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Just don't do this when tired, cold or in the morning after a session. Those things are there primarily for these reasons - oh and being stupid, but you aren't that and still alive in the main.

Got asked the same a year ago. When I gave them a quote, they said that was to dear, and I said if you had got them ground out there would of been no cost as would have just been left on site. They think as we are tree surgeon we can just make them vanish.

I did use a tr6p last year, felt very top heavy, tracked well and chipped amazingly well. The timberpup 150tr I have seems fairly well low in comparison and at least gives the illusion of a lower centre of gravity.

Yes that is definitely a pro for being slow at tracking but trying to cover any distance is darn annoying. Very easy to find yourself in a spot of bother when tracking about.

You don't need to tell me. I pulled out a load of fences on my farm. Tracking over the field on way, then tracking back, that was beyond tedious and took days

The original had a D-shaped idle screw. I know this because I bought a D set to piss around with it myself before I sent it to Skyland to have a new carb fitted! I did put an X on mine afterwards with insulating tape.

Nope The original issue was unstable idle in certain conditions. First it was corrected by changing purge bulb with tighter return valve (went from standard orange to special black material), but later it was changed to active idle control altogether. Presence of that system can be recognized by PI (Programmable Ignition) symbol next to laser etched S/N, X logo on the starter logo and D-shape idle screw (as it is otherwise useless for untrained person without carb tools anyways).

I was watching my mates 280 track on site the other day , I think it was doing 20mph!! … I think our Schliesing is about 1mph if that … can’t say I’m bothered by it much , the speed would be nice but I’m pretty sure I would drop tracks more, the slow speed seems to make you more aware of stumps and obstacles that could de track.

If you don't have or watch Sky news why would you know who she is? can't say I had a clue she even existed until you made a big thing of her. Don't have Sky so I'd never know her opinion of anything.

Man plans, Gaia laughs.

It is good. But don’t underestimate how much firewood it burns. Probably getting on for a ton of properly dry firewood per month when it is cold. So don’t even think about it unless you have the energy, space and time to process a whole lot of firewood. If you have to buy it in you will save no money.

I never know why they didnt put two speed tracking on them, ex boss had a 150 and it was slow also

I’ve found exactly the opposite Al! Big trees that have been tonked the regen has flushed then died off completely within a couple of years.

I know, to an extent I do as well. But French clients are often in the dark about what grinding involves so a bit of face to face is better, plus I’m trying to build a bit of momentum on the grinding side of things for various reasons, it all added up to a perfect storm of time wasted. Them’s the breaks.

I very rarely go and look at grinding jobs, more often than not I just ask about access over the phone and get a couple of pictures sent with something for scale against the stump

Upgraded to a half page ad for a couple of months in the local mag for a couple of months to generate work. We'll see what it brings.

I recently had a call from a client whose building plot we cleared in September. She was asking if I can come back to remove the stumps now her builder has dug them out. We hashed this out on site at the quoting stage and I made it quite clear just what stump grinding involved but they insisted their builder had it all in hand and would be cheaper. Bizarrely lean on the stump side of things too with only one cedar to my name since September. Stuart

I suspect I know the answer to this. But does a tw190 track any quicker than a 150? I suspect not. I have a 150 with a winch and it does everything I need but by god does it track slow. Living where I do and some of the work I get it can be a bit of a trek in. At slower than walking speed this 150 can sure make a meal out of it. Hoping to move on to a 230 or a st6. Used a 230 and forst, obviously a massive leap forward in terms of chipping capabilities as well as tracking speed.

I have got three, now just a teaser. 😘

Had a guy ring us today asking whether we can sharpen blades on his mower......got a walk behind rotaty mower that uses the Hayterette system whereby you have 4 small swinging blades mounted on a rotating disc. Said he couldn't drive, so could we collect......OK, shouldn't be an issue. How much he says 'I've got it off the mower ready' OK, fine I say...if you're local just call it £20 as we can pick it up as part of another collection and arrange to drop back with another. Turns out he's in a different town 40 minutes away.......tried to explain for us to drive 40 mins to collect, then same to bring back, then same to drop back and return to base is 4 x 40 minutes...all for gross £20 it really didn't stack up, he thought we were being awkward! Turns out his daughter lives about 2 miles from our front door, so he got her to pick them up....but I mean, really??? Thought we would be happy doing all that in the first place for £20. Getting to the point now, that if you dropped a £20 note, you wouldn't bother trying to find it, it's worth so little.

She’s a beauty🤣 Functionality over looks and all that👍 Whoever came up with this barmy idea of two handed control needs a right talking too! All it does is make it more dangerous, as now it’s tempting to get a 2nd person to load/unload whilst another does the controls! Absolute takes the pee! anyway, I came up with this for mine-exactly the same principle as yours….but shinier🤣

I know, I’m not without blame, could/should have done that.

Equally you could have pre-qualified him during the initial phone call stating the minimum price the job would need to be to be worth your time at that distance. (But this is why they are called cuntstomers to be fair…)