Mike Hill
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I think its just that the mounting flange on any smaller motor is two bolts short of being stable enough to take the constant battering. The hydraulic motors on my Farmi 12" are 3 times the size of a 6" but even then the top motor can loosen because so much weight is hanging so far out from the attachment point and the whole thing is vibrating,getting torqued to fuc and slamming up and down.Really expensive shorter motors could solve that but Forst builds them cheap. Independent hydraulic motors work well on big machines with vertical rollers .
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The blade angle on a Forst is steep to help the feed rollers pull stuff in. Thats fine up to a point but the angle forst chose is in my opinion to steep. This is why they have a habit of shearing the blade bolts and putting the blade through the hydraulic tank. They began by using cheaper cast bearings untill a spate of spontaneous self disassembies and they went to machined SNR bearings like Jensen uses. The chip chamber/feed aperture is a direct copy of a Jensen,just with thinner steel and generally poor weld quaility. Instead of using an expensive gearbox to drive the infeed rollers they chose two £50 hydraulic motors but didnt design the mounting method correctly.So because they are getting battered they come loose and the shafts get slogged out. Every chipper needs maintenance and every chipper I have had ( 8) needed a crack welded up now and then. But none literally fell apart from bad design/manufacture like the two forsts did that I used to work on.
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200kg less of steel in a Forst than a Jensen.Redwoods copied Jensen as close as they could and found cheaper solutions to some items and still got a law suit over it. Main thing is your happy,don't get to attached to it and sell it before the warranty runs out. I have been working on chippers and using them daily for 22 years,I was genuinely going to buy a Forst untill I visited their dealership and looked at one.
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You would be supprised how often chipper bearings Crack the housing,I have experienced decent chunks of the radius fall from the block. Having pointless central greasing banks on a wee machine like a 6" chipper is simply a gimmick. Forsts are built to a low price point and the design shows that.Chop it in inside the 2 year warranty and its likely going to do you well.Dont expect it to hold up for 5000 hours though.
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And thats exactly why those pipes are hopeless.
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Are the grease lines pressure rated?
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That folding hopper is the best for flat ground. The funnel shaped one is best for undulating terrain,thats what is was designed for. Who did you use to get the parts?I need some stuff for my machine and the local guy is worse than hopeless.
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See There I go again.In your head well and good. Have a good trip,I expect to see you on here later on. Have a safe flight.
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Hang on,I though I was furiously back peddling because I had made a fool of myself? Because I had misread the post and didnt realise that it was actually a tree and not a Stump. Because you said it was. I look pretty decent naked you know.
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Am I naked in your dreams Andy? Just curious.
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Please keep it coming mate. I enjoy living rent free in your head.
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I work now and again for a guy involved in under sea construction. He recovered some kind of expermental valve that was lost on the seabed in Bergen harbour. The company that owned the valve paid £3 million to have it back. I asked him what the valve was actually worth and he replied "not much" . It was all the r&d thst went into the valve thst was worth the money he said,since it was salvaged he could have sold it to the competition.
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PS I love wasting your time because I know just how seriously you take all of this. *Man on self proclaimed megabucks, spends half his life arguing with other people regarding a job he can never do on a forum regarding a subject he knows nothing about*. Excellent.
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Andy You are an amature on here.Sadly just being Arbtalks top contributor dosnt mean you are taken seriously by anyone who can do the job. You are truely a Clown. Climbed that Tree yet?
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You consider it a tree,I dont. Andy. Go outside an climb a tree. If you can Go do it
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Post :1 The picture showing what is effectively a stump. It might look like a tree to someone without actual Arb experience but Even after 25 years in the game thats still a stump to me.
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Its cutting down a stump mate. "Plenty of fat on the chops" for £750 even in London.Considering the only specialist kit required was a stump grinder, the arisings could have all been hauled away on a hired trailer behind a ford mondeo bought from autotrader for £500.
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He is the unarmed combat instructor for DART. Codename:Tunnel
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I enjoy Beer with a Whisky chaser. I tried a Lager thst I bottled a month back with a dram of this Canadian Whisky on the side. The dry hops of the lager combined with the sweetness of Rye Whisky are a great combination. One Whisky tasting I went to,the host put a Bourbon on the table as a wild card.All the twats were wanking on about it being a Scottish blend when it was actually some shite from a supermarket in the midwest.
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I really like Talisker but it gives me a raging hangover. If you like mellow peat without the tang,this is a robust full bodied whisky with a really keen Finnish. Try some if you can
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What Whisky I like depends on my mood. I agree with Andy that JW Green lable is great for the money,Aberlour 18 is nice.I think I have tasted a 25 from them too. At the end of the Day Whisky is 40% Alcohol and 60% bullshit. I went to loads of Whisky tastings before covid,mainly to try different stuff but the real entertainment is tossers trying to outdo each other with descriptions. " I detect notes of smokey wet granite and burnt tweed" etc
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My crane runs off the tractor Matty,similar sized crane to yours and same sized tractor. Its pretty fast and powerful
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I would really like to see some pictures of that vintage plant Khriss ,its snowing here atm. @Khriss
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Do you have any pictures of the vintage plant that you keep going? I am always interested in old machinery.
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Have you restored much vintage plant Kriss?
