Today's Posts

Yeah, at the time there is no hope, you can't go forwards, backwards or sideways, you're stuck but you get out the other side and can't see a reason for feeling so down.

The reason you don't see many is they rotted well. Remember see a fabricator / welder repairing cab on one, he said was costing more then truck was worth. Think taxing one was a bit of a grey area, most got away with agri or multi use. Last arb one I saw for sale was taxed agri had turboed perkins engine fitted.

I was in my early twenties and already worried in crowded places then. Not to mention Grenfell, some things don't change when there is money to be made.

Ive hired a st8 twice and both times it went wrong and the hire company had to come out to fix it! id go for schliesing 220mx personally

I can only relate my experience. Ran a TW150 for years, went to an ST8 2016ish, nothing but breakdown after breakdown, went back to TW (230) and have had next to no bother. Things may have changed, they may well have ironed out the issues. Other’s experience may contradict mine.

Exactly . No different to Dave Allen taking the piss out of catholic priests.

Good morning Arbtalkers 😊 What a cracking day it is .....

Nice John. Couldn’t help but chuckle at the supplier name. Flails Direct. Original!

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I used to work in the IP Telecoms industry. My first job in 97 was for an ISP, one of the first business ISP’s in the UK. There was a real tech nerd vibe about the place and on the tech support website there was a full page banner saying “Before you give us a hoot, please shut down and reboot” it solved probably 3 out of 4 of the problems..

Hi I am looking to buy a Timberwolf 18/100 chipper would anybody on here have one for sale?

same ! 😀

40! Youth left me with my hair 20 years ago. I do have a secret weapon. A very heavy sledge and a sharpened leaf spring. It will cut and lever any small stubbon bits. Pic from a previous job. If you cant get to the roots you can smash through it below ground level. I found most of the roots small and some rotten, there was one large 4-5" root on one side, very odd! Didnt take long to smash. Helped customer with tipping, she has a nice small van.

You are as has been stated by more than one mentally ill, or utterly dumb.

Nope I quite like the ones I got, one of my best arb purchases. They are exceptionally stable as an A frame, light and compact for the roof rack. 10 meters fully extended if I remember correctly, 5 meter as A frame. Only thing I dislike is when using extended with the bottom type sections leaning against a tree, they are too wide and I dont know how strong the rungs are like that. But in that example I didnt need the extra height, could have removed the end section. Anyway it worked. The other disadvantage is in the example above, if you had it fully extended, a groundman cant easily lower the upper section without flopping the ladder down to the ground, as the adjuster 12 rungs up in that pic.

Chain oil? My 201 is always a bit incontinent like that, don't know why it's worse than other saws.

Yup, it will either be petrol or oil. The colour of the plug after a bit of running may give you further info....black is rich, white or oily....oil.

I have used a scag flail mower extensively on national park footpaths, have got them over some tricky terrain and lost many flails in the process. The NP had some old scags that were 15years old, solid machines. They chopped them in for new ones which were 10k each and then had to pay extra for electric start. The build quality on the new ones was terrible. They replaced them with AS walk behind flail mowers and I was told they were a lot better. They are hard work, if it's dusty you get covered on dust! But they beat up material well. We used to hedge trim down each side of the footpath, this could be anything you could possibly get a hedge trimmer, then smash it all up with the scag, left a reasonable finish. Also used for cutting grass in car parks, it cut the grass well enough but was only when the zero turn was out of action. Gets a bit tedious stomping round after it all day and if it's undulating the handles rise and fall quite a lot which can wrench on your back. I mainly use a brush cutter now but would have a scag if a cheap one came up but they are never my sort of cheap.