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John Shutler

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  1. John Shutler
    Seems to sit pretty well in the grab and doesn’t move to much, I might get an extra bit of box welded to the back to fill it up in the grab a bit more
  2. John Shutler
    Should have a bit more grunt @Jonny Burch
  3. John Shutler
    Had a rake bucket adapted to work beneath the grab on my 6 tonne excavator works nicely
  4. John Shutler
    The 560s are great but I can’t spend any more on a saw that only lasts 18months
  5. John Shutler
    Someone will do it and be grateful for the work
  6. John Shutler
    Up at 6, let the dogs out, put the kettle on and chuck a few logs on the Woodburner to get it going again. Pop into the Oval Office and get that done then cup of tea make sandwiches and print out job sheets. Take misses up a cup of tea. Let chickens/ducks out, chuck some hay out for the sheep and feed the pigs. Leave home about 7.25 to get to the yard for 730. Sort gear out to leave the yard at 8 to be onsite for 815-830 ish depending on where we are. Tea break at 10ish then lunch around 1. Look to leave site at 330-4ish to be tipped off and packed away by 430
  7. John Shutler
    Interesting podcast on lynx reintroduction https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/pace-brothers-into-the-wilderness-podcast/id1037718896?mt=2&i=1000366348101
  8. John Shutler
    My 110 tipper is a great truck for following around behind the mog for carrying kit and rake up, it’s handy for a second team to head out in doing smaller jobs with a 6inch towbehind or hedge cutting drives terribly fully loaded wouldnt want one as my sole vehicle and still gets stuck with a load on
  9. John Shutler
    All good info, thanks fellas the mk1 I was interested in has now sold but going to get a mk2 instead
  10. John Shutler
    As above can anybody tell me the differences between the m1 and m2. Thanks john
  11. John Shutler
    didnt it come with a bit of warenty? theres a couple of guys down my way that id be happy to reccomend but obviously there still be a bit of haulage ive used both of them to work on both tractors and my mog either Peter Noble Ltd Wychwood, Highwood, Ringwood, BH24 3LG Tel 01425 474987 or Dovey Ltd Lynwood Lyndhurst Rd, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, SO42 7YP Tel 01590 611095
  12. John Shutler
    I had a PTO version of this setup for crane feeding, awesome chipper and built solid. The trailed version might be different though
  13. John Shutler
    or do the paperwork and the reduction yourself as I did ive been arb approved coming up 6 years, it has opened doors for some of the well paying work that we do now, for example the national trust near us will only use arb approved contractors.
  14. John Shutler
    Removing a maccy today, felled the two front stems out and winched the larger back stem over with the fransgard winch on the valmet, all stacked and ready to chip with the heizohack by 2pm E8CD6E6F-ABA1-44C1-A815-2EFEB61DFB22.MP4
  15. John Shutler
    Pretty nippy the old alpines 727BE924-9FC4-483D-83A7-EC6E0EDDF206.mov
  16. John Shutler
    The dealer support when I had mine was awful and as far as I’m aware it still is, the dealer was based in tetbury
  17. John Shutler
    We always used to take 4-5 track mats with us on the trailer for the boxer to turn on
  18. John Shutler
    Diggers are certainly more versatile but that’s probably for another thread sometime in short I’ve never regretted getting rid of my boxer, I found that you could easily get large pieces of timber onto a arb trolley or similar then we would lift them into a trailer with the roofmount at the other end all without damaging a lawn, that said a skid steer changed the way I worked and I probably wouldn’t be working the way I do now without it i did wrote a blog post for treekit a couple of years ago on the subject if anybody’s interested http://www.treekit.com/blog/investment-in-big-machinery-is-it-worth-it/
  19. John Shutler
    I had a boxer loader with a stump grinder for a long time, the loader was awesome but the track system ie bearings, idlers and pulleys wasn’t really up to it long term. The stump grinder was pretty rubbish but filled a gap and made use of the machine until I could afford to replace it with a dedicated grinder buying the boxer was one of the best decisions Ive made and was a good stepping stone to building the kit I’ve got now. Personally I really rate diggers these days but loader type machines are good if your going back and forth a bit
  20. John Shutler
    Very pleased with the grab
  21. John Shutler
    Grab arrived for my 6 tonner got it wired in and working over the weekend, looking forward to having a proper play with it tomorrow
  22. John Shutler
    It doesn’t take much more than an hour to do 30miles, 99% of my work is within 10 miles of my yard
  23. John Shutler
    Why’s that? At the moment the furthest we go is about 30miles for the national trust, but we tend to leave the kit there till we are done with the contract
  24. John Shutler
    Taking down a pine. Full trailer of chip and timber gone by 1230
  25. John Shutler
    Fantastic David, a pleasure read alongside my morning cup of tea

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