John Shutler

1 hour ago, Spruced said:

Love the set up and colour scheme, seemingly black is the new black!

What weights have you got on the front of them?

 

 

they are cherry products smart boxes, both boxes weigh about 350kg empty but there is a 650kg concrete weight that goes in the front of them if you want it 

why wouldn’t you just tell him how it is? 

37 minutes ago, Rob D said:

 

 

I remember that Chipper Crazy that was 14 years ago now...

 

 

 

time flies, ive been arb approved 10 years now

4 hours ago, Tommy_B said:

Is that the same truck you were camping under at one of Jonesies shows?

camping does make it sound more glamorous doesn’t it 

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Marvelous stuff, the TW, the Mazda? pick up, the spanner in spare wheel for the spout bolts…

 

Is the pop still there?

yeah an old mazda and the spanner for the spout bolts. i got a 5k bank loan to buy the chipper (id already saved 3k) and the mazda cost me 3200. they were certainly simpler times. 

the pop got felled eventually, not by me fortunately the access was terrible 

doing something terrible to a lombardy poplar early 2000s, i actually smashed a small brick wall in the drop zone and had to rebuild it.

my first chipper and truck circa 2008, i shovelled a lot of woodchip out the back of that thing

bloody handy thing that 

taking out a row of conifers at a hotel the last couple of days, and some random other pictures from jobs over the last month or so. my old valmet 8050 setup i had 4 tractors ago, was a bloody good old thing. 

my brace of valtra 

n174 and a t234

Property and how to be a better buisnessman, self help stuff seems to a a trend with tree surgeons from Southampton, I’m always slightly dubious of self appointed experts whatever the trade or buisnness. 

Good of luck with it 

2 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

You using the snake method for keeping a sustained burn John?

 

Any wood chips with the charcoal?

no need with the kamado, you just fill the basket up and light the middle of it, you can control the temp really easily with the vents and that keeps a steady burn. ive had 10hrs burning with this method and still had charcoal left at the end. the pork jowl had already been cold smoked so i didn’t bother putting anything else in with it 

4hrs in

the kamado gear is pretty good, i couldn’t justify a big one but the little one does fine for what i need 

17 minutes ago, Ratman said:

What model kamado you got John?

just the small one, joe junior? 

 1kg pork jowl about to spend a few hours in the kamado 

mid/north dorset probably or north west scotland 

22 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

Mine is on RSJs too - I wanted it to be strong enough to not flex so I don’t have to worry too much about levelling it. 
A mate has a Norwood on their trailer kit and never bothers towing it anywhere as it needs a lot of levelling up each time you move it - I’m way too lazy for that so am trying to make my mill as rigid as possible!

that’s exactly the reason i did it, the frame never moves or flexes when you put a log on it, my mate had a norwood and it was awful to level up and then it’d still move when you put a log on it 

11 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

I’m building exactly this right now, but on a 16 foot Bateson trailer. The other benefit (as far as I’m concerned) is that I’ll be able to store the mill up on the top of some racking out of the way when not in use. 

my woodland mills sawmill is mounted onto a 5m long RSJ frame, i can pick it up and move it around on my low loader behind my valtra then use the roofmount to load logs if i need 

not a bag, but these are very good and you can put a flask ontop

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I can vouch for their durability, mine fell off the chipper on the back of the mog at 40mph one day (where it got left after lunch) and it survieved with little more than a scratch. Keeps stuff cool even on the hottest days.

but its not a bag  

i think one of the main questions is whats beneath it? that will affect the level of faffing about required to get it on the deck 

what exactly is the issue with having a replacement tree with a TPO on? 

The other route is you plant a replacement tree, unfortunately it "dies" within 3 years so you duly plant another to replace it, which "dies" within 3 years so you replace it again etc etc etc. 

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much better than the multi tip and rhino cutters

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well i’ve found it a pretty welcoming place for the last 15 years or so, maybe it’s not for you? 

as bob dylan said 

“Half of the people can be part right all of the time
Some of the people can be all right part of the time
But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time
I think Abraham Lincoln said that
“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”
I said that”
 

2 minutes ago, manco said:

really? doesnt seem like it.

well if you don’t like it your welcome to “disappear” yourself? 

disappear? 

arbtalk isn’t run by the KGB

THe firs time time I replaced the bearings on my old Timberwolf 150 they lasted about 50 hours,I hadn’t balanced the fly wheel correctly. The second time I did it I had more of an idea what I was doing (thanks to dean) and it’s probably still going well now