Kev Stephenson

How are you getting a chipper to site if you need to tow a trailer for waste removal? If budget is tight how about a hilux/l200/navara. Much cheaper, no need for the trailer to start with, can pull a chipper and chip into the back and you still have the 4x4. Granted it won't last as long but will give you the oppertunity to start earning and upgrade to the 110 or 130 when you start to make your millions. Landies are great but you pay a lot for what you get and are not the cheapest things to run. Kev

My thought was diamond disk and battery grinder. Are Saturn knives as good as anywhere to buy the teeth and a disk? Thanks

Josh, Let me have an e-mail address and I will send you a load from when I did mine. Kev

Again I turn to the font of knowledge. Where is the best (cheapest/most efficient) place to buy replacement Rayco Superteeth from? I have just bought a new pedestrian grinder that has these fitted and as with all my kit like to keep a set of spares handy. Also what is the best method to touch up existing teeth? Is it worth investing in a bench grinder and green wheel???? and taking the teeth off the grinder to touch them up or I have seen diamond wheels available for 4" angle grinders (Saturn knives website). Would these be as good and save me a load of time in not having to remove the teeth all the time. Any help to someone new to grinding would be much appreciated. Thanks Kevin

Can you get some handles from the rear doors of a crew cab and fit those?

Wemt for a couple of hours this morning before the 200+ mile journey back. Not a bad show but like you say H&S gone mad. It wasn't as if the chipper was being demo'd in a sainsburys car park, people there wanted to see it running and I am sure 90% of people there expected a bit of chip coming out of the hopper.

Only because when you asked if you could, she let you :001_tt2:

Must be special rustable ali looking at Deans motor

I forgot my harness......

and the quality leaves alot to be desired - rust after a few months, poor tipping angle and other issues

What was the winning time from Steve?

Yes, Dean climbed on a lockjack

Any photos of the finished bench from Rob?

There are plenty of tree surgeons here too and a number of places that have grinders most of which are more expensive than this. All I was suggesting was a few phone calls could unearth one that no one knows about and is therefore cheaper to hire. If it is just one stump is it worth contacting a stump grinding company who would not have to add on the cost of the grinder hire to make the job viable? Kevin

I pay £35 +VAT for a pedestrian grinder per day, try some of your more local hire shops as £80 is bloody expensive.

Again to make money you need good business sense. The tree cutting can be the easy bit!! I started with an MS230 (that I paid way over the odds for) some cheap B&Q hedgetrimmers and an old caravan chassis trailer. The hedge trimmers only lasted about 4 months but earnt enough money to buy some stihl ones which are still going strong now. All my trimmings and brash went to a skip firm who charged me over the weighbridge. I saved every penny I could from each job until I could afford my first chipper at which point the size of jobs you take on can increase as you have more means to remove your arrisings and chippings are easy to get rid of the garden centres, allotments, etc. I have never had credit for anything that I use in tree work but it took a long tome to build up the kit I have got and hence the earning potential of my business. Only take on jobs you are really confident you can do and have the kit to complete, I dropped a major clanger early on taking on a job for a mates dad. Semi mates rates coupled with inexperience in pricing meant the job was way underpriced. My inexperience/inability and lack of kit meant I had to get a contract climber in to finish the tree and that job that I though would make me a fortune cost me a few hundred £ and a few days working for nothing.

I bought some custom ear plugs mainly for shooting but they do work well against chipper and saw noise. Bought from the people at EMTEC NOISEBREAKER CUSTOM MADE EARPLUGS at the CLA game fair this year they cost £75. They are the type where you can hear normal conversation but not loud noises. The reasons I went for these over others for sale at the show were price - some were retailing at over £400 a pair and the way they moderate the sound. Some have an electronic unit within the earplug (expensive), some have a valve which only works on loud bangs (the sound wave shuts the valve), these have a tiny funnel in and work on the theory that loud noises are a bigger sound wave, these big waves won't fit through the tiny funnel so don't reach your ear drum. I have been wearing them for shooting for a few weeks now and am really pleased with their performance, I haven't worn them much for working but have trialed them with the saws and chipper and the effect is quite strange. Instead of muffling the sound like defenders do they just seem to turn the volume down to an acceptable level. If someone talks to you when you are stood next to the chipper you can hear them clearly. Comfort wise after a few minutes it is as if they are not there. Hope that helps Kev

Might be an easy one but these were seen in a woodland owned by my inlaws on a fallen sycamore. They look similar to others around but have the dashed line running around the edges. Any help much appreciated Thanks Kevin

1. The link for stihl above brings up husky stuff. 2. A search for Stihl MS460 brings up 15, 18 & 20" bars. The stihl catalogue I believe states you can run a 25" bar so this I think would need listing. Is it also possible to list the 30" bar for this saw stating it will fit but isn't recommended? I have one that I use only once or twice a year so it doesn't justify a bigger saw for such occasional use. 3. More info in the chain selection to show e.g. 72 links is a 20" chain. 4. RRP and your price - we all like a bargain and to be told how much of a bargain it is There might be more but the pub is calling. Kev

Another Landie

FR Jones do a cube for a tenner

why??

Can I ask why?

Legally I don't believe you can add or remove anything from the area within the red triangle on a road sign, they have to be identical to the ones shown within the highway code and of specific size for the road you are working on (motorway signs are bigger). I see no reason why you couldn't put 'Tree work by ...........' under the warning triangle.

Dean, Your workshop is lockable so that will suffice for safety, the bund must have a capcity of 120% of the biggest container being stored on it. What you need is something like this | Workshop and Site Equipment | Storage Cases, Cabinets and Lockers | Cabinets - Chemical & Electrical Equipment Storage | Special Purpose Cabinets for the smaller containers.