Mike Hill

Looking back, its hard to list all the things I now consider exciting when at the time they were likely terrifying .

Thus never before shall there be a larger number of flapcap wearing Whippet owners assemble on auction day to bid by halfpenny increments.

I use a cut throat in the summer,I grow a Beard in the winter but tidy up with a Cut throat- I think I paid £14 for the "Cut thraot razor starter pack".Soap,Brush,Razor a few blades and some plasters.Its the kind that holds half of a Razor blade.Liked it so much I bough 300 Razor blades for about £30 off Ebay.Like many on here I got sick of being ripped off for plastic razors.

Sounds like a solinoid problen to me.Or the electrics powering it. Run 12v to it and that should open it. Then you eliminate two things at once. I take it the tank never went so low in fluid that you might have damaged the pump?

Buying a solid used machine is a sound decision. That one is pretty much new. I would buy that one over a new machine.

So its the second company you have worked for and untill this unsettling episode no one has let you cut down a Tree? During which you were unable to understand how to do it as presumably you had never seen a Tree felled during your time at this,your previous company,during training or on the internet? Gotcha.

Most firewood sold in New Zealand is softwood. Hardwood commands a premium due to its scarcity. Pine is the cheapest,then Dougfir and it goes up from there.Native species are pretty much the only hardwoods and its pretty rare to get any in quantity.

Havn't gotten started yet.

Did the nasty shouty boss hurt your feelings? Show me on your Teddy Bear where it hurts the most.

@ArbMish You sound like a bit of a minge. Are you sure this industry is for you?

I had one like that,it was a kin cracking machine.I have its bigger brother the A340 now. I would have a turntable machine over a fixed anyday of the week,you will supprise yourself on how often the ability to slew the machine comes in handy.That machine will be much easier to work on than your reular inline machine. Buy it before I do.

Could probably get looked at a bit more often. Letting stuff build up like that is often a hazard,but you know what to look for and how to clear it now.

Yes. I felled trees in Canada with it. Its kin leathel. The chains were sharpened on a machine though,never saw one get hand filed.

A 3.5 ton truck,8" tow behind chipper plus a stump grinder. Then spend 10k on advertising. When i started up 10 years ago,i spent 40k of my own money. But the competition was scarce then and it enabled me to hit the ground running. I was spending 1200 quid a month on advertising at the time.

I have sent/checked in,saws of all kinds both new and used over the years.Never had a single problem. I drain the fluids,air out the fuel tank and pack it up taking care the bucking spikes don't go through the packaging. I would just check them.

Oh God. They have translated the book then? A collection of random bollocks collated by a Norwegian Journalist with heavy nationalist leanings marketed towards urban hipsters with Custom Axe collections,neck beards and Audi Quatros.

Only if the injector dosn't "bottom out" on the threads or is an old type that clamps in.Annealing won't increase the thickness of the washer,which is why you want to use a new one. If its worked for you,then keep it up.But some of the injectors I have replaced took 7 hours to get to,thats alot of work to redo if one leaks because of a 5 pence washer

Hydraulic Motor Stevie? So you can drive the chipper instead of using a PTO shaft?

Why did you do that?

£10 will get you a very tidy tracked machine. Some Jensen 530T's have a removable hopper,when thats off the machine is less than the length of 1,5 Wheely bins and 110cm wide with the tracks in.I have taken mine down flights of steps,around an indoor swimming pool and out the glass doors into a Garden.

Thanks Stevie.I will go and have a look at it tomorrow.They don't come up for sale over this side of the country much.

With that Trailer and Van you are two thirds towards having all the plant you need.The last third is a tracked chipper. You will not be as productive as any tow behind or tracked machine with a "mini chipper" They will not process brash faster than you can get it to it.This is where a bottle neck will form on the job,this is where you will start to loose money.This will happen on every job you will need your tickets for. When you start out,you will end up getting jobs for people who have had every other sod in for a quote.You will underprice more than you get right and with a mini chipper you will just make a hard job harder,I know money is tight but if you have £2K to buy a mini chipper you might be able to finance a new tracked machine,This will destroy the brush,give you no hassel and "buffer" the effects of the under quotes you,I and everyone else does when they start and sometimes after. You are going to hire in Climbers to help at the start,and you will be marooned on an island of Branches frantically trying to force a machine to do what it was never intended to do, Starting out against other firms,without comparable or superior kit is just "a hiding to knowhere" .

Thanks Matty. I will try and have a play with it,I can see it burning the clutch out if you over loaded it.

I recently got a job that needs a bit of winching done,and this winch is close to me in distance. Does anyone have any experience this this model and specifically if its going to go ok behind 130 Hp? The Trees I need to drag are only about 10" in diameter,there are not too many of them either. This winch has had the bearings and chain replaced recently. I have little experience of forestry winches.

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