Mr Ed

I'm just coming up to my first year in the job. Not enjoying it much so far.

I'm thinking of going into terrorism. It also seems to be a growth industry.

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Its a not a bad machine, but It suffers from a lot of vibration issues, and resulting breakages. I believe Vermeer eventually brought out a retro kit, and maybe newer ones are better. I also think its a bit bulky for a narrow access machine, and with only rear steer, not manouverable enough. For a 35" wide machine, what about a predator 50?

Big Spanish firm bought out Scottish power, and slashed the maintainence budget by 75%. Bang, had to lay off 5 guys:mad1:

Hydraulic power, but not hydraulic drive.

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Trouble with the sandviks, you need a complete new disk for them.

Doing good mate, still hanging in, I suppose thats what counts. Matt is with me now, doing a great job as a contracts manager.

The minidigger with the donkey engine was originally built by Justin kingwell, but was bought by gristwood and Toms. I've had it on a job, and it is pretty awsome. The Rayco superteeth are great, I used to re-tip mine, buy the tips in bulk and braze them on. I'm not mad keen on the greenteeth, very aggresive and wipe your bearings out. The absolute best I've used are the Sandvik square teeth, I fit these to my own grinders, and the performance is way ahead of anything else I've used.

Doubt it. That day has been and gone.

Depends on which grinder. I've used an 8018 Carlton that will grind down about 20 inches, and take a 4 ft stump out in about 3 minutes. Its quite easy at that speed to back up and blow the rootplate out completely. I also build a stumpgrinder for fitting on a mini excavator, and that has within reason, unlimited depth grinding.

Anfo Rocks. I set of an anfo bomb with a mate when I was 14. It's a good tale, but I wont go into the results right now Matt, the Alpine is a superb piece of kit, but it has a narrow application field, namely the removal of stumps you cant get anything else up to. I would'nt want to use one on a stump grinding contract.

Ithink the idea is all the twigs and everything get chopped into the bag. The bags are stacked to dry, and when ready, the whole bag is tossed into the Boiler. It would be realatively simple to have a small trommel screen if you wanted to seperate out the twigs. I see it as a great tool for jobs where the client wants to keep the arisings. You just tell them you will cut EVERYTHING to firewood for them...

I designed one with my cousin witha 38hp chipper, tipping chip bin, tool storage and compact dimensions. If I had the funds to build it, I reckon it would be a big seller.

Thats the biggest they do, but it seems to go through brash quicker than a chipper.

Ahahaaa, lost this thread completely. Rojek now have a video of this machine working.- http://www.rojek.cz/Video/V006DH.avi

Not read 1 single good review on those chompers. Lots of very unhappy customers, most of the time the wood disintegrates in the machine.

Tell the customer to give them a good dose of time. 25 years and they'll have rotted out nicely, and not cost them a penny.

I used to run an 066 with an 18" bar for firewooding, very effictive combuination

Stihl users are usually poofish arborialists with long hair, bangles and a battered LDV. They keep them polished in a special case, and cry if it rains on their precious saw. They are obsessed with all things stihl (or should I say still - you hardly ever see them moving) to the point of wearing tight strechy stihll pants, vests, socks, hair scrunchies, scarves. They run best on a combination of shandy and perfume, and thats if they ever can get them started. It does'nt matter if they cant get them started though, as they are usually working in some old dears garden charging £100000 to dismantle one little cherry. Husky's on the other hand, are proper mens machines, will work in the forest all day, you could leave one buried in a bog for a year and it would still start with half a pull. They are that powerfull and economical that they have inverse fuel consumption - you occasionaly have to open the cap and pour the excess fuel out. Husky users eschew fancy PPE, and can usually be seen as a busy blur of pulpwood and sawlogs wearing jeans and a vest, and thats at 6 in the morning. lunches are taking without even letting go of the throttle, tea heated on the exhaust.

I much prefer contract work to most domestic jobs. Thats probably because everyone round here is so damn tightfisted. All three of our Local authorities are insisting on constructionline as a prequal. I would love to make good money just doing private and domestic, but for me, thats never going to happen. I make far bigger margins working in the commercial sector, so I guess I'll keep ticking those boxes...

And we all know thats complete Bull$hit. And they spout the same crap lines every time...

Bang on Tommer, No matter how much you polish danish oil, you'll never get a long lasting shiney finish, it needs several coats of yacht varnish over it, with each layer being smoothed back with wire wool and white spirit. I have yew cabinet that took over a weeks solid work to get the right finish. Cost me a bloody fortune!