Mike Hill
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BC1800 Owned by a company I worked for in the states.Perkins engine,no electric switches,feed control by linkage,just a super realiable powerful bullet proof machine.Side by side with a BC1800XL there was no difference in performance between the two,expect the ten years age difference and $20 000. Why don't the companies "back engineer" chippers to when they were simple and reliable?
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Who made the chipbox?Does it side dump?
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Here is my old 110.Good wagon and completely out of place where i used to live in Brixton.
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I feel that people who regularly abuse drugs are a hazard on site.If there was a test that could show the ammount of substance's in their syetem that would indicate a prolonged level of use,then I would use it to make my decison to employ them or not. If for instance showed an ammount of THC that was consistant with occasional use,then fine.If it was high enough(no pun intended) to mean several joints per day,that might mean they would be smoking on site or in my machinery.A situation that would before long result in damage,injury or more likely me catching them and firing them anyway.
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Here is a Acer that we felled,felt abit dodgy all through the climb.Why is pain to see,apart from a little bit of machine damage to the Bark and a few decayed fruiting bodies at the base,little to cause alarm...Untill the end.
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I'd advise against towing a chipper that was designed for on road use with a very capable off road tractor unit.Reason is your truck will have much higher ground clearance and lower ground pressure due to four wider tyres.You may end up dragging the chipper's guts along as the wheels have sunk or banging engine or chassis on things the truck will straddle.If you are very disciplined with the unit off road or have a spotter walking the track in front of you it might work.But then there is the hassle of turning the unit around.So I'd say if your going to get a mog,get one with a PTo chipper,if your going to tow a chipper then get a regular truck.Mogs were designed to tow feild artillery or ammuniton limbers,these have the ground clearance of a Mog and are more robustly build that a chipper.
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Hello and thanks for the intro.:wave:
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Spot on.Best if you need one,rather than want one.If what you do currently requires no more than a typical truck and chipper,then stick with it.If you are thinking about work that is off road,in excetionally tight spots or your chips are staying where you produce them,then a Mog might be for you. Also be prepared to do alot of maintainance,I take enough tools for a Armoured Brigade with me everyday as there is alot that can go wrong.
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Sometimes I let these clowns use my Centrifuge,condition is that they repaint the walls. Only fair.
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I became tired of all this splitting and stacking business,instead I constructed a enourmous Cenfrifuge that takes tons at a time.I spin the logs around at a terrific speed and the G force throws all the water out. Anything else is just work.
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Not me
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+1 The tool of Satan
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I could have done with your endoscope this morning Dean.The end of the dipstick on the mog snapped off and I had to fish around in the sump with a peice of wire and a magnet. Who has the dipstick snap? Come on!
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That is painful!But Beer is £18 per liter in the Pub here in Norway so £1 per liter for Diesel isn't such a saving.
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People somtimes yse an angled back cut on brittle hardwood.The idea is that if the tree starts to "barber chair" then the angle of the backcut prevents the slab from splitting out off the back of the Trunk.I can see how this would work but cutting at an angle is the longest way to cut through the Trunk so if the wood is brittle it gives it longer to Barber chair.I think this method was made redundant in Felling operations by the "bore and release" method.
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Because I'm foreign whats the "AA"? And when is it?I feel like a trip to England and need some new gear.
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I'll get a hydralic circut tester and have a look a what the pressure is.Thing is that the problem comes and goes,the hydralics on the chipper plug straight into the Mog hydralics. Another thing to fix eh.
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Poor example I agree.If the kid had chosen the Boot to ride in then the Cops wouldn't have made Daddy angry by fining him and reducing next months Beer budget. I hope he has to make up the shortfall from his pocket money.
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I hate leaving oil spots or marks on driveways.Sombody I know had a hydralic hose blow on their Unimog when it was working in a wealthy clients driveway.As it happened there was a storm drain that went out to the sea directly underneath the chipper.So none of the fish close to out outflow went Rusty that day:thefinger:
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Anyone managed to get their partners up in the trees?
Mike Hill replied to rafregtgunner's topic in General chat
I've taken a couple of ladies rec climbing on first dates,somthing different anyway. -
Jamie: Thanks alot for taking the time to draw that for me,I'll check the "throw" on the linkage bar.Although I think Iæve taken the bar off when the machine was operating slowly and manipulated the forward/reverse valve without the bar attached and it did the same thing.Thanks again for the picture
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Ok thanks guys,should have mentioned that it always seems to run fine in reverse.E.g. the in-feed direction slows down,I reverse it and the roller will spin at normal speed in reverse.So I think I'll pull off the forward/reverse valve and have a look at it. How do I know if its faulty? The unit is a Farmi CH160 and its new. I'll find a dealer with a flow rate meter on Tuesday
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I noticed a few times recently that the feed roller on my PTO driven chipper is running really slowly or stopping without much resistance.I checked the Hydraulic oil level in the Mog and the Hyrdraulic ram at the back operates with usual speed and strength.Could it be that the "flow rate controller" is knackered or that the forward/reverse valve is sticking and restricting the flow of oil?How do I check the conditon on these and what do I look for?
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"no country for old men" was an excellent read,the movie did the book justice and thats pretty rare!
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