John Shutler

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. 

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I know, I’m not without blame, could/should have done that.

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

13 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Dave . Don't you think 5.56 ( .223 ) is a bit too much for close quarter stuff . If it was something bigger but less powerful it would not have gone through the legitimate target , then a door and then into the unfortunate  ( collateral ) innocent guy hiding behind the door  ? 

IMO How frangible the round is is more important really.

41 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

Maybe he just needs a bit more time to back his claims up, you wouldn’t go off all guns blazing without knowing you are right, not unless you want to known on Arbtalk as “Simon the Shit Stirrer”. 

oh , he's not going to take that well

75 series Landcruiser 

11 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I believe the waste wood market is changing.

 

Some firms are  paying for rubbish wood as chippable biomass.

 

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 

38 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

You are still a fat cnut. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You keep away from me and I'll keep away from you.

😭 a man on the internet was mean to me 

7 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Big fat cnut who thinks he's smart, it'll catch up with you one day.

less of the fat remarks please eggs i swam 2.5k this morning 

5 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

I've never dicked anyone, don’t believe me? Ask the folk of this parish who I have travelled this country to work for.

 

Don't  start me you prick.

it’s to easy 🤣

i imagine it’s a bit like carp fishing, chuck a bait out and wait for a bite 

maybe eggs reputation precedes him

@Johnsond

I think you should take a bit of time away from arbtalk.

bare ended. Even when i used to splice a lot i could never be bothered to splice my own rigging lines

4 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Small hose went on the grinder yesterday. 
It was deep in the machine (well one end was anyway) so hydraulic tank out, petrol tank out, lots of pipes disconnected. 
However we got there, got a replacement pipe made up I town. 
Rebuilding today. 
A penny saved is a penny earned as they say. 

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 

5 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Anyway ended up getting €2380 for that waste wood that they chipped up. 
Which is nice. 

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 

12 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

Just run a mulcher through it and throw a bit of grass seed down at that point, it’ll be a flat field within a fortnight.

amazing what you can hide with a couple of passes with the mulcher 

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 

2 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I know, but not my place to say.

He did ok is my understanding. 

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

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 

remarkable field maple from a development site survey today

15 hours ago, MattyF said:

There is this and maybe a trailer or two more to add to that pile , how long with a cone splitter on a three tone digger to break those logs in to two and three pieces for the processor ?  I recon there will be about 25-30 ton. 
I can get a digger and splitter for €400 a day but if it’s not going to even touch that pile it’s won’t be worth it.. just want to see how that goes and works out for the processor. 

I had a a cone splitter on my 7 tonne machine and it was hopeless, sold it and bought a westtech cracker instead.

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 

9 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

cleared cache and still having issues steve 

1 minute ago, Steve Bullman said:

On what device and browsers please 

sorry 🤣 iphone and safari 

@Steve Bullman

how do you do that? 

remember your talking to a technology luddite 

@Steve Bullman

dont seem to be able to upload videos from iphone now steve 

Been taking a conifer hedge out this week. 180 cube of chip and about 20 tonne of timber. ran over the site with the mulcher today to sort out the rake up. fitted in a couple of council jobs and a separate little chipping job with the heizohack as well