MattyF
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I've got one doing 20 years now and has cut thousand of tons .... just had to have some pipes and pins replaced in its first real major overhaul but like you say "bomb proof"!
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AMR are good but posche is in a different league , my big AMR splitter will not last as long as our old spaltaxe I'm pretty sure, bits are already falling off it after a few years...
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From memory I don't think you get any sit back from the chicane ... if I could get on with mechanical ascenders after using one of our lads a few times it would be the one set up for SRT I would use but I just prefer hitches !
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Another for the posch spalt axe , fast return and bomb proof.
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Tsumura I believe.
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It's a joke mate ... they are taking the piss ...
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Mmm looks like it didn't have the power to fell it lower down in the buttress hence his ridiculous stump.....barely looked like it had the power to dress out 3" conifer branches ! I'll give it a miss and stick with my 550's
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Would definitely upgrade the springs, you won't be able to work the truck with standards ... air bags would help but I don't use them. Probably why it's one of my most hated vehicles to drive when loaded and towing after reading your above link for them they seem a good idea......
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Pretty handy for tearing huge holes in your £300 pfanners too.
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Ballpark figure - 2 mature sycamores
MattyF replied to J@mesC's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
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We dead wooded some large beech years back , I don't think I was even a climbing back then so over 27 years ago .. any way having our lunch break on the park resting in the shade on the other side one of the beeches we had been working on an hour before collapses right over a children's play area , we ran over to kids and people screaming expecting the worse , luckily some how apart from going through the play area perimeter fence no one was hurt... in the same month another killed some one in another park 10 miles away so the council felled most mature beech in the vicinity of any major public areas .. maybe a bit knee jerk!
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Once you have one on a chipper there's no going back , I would not be with out them on ours, got loaded trucks out of bother and what you can do with them pulling trees is a game changer.
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Pissing in every ones cornflakes but be careful where you watch the final!! I know 10 who have tested positive so far from one small village who went to a workingmans club in haltwistle to get cheap beer and watch the game on Saturday...
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I'd get pete Mc tree on here to have a look for you, just down the road from him.
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My mates got one on his , got the winch mount off Timberwolf I think .....
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Where in the north east ? Pm me if you want a quote.
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She sounds unwell like she's had a stroke or is on drugs ... thank god that never became Home Secretary though , especially if you think our current lot did bad this alternative would not bare thinking about.
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I did see one vid where he did a rigging take down I think it was a cedar but typical of a uk tree in awkwardness with targets no DZ and it made me realise just how backwards they are in that skill set ... I would of been embarrassed to put it on line with how it went... stopped looking after that , what a load of over hyped bollocks.
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Tirol or zermatts are all I've used really but had 3 pairs of each , always found them very hard wearing , great for spike work but a bit brutal on cambiums pruning. I've a pair of Pilatus I wear for spiking now as I find Andrew's don't do my feet any favours if I'm on them in spikes all day... they seem ok like the usual pfanner boot build but maybe a bit softer than what I'm used to in them.
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Pfanners are a better spike boot , prefer Andrew's for pruning work though....
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Your business IMO is worth 10% of any work you have booked up ,half the value of your predicted log pile and the second hand value of your equipment..that's what I sold mine for 7 years ago .. My father got around 10k 20 years ago but then he had staff on paye , council, housing association and numerous other contracts as well as a good company name.. completely different from our set ups of self employed groundies and a just good reputation to go by.
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Definitely , but the power band is slightly different and more torque , the 400 feels more at home in hard woods I think but now I'm used to it I would use it in anything... I was expecting it to Rev up like a 462.. but it does have good instant throttle response just lays the power down but I think the 462 lays it down more like Husqvarna if that makes sense!!? I would say it took a good few tanks of fuel to wake it up as well.. but that's fairly typical of all saws.
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If you can get hold of one ...I would get another tomorrow.
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Love mine , strangely though I didn't really like it for the first 6-8 months as I'm so used to 560's the balance felt off but now I would not pick up anything else , despite my 400 been the unluckiest saw I've owned... ran over , trees rolled off a high stump for the excavator to get hold off last week in a unexpected direction and crushed it ... still working though !!
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I recon it's an early SA 80 with missing front hand guard and iron sights instead of susat, they had shite brittle plastics so could of broken or a Enfield prototype of some weapon as it's not quite an EM2 either .. maybe a design team member took one home , then later chucked it or family member did ...
