John Shutler
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i’ve snuck that little tractor into a few places i’d never have even of though of taking either of my others. ive also got the same berti (well the 2.5m cut) on my t234 and it’s deadly. swinging hammers are a bit more forgiving on any contaminated sites you might find yourself on
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yeah it’s great, bought it for a particular contract that hasn’t materialised yet but has turned out to be bloody useful on other jobs. it’s a serrat with swimming hammers, the rotor has hollow pockets
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I didn’t want fixed tooth was my main requirement, other than that it was the right money at a dealer reasonably local to me. Always a bit of a gamble buying 2nd hand flails/mulchers but thankfully all this need was a new set of flails which cost me £400 from flails direct. I payed £4750 plus vat for it which is about a 3rd of the cost of a new one
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Bought a little 6550 valtra to run alongside my T234 and N174. bought it from wilson’s with a little crane trailer as well. fifth tractor i’ve had off wilson’s over the years and fantastic service as ever. perfect little tractor for sneaking into places that are a bit tight for the newer valtras and a handy little thing to have onsite with the mulcher on the back. IMG_2978.MOV IMG_2898.MOV
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I very rarely go and look at grinding jobs, more often than not I just ask about access over the phone and get a couple of pictures sent with something for scale against the stump
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IMO How frangible the round is is more important really.
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oh , he's not going to take that well
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75 series Landcruiser
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everything i bring back to the yard has value. odd length logs, stump cuts and chogs goes for arb waste timber which we are paid for by the artic load. All softwood 2.5m in length and up to 1.2m diameter goes for chip by the artic load. Hardwood cord upto 400mm diameter goes to a couple of firewood dealers, they either buy it by the artic load or i sell smaller loads delivered with tractor and trailer. Oversize hardwoods go to a couple of guys who firewood it for their own use, again sold and delivered by the tractor and trailer. Chip goes out by the artic load. il even mix stump grindings in with older chip to make a nice mulch for people who want it for flower beds which i sell by truck or tractor and trailer loads upto 35 cubic metres. the only thing that doesn’t have value to me is hedge clippings or rake up
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😭 a man on the internet was mean to me
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less of the fat remarks please eggs i swam 2.5k this morning
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it’s to easy 🤣 i imagine it’s a bit like carp fishing, chuck a bait out and wait for a bite
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maybe eggs reputation precedes him
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@Johnsond I think you should take a bit of time away from arbtalk.
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bare ended. Even when i used to splice a lot i could never be bothered to splice my own rigging lines
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i bought a pipe swager and pipe and common fittings a couple of years back now, great investment and such a time saver. plus the cost of pipes (obviously excluding the setup costs) is phenomenally cheap, for example a 1m hose with a fitting on each end costs me about £7
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nice touch that. im not big into the timber and chip sales but i reckon that i probably make 20k a year out of timber and chip out of my yard which covers my yard rent then gives me a bit of walking around money from time to time
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amazing what you can hide with a couple of passes with the mulcher
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Nothing of much interest over the last couple of weeks, i’ve been doing lots of development site surveys and the guys have been working on a couple of tree safety contracts for local councils. I cut an access through a hedge with ecologist supervision then made some log/habitat stacks on another development site down in dorset to satisfy an ecology condition. took a couple of knackered beech out with the roto on another site as well. i suppose variety is the spice of life IMG_2165.MOV
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fair enough. Ive got an idea of what id charge and reckon I could fell it for the same sort of money as it would cost to prune it
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he made a nice job on that hedge mick. any ideas what sort of money he had on it? I've turned up to price a few jobs like that and ended up convincing them to fell instead
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
John Shutler replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
remarkable field maple from a development site survey today IMG_2257.MOV -
I had a a cone splitter on my 7 tonne machine and it was hopeless, sold it and bought a westtech cracker instead. Woodcracker L | WESTTECH .:. Woodcracker WWW.WESTTECH.AT you could run it off a spool on your tractor and feed it with the crane on the trailer all from the comfort of the cab. mines actually now bolted to the side of my heizohack
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cleared cache and still having issues steve
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sorry 🤣 iphone and safari
