karl
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Everything posted by karl
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it depends on the whole situation , but one thing that really gets my back up is if for instance a manager for a larger firm asking for an incentive to pass work on . ive always been firm on winning work through price and ability to do the job , not just bypass others because ill put my hand in my pocket .
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who's this then? and no mel wont be on this job
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im looking for a home for some oak , taking the whole tree down and looking for someone to pick it up and take it away. too far to drag it home
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If you get stuck Kevin pm me and ill give you a mobile number
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ill vouch for Blake training , I did my loler there and was pretty thorough , which it should be of course
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I think it was a worthwhile question, its always interesting to know how others are finding use of a particular product . I can tell you the very first job we used it on , the guys said it was a great bit of kit moving timber from a beech they had just dismantled out of a garden , wheelbarrows don't cope the same , nor will they ever carry brushwood to the chipper. as for some crazy notion of building one in an hour...........speaks for itself , that soon turned into a couple of day doing the Steptoe run around recycling plants for whatever wheels might be lying about , an odd bit of steel gleaned here and there , the trip to a mate for coating , he obviously is sitting about to fit in friends powder coat when they want...I doubt it. its a good tool designed to do a job which it does very well. I was happy to pay the price to get this readily built and ready to use when I wanted it. not after collecting a handfull of bits and bobs to build my own effort
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I was trying to remember the name...yea, goliath. Oregon green felt like walking on air . and they bring back a memory , I remember having to take my boot off in the top of a beech once where the soft sole had wedged in the fork I was standing in
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separate add on , I thought it was quite cheap though for £75k cover . that with lycetts
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pm sent
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I think that is a great resolution to this that feedback is being pursued but those buttons...........I don't think there was blame being aimed , more of an observation . the fact that you have put a tracked chipper on a work site means that you want to get it into where you are working , hence trying to wriggle it throught trees to be retained etc , thus making any vulnerable part prone to damage
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so your saying you have never heard of this on these machines? The link on the safety bar is just not up to the job from what I saw.we dont plough with it or use it to use pulling ropes from.i know exactly what happened on that sight as I was working on that job myself. And the buttons dont get knocked off the tw , as has been said , they are on top. Not so vulnerable. As pointed out that its quick to blame the machine builder , instead of seeing positive criticism, it is assumed all contractors abuse kit. Funnily enough a few of us want machines we have hired to actually work and use them accordingly . If we need a winch we use a winch
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well pete the buttons do protrude in a way that make them very vulnerable , as for the nudge bar..we didn't alter it . we actually had to do something else until a fitter had come down to us and fix it. my niggle is nothing to do with wing mirrors or snowy ditches , more a of a view of what I think to be a weak point in the machine . just for the record I wouldn't blame ford or Toyota if id done that...but id be straight back there if the wheel fell off a knew truck
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any chipper getting ballast build up in the tracks will come unstuck , the one we hired was brand new the nudge bard linkage on the feed hopper snapped after about 3 hrs , those crazy slap buttons on the side lasted ..oh.....about 10 minutes , when manouvering through trees . and ive heard real bad news about the eltericals on them , however like I said its ability to work on banks is very good
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RB44 project, conversion to suit my work requirements.
karl replied to TotalTreeCall's topic in Arb-Trucks
nice idea to build something yourself, as earlier said it cant carry enough for the size of vehicle . I also don't see the appeal for mot exempt , it gives a chance to lapse on keeping it up together and vosa will hammer you if they pull you and its unroadworthy , id also be aware of the rules regarding red diesel . its not always as simple as what "a bloke in a pub said" -
im hoping it is a rumour, it would be bad news as we have 190 and still have a 230 . we have hired a 19-28 safetrak before but the manouverability was the only reason I had it in.
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ive heard a rumour that greenmech safe trak are going to be the only chipper approved on network rail sites , im not sure if it is a fact or just gossip. just wondered if anyone else had heard about this ?
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so what kind of cost was it to do the timberwolf? im presuming a total strip down and chasis done as well?
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thanks for the info , ill give Richard Court a try . Failing that ill just get on with it !
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do a search on ipaf website they will give details of training providers
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ha no breezeblock that one was well and truly killed I did consider it pete but I didn't want it to become "one of those jobs I started ages ago"
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Does anyone know of any firms that do chipper refurb ? as close to Somerset as possible . Ive got a tired looking TW150 that is a great working machine , but could do with a tidy i.e stripping down blasting and powder coat / paint . cheers
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Im just looking at our accreditations and am thinking.....why am I still Exor approved , they are more expensive than Chas and Safe Contractor . we will keep SSIP because of Safe Contractor , so Exor seems a bit redundant really . Has this been a thought on anyone else's mind before ?
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thanks for posting ill certainly keep a tab on updates, amazing looking place
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I didn't realise can you pm?
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hi just wondered if anyone knows what happened with the smart winch that steve ibelings had designed. it caused a bit of a stir but I havnt heard anything much about it since . any know stockists or anyone bought one and what they thought ?
