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Water cant be compressed is correct like when it gets into a diesel engine. But in a pipe its a different story. The pressure being applied by the tree or roots would be greater than water pressure within the pipe (pipe materials could have a bearing on this). Also as mentioned by another poster the outlets would have been turned on and off thousands of times during its lifetime allowing the pipes to be compressed. So unless the pipe is made from "unsquash" able materials then it is entirely possible for a pipe with water in it to be squashed by tree roots and all the ones i have seen have not been an illusion. I haven't got any pictures to prove it but will take some next time i find them with the stumpy
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Turf friction burns
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I suppose it is. In the wet season it is possible to drive to the next town 100 ks away and not see another car the entire way and then on the way back 3 hours later not being able to get home because there's been a flash flood and the whole road floated away (has happened twice so far)
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I have found and seen plenty of pvc , poly and copper pipes crushed flat in and under stumps while stump grinding so it is perfectly possible to crush a pipe over time. Biggest culprit up here is the African Mahogany a very fast growing tree in the tropics.Palms are very good at flattening pvc too Plenty of concrete slabs and parts of houses have been jacked up by the wrong tree in the wrong place in the area i live in. Back in the UK in the 80's i worked at this farm in Surrey where the water pressure got so bad that an exploratory dig found a 3/4 steel (or lead pipe cant remember ) corroded down to roughly half its size We ended up digging a trench 500 metres back to the water main on the road and putting in a big blue plastic pipe with all the joins welded together. Once it was hooked back up nearly all the taps in the place leaked
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I am in WA.We don't really get drought up here.Just a dry season when it doesn't rain and a wet season when it rains sometimes and is terribly hot . The proper drought is more than 3500 klm away in NSW and Victoria
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Probably not legit in the UK but shorts and chaps work great in the heat. What are the temps there at the moment?
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Perhaps a sign on the gate ''Unauthorized persons will be made to eat spam'' will be enough of a deterrent for future thieves
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Or tar and feathers
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on a more sensible note how about some form of a paint bomb/cannon in your tool storage .Door doesn't get opened in the correct order perp gets covered in paint. Just have to remember yourself though
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I thought you would like that still over 20 quid an hour at the top rate
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32 to 38 an hour for a good groundie
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Schaffer 2026 loader with a branch manager grapple,4 in 1 bucket.This is ten years old now and would have loaded thousands of tonnes of debris and logs .Can't imagine not taking it to a long drag brash job
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About 30 year ago i was dragged through a thorn bush by a cow and ended up with a 1.5 inch thorn up under my arm in my chest. Didn't notice the thorn as it was not visible for a few days and a lot of other places hurt more. Eventually it made itself known and one of my mates extracted it with pliers .It healed up fine but was red and hot for days after More recently i got struck by a dead date palm frond that foolishly i put up my arm to fend it off .Should have just stepped back. Anyway it hit my left arm and two spiky bits went in right to the bone..The pain was intense and bled like a stuck pig when i extracted them with fencing pliers.It did not get infected but was considerably painful for days after.
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I've got one from that era. HJ47 1983
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In my case every wet season down time has been months i think last year it was out of action for 3 months.Might have had 8 months down time with it so far in 4.5 years. I have less than 800 hrs on the clock to I think if i was in Europe getting parts from the factory would be much quicker than here in Oz I finally have all the parts to replace the dodgy connections at the basket end so maybe this wet it won't be a problem. Top machine when it works though there would not be a better machine out there with its capability just let down by a piss poor parts network.
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i wasn't academically inclined and in the school careers advice department two suggestions were made. Farming or forestry. I knew farming paid bugger all so forestry it was. Shortly afterwards school decided they didn't want me anymore and I was sent packing at 15 and abit
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Not a grinder i know but on my Cela spyder lift we have had a lot of problems.Most which are/were water related. Water in DIN plugs,water infiltrating encased rubber electrical connections. Water getting into cable boots.All these faults indirectly end up back at the remote making you think there's a problem with it or the receiver. Other faults were from vibration causing fatigue in a ribbon cable connection (or at least that what i thought it was). And damaged aerials I would find out the brand of remote/receiver you have and approach the manufacturer or their agent.
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I know its in the USA but you could try Autofeedplus.com as i do believe they were the original inventors of Auto feed for chippers and they also make remote control setups for all sorts of grinders.
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i actually give away about few cube a year of sawdust to the local water authority who uses it in dam gate maintenance. They mix up small amount of it in a dustbin with a little water and dump it on the upstream side of the stop logs ( huge concrete beams ) lowered in in place of the gate they are working on and the sawdust finds its way into any leaks and seals them up as it swells. Apparently its good for about 24 hours then it would have to be done again
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I bought a stump grinder so i could do the whole job and not have to come back to site to check on the work of another contractor . Unfortunately at the time there was not much choice in stump grinders with a screen to stand behind and in hindsight i bought the wrong machine. It was cheap and as it turns out no good After changing the cutting system and putting a bigger engine on its quite good now but is still really a use fix machine. As in you use it then you have to fix it. Got Rhino teeth on it now the punishment these teeth can take is incredible you can still smash the carbide off but its rare to do so
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After the fact i know but if you had had a helmet cam or camera on the bike it would have had a different outcome
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My dad worked for the same company in the UK for 19 years up until he was forced to retire but the entire time he was employed by an outside agency as a contractor . But the conditions which he worked under were exactly as what a worker would be classified as He had to be there at a certain time for a set number of hours(9 -5) and couldn't delegate another contractor to do his job He was also expect to go overseas at the companies beck and call.
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In this pic the cable goes from the winch thru the block on the top beam down to the other end back round 2 blocks on one side of the beam then back to the front yellow sheave then back to the blocks on the other side of the beam and then the hook comes back to the winch end .Pretty complicated really but originally i tried a straight pull but it did the beam no favours I should get all the hardware off and sell it.it has been parked there at least 10 years now It seems i have a problem parting with my 'stuff'
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it is made out of light weight steel so it could be manually pushed up ramps into a trailer and made out of what i had lying around at the time.I already had the tirfor and some of the blocks.Because the cable goes around so many times it would take a lot of cranking to get the log to lift up .One wheel is inboard for travelling as it would not fit in the trailer otherwise and down in the leaves is a 50mm tow hitch.With a decent jockey wheel you could push it over the log run a chain through the two lower blocks .Get as much slack out as possible (we used a chain binder).Crank the winch until the log hits the top beam and then tow the whole setup out to the street either with the pto winch on the Toyota ute or on the towball if we could get the ute in. I remember getting one log out by pushing and pulling by hand.Never again did we bother trying BTW the washing line is not part of it .LOL
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in my pre loader days i built a trailer type log arch powered with a tirfor and multiple blocks to get advantage.It has the cable running down both sides of the top beam so you wouldn't bend it.If the log was straightish the payload could be up to 3 ton it was used principally to get large logs from the back yard to the front verge so we could get a crane truck to pick them up. Was not road legal and was a bit of a pain to use but we did get a lot of unrecoverable logs out with it but it has now sat under a tree unused for years
