madmatt

It Should and I emphasise SHOULD! be ok that 130 was built by Land Rover Special Vehicles Operations and most probably belonged to Severn Trent Water. LRSV are more than aware of front axle weights and cranes. Also the 130's front axle weight is greater than that of a standard Landy. Right time to take my anorak off LOL. STS Very nice indeed, looking forward to seeing pics of the modified body/crane.

Oh dear Charlie is that you talking from bitter experiance?

Well I can honestly say I have planted more whips than I have felled trees, used to work for a country park in the National forest so we spent a few winters planting hundreds a day lol. Mind now I'm mainly felling em so i soon won't be able to say that

Anywhere else we would have staked much lower, We are some what concerned about the less desirable students vandalising it yep, the college are commisoning a tree guard made from wrought iron so hopefully we can go back and re stake it soon.

I don't honestly know I don't need it as I dont climb.

The root ball was roughly 18" square it was a fair weight to!

NFU will insure kit over £500 but it has to be declared & listed on the tradesmans policy, I have several items listed the 066 the Dewalt chop saw etc all insured just needed listing.

Lol! I don't think so! I wish there was, we did have a photographer on site though - well me dad with a camera!

Lol, yep just the two of us but we just have different tastes in digging implements lol!

Nothing exciting but here's a few pics from a job we did Friday Evening, Mum works at one of the local Sixth form colleges. Sadly one of the lads there lost his battle with Cancer in February. He was a very brave lad who had so many friends, They asked Mum about planting a tree in his memory. Obviously being kids money was tight, but being in school grounds it seemed pointless to plant a whip! Once they had bought a tree I offered to plant it for them and roped a mate in who owed a favour, we managed to save them the cost of the stakes and labour charges by doing it on a friday night! Hopefully it'll florish into a nice tree, oh its a native Oak by the way

This is why a landy should be decked in chequer plate LOL! Who needs a wheel barrow?

Thats exactly where I would be trying our local Arb shop they have it by the meter, sad thing is they don't do mail order yet.

braces for me!

I'd be more than happy with that as a first attempt. Anna, I know quite a few park rangers that have been carving since well before carving bars were invented. I haven't got a carving bar either. Have a go and use the same amount of common sense and caution as you do when using a saw normally.

Move along move along!!!, c'mon this is my landy thread its not the place for you lot to harp on about boring old chips! LOL there is a a whole forum for that!:wave::wave:

I can't weld that well, its functional rather than pretty, I got a mate to tidy up my bumper. I used to work for an ag engineer and went to night school to learn to stick weld. I'd like to go back and lern to perfect MIG and then get a mig plant, I have a bigish stick plant at the moment

yep c'mon back to landys chips is boring!

we could find you a 12v fan and put that in the side run it off a battery or solar panel?

18 stoner, Cabstar can have an oppinion on whether its viable for me however he can't have the definitive answer (no disrespect Cabs) Quite simply because he has never visited the sites where I work and seen the jobs we do. Its easier to sit behind a pc and think all timber can be chipped. For example a recent job I helped a friend with nothing larger than the landy could get on to site, and they were felling 6' diameter sycamores at base. All that was viable went in the charcoal kiln but whats left you would need a huge splitter and a chipper the size of an artic. for what a few quid a tonne? Oh and a rollocking of the owners of the SSSI and no repeat business cos I've cleared a path wider than the M6 to get it all in! LOL Yep use the front hitch quite a bit for shunting stuff about.

Frans I've drilled the bumper both sides, so I can fit another hitch near side versatility is the key. Cabstar yep it was worth fitting high sides they can serve more than one purpose! They mean I can carry a level load of timber to tailgate hight and then stack kit on top without having to rope down. They also make carrying road signs easy as I can stand them all up against the sides and front so its easy to select the right ones when I'm on chapter 8 duties for other people. I hear what you say about chip but I tend to work in the small inaccesible woodlands around here and its not economicaly viable to haul all the timber out. That and the fact site management plans won't allways let you. Something else to bear in mind is this isn't just my work truck I like making/fabricating in the workshop so I'm not paying people to fit most of this stuff. Everything is thought out and I don't tend to waste time or money on something unessarcy.

A tipper isn't that much of a priority in my line of work. I don't carry much chip, think its been two loads in three years! I only carry timber rings and to be honest they are stacked in the log shed, so even if I tipped them out I'd have to still handle them to stack. Anything not good for home fire is left on site thats the benefit of forestry as opposed to tree surgery in folks gardens!

What was up with the mog?

MT's are a must but buy good ones I run BF Goodrich I got nearly 80,000 out my last set!

Cheers folks, the truck hasn't cost mega money to get this far its been favours for favours and as when I can afford it. for example I think the bumper will have cost less than 90 quid even with galvanising!