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does anyone have any insight or photographs of how the electric motor in an electric chainsaw mill is connected to the drive sprocket? I want to mill some bigger stuff, and simply cant justify the expense of a bigger powerhead that wont otherwise get much use, and so have decided to make a mill, but a band mill would be more troublesome to build and be more restrictive as to the width of boards that could be cut. thanks

Anyone got any first hand, or even reputable 2nd hand experience of the superwinch LP series of winches? specifically the LP8500 and LP10000 Looking for a lowline winch but specifically with a slow wind for mostly 'utility' useage, straining fences, tensioning speedlines, felling assistance etc, but that would self recover me should the need arrise. Was looking for an X9 but they seem to not be retailed anymore so these LP units looked good. Discuss

query it with the land registry? or with the council themselves

The supposed new law was suggested in the article I read to be applicable only to the true 50k+ machines with dual circuit brakes, full axle suspension and poignantly a higher threshold brake efficiency and trailer air brakes proving its capability to brake a higher payload. With regards construction and use etc the tractors this applies to are already separated in much legislation from your average tractor so I don't see it as being much of a problem, merely one step closer to sensible more calculated standards becoming filtered through! I don't profess to have all of the answers so I shan't beat everyone about the head with them either! The topic has wavered somewhat so in answer to the first question, I'd say if versatility and convenience outweighs sheer payload, then the bigab is probably the answer you are looking for

but what if you take into account the higher GTW permissible for fastracs and other 'true' 50k capable tractors as of some time this year so long as the trailer and im assuming tractor are subject to an annual safety check, not by vosa but by the dealer. figure was around 31.3-33 tonnes, as reported in farmers weekly late last year. At this point im assuming this actually became law. Now, if you looked at the test cost on one trailer vs 3, theres a saving right there... again, if applicable

what's the craic there then? one handing a stihlsaw with your tshirt as dust protection? mad skills!

jeez! glad you're ok and nobody was injured!

No worries Justin, will have to be in touch for the rest. Was short of hands with a new saw plus extras in each, and my 'colleagues' were being less than helpfull

guessing you mean tapatalk so you can view the forum better on the iphone? been wondering the same thing tbh

for what purpose are you referring? Natural fibre ropes are still used for a variety of things, popular for their aesthetics only, but I cant imagine many, if any using them for load bearing properties these days, not with the strength and safety leap with synthetics

perhaps so, but nobody knows which circle of hell I live in

yup, me three. It's in the relatively short term plan, though my remit is somewhat more diverse

was the APF today too

Im quite sure I dont know what you're talking about

did you guess how many nuts and bolts in the forwarder?

I got paid to go so I went when I was told!

well, I came away from Jonesie's stand with a shiny new 200t, a shiny new 372XPG, one of the new stein handsaws and a sawpod. That was all i could carry at the time, so theres a supplementary order yet to come to replace the rest of the stuff I had stolen! THINK I saw a few fellow arbtalkers there, but I never made it to the Arbtalk stand cos I was there with work. Think Steve Bullman walked in while I was being served, were a few others I think I recognised off here but didnt go introduce myself in case I was talking to someone even more random! so what did you get?

Happy birthday Jen !

...and returning from the blackness of space and the depths of time... I shall be there too!

just been having a mooch round ifor williams' website and have been very pleasantly suprised. As a manufacturer of trailers its good to see them taking responsibility and educating their prospective customers as to the legalities of towing. The following is a brilliant little brochure that explains everything clearly. So for anyone who cant get their heads around the whys and wherefores, the first page especially will help you enormously when you ask yourself, am I legal? If this link has come up time and time again then I apologise, but it's probably usually half way down the nth page of a topic and I feel it deserves to be at the top of something. http://www.iwt.co.uk/brochures/ltt.pdf

was it a serra one? heaviest tow behind they list in the book is 29ft cut i think and its only 3.3tonne so assuming the genny on the back of the pickup kept the pickup within its own individual max gross weight, it would probably be fine. 40kva genny is only 800kg. essentially, the above could be on a landrover 130 and be within specs

nose weight is a valid point. im not sure how much those cranes weigh but id rather have it on an ifor than anything else if it were going on a trailer I already had. If not, then as matt says, as minimal a construction of trailer as possible. not sure what the official figures are but ifors seem to have unladen an almost negligable noseweight on a twin axle. for example we very very rarely even put the jockey wheel down as the nose just hovers. I would imagine the tri-axled variants are even better at this. I did wonder about the 3.5tonne trailer on that vehicle. It seems to be something nobody realises, that its the max gross on the plate that matters, but if that's a navara then I 'think' some navaras had 3.5tonne, although that looks like a new one, in which case according to this lil brochure i have here, 3tonne. regardless... the amount of timber you could actually carry on it vs the cost in the first place makes it a bit useless in my opinion. just like the 3.5tonne tipper truck scenarios. add a bit more steel, take off a bit more payload.

'only' 450 quid a year. lot of money to some folks