Dean Lofthouse

Mine runs 36 front and 45 to 50 rear It's my own pressures I have come to use. It's a good compromise for ride both loaded and unloaded Thats on 225/75

The Hi vis tape would be like one of those surveyors 30m tape reels, tie or hook one end to a tree, gate or wall and reel out, when finished, pull out the little windy handle and reel it back in. You could also modify it by using hi vis electric fence tape and attach a zapper to it too That would be very funny

I'll come to capel next year and treat myself to a new silky and buy you a pint if I am Dave

My groundy came up with an idea of a small combi can just for the 200t whereby it spouts are spaced just right and fills both the oil and the fuel at once. My idea of the day ( don't know if there is already one there) was a retractable hi vis barrier tape, where you can just reel it out and back in as required, bit like a logging tape

I got out of bed this morning

The last wheeled one I used it wouldn't work because the ground was sloping slightly.......and I mean slightly ! I ended up finding the "tiltometer" and hot wiring it Got the job done then

It is Rupe I reckon out of all the mewps available, this is the most versatile and most suited to our job.

The Teupen Leo 23gt is the one I want, I just need to find £71,200 and I think thats plus vat or you can pay all the vat up front and pay £456 per week for 3 years It has the same outreach as my current MEWP but has an extra 5m of height How did you find it for ease of setting up and tracking it in and out ?

Yes it is a GT Richard NI Tree... The outer does have wear pads on the tip, they have a little lip on them and are inserted after you have put the inner back in, you push them in to the lip then they are held in place with a bracket. The wear on the top of the inner wont matter so much. Because I am lining the top of the inner with a full width and length of nylon bush, I can do away with the top front wear pad and the whole pad will be 12mm thick it should bridge over any slight worn hollows. The forces now should spread over a lot wider area now, apart from of course when the boom is tele'd right out

You didn't advise Pat Morita on his words of wisdom did you Stevie

I have just been using it all week on a big job, stacking lumps of timber at the side of a lawn and then turning round on the lawn, I must have done 60 trips or so and the lawn still looks good. They are awesome Steve That will be a contributing factor for sure

I think it's a bad design thats caused it's failure. It had two 6mm thick pads bolted through together instead of using one 12mm pad. I think they have been sliding between each other and eventually elongated the holes and then sheard the bolts, the pads are about 80mm x 60mm x 6mm The new pad is 1000mm x 90mm x 12mm Steve: It's a bendy steer one

Thats the stuff I've ordered Tom, it's called Nylatron and is impregnated with Black Moly. Modern synthetics are amazing

It's 4 wheel hydrostatic with diff locks as well

I bought this machine recently, but before I did I hired it and gave it a good trial and look over. It has a boom that extends and whilst trialing it I noticed the boom dropped a little on full extention indicating the wear pads on the inside of the boom tube were worn. I did the deal and as soon as I got chance I stripped the boom down and indeedy, the wear pads were worn to a silly degree. How this went unnoticed I have no idea. Failure to act and repair the pads has resulted in the outer boom tube to be badly scored to the point it should really be replaced otherwise the replacement pads will wear very very quickly. Also as you can see from the pics, the top on the inner booms pads has completely worn down to the metal itself. To put this back to how it should be would cost thousands, all for the sake of a couple of hours of maintainance. This machine has only done 300 hours I have come up with a modification which will cost around £60 in parts. Instead of putting small square pads on the top of the inner boom, I am lining the outer tube completely with the nylon sheet they use to make the wear pads, so effectively making a smooth socket for the inner boom to slide in and out making it much more efficient and much better than the standard factory configuration Don't ignore maintainace issues

One consideration is loading the basket. At certain boom configurations, can you suddenly double the load in the basket ? One other thing.... I have yet to see a climber section down a tree faster than a mewp.

Today is my day off and all I'm doing is checking, sharpening and greasing all the tackle for a big job I start tomorrow. I keep coming in for a brew and having a look on here whilst I drink it

I've just had to do a google search on the term " day off "

I've just realised after searching through all the banners So in your spare time you'll have to be quick, pull your socks up and knock one together

The bandits.....and any other chipper for that matter...will cope with Conifer if the blades are SHARP. The only problems I have had with conifer was when it was wet and that was a Gandini, but I solved that problem by drilling air holes in the drum casing so it threw more air out with the chip. The only issue I have now with my Bandit is the roof of the inlet opening tapers down behind the top roller, so if you feed a piece slightly bigger that 6" it will go past the rollers then jam hard into the taper In other words, the rollers will allow a bigger piece that it can take past them and you only find out it is too big when it jams, so now if I am doubtful I feed the thickest end in first

Came across this little hardback to hove behind the seat in the truck. Covers history of the knot, best uses and step by step method and only paid £2.99 Would be a good book to carry round in the field to compliment Arbtalks Knot directory [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knots-Andrew-Adamides/dp/190576507X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1306059341&sr=1-1]Knots: Amazon.co.uk: Andrew Adamides: Books[/ame]

No idea Sean

Strangley enough, I have just found myself reading that from start to finish ......I must be coming down with something

So that'll be 3 - 3.5 inches long then

Looks like a Leylandii Mark..... best get it down before it gets any bigger oh...I'll wager pin oak