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    We're already being charged for those too! Can't remember exactly how much it is a year (and they don't collect all year round either) but it's stupid. If they'd have just added it onto council tax, no one would have really noticed, but insead you now have to pay for a tag to go on your green bin
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    You had to light the blue touchpaper didn't you? Dare say there'll be lots of replies soon, but pretty sure you can't run it as ag for hauling timber for hire and reward.
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    On a tractor that small, I'd steer clear of a tractor hydraulic splitter, even if it somehow has enough flow and/or pressure (I'd guess it won't), it probably won't have much oil capacity either. PTO would probably be better, but on those tiny tractors often the geometry of the linkage doesn't always suit implements sized for more conventional tractors, but you might be able to get a remote pump (so the pump slots onto the PTO rather than having a shaft from the PTO to the pump) which might help. Petrol would be the safest bet I reckon, though I dunno how it would compare speed wise. In theory, both the petrol and the pto should give the same "squueze" even if the speeds are different.
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    Can't remember the make, but we had one turn up on a job 2 or 3 years ago and I'm pretty sure it had come through Logosol.
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    Says who? There's no expiry date anywhere on mine.
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    If it was me, I'd not bother with that one. For one it's very short, two, it would need all that skip gear removing (an extra cost) and three, a crane isn't a loader. An hiab type crane is generally for lifting individual heavy loads, whereas a timber loader is designed for doing several operations at once and repetitve loads quickly. That's not to say you can't use a crane as a loader, but it will be slower, and when you're on by the tonne, you'll want to be in and out with each load as quick as you can. Something like an old brick lorry would be a step closer as the cranes on those are much more like a timber crane and might already have a high seat and longer kingpost.
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    Exactly - the ball's in your court as there's nowt to compare it too
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    I've not seen any come up for sale second hand so that's likely to keep the used prices quite high. Depends how old it is too i suppose - if it's fairly low hours, I'd be thinking of starting talking around 75-80%. Chances are he's got a figure in mind that he wants to pay and you'll have one that you want to see for it, it's just a case of negotiating to the point somewhere in between the two If he starts getting funny, tell him to go find another second hand one and tell you how much that is - when he can't find one then he might understand.....
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    I'd say it's a lot of effort to go to, especially if you don't already have the right license, or an operators certificate, or the wagon itself. If you do decide to go ahead with it, I'd say an 8 wheeler would be the minimum to go for - barely any bigger than a 6 wheeler and should carry 18T as a minimum. Also, pretty sure it'd need a tacho too.
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    I usually go for tea as bad tea's usually marginally better than bad coffee, but sometimes I'll take a gamble and usually it pays off with a fresh coffee Been caught out a time or two though where they've had a jar of instant for the hired help Been on a job recently where we'd been there 3 or 4 days altogether - didn't get offered a cup of tea until about half an hour before we left on the last day.
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    My wife had an X reg one for about 5 years and it was good. In the time we had it, other than the usual consumables (pads, exhaust, etc) the only things that went wrong were the bottom pulley delamintated at around 80k (common but only around £100 for the part and less thn an hour to fit), and the crank or cam sensor started to fail (agan a common one and only £50 or so and 15 minutes to fit). Off road it would go most places a landrover would go, but lacked a bit of groaund clearance and needed to be revved o make up for it's lack of bottom end torque. Small inside, and if you need to carry a big saw (66 etc) then get used to taking the bar off each time or having the nose poke through between the seats Strimmer - never trid it but think that's just being optimistic! Ours used to do high 30's to the gallon if you were half sensible with it. Don't need one, but would have another if the need arose.
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    Bit of an oddball, but the mitsubishi delicas are pretty cavernous inside and will handle more severe off road that the 4wd kangoo type vans. Some of the late model fresh imports are immaculate, especially considering they are no younger than 15 years old too. Jimny's are pretty good, just very small inside.
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    Nail. Head I used to think the same as the OP until I found myself on the other side (fortunately that was a good while ago now and a distant memory). Like Dean, I'd find myself on the computer or phone on a weekend or well into the night (computer, not phone) just trying to clear the ever increasing stack of enquiries. The best way I can think to describe it is like running a marathon but every time you get the finish in sight, you get dumped back at the start again.
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    Chris Sheppard replied to Cut4fun's topic in Chainsaws

    Mightn't be the fastest revving saw but always surprises me just how torquey they are. Mine doesn't come out much now (since Spud breathed on my 372) but it does make me smile when it does. Nick, I found there's a knack to starting it and once you've sussed it, it's a doddle. It's been ages since I've had mine out but seem to remember something like pulling it over till it's just before TDC and then giving it one good pull.
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    Really windy here most of today and last night and fairly rainy too. Has stopped on and off a bit but then starts gusting again. Seen a few trees down on my travels but not as much as was expecting.
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    Must be some of that fancy southern spruce you get down there
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    Was it Spruce by any chance Tom? Larch and Pine seem to work really well, but spruce, even when really dry, seem to smoke quite a bit IME.
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    Still contemplating one of the little 280WES's - anyone spied them online for any less than £231 inc vat on a 10"?
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    It's easy done though. Ended up in a similar situation when we were cutting the worktops for the kitchen. Still don't know how I did it as both me and SWMBO both checked and double checked and I still cut it a few inches short. Luckily we managed to use that bit for the last bit we needed and the other bit left over was just long enough to do the original gap As for today, was looking forward to a day pottering about at home and woke up to a blocked toilet so spent most of this morning rodding the drains All courtesy of one of the neighbours trying to use flush the world's supply of baby wipes
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    Same for a row of smaller connies, cut them off 3ft up and peel them out with the hydraulic winch on the chipper - all done and dusted quicker than heading back and coming back with the stumper. On the tracked vs pedestrian grinder thoughts, a couple of years ago one guy I work with got a predator 28 to run alnongside the little petrol pedestrian one he had. In that time I think we've had the pedestrian one out two or three times. It's really surprised me where we've managed to wriggle the tracked one in. Those big Carlton's are ace though, remeber doing a row of leylandii stumps without actually stopping tracking forward during the whole row
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    Loads probably Twisty I got our local motosave to order me in a couple of rattlecans of arles blue for my old 90 (not the usual off the shelf rattlecans but the good stuff) and it was a perfect match - admittedly the one and only time it's matched, but it did It's surprising just how well you can bring back faded paintwork if you use the right stuff and do it properly, especially on something with plain colours and thick paint like a landrover.
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    Also known as Windjammer Blue too I think. On the vin plate under the bonnet there should be a paint code too.
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    I've always got on fine with the old Balance helmets (like the old Husky ones). If get fed up with orange then Clarks do them in white or blue too. Leagues ahead of the old Stihl ones, comfy enough and you could buy somthing like 4 of them for the price of one Protos, plus most importantly my Sordin radio muffs fit them
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    Dunno how I forgot this one. [ame] [/ame]

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