Brushcutter

If your thinking of buying it goes for a lot. I've tried to get several coups in Broxbourne/Wormley Woods but they go for silly money as a play areas. Its a shame because they lovely woods but now lack a joined up management approach. There is some nice conifer in there too. That's if it hasn't all gone through Webb's stroke processor by now. I'd of thought 10-12k an acre wouldn't be far wrong but round London small woods go for silly money. A few acres in St. Albans went for nearly 50k

What's your email Murray. I use to have it I'm sure but i cant find it. Charlie - you should have a big email with it all in.

You probably already have them Charlie but i have the Forest research thing on High lead. A Norwegan book on highlead/skyline and the worksafe BC skyline stuff. I can ping them over to you on email if you don't and you'd like them.

I was shown this the other week. Its a real eye opener and i think the real worrying thing is that a person would go through the chipper easier than the manikin.

A very well tuned build SISU common rail with a very big turbo. Had the A series which was 95hp on a 3 cylinder and it was flawless just a bit too cramped. I dont think i ever got the front end off the deck though.

Is that the world largest toolbox on the front of the roof mount? Does it need that much ballast out there?

Before someone else posts this.... [ame] [/ame] This sums it up nicely.

Wilsons has a few s/h winches at the moment Igland 4201 a Igland 55 and a Uniforest 8.5. All manual winches.

Krpan 9 tonne or an 8.5 if you want an easy life. Get the folding butt plate with hydraulic cable spooling. as well as a full radio kit. Yes it will be expensive but the only winch you will ever need. My advice would be spend the money now on getting a Electro hydraulic winch over a manual as it will make your life so much easier. Radio option will be another thousand or so but will save that over its life in efficiency. Krpan also do double drum options and single drums with cableway reels on them.

Sad day when its cheaper to fill with white than red.

Even better there is one on Arbtrader. Tractor hydraulic winch fit any tractor do not need front linkage ArbTrader Arborists Classifieds

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It will. Much like the SIP one it will run on a 13amp socket but only at 160amps. For the full 180 amps you need a 16amp supply.

Ar+C02 is good. I must admit i forgot they did a mix. Its very good bit cleaner than pure co2 but not as smart as full argon. If your only doing ferrous metals then the Ar+C02 will be super, if you want to do anything more exotic then you'll need Ar. You can get fluxed wire now but i've not got the hang of it yet. Splatters all over the shop.

SIP Autoplus 181DP Dual Purpose MIG Welder - SIP04791 | SIP UK I have that one. I've found it very good for the money. The Rtech stuff looks very good, I'm tempted by their plasma cutters. I'd use argon rather than CO2. I use to use W size bottles but it broke the wheels on the 181 so i now use a Y bottle. If your not going to use a lot buy a bottle and get it refilled as a BOC rental is expensive.

First set yes, subsequent ones i doubt it. Local garage did it.

My first one was much better.

I had a D40 Navara on a 07 plate. I was the second owner previous owner was a lease company. Got it a 50k and ran it to 110k. It was a lovely drive and i generally liked using it. Downside was the number of things that went wrong with it. It ate front brake discs like they were going out of fashion. The front propshaft UJ went both ends. Then they went again, but changed them to greasable ones and then they were ok. Transfer box seals went twice with water ingress into the box. Turbo went at about 100,000ish Fuel rail and injection pump was on its way out. Had this weird fault nobody could discover what caused it to stall and stall again when you started it in the rain sometimes. Oh the heater got worse and worse - think the fan bearing was going as well. Alternator bearing went. Maybe a leak from the rocker covers but could have been the turbo throwing oil. 4wd sensors went two or three times. Despite my bad experience i looked at getting another one as i like them. Because they were the UK best selling pick up 4 or 5 years in a row you hear a lot of bad things about them just on numbers out there. I got a duffer no doubt about it but i know people who have had one problem free. Few people with a new clutch.

Just check the light throw pattern. Nothing worse than having spots when you want floods.

STIHL caps are the work of the devil. The twisty ones are a pain and spill fuel or oil everywhere. Oh and before that they had the ones that people felt the need to screw down.

At first i saw the rake and thought nothing a bit of weld wont fix.....then i saw the rest of the machine. What did it look like before? Looks like its taken a beating and then got beaten again.

Sounds about right really. Forestry kit tends to hold its value and Botex stuff particularly. Is it a 560 crane on an 8 tonne euro trailer or a 300 series crane on a eco or Farma trailer? If you want a Botex then its a good deal if you want cheap raw lifting power. Given the current pound euro exchange rate there are some very good deals on European made kit. You could be getting a new 7T trailer with 5.6m and crane for 10K or 12t 6m machine for 24k with driven wheels.

3000.

Go to Scotland or Cumbria. If you really want to do forestry over here get on a machine. Good harvester/forwarder drivers command a good price. Lots of coppice cutting opportunities in Kent/Sussex but that's normally just winter work. Also lots of people offering it on day rate but you provide the insurance which is dodgy.

Nice pictures. You don't see too many of those tracked based Timberjacks around.