the 'todays job' thread

[Gray git]

That is an incredible machine. Bet it’s revolutionised your business.

Definitely made things more efficient and really makes things safer with no work at height and nobody in the fail zone if the trees compromised, really looking forward to getting the whole team back in and all the gear out at the same time really getting some jobs knocked out with it.

[monkeybusiness]

36 minutes ago, Gray git said:

Out with the merlo again but subcontracting to Kevin Patton tree services removing a line of decaying poplars in a school, 9 trees lifted down, brash chipped resulting in 5 transit loads and all timber stacked up for collection later in 6 1/2 hrs, would have been seriously tricky to do even with a mewp because of all the targets directly under the trees in the way of trees being retained, fence's decking, greenhouses and play equipment.

Please stop posting, this is quickly going to get expensive!!!

[Gray git]

Please stop posting, this is quickly going to get expensive!!!

Too late for me, it already did [emoji51]

[monkeybusiness]

16 minutes ago, Gray git said:

Too late for me, it already did

I’m sure you’ll make it pay back - from where I’m sat you definitely deserve it. Massive respect for investing in that setup, aside from the money I can see/understand the thought and hurdles you’ve put into it and overcome. 

[youngsbury]

On 04/05/2020 at 22:47, Gray git said:

Yes , helps with traction when the machine spends a lot of time pushing backwards with a mulcher on.
Apparently also limits where on the road, found this out too late to avoid buggering my from tyre's.

Makes total sense ??

[timbernut]

Ah bugger, did aleg pipe blow as looks like your unloading and had this side down?
Looks like you've got some decent guardian around your cab, any more pictures of that?

Had a split load of dry and green Scots on and slewed drawbar t get between stacks didn’t put leg down on slews side and swung odd bit of green onto relevant stack and over she went[emoji849][emoji20]
Normally easy to upright but control levers were pulled hard onto cross member so couldn’t raise crane as counter balance and it popped slew pipes off, phone died so mile or so walk back to yard t get telehandler to upright. I’ll take a some pics of guarding but not back til Tuesday

[timbernut]

Hasten to add its first time I’ve tipped it, done it a couple of times over the years with the MF 390 and Mowi though

[IronMike]

1 hour ago, timbernut said:

Had a split load of dry and green Scots on and slewed drawbar t get between stacks didn’t put leg down on slews side and swung odd bit of green onto relevant stack and over she went
Normally easy to upright but control levers were pulled hard onto cross member so couldn’t raise crane as counter balance and it popped slew pipes off, phone died so mile or so walk back to yard t get telehandler to upright. I’ll take a some pics of guarding but not back til Tuesday

Sounds like a typical Monday morning or Friday afternoon situation! I’ve only tipped my Logbullet once, and that was late on in the day. Parking it up for the night, pissing down and dark, forgot to put leg down and swung crane right out. Over she went! I’ll only do it once! (Hopefully!)

[Thesnarlingbadger]

What do you want it for ? Pulling or actual working in the woods ? For woods tractors i would be looking at N101’s to N120’s or older 6400’s those bigger valtras although they are great at pulling are thirsty and are not manoeuvrable in the woods even the 101 is remarkably harder to negotiate a Wöod thinning in than 6400.... the older 6400’s seem to hold strong money have a good following and have little computers although the earths on some of the cab switch electrics can be grief as they age but easy and obvious to fix if you know ! The bigger six pots are great if all you do is clear fell but I would live with the 4 Potts if you didn’t have many hills and didn’t tow to much , I use a 101 and it is a little lacking bringing on home large loads of beech up hill... fine in the woods although I could live with the 6400 which is very versatile.

Hi Matty, thanks for this. To be honest it’s mainly going to be used for getting in to sites which we have cleared with a timber trailer. A little bit of woodland work although this may change if I start looking in to this side of work a bit more. I would look at getting a grain trailer for the larger chipping jobs and look into using it for a larger PTO chipper at some point. This is because I’ve thought about a tracked chipper and to be honest a tracked chipper isn’t as useful to me as a tractor would be.
The business is starting to head into site clearance type work and I just feel a tractor, timber trailer, grain trailer and a PTO chipper are going to be a lot more useful for this type of work. I’m slightly swayed because I’d love a tractor but have given it plenty of thought and think it’s a good way forward. It’s not going to happen just yet but within the next year I’d say.
Thanks again

[bigtreedon]

Drltreecare.co.uk my new website done buy the boss [emoji4]