ecolojim
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has lovely pink cushions though?
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might be back in aviemore for the new year so im hoping they get the snow they did last winter. Easily as good an excuse as any ash cloud
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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
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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
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checking to see if a house is council owned or not
ecolojim replied to mikecotterill's topic in General chat
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
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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
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what's the craic there then? one handing a stihlsaw with your tshirt as dust protection? mad skills!
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jeez! glad you're ok and nobody was injured!
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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
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guessing you mean tapatalk so you can view the forum better on the iphone? been wondering the same thing tbh
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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
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perhaps so, but nobody knows which circle of hell I live in
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yup, me three. It's in the relatively short term plan, though my remit is somewhat more diverse
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was the APF today too
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Im quite sure I dont know what you're talking about
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did you guess how many nuts and bolts in the forwarder?
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I got paid to go so I went when I was told!
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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?
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Happy birthday Jen !
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...and returning from the blackness of space and the depths of time... I shall be there too!
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ah we didnt come in a landy. we were in a hired corsa. think the 110csw came from... nope cant remember. yeah we were treated great. we'd met some of your lot before anyway. met mark, shirley, rachael and michael at trentside, and then rach and michael in bristol too. obv rach wasnt there today. first time meeting chris mind you. seems a real good lad. just filling in the courses that we should have had months ago tbh.
Chris said you're doing your hgv at the moment? that's just gone down on my PDP with 360 excavator >10t
youve certainly had more money spent on your trucks than we have. lots of stickers, lights and those mobile drying rooms. no such luxuries on the lower trent!
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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
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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
