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Aye. Getting better, where I’m working just now is 4 seasons in one day. Was mental winds and hail/snow in the morning then blue skies and rain in the late morning.

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I have a long shank 461 brushcutter which I bought last year and I’m 6’6 and I’d say it’s a bit overkill

I guess everything is learnable over time. I wouldn’t be buying it to use it solely for my own chains more so other peoples. I think a guy near me charges 4-5 pound per chain on one of these I think.

Earn a decent living I guess. Always on the look out for making more I guess. Next tax year I want to be investing in something worthwhile, had my fair share of buying stupid things (like loads and loads of Huskys)

Not sure why but this forum is very slow for me on my iPhone. Not sure if it’s the 10 or so ads below each page that will be slowing it down. Can’t upload a 20mb video to my page for some reason, uploads at a snails pace when it never used to maybe a few months ago.

Worth mentioning, machine operators at the same company got no fuel money extra, nothing for food and had to pay there own digs or stay in there caravan. In exchange they got a better tonneage rate which I would say is the absolute minimum

Who are you forwarding for? I’ve cut up north and at it’s peak it was day rate, plus 50. Plus dinner (ended up being about 20/30 quid for dinner) as it really takes it out of you working school hours on a saw. Really works up an appetite. It’s different in a machine I’d say though as it’s harder to find saw men willing to go far. It’s mental expensive in some bits up north, and sometimes it’s only really petrol stations (shitty expensive ones at that) that you end up eating out of for your breakfast/lunch. I could easily spend 20 quid at them and still be starving.

Looking at maybe buying one of these in the next few months. After this tax year is done, end of the month. Anyone used one of these? It does all aspects, rakers etc. Markusson Sensomatic | Clark Engineering WWW.CLARK-ENGINEERING.COM Markusson Sensomatic. We seek to provide the highest quality products to our customers that match the unforgiving and... Ideally would like to start sharpening harvester chains/processor chains in my free time/in the garage. Heard people charging 4-5 pound plus VAT per chain.

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A wee log splitting job, woodland clear up kind of thing. Took me and my father 10 hours or so to cut, shift it all about 30-40 metres down a track in a wheel barrow to the splitting area and split it. Few other odds and ends done as well for a nice local woman. What a difference to working in commercial forestry.

Think it’ll be 400 metres if not more. Some will be handfelled and some felled by the Menzi Muck off a traction winch and left out for chokering.

A guy I cut with recently switched 462 to .325 for a 20 inch bar and says it is absolutely unreal for snedding.

Bill. Give me a message and I’ll put you on to a fella. My last EXL 3/8 reel was 370 including VAT.

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