Mr Ed
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Aesculus Hippocastaenum or Castanea Sativa? The first needs lots of drying, the second needs as much drying as oak, and stinks on an open fire.
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On the mini loaders, vision is poor. not terrible, but not great. What is easy to do is hop off the machine and use it like a conventional grinder in a very tight spot. (controls are easily accesed from the right, and you have the tele boom) It would cost a fair bit to convert to remote, not really worth it. It would be easier to use a machine on the 3 point linkage lee, or you could even have fittings for front and rear.
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Ditto. Had to write 3 big method statements, order a crate of Kohler engines, and other officy stuff.
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I quite like a golden yellow, like JCB paint their equipment nowadays, not the piss yellow entecs used to be. It stands out well as plant. Mind, I saw a big Conehead at the factory painted in a blue / green flip tone, and that looked pretty awesome.
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If its pre registered as HGV, then no you cant. If however you took an ex MOD truck (non registered) and registered it as a forestry crane, then yes.
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This cracked me up. arf arf!
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I'm not really that busy with tree work, have about 20K in contracts to fullfil, but I've just agreed to do an engineering / Demolition / Tight access job, and have 4 stumpgrinders to deliver, and the new chipper design to complete, so busy busy busy...
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Actually, they can. I've looked at the legality's of this carefully. I run my platorm on red, and I know thats fully legal - and there is nothing I can find in the lawbooks about carrying a load on a platform. I have been thinking about importing yank forestry trucks, 50ft overcenter booms with a chip body - no operators licence needed, and legal to run on red.
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Busy busy busy.
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Nice one quickthorn, thanks for that. We need to archive these articles fro future use.
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That grinder has 38 hp. To rrun a comparable system with hydraulics, youd need about 55hp, plus a big resorvoir + a cooler. Also, to get the best performance, a high quality bent axis piston motor is essential, as gear motors such as fitted to the Predator grinder and cheap hedgecutters are crap. A good piston motor alone would cost more than that Kohler engine. I know what you say about stuff getting battered, but its primarily designed for machines 1 - 2.5 tonnes. I am fitting one to a 3 tonner end of this week, I'll get some more video.
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Not strictly true, as some timbers like Eucalypt and Pine contain far higher Volatiles content.
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I always thought drier, as you have'nt got the canopy transpiring away like mad, sucking water through the stem.
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My thoughts also. All wood burns well seasoned. Yew is amazing, when seasoned, it burns like anthracite coal. And I disagree on the Alder. Alder was used to make charcoal for the finest gunpowder, and when seasoned makes excellent firewood.
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Hobbs - Ford f150 pickup GRCS - Rolls Royce
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Well, the they are similarly priced, and they both claim to be 9" chippers. The Schliesing is more compact, but they weigh the same. Its just the Bandit has more power, bigger hydraulics, bigger opening, hydraulic lift crush, and bigger rollers.
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Not a problem Mucka. Reckon My mate rolla deserves a good discount anyway
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Sorry, I thought the new Carlton had 50hp. The predator has terribly designed Hydraulics. I imagine it has barely 35hp at the disk.
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Sorry Andy, I cant accept that. Maybe he brought out a model 65. A bandit 90 since its inception has an infeed of 250 x 400mm and 80hp, plus hydraulic crush ram, and 45 degree disk. Its essentially a cut down model 150 12" machine. By comparison, a new 350 Schliesing has an infeed opening of only 230 x 270mm, 50hp, right angle rotor, and spring infeed. This is not a crticism of the Schliesing, but its outclassed by the big ugly Bandit.
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I think Hayden is refering to a Woodsman, not a salsco. And for what its worth I totally agree with his point of view. Big infeed american chippers are inherently safer (IMO) because they rarely struggle to feed bent twisty brash.
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Advantages of Disk chippers are few over Drums - Good volicity, and good chipping of fiberous material on right angle disks. 45 degree disks make for efficient chipping, and assist feeding, but make a chipper look awkward big and ugly. Drums have a better rotational energy, can cut a much wider cut than a disk, are more compact, and can be made very very strong. Drums are usually heavier, and can suffer from poor chip discharge. What models are you looking at?
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There always has been Steve. All the 410 412 413 variants are available with twin wheel back axle. Better going for the Vario though, between 5.5 - 7.5 tonnes.
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Crumpet-
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Mercedes Sprinter / Vario or Iveco Turbo Daily rule when it comes to small trucks.
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The GRCS is an expensive piece of kit. It would be hard to justify in my opinion... How does everybody think a fully self contained powered version would go down?
