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First of all I'm not having a personal dig at any one in particular. Hauling woodchip to a yard is road haulage whether is is charged for or not. Unimogs can be driven by a 17year old!! so thats 6000kgs for the tractor and 18000kgs for the trailer. On a car licence? With no formal training. A vehicle operator must have VOSA permission for his operating centre.A minimum of 4 safety checks and a ministry test once a year.The appropriate driver training and a HGV licence. Use tachographs to record drivers hours, and run on white diesel. How often do you see an agricultural vehicle having a ministry test?
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I've got 2 skidsteers! One is for sale in Trading Place on this site. However how much would one of these be? I'm sitting down, cup of sweat tea at the ready!!!
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Using an agricultural vehicle on private land is fine,however getting it there and back with woodchip tools, and timber is not. This is road haulage so operators should conform. We are all striving for high standards within our industry, should we also bend the rules when it suits our purpose?
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I must admit that a level playing field for all is overdue. Operators running agricultural vehicles on red, and allowing untrained drivers to haul heavy loads with tractors does make me uneasy. Operators, and Heavy goods licences are not cheap. Why should agricultural vehicles be used in tree surgery?
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Would one of these splitters fit a skidsteer?
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I have the need for a couple of trees to be examined. I started checking around locally as to how much this would cost. The costs vary considerably and so does the time span. So this has got me thinking! How many others have need for for the scans but do not want to pay through the nose? Would there be any milage in some sort of co-operative of use? What are your opinions? Costs of machines are £12k or £7K !!!
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Funny thing really. If you do tighten by hand and there is an accident and someone gets hurt EG a chipper blade comes loose or a wheelnut comes off. Supposedly health and safety do a check and they are not torqued up properly, Can you claim they have been maintained to the manufacturer's specification and you are not liable?
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Well done! Good shooting!!!
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I may sound old fashioned but in our day we used,and still use a tool line which the groundsman hangs onto.
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Here is something for you. Sorry about the quality. We built this in 1987! Cost £1500.00. Used it for 10 Years and flogged for £1450.00. It was slightly over powered 69hp 6" Drum chipper.But AWESOME!!!
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Can I suggest a small book for you all to read.It might help "Agricultural Vehicles on the road a guide to the legislation. Isbn 0 9533058 7 2. By Andrew McMahon. It's about 7 years old but it will give a lot of good guidance. You might get rid of your mogs once you have read this!
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I was once told I was putting too harder wood through mine!! So that's why I've had 7 Discs!!!
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This looks to a good idea but you could accomplish similar with a bar code reader and a PDA. And a bit of work. I wonder how much the tags cost?
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Well we should all carry blue ended Chainsaws! I can do a special line for the January sales !!! Approx £500+ contract!!!
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A difficult desision. I think it all depends on who and where your local dealers are. It's all about downtime and spares backup. I've had my problems with Timberwolf but am generally content. Most of my defects always occur on bank holiday w/ends! Or my parts requirments are "too old mate". How many other contrctor can boast a 14year old Entec on the original engine! I'll bring it up in the new year Reg!
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Try "www.oneandone.co.uk" for hosting and 'serif page plus' for web design. We did ours on a self learn basis. You make some good mistakes but got there in the end. Keep your pictures small in kbites so they load quickly. You could try oneandone's own design package. It's all available on their website.
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I would love to tip the crap back but it would be considered Fly tipping!
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They don't depress me! Though one of the lads did give a new nick name this year " The Conifer King" can't think why!!!
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Er.. Yes you can. The same one can be turned round and fitted on a tractor as well. Thank you Marc " Who are you?"
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Try spot welding a bolt in the hole and then undo! When you put the new one back use your copper slip and re torque to correct setting!!! I hope this helps.
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I thought these might be interesting to you learned folk.Do try a tow bar on the front! much cheaper than caravan movers etc. The trailer has it's own power pack which can be unplugged and used for other purposes.
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Hi All, I run a 130 Tipper with a half box for chip & 110 High cap. We do have to make more runs with chip but the 4x4 wins every time. That's always there! Do remember that anything over 3.5T requires an opperators licence and that can be quite tiresome. A tracked chipper would be nice but expensive. why not try a lightweight chipper and a tow bar on the front as well, so you can push it in. The advatages would appear to outweight the disadvantages.
