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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

I get that out of my 'crappy old' 200tdi discovery. In all fairness, its the strict emissions controls that cause modern 4x4s to use more fuel. Next one for me will be a td5 as i find it a very nice engine to drive, all the power I require and always there when and where I want it.

perfecting the lunge, step one...

cant spell secateurs

Now im not climbing for money or very rarely, which is really starting to P me off, Im trying to rec climb as much as possible just to keep my hand in. what the future holds for whether i'll be climbing for money properly again or not I dont know, but I shall continue climbing for fun, because theres nothing like it.

ive got a portek one. Its run with the 290 and the 026 for a year or so now and ive no problems with it at all. it makes the job incredibly quick and easy, not to mention safe! have cut getting on for 7 tonnes of firewood with it this year and its still sturdy as ever. of course by its nature it has a maximum size it can deal with, but I really cant complain, and i give all my kit a reasonable amount of stick. actually, the increase of safety is debatable. the saw being captive is a plus, the ability to run the whole operation one handed and tend the log on the horse with the other, requires some common sense

well, now heres the thing... my discovery hasnt broken down on me since i bought it really. definitely nothing drastic, but ive been so long without waving the spanners over it that ive got a replacement engine stripped to its component parts and been washed ready to rebuild for it just so ive got something to do!

nope. that's an unanswerable question

happy new year one and all!

very interesting Mario. A good read indeed and some very valid and im sure often overlooked points brought up!

hate to say it but it makes a lot of sense now that we have to justify NOT using one on any job should the HSE ask

1.5m seems like a hell of a long cord for a VT. im sure someone on here in the how long is yours thread was using half that!

when I had tennis elbow I accidently fixed it by carrying a fender 2x12 combo in that hand and my guitar in the other trying to avoid 2 trips to the car. next day I realised i wasnt suffering any more. whether or not its advisable im not sure

the way I imagine it is, this chap is selling his firewood business, and by the looks of it, its assets too. he's listed it on ebay to reach a wide audience, but he's used an auction format rather than a classified ad because it is so much cheaper. he's put £27,000 because you have to put something. I get the impression he's just using that to reach prospective buyers who would contact him... and then negotiate a price for the business and assets. If that's the case then I reckon its just been done a bit arse about face

it's no better in lower trent mate. Shopping trollies, cars, you name it ps thanks very much for the email. much appreciated! Should be able to set some wheels in motion on that project soon enough.

i was thinkin about that t'other day, if the trent dried, i darent imagine what'd be on/in the silt

most tractors with up to a 50k gearbox do say on warning labels not to exceed 20mph because they dont have full axle suspension, air brakes and some other things i cant remember. exceptions being of course mogs and fastracs etc. the idea of the 40-50k gearboxes on normal tractors, is officially and legally to lower the engine rpms for trailering in top gear at 20mph thus making them more fuel efficient. whether that's the case or not, is very much open to interpretation

are those the ones you can have say anything on the front of the vehicle but the rear must display the relevant and in date registration?

you'll be in bother for that misleading screw cover!! i think id have kept the 250 quid

also worth a look are strimech and stronga Ive a strimech bucket and Used a variety of their stuff. very very well made

nobody's in any danger whatsoever of getting in my bad books mate. Tbh I probably dont know a whole lot more than you, if at all. What bits of knowledge Im able to impart are generally, unless I say otherwise, just bits ive picked up from trying machines myself. To date Ive used lots of different chippers and found them all to have their inherent strengths and weaknesses. The first I used was a Jensen, a very nice machine but IMO quite a small infeed. I wasnt able to ever put stuff through quite as 'forked' as on some others and I disliked the indispension units when one peeled away in the middle of bradford leaving me stranded. The only vermeer ive used was in a poor state of repair, you had to hold the roller switches in while you pulled the top bar to make it feed, the antistress seemed to want to push limbs back at me more than chip them, and the clutch made the belts scream like hell, so I dont feel that I can comment on vermeer properly. Ive also used bearcat machines with a smaller company and bandit most recently. my money would go with bandit because I feel you get your moneys worth and then some. The schliesing looks a very good machine but ive never used one and I hear theyre more expensive (though no direct knowledge of whether this is true) I dont personally think theres a particularly bad one in the list youve got above. I like simple, tough construction, ease of servicing, and competance at its work.

i miss my 135 with front loader I think we must have had all the same tractors! mine had the affectionately termed 'rag cab'

bandit are very good. simple enough, very powerful infeed and chip anything in my experience. in your size bracket would be the 65XP but if you went up to a 9 inch theres the unstoppable 90XP i think it is. seem to be doing some very good/panicked prices at the moment. Chap I do some work for had a phonecall while I was driving us to a job the other day, was bandit dealer offering a brand new 65XP twin roller with the diesel engine for 11.5k + Vat

knocking on the doors and having a word with the neighbours is probably a very good idea. nothing worse than angry neighbours whose first piece of ammo is, nobody told me