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Dean Lofthouse

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  1. Mine is stock bottom roller Jonny, they did offer to do the bottom roller but I had to take the chipper into them up north and leave it. I asked them to just send me the new roller and I would fit it and send them the old one back but they wouldn't You dont happen to have a photo of the bottom roller do you, I could probably weld stock bar in myself in an hour or so. Just need to know the thickness of the bar they use
  2. It has a trap door under the bottom roller which is supposed to let stones and debris drop out instead of going through the machine, it helps a little having that open but a pile of chip builds up rapidly under the chipper which you have to keep shovelling up
  3. Yes Stevie, big bits of dead jam in the gap the rollers turn in, it also happens a bit on sycamore which shatters and splinters. Making sure the blades are razor sharp helps a bit
  4. Now everything has settled down and broke in it isn't half as bad as it was when new Stu. It still doesn't like deadwood though and the feed rollers constantly jam and you have to forward and backward the rollers to free them. Other than adding a spout extension I have no further moans about it, good solid well built machine compared to some. I'd buy another
  5. Haha, mine was worse Liam, no silky cuts on the maple reductions mate
  6. Speedlining one at a time Tim ??
  7. Washing line tastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  8. Mutilating twelve already mutilated field maple 50% reduction specified because of many moaning people
  9. I'm just taking random photos of the dogs at the moment to get used to and experiment with the different "creative" zones on the camera, but I want to get into landscape and nature much like your photos
  10. I'm just learning Sam, but I can still see you have a good eye
  11. I had an issue with exhaust bolts coming loose, I just fitted a new gasket between muffler and head and it cured it. Only other issue was handle bolts coming loose
  12. I'm guessing you have done a bit of photography before
  13. Haha, I got one of them in my workshop
  14. Yes still got it but with no finance, so it can sit in the barn for as long as it likes now and use it as and when I like
  15. It might be the same bloke doing both mate, stop one you stop both
  16. Its also criminal damage and a conservation area
  17. If I remember Rob, the payments were £600 per month and I charged £350 per day with operator. So in effect two hires a month paid for the machine and I got free use of it. The only way you get £350 a hire is to have a unique machine, the rqg18 is a good machine with good capabilities. In effect the hirer gets an operator that can do the job for them, all they needed to do was supply ground staff. You would need to be able to hire to other tree surgeons which is now much easier with such as Arbtalk. I reckon if I had the gahooners to go for a Teupen at £65K and pushed it I could get hires off local and not so local tree surgeons through networking such as this One thing I used to get which I didn't persue was gutter cleaning on factories at £400 per day. Factories normally have a clause on their insurances that require them to have their gutters cleaned once per year. The rqg18 did pay for itself but there was always that worry about having enough work in for it. In fact other tree surgeons hired it in and used it more than I did. But there are lots of uses for it which makes jobs much easier like ringing down large stems from a basket rather than off spikes, outer crown reductions, large wide conifer reductions, dead tree removals etc etc
  18. I dont refuse to go I just tell them I'm not cheap. An asian gentlemen came over and asked us the other day if we were cheaper than "all the rest" I just told him no, we were quite expensive really
  19. I want one of those Teupen Leo 23gt's but they are around the same price as the Mog, you would have to have some bookings to make one of them pay
  20. Oh no.....it's the hand on hip gay pose

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