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Mike Hill

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  1. Happy Birthday mate! Got some nice Hair Ties for you!
  2. Two to many Felling cuts for it to be me.
  3. They are great for supporting Unimog Cabs. Not used it for anything else.
  4. Thanks for bringing this up.All the best and a Speedy Recovery!
  5. Thanks Stevie. I thought it was a Pepper Grinder,thanks for the Clarification
  6. I wonder if the Steel Shroud around the Winch Drum can be used as a Friction device for Snatching Chunks?Be good thinking if it was.
  7. Welcome to the Site! That didn't look very advanced to me,how were the guys taking down Trees in the past?
  8. When the Weather turned Cold in Alaska,we used to send a guy down to the Saw Shop Looking for Chainsaw Anti Freeze.
  9. I suppose like finding anything,you either hunt it or stumble across it. Find the people in the Company that are responsible for tendering the work that you want to do,make a presentation of your Company,Qualifications,perhaps pictures of Equipment and past jobs and post it off to them.Or request a meeting. The Commercial work that we get came as a result of working privatly for Employees of a Local Council.That was the "Stumbling across it" way of getting work.
  10. Minimum Wage untill he shows promise.
  11. Great Photo's! Thanks for Sharing! Can you push/tow the Chipper around with the Mini Digger?
  12. Especially if they have been Thoughtfully done with "Glow in the Dark Ink". Kind of like a Air Craft lining up on a Foggy Runway in the Dark.
  13. Why not have all the idler's running on Torsion Blocks? I think many AFV's have a similar system but comprising of Torsion Bars. A Tractor Engine,Gearbox and Rear Diff would work.You need the independent Breaking that will turn a Tracked machine,I think all 2wd Tractors have that. You could Weld up a Steel Sub Frame from Tube,mount your Engine and Drive Train on it.Then make Brackets for the Torsion Bocks and bolt them to it.Then Clad the Sub frame in Mild Sheet Steel. You would need to Have an adjustment system to Tension the Tracks,that would be up the Front at the fore most Wheel on each side. If you used small Car Rims for your Idlers and welded Flanges around them you could probably run Rubber Excavator Tracks. Probably cheaper and easier to buy an Argo and put some Tracks on it though.
  14. Pretty much all of the Fire Wood available in retail outlets like Supermarkets and Garden Centers here in Norway is Trucked in from Lativa. The Quality/Moisture Content/Size is very inconsistent. Almost all of it is Split Saplings of about 4inches Diameter,packed into 40liter Sacks.It sells on its convenience and product placement. One Garden center here in a town of just 350,000 sold £50,000 of Wood in a single weekend!
  15. Smaller Helo would not have lifted it. If it was in strife,the Helo could have Buttoned it off or dragged it.
  16. Propper Job! A D6 would have pulled that off the House.But I would rather use that Helo!
  17. Excellent Pictures mate! Love the sound of the Big Ones when they hit the ground.
  18. SURPRISE FELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did it because it was there!

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