Donnie
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Nae coffee for me today @Doug Tait that'll teach me for dropping my bag down. 😂👌 Finished a job today and yesterday finished a section of blow/felled the rest for the highlead now for a week or so of winching. IMG_3748.mov
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Aye which realistically you will get about 80-90 delivered for them? I could but not sure if many people would buy it. Everyone seems to be snobby only burning hardwood. Won't be long before there's nothing else to burn but softwood. Could get it for free taking scraps from forests I work in, until my boss finds a problem with me selling it 😂
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Aye hardwood I'd need to pay for as we only really cut soft wood, all hardwoods are normally left on our sites or cut for firewood/sold onto firewood fellas.
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I will certainly ask around. It'd be handy. Aslong as I could drive my van into it and move stuff around I'd make it work. Yes not efficiently but got to start somewhere. Always post on here my ideas but firewood has been mainly number one. Would love to see how far I could take it until it could become full time when I get tired of cutting in the woods. @Stubby I can get hardwood lengths oversize and processor size for around 90 a tonne delivered. I'm unsure as how much that would amount to when split into ibc crates. As for the felling thing, I'm on a day rate for 8 hours and no one really cuts in the woods on weekends etc. Believe me I've tried.
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Wouldn't mind doing firewood on the side and scaling it up from just a saw and petrol splitter. It is hard to find any area to do it in that isn't going to cost an arm and a leg in rent as it'd be more of a night time/weekend thing. Only other space I have is a 6x3 garage which is easy to fill 😂
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I take everything on marketplace with a pinch of salt. It's ruined with scams now. That looks like a decent work horse. Unfortunately don't have that kind of money right now as would then need to buy a bigger van/pick up to then tow it to jobs etc then comes a plant trailer etc.
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Be a fair out lay with my current financial situation, only been cutting a year so it's been spend spend spend which I'm fine with buying gear but it'd be more of a weekend shift if possible and scale it up from there! @doobin @Stubby What would class as a small tractor? I'm in no way into my tractors but a quick search on market place says you'll have one for about 4K? Kubota M6060. 2014 - 4.8K
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That would be the shot 2-3 days a month. I'd more than likely finance a splitter over the course of a year if possible. Rock's seem reliable and quite cheap tbh.
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Seems like you need to spend a hell of a money to be competetive in grinding. Maybe one day... @slack ma girdle I see a lot of people advertising it on FB with the same sort of machine. They seem not too bad of a splitter for 2-3K. Does he get plenty work out of it? 2 Saturdays a month for me at 200 a day (normal price I've seen on FB) would be absolutely spot on, any more would be a bonus.
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Be cheaper just going halfers on a bag then?? Legit though, help the fella or at least try to before you send him down the road. Makes you feel good doing something like that for somebody as I've done it in the past. Sending him down the road can just cause even more problems for him if he's not earning for his kids and his addiction
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What would you class as a decent machine?
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Few photos I don't think I've posted. New chain grinder that I'll be doing processor chains and hopefully scaling up a side hustle from it and see where it goes. 585 melted the exhaust cutting firewood.
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Good to see you're finally embracing the fact Logan is double the man you are. They've made flasks for a good wee while now. It's pretty barbaric working conditions but it isn't that bad 😂
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Aye that's me but travel all over for work so doing 150 miles a day is no big deal for me. I've also thought into stump grinding as well as I've looked in the rock machinery grinders for only 2000 pound. Heard the money in stump grinding is actually pretty good hopefully someone can weigh in on that. Always looking for other ways to make money and keep myself busy if it ever goes quiet in the woods. SGR-33 Stump Grinder ROCKMACHINERY.CO.UK Our new stump grinder has finally arrived ! The SGR-33 features an almost total redesign following feedback and... I've no real experience in stump grinding but this is the one I was looking at.
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Well then, another idea in my head (becoming all I think about these days) but I've seen a lot of guys advertising on FB etc for a log splitting service and taking down windblown trees etc and logging up for firewood on a day rate. Knowing most of this forum is mainly arborists and trees surgeons I thought I'd ask if there is sometimes scope for a man to follow behind a tree surgery gang and processor logs for customers? For example if tree surgeons are too busy/not wanting that kind of work. Forestry cutter so know my way around a saw but only asking as I'd have to buy a good quality road towable splitter. Looks to me locally guys are charging 30 an hour for log splitting and discing.
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I've the 585 and I think it's around about the same category but as for weight the 500 that my friend has is just unreal light.
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Personally I'd go with a 500i. Guy I cut with has one and it is a beast and it's basically a feather compared to a Husky 85.
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4K isn't bad at all really. I'm doing 15 chains on this Oregon one for a fella I cut firewood for. 4 quid a chain. It'd be grand to scale this side hustle up to buying that sort of machine
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I'm guessing a lot of chain grinders are air cooled rather than slitter a load of coolant and oil everywhere. I know when I used to be an engineer using a lathe or a mill used to have coolant all over the place. Be worse with something like that... how much was that machine? @gdh
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I'm sure a fella near me has an automatic one and he is around 5 a chain vat included... 2.50 seems very cheap!
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Aye am well aware of overheating things drilling holes etc. Can always go around it twice if its bad taking half at a time. Does anyone do this for other people, how much are you charging per chain?
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I'm guessing you own a harvester, do you not add the cost of a cutter and a little more on to the job? Also what would you expect out of a cutter on 250 a day in Sitka/outside edge trees? I.E how many per shift etc. I got you and @Pete Mctree mixed up I think.
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Be a man buy a Husky
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I'm a year in, got a thread on here showing what I do and I'm on around 200 (hopefully going up) for local work and up to an extra 50 per day for further afield. Only do clearfells and felling to harvesters on steep ground/high leading. I'd be wary of asking 250 a day doing big trees if you are from an arb background. I work with two great cutters from arb backgrounds and they say it is completely different. Need to produce a fair bit to justify 250 I'd say. Quite easily run out of fuel on big trees before 8 hours is up but I work for a bigger company and can get away with doing 5-6 litres in a day and calling it good. (Still plenty cutting at that)
