rail lines are Network Rail not responsible for dangerous/ dead/ problem trees adjacent to the network that could fall onto their property? I’m not 100% sure but heard it many moons ago🤔

There was a chap at the last APF show with several crosscut and pit saws he had reconditioned for show and for sale, they were like new. He may be at the next one? Or details could be in the catalogue of the show - someone might still have a copy.

Cleveland Site Safe are that confident with their product they put their nameplate on the outside. A quick google of their website and chances are you’ll get a good idea of the construction and details of security features - I have🤔. I can now “go equipped” with the correct gear to break in! If you’ve got one as your security take the nameplate off and cover the doors with a secondary door so that when they’re carrying out their recce they can’t see exactly what they’re up against. Don’t leave your buildings/ containers open if they can be seen from public areas. Line the inside with multiple layers of different materials. Fit alarms, cameras and obstacle’s to make gaining access to sides and rear difficult. Don’t forget to reinforce the roof.

3 pages of posts in 9 hours, proving reasonably popular post. Don’t know why there isn’t a dedicated heading for chainsaws on this forum really🤔.

Only sell 40 or 50 cube mts per year to regular customers all from my Arb waste, seasoned minimum of 2 years outside🤔. I must be one of those fly by night wet wood sellers you talk about. I’m sold out this year and still turn people away. And don’t expect it to tail off, in fact I see more demand on the horizon. Thanks for posting a copy of the Firewood Selling Regulations for us all to see but if you took the trouble to read a few more threads on here you’ll see that it’s been thrashed to death already.

As Stubby as already pointed out DC but I’m not so sure because I remember years ago that someone on here said they rode a cock-horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse🤔 so there must be white horses?

There are probably 100s of firewood suppliers in my area from large scale to the bloke with a Hi lux who does a load or two at the weekend for beer tokens? There is no way all this can be policed. I only sell a few loads a year to repeat customers. How are they going to catch me? I’m going to chip and tune the transit, fit a bigger turbo, and if I think I’m being followed throw in a few anti surveillance tricks (I’ve watched all of Line of Duty), throw it around the roundabout’s a few times and if I’m still suspicious pull in for a Big Mac 🤔 and watch them pass on by( an old cowboy trick). I make light of it but I think it’s all a load of tosh! This was all orchestrated by a few of the big boys to try and monopolise the Firewood industry - as if they weren’t making enough already from it. They’re creating a cartel. Those smaller outfits that sign up to this don’t think that’s the end of it. I’ve spoken to my mate Boris and he says pay no attention to the rules, don’t let any work colleagues take photos, no messages by text, watts app or Facebook. Don’t employ any body who looks like Dobby cos they can’t be trusted and will try and put the knife in and I should get away with it. He finished by asking for small load of firewood delivered to Chequers cheap for cash🤭.

I’m following this on my old black and white iPad. 🤔

Watching any horses working is a pleasure, watching a team of 7 horses is a sight to behold. The 4 whites all look to be perfectly matched. Thanks for posting.

Is woodchip supplied to biomass burners covered by the new woodsure scheme😳

Is she going on her own, or with a group of women on a hen weekend?

TCF. You’ve shut everything down🤔. But still on a public forum🤭

Brightwells Auctions, weekly.

Why would a tractor PTO splitter be worse for fumes than any other machinery? Can’t think of anything where the exhaust is further and higher away from the operator?

One of those jobs where your “damned if you do and damned if you don’t”. As you say if you don’t do it someone else will so I would try to get the job whilst trying to retain your reputation - that will be difficult because it sounds like the client wants them well and truly trashed😳. BS 3998 is after all only a guide! Taking out some trees may be the option but bare in mind you could open up the remaining ones to prevailing winds they’ve never experienced in the past and that road is already going to effect the shallow root plate. The remaining trees will also eventually grow to try and fill the gaps? You’ll probably have to reduce their height not only for light but to reduce the sail. Interested that one as already snapped off or was it a partial failure, the gnarly twisted one in the first photo looks suspect so could be a candidate for removal? Consider also removing the lot on the grounds side and retain the one’s over the road as whatever you do to appease the client is not going to look pretty and a clump of trees obviously throw less of a shadow through the day than a line of trees? Replant with beach and it won’t be your problem cos you’ll be retired before they’re a problem again. Good luck with it.

I suppose spending a pound and being entertained for a few hours on the internet is good value for money. Have you thought about going on the Antiques Roadshow🤔. Even if you don’t get any info on your axe head it would be worth it just to meet Fiona Bruce👍

Throwing the chainsaw down to the groundie is very dangerous. I did some research into this and the conclusion was to pass the fuel and oil up to the climber on a rope and for him to do it himself.

Stood on the top run? Sounds like a recipe for a swallow dive into the hedge with your boots still gripping the top run. That should of told you it wasn’t safe! If you were left to get on with this your boss is lucky to have you. You should of asked him to give you a demo on exactly how it should be done. I wonder what the boss did in those 4 days while his willing crew were grafting their balls off, taking risks all on his behalf? Have you posted any “after shots” because I can’t see any. Good effort for finishing it. I think I would of spent 4 days reconsidering my future with that company. Only ever trimmed one conny hedge on a regular basis and that was for the chap who serviced my trucks, thankfully he’s moved now. Any hedge reductions these days I price on a rising scale of fees.

It could be, he didn’t say where exactly he was when he found it.

We’ve heard of at least 6 young children in the past two weeks who have either been killed or died 🤔 as a result of torture and neglect which made front page news for a couple of days - then nothing🤔. There’s Russian troops massed on the European border(Ukraine) poised to invade🤔, there’s probably British military based there at the moment with a British para battalion on notice to deploy there at short notice which could bring the U.K. into direct conflict with Russia( despite what Wallace the armed forces minister says🤔) which could escalate a lot further🤔. The navy recently sailing around the South China seas being threatened by China, sailing around the Baltic with Russia claiming to of fired on them🤔. Anyone for a small war😳. And all we get in the papers and on the TV on a daily basis is about Boris’s mates and their bit of tinsel and bloody nibbles😫. Oh and the odd glass of wine. Who gives a toss😫. It’s their lives and immediate family that they put at risk. There were thousands of people across the U.K. doing the same, it’s just they don’t have someone photographing and nicking videos wanting to stick the knife in😫. The only reason we keep hearing Labour going on about it is because it’s the only thing they’ve possibly got on Boris🤔. The press keep it going because they would like nothing more than the fall of Boris and the Conservative party to give them something else to sell papers and draw audiences. Quite honestly I don’t think any of them could of done a better job on the reaction to Covid, that’s why Labour have backed the government on various measures that of been in place. Starmer won’t even admit to being a socialist even though he’s been a member of various socialist groups in the past. He doesn’t know whether to stick or twist🙄. And as for the Lib-dams 😂. Brexit still needs finishing off and trade agreements sorting😫 because we’re all suffering because of that unfinished business. there’s no doubt in my mind that the government and civil servants are a back stabbing nest of vipers and it can’t go on but I don’t see a credible alternative at the moment. Quite honestly there’s far more important issues that affect us all than cheese, wine and nibbles, which by the way would actually give me indigestion😫.

Tend to agree. With straight grained softwood you can get away with 100 x 100 section for long posts for fencing panels or similar (they’ll still rot off in a few years even treated🙄) The problem I’ve seen with sweet chestnut(and with oak) is very often at various points along the cut you not cutting with the grain🤔. Cleaving for posts and stakes is the other option. In my opinion Sweet chestnut and oak is far superior to standard treated softwood for posts but it’s best to go up in size to something like 150 x 100 and then would be ideal for quality post and rail fencing using treated softwood rails.

The bottom 10 or 12 ft look ok for construction timber, the 2nd length as got too many large knots in my opinion🤔.

But yours aren’t treated are they🤔, they’ll last a couple of years at most on the ground. Even treated they’ll only last a couple of years more than that🤔. Still works out at £500 per M cube mind😳 which is good for home grown softwood.

I think if they could of backed the trailer up to the chipper they would of don’t you🤔. A simple solution to a problem and one I’ll remember if I come across a similar one. Launching brash from that height would create one hell of a mess and sweeping up. Thanks for posting Mick. Possibly a candidate for the overload thread as well🤔

I wouldn’t bother mate they can’t make their mind up on how much to pay🤔