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  1. Brushcutter
    I was thinking of spending 300 quid on arb trader. Now i think i'll have to get this. I'd be missing out otherwise:lol:
  2. Brushcutter
    Make sure you check the engine is not one of the ones where the con rod goes. There is a list of number online somewhere.
  3. Brushcutter
    Hello Are there wear pads on the extension of the botex cranes? I was watching ours being used rather than doing it and noticed the extension was rattling around in the dipping boom. Cheers Andy
  4. Brushcutter
    It's a 92 i thought it was a 101. Yea that extra weight and reach will make it a little top tippy. It will still change the way you do everything though you will be very impressed with it. The small size means you'll get into lots of places too.
  5. Brushcutter
    Get the 570! its not much more and that meter or reach will change the way you work.
  6. Brushcutter
    I could think of a few sites where a mulching flail would open up rides and it would be the best tool.
  7. Brushcutter
    It's cheaper. If your good with them you can re space and do all the understory work. It's one operator with one machine and one lot of transport costs. More than likely someone has already done the sums and gone down the mulcher route as cut & extract is more than the value of the timber.
  8. Brushcutter
    They do make a thinning bolster set up trailer.
  9. Brushcutter
    Cranes are an option on most of the scananavian trailers you just have the mounting point for the short king post crane. True drag trailers are a little harder to find.
  10. Brushcutter
    A botex 10t euro trailer with breaks, steering drawbar and lights is avaiable from wilsons.
  11. Brushcutter
    Crime busters of the sea.
  12. Brushcutter
    Does the PTO go the right way round for a winch on the front? JAKE do a set of front wheel weights another option to balasting. Does the valve block restrict access from the roof escape hatch?
  13. Brushcutter
    That looks amazing what is the tank on the roof? Are you using the front linkage for a weight block?
  14. Brushcutter
    I'd go for a Moheda or a Kronos trailer with 4wd but they're expensive. At cheaper end the euro trailers from Botex are ok. They're nothing special but their older bolster design does have some advantages if doing larger timber. They have a steering draw bar as standard and they will make them as big as you like. I've got a 1m extension on mine that makes it possible for 2 bunks of 3m. Dam hard though
  15. Brushcutter
    Oregon. Clear like the STIHL but is cheaper.
  16. Brushcutter
    Finishing off the skidding of Chestnut that was bigger than the choakers from yesterday. Then off to fell some Larch trees..... lots of things to miss on this one: phone lines, ditches and banks, ice houses, a road, sheep, a very imporant wall.
  17. Brushcutter
    Forwarder will pick them up. Probably need rocking on though. If they are too big to lift then they'll get ripped in half and taken to the mill as half rounds. Much easier than 3' diameter logs to work with.
  18. Brushcutter
    Someone doesn't know it yet but the belt their compressor is being disconnected
  19. Brushcutter
    I believe there is a charge. They have a website.
  20. Brushcutter
    Riva composting in Elstree? Quick trip down the A41.
  21. Brushcutter
    For some captions of whats happening. Caleb clearing some understory out the way to get to the log. This afternoons job.... First cut at product length from my butting off line. Log number one a shakeless bit of Chestnut. Muggins here cutting off the root plate Muggins here not doing a good job with the root plate but its down and big. Caleb tries to pick up the butt log with Valtra and fails Muggins tries to attach 3m skidding chain and is about 10 links short and has no joining link. This mornings windblown cut and graded.
  22. Brushcutter
    Honest answer is no. The nose got stuck and went a bit quicker than i thought. The first one i did when the camera wasn't watching was a similar size but the saw stayed on the 'safe side'. End of the day chain was cutting a little crooked and it came too close to my step.
  23. Brushcutter
    a few more...
  24. Brushcutter
    Doing some windblown Sweet Chestnut today in the sun.
  25. Brushcutter
    Chainsaw carvers lap it up mate. Bit of a hassle to sell it to them but ones with yards are great as they take lorry fulls of timber.

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