Donnie
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Mainly all dead wood taken off of site so no need for it to dry. Looking at getting a free 2 seater shortly. Hopefully one local comes up.
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I'm going to be re jigging my garage for my work and a log store also. I need a bit of advice/inspiration that I can steal ideas from. Be mainly used for saw maintenance and log storage etc. If anyone's keen to show there own set up that'd be grand. Mines is a 6x3 metre so pretty small. It's a bit of a mess so needing some ideas.
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I honestly wouldn't be without a proper set of big spikes. I feel as if it actually gives the saw a break if you're dogged into a back cut, walking it around. Maybe just me... only cut for one year so far.
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How do you find it impossible to sned with? I've massive ones on my 572 as they were only 60 quid. Double dogs. The original dogs were absolutely bollocks and the exhaust would hit the tree when bore cutting/walking round bigger trees. Even set a couple alight with the original dogs 😂
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I've put bigger gobs into trees like that and had them go sideways on the weighted side too early. Or maybe that was just me. An older cutter taught me a few months ago, start the gob high and steep that way you can see your hinge clearly. Hard to describe when writing it on here...
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Here's one I cut on a wind day. Leaning and weighted on that jack side and blew off the hinge as it was going over with the wind.
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Aye that is what I normally do. Cut half or just past where I want the jack seat to be and jack it up so it won't pinch. I've once put my jack too close to the hinge and it can be a bit of a pain...
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The photo below is that exact tree over on it's side. 20 tonne bottle jack, had to reset it three or four times. Kept putting the jack plate up and through the butt of the tree. I've since made a new jack plate, that is 150x150mm instead of 100x100 that will give more spread hopefully. I've had 2 20 tonne bottle jacks and all my wedges in a tree before that was a little bit worse than that one but heavily back leaning. Took a two fills on 70cc saws to sned it out half way.
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Here's a few from last Monday. Blew up a light bar and fought the wind all day. Plenty fences were harmed that day.
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Aye so I'm basically thinking about if the woods go a bit quiet here or if I get a bit sick of it and fancy a break. You know how it is. Railway seems like a bit of me though for sure. I appreciate the stuff would be a lot smaller of course. 😂
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Not sure how to go about this but I've no real interest in climbing trees but I'm a cutter in the woods. I've seen a lot of posts on Facebook about utility work, clearances etc. Is there room for somebody who doesn't want to climb? I've seen the rates varying from 140-200 a day but I'm guessing the 200 part is for a climber. It's mainly an idea for the future as it looks a bit easier on the body than what I do now. Would this kind of work as a grounds man be very similiar to that of a grounds man on a tree surgery team?
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Fair size of crop in this bit I was at today. 24 inch bar. 585. Can quite easily run out of fuel within 5-6 hours. Found some baby squirrels yesterday
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Glen Etive about 3 miles from Loch Etive. Here is the loch
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Yeah that looks absolutely awesome. Almost Canadian spec I'd say. Biggest regret of my life so far was passing up chokering in BC and went rigging in Alberta instead when I was out there! Idiot. That is mega steep, I'd love to do that. I'm guessing that's all for helis and skylines?
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Aye they don't do it justice. Not the worst we have worked on though. Let's see some of those Norweigan sites. Be good to see. And tbh any slope is steep when you're carrying 30kg or more of gear. 😂
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Aye. Fulkes system I think for it. Not too clued up on anything like that. Learning as I go Is this not steep enough for you @Mike Hill 😭😭😭😭
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They're 45 degrees on that one. Depends really, they're steep for working on for sure. Steeper in bits. Why?
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4.5 hours to be met with the trees at the top of this hill to be felled. Cool part of the country though, think they filmed Skyfall on this road.
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Aye so forwarded off the hill to the road where the forwarder is in the photo then secondary forwarded down the road. Pretty cool to see. Do you cut in the woods or in arb? Skyline work would be cool.
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Aye mainly chip. A lot of larch on the hill side, diseased. See the gulley on the far right, loads of larch/windblow in there. We've been working our way from the bottom to the top, hand felling and winching it out with the high lead digger. Ground is pretty bad and the gulley is 45 degrees easily. All the timber laid out that you see has been done by the harvester on a rope.
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This is the site I've been working on with the other cutters. 500m to the top where the high lead is.
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I've only been doing this a year but work on steep ground a lot. i'd like to see there work if you have any photos like for sure.
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Where are you and what's the money like just curious?
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That was the less hairy one 😂 the other ones took me an hour to fell and sned it out each. I just loved every minute of it
