Donnie
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Insurance... I don't have any but I only really fell in big forests etc for one big contractor so I'd guess we are covered from them.... Maybe I'll push the boat out and buy one of those jacks in a few months.
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You've deep pockets. Haha. I just use a 20T off of eBay and does fine but how much heavier is this 30T? Would be good to have knowing you'll put just about anything over. Sometimes have to use 2 20 Tons to get some of our trees over.
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Aye spot on cheers again mate. I had a wee look when I made this post and I was curious as to why there is no baffle but hey ho. Now the spark arrestor or however you call it, I've always removed them on my saws. 62/72/85 but never really understood what it does for the saw... If anyone can explain
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Cheers for the comments lads.
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Didn't know you had a thread or did videos... Can you send a link for that jack? It looks class. Am I right in saying you've cut your jack seat before you've even gobbed the tree out? Never seen it done like that before! Sweet overhang
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To be fair I've two brashing saws, an old 261 and a 562. And two felling saws 572 and 585 and will keep the 85 forever as I love it.
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Well the little socket cap melted on my exhaust and I kept using it and it's kind of sucked itself in but anyways... got a new one on warranty but kept the old one. Thinking of modding the exhaust if I could get some info on how to do it myself. Also what exactly can you expect from a modded exhaust? Apart from a more deafening note
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Found these on my phone of a few years ago in the man basket. Not tree related again but why not @Doug Tait can you guess what bridge I'm on?
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Financial viability of small forwarders/tractor trailer
Donnie replied to Malus's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
That looks spot on that. Me and my friend were on about how it'd be good to go out on and do low impact stuff and that seems like just the job. How much is that machine? Had a quick look online and says around 40K new but not sure if that's right with how prices fluctuate nowadays -
How small were they? 😂 Also another thing is comfort. I'm 6'6/7 on a good day so a wee van just kills me on long drives as I barely fit in it. Guessing the d max is fairly comfy/roomy. Won't be bought to tow, although wouldn't mind doing so if the chance ever came about but aye. Never have to in my job.
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Hahahaha I know. I reckon when the time comes to part with them I'll probably say nah F it I'll keep them haha. Apart from the 562 that can rot in hell
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Well in April probably going to be upgrading my van and would like something to go well with my huge selection of checkered shirts and my new Engelbert Strauss chainsaw jeans. My Renault Kangoo just doesn't fit the vibe anymore Been looking at the d maxes and tbh I'm already dead set on one just not sure whether to get a 2.5 or a 1.9. Mpg seems pretty decent 35-38 on the 1.9s but not sure how much of that is true? Be probably spending 15000. 5K down and ticky the rest. I do 25K miles a year thats why I'm wondering what these are really like for mpg. Work in the forest as a cutter and sick of ruining my Kangoo van.
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Are you steering towards arb/climbing or forestry cutting/saw work and tree felling? The way I see it is if you don't try it you'll never know but you'll always wonder... You can just go balls in and try it at the lowest level in arb/forestry and realize it's shite and you prefer to be in a warm work shop than standing out in the pissing rain and wind. Or you might like it Not like you lose all your past welding knowledge the minute you finish either so you can fall back on it
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Might be a bit different where you live. I was quite shite but could fabricate, manual turn and mill etc. Here's one of the staircases I've made. Only did one spiral, with a little help with measurements etc off my old boss who was paralysed so I did all the manual work. He's a smart fella Was on 10.50 an hour back in 2019 or so when I did that.
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Welder/fabricator/engineer whatever you want to call it. 13 quid an hour when I quit 2 years ago and went into hand cutting in forestry. If you are going into the woods give me a PM on here and I'll let you know how I've got on in the past year of doing this.
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I've been messaging you on Insta anyways. 😂😂😂 I'll be buying Crocky's ported 372 for my next felling saw, I just don't see the point in having more than 3 saws. Got 562, 72 and 85. 372 seems to be renowned for being a hardy work horse and my 572 has already detonated once and probably will again. I'll put the first blow up down to me being new to the game though... ideally like to have a 72 ported and modded up and a stock 395 from Crocky within the next year for sure. Bit too close to Christmas for chucking money about that's all 😂
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Can they show you how many of them hours it's been bouncing off the limiter? 😂😂
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Husky is 2 years domestic but really who's to know what you use it for and if you're friendly with the dealer then does it really matter? I like the 3 Series as I'm not keen on the autotune on the 5s, neither are the boys I work with as they're having a lot of bother.
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Both of my saws, 572 is just over one year old and my 562 was bought in April or so. Both still in warranty for another year, and I was wondering how much they would ideally sell for as second hand saws? There's nothinng wrong with them but I'd like to sell them (at least the 72) as I'd like to get a 372. All I can find on the dreaded fb market place is just people selling broken ones or in bundles.
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Eddie Rabbit driving my life away and about 10 rollies sure made short work of it... @AHPP could of ended up in Newcastle if I didn't double look it at 4am 😂
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Some trek for a days work anyways. Will have done 150 miles before @Doug Tait's even thought about trimming hedges
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Aye currently we both work for the same company and I'd try not to step on anybodys toes trying to do this. We are no strangers to crap work. It would just be great to do it off your own name etc and scale something up.
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Me and my friend at work where on about doing this today and wondering what it would take to work directly as a self employed cutter for Tilhill/Commision etc jobbing around the lot. We are only general woodcutters/shown in my video blog on here but would be looking to start off small as there is lots of larch jobs going around which are all cut to waste etc. I know ideally we would need a tractor and timber trailer to get further ahead, but not keen on buying something like that until the opportunity arrives for full time work with it. If anyone has ever done this in Scotland before it'd be nice to hear how you done it, for in the future as I'd like to branch out within time and get my own thing going and branching out to estate work etc. I've heard of people using Forest Direct but not entirely sure how that goes either.
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Took a fair bit of jacking over these ones.
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'Strange looking white haired bearded man looking through my bedroom window again' being one of the first?
