Conor Wright

Unless it's on wide tracks or has lots of tyres it won't travel on peat. Horses have neither.. or should that be neigh-ther..?

Get the new signage made on a full sheet the size and shape of the side, your sign writing co should be able to fit it for very little more than peel off stickers. Saves you the time of cleaning the sides and will look sharper. It shouldn't be hard for a good co to match the alu colour for the background.

Don't have enough knowledge to say, but maybe if you stick it in the " tis the season to see fungi" thread more of those with an in-depth knowledge may see the post.

Had a local landowner approach me not so long ago, telling me how much free firewood he had available.. ivy clad spruce and syc leaning over buildings and road, crap access and generally a tangled mess of leaning and hung up hazards. Wouldn't do it for 3k never mind for the firewood. A proper hardship job. On the other hand a neighbour offered me a fallen beech if I cut the small branches into rings. He got a trailer load of handy sized wood and I got a section of millable trunk and about 5 cubes of logs. Had to laugh yesterday when a lady who had asked me a year ago to remove 4 sycamores from around her house called me again, she had been trying to sell the (standing) timber for the last year to offset the cost of having the trees removed. She was disgusted that nobody had offered her anything but said to go ahead on condition that we stack the timber as she hopes to sell it once the trees are.down! I expect the pile will be there in 10 years time.

Our daily dose of swans! They fly westwards every morning to the fields across the road from us and back eastwards to a series of lakes about 3 or 4 miles away. They make a serious noise taking off! It's interesting watching their various routes and flight patterns. Gonna mis em when they decide to leave!

Nappy mountain... that reminded me of a job I landed one summer as a teenager, derelict terraced town house with a sizable rear garden which was literally 8 ft high with briars and nettles. Turns out the neighbours had been filling blue bags and firing them over the wall. No nappies, just little blue bags full of excrement. First one came as a complete surprise and splattered all around it when I caught it with the blade on the brushcutter. Junkie sorts rather than caravan dwellers. I will never forget that smell on a hot summer's day. If I ever happen across a blue bag now I take no chances! I think people that dump rubbish like that should be rehomed on landfill sites. Permanently.

Good idea. I like it.

Hope that's being cut from the comfort of a machine. Tackling that with a saw is unnecessary and unwise. Looks filthy too.

Satisfy my curiosity, pm me who owns it! Been bugging me since I first saw it.

It's fairly local, I think. have seen it before but don't have a name to go with it.. two youngish lads looking shook enough standing down the road from it. No injuries from what I know.

Good start to the week, nice ash reduced and deadwooded.. I did a few lower branches off the mewp but the real work was done by the climber!

Able to see it all today. Great thread.

Just caught the digger in time, could easily have bent the ram.. An easy fix in the end, got a plate made up and added a bit of strength, no photo of the fix, it's not rusty enough to look like the rest of the machine yet!

You are the resident authority on such machinery! I'm just speaking from my limited experience operating a 2.5 ton very gutless pel job. I stand corrected.

The early ones (pel job era and couple of years after) are poor enough, don't know a lot about the new ones but I've heard they have improved a lot. Was looking at a newer 24 ton one a few weeks back. Great spec and high quality, I presume this has filtered down the ranges.

Unfortunately that's all I can see. Having read much of the thread it does seem interesting and far more sustainable a technique on softer ground or less accessible areas.

Dam, that's a tree!

Am i an idiot for wanting that?!

Would be reaĺly good to be able view these pics, seems like a very cool thread. Is it possible to view them or have they been removed? Then again it could be me not being able to use technology correctly! If anyone has new pics of skyline setups maybe they could stick em up?

Usually the first cut is a little less strenuous on the saw as you are often not hitting heartwood or taking in the full width of the trunk.. with an underpowered setup this could lead you to think the chain had dulled slightly when you hit harder stuff. Ash is far easier to mill fresh, it gets harder with age, this could also be a factor? Grit, included bark, dirty bark (ie roadside trees) can all be factors. I have limited experience milling but have noticed that any little imperfection on the chain is accentuated far more than when crosscutting. Maybe if you were to seesaw the saw through the wood so as not to be cutting the full width of the board at any one time? May have a detrimental effect on the finish of the board but I found it helps stop the saw bogging.. I've a standard 660 on a 42 inch bar so it's under pressure!

Haha! I'm almost afraid to click on it now!

I want it. Great bit of engineering.

Very nice. Really like the look of the ring in the first pic. It could be hundreds of years old! Beautiful. Nice detailing on the ivy leaf too.

Fifties? At a guess. Any idea of the model? Might help narrow it down. I'm no expert on old saws.. or new ones either! Could be the start of a vintage/classic saws thread!

I wonder would a spray of waxoyl do the job?