Now here is the ultimate forwarder!

[NI Tree]

it is true it is congaous

i am looking for a digger at the minite, most lightly a backhoe but posibaly a track. as it would be better in the woods

[Stephen Blair]

ace, i have a lot of draining to do, i have teamed up with my mate who has all his own diggers.

So with clamshell i can self load and fill with gravel.

also run the spoil off site and it will be a 1 man, 1 machine operation.

we will shift it locally by driving it over the hills and thru gates, if it needs shifting further i will just use a local haulier.

 

Ground condition really effects us, this machine will now ensure work right thru winter now. As we will do very little damage

 

Chris, nice 1. we are only here once.

[NI Tree]

steve do you mind if i ask you how much it cost to transport it to your place as i am looking at backhoe and i am courous what sort of money it would cost to get it to the a port so i can ship it home. to see if it is wort looking at this side of the water when i am at uni

[Stephen Blair]

£500 pvat from Cumbria to me,

[Gareth Dalzell]

steve do you mind if i ask you how much it cost to transport it to your place as i am looking at backhoe and i am courous what sort of money it would cost to get it to the a port so i can ship it home. to see if it is wort looking at this side of the water when i am at uni

 

Countrywide are bringing a chipper from Hartlepool to Belfast for me next week for 295 + vat. Probably be about the same for a small track machine

[NI Tree]

Countrywide are bringing a chipper from Hartlepool to Belfast for me next week for 295 + vat. Probably be about the same for a small track machine

 

i would love it to be that price but a sitemasters type diggers are not lightest or smallest of things. i gess it would be about 200 - 300 for the boat then we can just drive it home as it only 30 miles that if we buy one over the water

 

if you know of any localy Gareth can you letme know thanks

[rovers90]

As promised, here are some pics of the dumper while my friend owned it. I must say it looks like it has had quite a comprehensive make over. In the hundreds of hours of work it was put to, it never got stuck once Steve (not unless you count the time I got it wedged between two log stacks but thats another story!!)

 

All three of us who used it on a regular basis still miss it. It was replaced by a Brunnet forwarder which also has recently been sold! Ian is now on the look out for a 6x4 or 6x6 truck for moving the 12 foot long logs around the site. Ex military stuff would be ideal but prices are daft - £12000 starting price for vehicles from the early 1980s!

[Stephen Blair]

thanks mate, great to know its history. yes it has been tidied up a good bit.

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO217GayHIg]tracked forwarder with crane - YouTube[/ame]

[mogwog53]

stevie want to try out your new toy we have 250 hard woods to take out for a new open cast and the ground is crap i,ll even come and get it from your place if you gees a shot.

[Stephen Blair]

stevie want to try out your new toy we have 250 hard woods to take out for a new open cast and the ground is crap i,ll even come and get it from your place if you gees a shot.

 

 

 

you know where i am mate:thumbup1: