Huntinghicap said:
Guessing you would have been on Husky 280s and Stihl 064s and the like in those days....or being forestry maybe a 242xp...lovely little saw
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I can't remember the numbers, tbh. We had a few big saws, Huskies 24 and 30 inch bar, IIRC, and a big Stihl, it could drive 36 or 48 inch, for big wood on the ground.
The tree surgeons that worked for us had top handle Stihls.
I never used to do tree surgery myself, although I have been up for a look a few times.
I was mainly on ground work, transport, and organising the whole show. We had a lot going on, especially after the big storm in 87.
 
Huntinghicap said:
87 hurricane was 4 years before i was born lol. lovely kit in those days aec matadors and militants, county and roadless tractors:oops:
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You go off tree work as you get older! ;):)
We used to use Series, a few of the guys we used to work with had old Land Cruisers, Shoguns and Daihatsus. And we used to use Fordson and Leyland tractors.
Worked with a bit of heavier stuff as well, and some of my friends have had them for rallying.
Scammell Explorer is probably my favourite. As you say, AEC were a great vehicle, all models. And a friend used to have a Leyland HIppo for rallies and leisure use.
 
Turboman said:
I can't remember the numbers, tbh. We had a few big saws, Huskies 24 and 30 inch bar, IIRC, and a big Stihl, it could drive 36 or 48 inch, for big wood on the ground.
The tree surgeons that worked for us had top handle Stihls.
I never used to do tree surgery myself, although I have been up for a look a few times.
I was mainly on ground work, transport, and organising the whole show. We had a lot going on, especially after the big storm in 87.
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My brother in law is a tree surgeon, he has an old old old stihl with a big bar he just keeps rebuilding. It’s his fave.

He uses a top handle a lot. I am a wimp so don’t touch it.
 
flat said:
My brother in law is a tree surgeon, he has an old old old stihl with a big bar he just keeps rebuilding. It’s his fave.

He uses a top handle a lot. I am a wimp so don’t touch it.
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Big saws are for working on the ground, with occasional exceptions.
Top handle are for in the trees.
 
Turboman said:
Big saws are for working on the ground, with occasional exceptions.
Top handle are for in the trees.
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YEah he uses the big bar thing to sort logs on the ground - he supplies massive chunks of wood to wood carvers etc, big ass bits of wood etc
 
flat said:
YEah he uses the big bar thing to sort logs on the ground - he supplies massive chunks of wood to wood carvers etc, big ass bits of wood etc
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Good money if you can get it. That sort of market had grown since my days on tree work.
We often used to find disposal of wood and brushwood was a problem.
Brush we used to burn up on sire where we could. Big timber we often took off tree surgery for our own firewood at the farm.
Stuff like poplar, that doesn't burn well, we used to dump in a swamp on the farm.
On big commercial felling jobs, there was a market for timber, because we had it by the truckload.
 
Turboman said:
Good money if you can get it. That sort of market had grown since my days on tree work.
We often used to find disposal of wood and brushwood was a problem.
Brush we used to burn up on sire where we could. Big timber we often took off tree surgery for our own firewood at the farm.
Stuff like poplar, that doesn't burn well, we used to dump in a swamp on the farm.
On big commercial felling jobs, there was a market for timber, because we had it by the truckload.
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yeah he did big commercial jobs as part of a company, used to get absolutely stacks of logs for free. used to sell it by the bulk bag! Had a bad injury a while back, is trying to get into teaching tree surgery at the moment
 
flat said:
yeah he did big commercial jobs as part of a company, used to get absolutely stacks of logs for free. used to sell it by the bulk bag! Had a bad injury a while back, is trying to get into teaching tree surgery at the moment
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Fuel is expensive now, and wood burning much more popular. In our day, it was hard to make a profit on firewood over the costs of cutting up and transporting the stuff. The boss had a big wood furnace that heated his house, without a lot of cutting up, we used to burn the wood in that.

That is the problem with tree surgery, limited earning span. You can make good money for a bit, but you need an exit strategy for when it knackers your body.
 
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