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Also talked to the customer and seems like I’ll be mulching the forest floor as they are wanting it all clean as possible and split all the firewood up for them afterwards. I think it is just a phone line… How would I be sure? Cheers Mick

I’ve a small woodland to clear up and it looks like such a good job and for what seems like a really sound woman. There is a phone line running alongside the fence line, there is a tree blown/half blown parallell to the fence/phone line that I would likely to get out. A few trees that are blown towards the powerline that the tops may clip them when I take them down. I’m insured to fell around this sort of thing, but I am wondering the best way to get this one away from the line. Scared it will clip the line on its way down when I fell it with the lean. Has anyone ever caught a line and how much did it cost? IMG_5351.mov

Still in warranty until April 2025. 28 inch bar. Needs a new chain. Only really on for the photo. 800 or nearest offer. Absolute powerhouse, perfect for oversize hardwood. Manual carb.

Solidur 40 quid off of Chris Forestry is quite all right but not breathable. Sweaty as. I’ve got on good with cheap Regatta stuff out of charity shops that work really well. Lemme know what you get as I’ll be needing something as of this winter. Preferably not just a winter coat as I can layer up/down.

How many years from a seedling until a pear/apple tree produces something? i’m going to clear a banking at my house and don’t want to spoil my view with really high trees etc.

This made me laugh… What’s everyone had for tea tonight?

461 sold. 462 available welcome to offers

Aye it seems like it’s right. I’ve just filed the guard ever so slightly and it seems to be fine.

Aye. It was only 2 weeks maybe 3 weeks wages so around about 2.5-3K before VAT. Seems kind of pointless that they say you need to charge it but don’t have a VAT number

Meggett was built in the 60/-80s I think. They flooded my cutting partners aunties house when they opened it up. I’m sure there’s a school in there as well… The first engineering company/who I did my apprenticeship also did a lot of the steelwork in there. If I find more videos or photos I’ll post them. Safe to say I’ve derailed my own thread Splendid work chaps

It’s not all that interesting. Was just a 10-15 minute walk under the res in a 1 metre or so wide tunnell to the other end. We made an arc’d door frame to suit out of nylon sheet and attached a 3 phase fan at the top to circulate the air and demist the tunnel. Some of the photos of the resevoirs we had dive teams come in and fit/mount/weigh down these stainless steel frames that we fabricated to hold perforated sheet rolled into a tube that was capped and airline fittings welded into it. Cored a 300mm hole out through the small resevoir tower, fed ducting down the side of the tower and mounted it off of a rope and harness. Then the divers came and done the underwater bit (who would have thought…) Attaching the airlines to the frames. 2 single phase compressors in the tower, running constantly 24/7, one on standby the other working. All to aerate the water around the inlet of the tower and keep algae away from the inlet/reducing the level of sludge and other dirt coming into the nearby water station.

Here’s some photos I’ve found off of my phone from some other resevoirs I worked on before I quit/got the sack and went into the woods. Would of still been doing it if I were with a good company. Quite interesting the different processes there is to making water drinkable, loads of different processes… Albeit very very slow. All the pipes/inside photos are of Meggett going up the tower. IMG_5155.mov

Here’s the outlet/overflow pipe 4 floors down an elevator at Fruid running fairly constant. That goes and feeds the river etc. Some photos from the Megget tower at the top, that’s impressive in there. IMG_0400.mov

Bought a 200mm blade and a 250mm guard and it is hitting. Please tell me that you can use a smaller blade on a bigger guard before I lose the will to live with this thing Or before I gouge it out with the grinder/just take the guard off anyways IMG_5324.mov

Haha. I’ve done a lot in Fruid reservoir. Made a door in the tunnell that goes all the way underneath it. Cool bit.

I fully tax plan ever since the start. Spend over 50 percent of my wages on the job to avoid it. After all, it’s only going to be wasted by them

Done a bit up over the Devil’s Beef tub in Badlieu. There was a windfarm in there. I’ve honestly worked all over and I can barely remember where and what we were doing on each job to be honest…

Thanks again for all the replies btw. Will have helped my business massively. Will get 3.5K back off my pick up also!

Charged VAT for the first time this month. Will have earned me like an extra 500 on the 10 percent scheme. Gonna just forget about it all and put it into another account. My accountant seems to think I have to charge VAT since fully registering on the 10th of July. I didn’t charge VAT until I got a number, so I think I’ve got 2.5K of invoices without VAT on them. Is there a way to tell the VAT man I have been charging VAT as of the 1st of August say?

Not entirely sure where that is. I’ve 15 odd sites on at my work that I hop between. I’d have no idea if it were being felled for a wind farm or not unfortunately.

Aye. Yesterday was 110 mile up north and actually got a lift up in the forwarder which is mega and doesn’t happen very often. Here is the top of the hill, van is way beyond the standing trees. Took maybe 15 minutes in the forwarder to get there.

They won’t. But if they did, I’ve got a bit of my own work to do through management companies but not a whole lot (they’re more maintenance based). I could quite easily go freelance to a certain degree although I’m not up to that level yet I’ve still a lot to learn, or so I feel. Can put down a lot in a day and work hard but heard of other cutters cutting for smaller companies, harvester forwarder type set ups and they weren’t very good at all when they came to work for us. Could do what they did in a day, by breakfast time.

Absolutely. Been felling pockets here for weeks. Good stuff in here, got a 951 Komatsu in here. Biggest Komatsu they make I think, or wheeled anyways. Can fell up to a metre if not more I think. Took 30 minutes to walk down the hill today. It’s a long hill… my knees do not like it

No jack up the hill, all back leaning so I taper the hinge. Leaving more on the downhill side and send them all at once. Took me 9 minutes to brash and cut each one and bomb them. To wedge one of them sideways can take 2-3 wedges buried into it and maybe a highlift at times depending. Saves time and energy just doing that. It’s ‘unsafe’ and you’re not allowed to do it, but the people that would tell you that are the ones that normally haven’t done it before. The jack is way down the bottom in the van, past the standing trees and way down the hill after that… So you can see what I mean.

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