the 'todays job' thread

[HuntingHicap]

Ok fair enough. Nice JD by the way! is it a 6930? I used to operate one until a short while ago, brilliant tractor...had a lovely "bark" to the exhaust...

[Robbyrasta]

6430 - awaiting insurance work on the rear wheel arch and roof- if you can see the rear lights held by baler twine

[Gray git]

Fit some budget high sides to my ifor, total cost for materials less than 100 pounds, got some jobs coming up that are going to generate a lot of chip so this way I can get 7.5 in the rb, 2.5 in the back of the landy and 6m in the trailer. So 16m of chip away each day should be good.

The wiggley tin is actually very strong the way iv braced the inside so should stand up to it quite well, and a lot cheaper than other options looked at.

 

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[swinny]

That your 10x5 or 8x5?

 

Do you still have the 8x5 or did you get shut?

 

Looks good for the job!!

[mad matty]

Nice job John....and afterwards it could always be used to house livestock!!

Cheers Matty

[Gray git]

That's the 10x5, smaller trailer went a while ago to a lad starting out doing logs so wanted to run double loads,

Thanks matty it could be mistaken for a mobile pig pen or suchlike I guess, but it'll do the job for now

 

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[Rich Rule]

Oak tree removal over the next day or so. Shame, but the tree had included bark that was opening up an split for a good 6 - 7 foot below the union. Tree was ratchet strapped up and removed weight. Had to periodically retensioned the straps as I went.

[atree]

Good stuff as always Rich

[David Humphries]

Nice work Rich

 

Is it a collective experienced gut instinct as to where to place the straps or working to a formula?

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[Rich Rule]

To be honest David, the guy who I was climbing for ratcheted it up when he was called out. Today was the first suitable day to tackle it. I checked the straps as I went up and figured the same as cobra bracing ie. 2 3rds of the way from the faulty union with a 3rd above for maximum support. The top (black) strap was the one I paid the mos attention too as this was were I would have braced it if the union wasn't so bad.

 

I think the others were there for piece of mind really although as soon as I removed some weight the straps loosened so I gave them a couple of clicks for good measure.

 

Thanks.