PeteB
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Lousy picture I know. I bought this Chev Quad timber truck for a quick site job where a decent winch was needed. Got it back to the yard to start to get her going only to be told that it was the one my Uncle Keith had an accident in and died of his injuries. The family duly instructed me to cut it up for scrap!
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This photo was taken in the late 80's at an APF - possibly at Trentham Gardens? The digger driver was showing of his attachment and it tipped over - right in front of a marshall!
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Dug them out to show David Barrowcliff - he is late 70's now and unfortunately got cancer and dementia. David had all the previous 96 trees that where a similar size and many others in the area and converted most of them for pit props for the Leicestershire and Staffordshire coal mines. I wish he had shown an interest in photography after spending nearly all his working life in timber.
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I recently put a PTO version of the CS100 on a 24hp Kubota - went like stink! Really impressive on wet Larch stems and foliage.
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Winched them both out on tickover!
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Ditto!
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I took these whilst trying to sell a chipper to Dave Patrick of Arborfield Arborists. His JD got stuck so did his mates County. Daves Matador got them out!
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As an interesting point, my SLR had run out of film the day before and I found a BW film my Dad had bought 20 years previously! Its age added a grainy look! Cheeky get - before you were born my a#@=e!
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This was my single cab 130 pickup that I got used from Landrover Special Vehicles. Came around a corner one day to find a Disco and horsebox on my side of the road. Choices - house on left, horse box ahead or Disco on right. The Disco driver insisted it was my fault until I sent photographs of skid marks and road position etc. Another insurance nightmare to be dealt with. The truck is still at large locally with another tree surgeon.
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This was one of four trucks I ran we had in the mid 90's but this one ended quick. The driver, Barry Pollard (now at ENS) was indicating right and just started the move and the Corsa following decided to try to overtake, and pushed him into the ditch. No injuries but another infuriating insurance mess!
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These photographs where taken by me back in 1984. They show David Barrowcliff taking down the last of 97 big Elm trees in the Parish of Sutton Bonington. It was cut up and logged on site and most delivered straight away to discerning customers. As I recall, it was abugger to rake all that up in a stubble field - she was a big one!
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Again, not a good photo from about 12 years ago. We got this for a few site jobs back in the early 90's. 1942 ex Western Desert Campaign. Released from Rudd in 64, sold to a tree surgeon, who used and abused it, then it went to Shiptons Recovery, back to the contractor then to us via a dreamer. The engine was a large bus engine (9.8ltr) which kept ripping the cross member out! Some **** set fire to it in the yard and then she got vandalised. She got sold for £500 in the end.
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Not a good photo from over 10 years ago. Front loader out of a coal yard, engine and winch from an ex-Pickfords Fordson, transmission and rear end of a Fordson that came from fruit farm in the Malvern Hills! A real "Bitsa"!
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Nice lunch, does the customer like you because your fly is undone?
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There are some things which we don't need to made aware of - Steve's choice of romper suit is a classic example!
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Remember that the guy you work for, runs a business for his benefit not yours. If you think that you would be better paid elsewhere, please exercise your rights and leave. I would feel a tad undervalued as well, but, you have a job with some security and you are paid as well as many others in this trade. Good luck with the future - you've just taken the first step!
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I've a Blackberry Curve from GreenMech and the standard HTC Desire for non work stuff. Both are good in their own way but I have to say that the HTC has several better features like the camera, and it just feels quality in comparison to the Blackberry. Battery life could be better though - make sure you get a car charger in the deal. The Android platform is good to boot.
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The main reason for GreenMech and TW getting the mentions is that they are,by and large, the best selling machinery. I can remember back in the mid 1980's that QuickChip (Tunnisen) was the weapon of choice and that was before Entec or GreenMech existed. I can also remember the Turner badged machines (Gandini) and Rivett Chippers (Bandit) and I still shudder at the thought of the Exenco machines that Jim Wilkie was peddling back then, the Gibbs WoodChuck still has the hairs standing on end too. Vermeer was also a there with machines like the 935, but they seem to have lost the way a bit in the last 10 years with not having a quality 6" machine that weighed in at sub 750kgs. But, at the end of each day, Vermeer make good machines that suit their market!, The States. Bandit go the same way too. Vermeer are a massive company which manufacturer an awful lot of very different bits of kit and unfortunately , the 6" market is too small for them!
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As the bit is only small, have you tried ringing one of the official TW agents or even ex-agents like Global Sales in Birmingham? I would have thought that anyone of these guys would have been able to tell you what the fault is over the 'phone and send out the relevant part. What is wrong with your local supplier? Do French dealers work differently to British agents?
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the A Plant depot out that way used to have chippers on their fleet. I reckon the depot manager was Dave Roberts. The yard is at Umberleigh.
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why do you want to bother altering the rollers? If it's not pulling in as you wish then look at the springs that pull down or check the pressure settings on the hydraulic circuit.
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Ben Burgess run a hire fleet of groundcare equipment.
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You can be a superb arborist, but without work your just another skint arborist.
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What is "waste"? Surely woodchip only becomes waste when you have finished with it and don't want or need it anymore. If you are going to re-use woodchip as a mulch (for example), then surely it is woodchip to be used as mulch and not waste - therefore is a WCL really needed? Is Biomass woodchip classed as "waste" when is going to be used in the creation of electricity? On that thought, are logs classed as waste?
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When I first saw the Pellenc stuff I was dismissive, but after talking to Ian Collington at a couple of dealer open days and thinking about it, I would not throw it out without careful consideration. It might be dear to buy initially, but, think of a future with no mixing of fuels, no noise, fewer blade replacements, no busted gearboxes, no exhaust gases, less weight on the arms and if used regularly they cost pence per day to run. As a hedge cutter (including long reach) I would certainly give it a go, I would not really bother with the other attachments tho.
