John Shutler

if you read the small print you'll likely find that it always comes down to you anyway

Handy looking winch that Stevie, How much was it?

this is a picture from that job, circa 2012. big monterey cypress, we craned the big stem sections with the grcs and pulled them out with the boxer while lowering them with the grcs. seems mad that that job was 11 years ago these days i’d crane it out with the roto and stack it in the car park, crack all the timber down then chip the whole lot with the heizohack and run it off site in a 16tonne trailer behind a tractor

when i first got my boxer 427 back in 2011 there just wasn’t the choice off attachments out there. i used to swear by a set of pallet forks and a grab bucket for all of my work until i got a fabricator to make me a branch manager grapple (big in the states at the time) copy which made a huge difference for feeding a chipper or dragging brash out. I also had a post knocker and flail for it and had a stump grinder attachment for it which was truly shocking. ended up part exchanging it around 2015 when i bought another mog and needed a pro chipper. by that point i had a mini digger with a grab and tractor and roof mount so it had become kinda redundant. amazing machine and i certainly wouldn’t have the kit i have these days without taking the plunge and spending 8.5k (big outlay in 2011 for me) on a machine i wasn’t sure was going to work out. massively changed the way i worked at the time

spent an enjoyable 5 mins watching a couple of swallows out the back of my yard (New Forest)this afternoon. Also saw a lone swallow two weeks ago at home when I harrowing, interestingly up until last year id never seen a swallow at home and we've lived in this house 10 years (always seen swallows at my yard 3 miles up the road though)

i actually think that’s a fair point, i had a customer recently that insisted on paying cash, it took me three subsequent visits to actually pick up the cash as they they weren’t there at the times they said they would be. that’s probably the equivalent of 1 1/2 hours of additional time on top of the job to get settled up

ours is 7m, personally I wouldn't go any smaller for loading chip into a walking floor

is half a day actually half a day? they way I look at things you've either got 1/3 of a day (till tea break) 2/3rds of a day (till lunch time) or the 3rd 3rd of the day (lunch till finish)

I usually tell people to do nothing at all, then when they can't stand it anymore fell the thing and put something else in its place

honestly it sounds like you weren’t ready for the assessment. go out and practice, then practice some more. forget about things like little poles to try and get lines over things, practice rope throwing and get more confident, comfortable and consistent with what your trying to do. good luck

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mulching gorse and scrub growth on a LA site. IMG_8765.MOV

If your going to spend 10hrs sat in it you don’t want to be sat in a shit hole

desperate times call for futile self rescue attempts. dropped chipper off and got pulled out by a digger in the end

Out this morning on the outskirts of brockenhurst in the new forest IMG_8717.MOV

I'm as intrigued as you

your a very angry young man

Unfortunately i don’t recall our apparently brief encounter but it’s obviously well etched in your memory as you seem to be quite disgruntled about it. what was the subject i found so tricky?

odd comment

it depends on where your shooting

love that schliesing

@trigger_andy @Mull 50 posts on this thread and 31 of them are from you two. Ok the first two or 3 pages are slightly more relevant but then the thread descends into your usual pathetic game of slagging each other off. If you want to bicker do it through private messages rather than once again diluting a thread

ive run 4 different setups of tractor and chipper. originally i had a valtra 8150 with a tp 250. not setup for crane feeding but workable if you were careful. moved upto a valmet 8050 and a jensen 141. really good setup but heavy on the back of the 8050. chopped the jensen in for a heizohack 8-400. great chipper that was addapted to be crane feed. eventually changed up again to the 8-400k. had a couple of different T series valtra in between but have now settled on the N174 and it runs the 8-400k nicely. id say you’d struggle for the money people are suggesting for the basic setup you are looking at. Also chipping for other people is a pain, badly stacked piles, metal, root balls etc are all the things you will come across and good luck recovering the repair money from people if something hard goes through. last time it cost me 3k in repairs. i’m very picky about who i chip for now IMG_5322.MOV

not sure what the point of this thread is