Chris Sheppard

We've had a jimny for the Wife for around 5 years and it's been mostly great (it's getting some miles on and is 11 years old now so it's starting to have a few little problems). They are really quite robust despite their looks, and will go places off road in standard trim that most other 4x4's wont - ours is on A/T's and it just seems to float across boggy bits. If you aren't looking to carry a lot of kit or tow then they aren't bad at all. I've seen the diesel ones abroad but yet to see one in the UK - don't know why they don't bring them in as they'd probably sell really well. economical - hardly - my 300 90 does similar to the jimny and the 200 disco does a good bit more. We have had figures similar to what suzuki suggested a couple of times but only a couple and also driving very, very staedy.

Jeez, that is an old one - but the colour does make sense with it being an ol RM one. The only person at Riko that would be able to tell you anything about them is Steve, if you can get hold of him.

That's quite tempting. I've bee nconsiderign the Makita for a while as there's times I could do with a bigger saw than the 372 for longer than is good to borrow one and most of the time I'd be usign it, it would be for felling (with the delimbing being done with a smaller saw), so the weight wouldn't be too much of an issue.

Fairly sure we'll be off this year - quite looking forward to it as it'll be the first time in three years I've been to one and not had to work at it so should get a look round

Absolutely, and 99% of the time it would take anything that could be physically gotten underneath it, but the Elm on the estate at the time was almost liek concrete and could be an absolute swine, especially if it's already seasoned

That's how I understood it too Agreed That's how I understood it To make it worse, we were informed that even if we drove only once in a weekly period and were require to use the tacho, then the whole weeks hours, irrespective of what actual work you were doing, came under scope of the driving hours, so show season was interesting with shows where you would need to set up that morning, do the show and pack up that night and drive to the next one, or even something as simple as working a 7 day week.

I liked my Uniforest (35e) when I had it and it was amazing how much abuse it would take Had a 6 tonne electro hydraulic Igland on the county and it was OK but I didn't really get on with it. Used some of the smaller, but older Fransguards - if the new ones are as good as the old ones then they can't be too bad. Used some of the old type Krpan's in the past, not used the new ones but they look fairly smart, almost like a red uniforest. I don't know for sure but I think Riko have got their new depot set up just outside Tockwith now too - Sure Jim or Steve will be abel to let you know. Unless things have changed since I left, Riko were the sole importer for the Uniforest winches, though they did sell through some dealers on occasion.

The VOSA guy who fined my previous emploer thought otherwise

Nope - the 3.5t would be including the weight of the trailer and any load on it, unless within an exemption as mentioned earlier.

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Chances are with nothing but Elm and old Beech, and in the reasonably big sizes you're dealing with, the 10 tonne Thor will struggle. I used to run a 20 tonne thor on the back of an 1164 county and even stalled the tractor out on some Elm no bigger than a foot or so in diameter - that splitter would handle green timber in metre lengths that were big enough I'd have t feed them under it with the crane - yet Elm Part of the problem with splitters is that until you get into the Pro ranges, most are designed for the "easy" logs - if you look through the manuals of a lot of splitters on the market it usually says somewher that "these machines are designed only for use on straight grained timber" One other thing with a table type splitter like the 10 tonne Thor (unless I've gotten muddled up) is that you have to lift the logs up to the table height - at 24-30 inch diameter and 22 inch long - I'd not want to do that for very long A conventional vertical with removable table might be a better choice

Have a feeling it belongs to Woodmad on here - if it isn't his he has one similar for sale

Chances are it'll stay and I'll re-chassis it eventually - what scuppered things today was once I dropped the gearbox crossmember off to find it just about rotted out behind it Either that or Break it for bits, though other than the clutch and the chassis, the rest is mint so it'd be a shame to break it. Don't fancy puttign it all back together knowing how bad it is but it's not worth puttign the effort into patchign that when there's other patches to do too so guess I'm off shopping tomorrow for something, whether it be Van, Car or pickup

I've chance of a 53 reg D22 that's just had a rebuilt engine, the rest of it seems in good fettle too and I'm still umming and ahhing - once the mods have been done to the engine, is there anything else to look out for on them? Also, what MPG is pretty normal when partly loaded and no trailer? Am torn between a doublecab (and maybe get rid of the 90) or a little van but keep the 90 (and rechassis it probably)

Iused to do a bit of closed course and H&H a few years ago and really enjoyed it - the H&H were a great intro as you didn't have to worry about timecards etc and after the first lap, once everyone was spread out a bit more then it was a bit less mental. The 200 EXC was a bike I always wanted - my build at the time suited a 125 but my riding style suited something bigger. All these bike threads are making me want a bike again even more

Have seen a few people do this - think it varies a bit on different machines but is meant to be fairly simple to do. Mate of mine used to have a tank drip feedign the chain with plain old veg oil with no probs.

Can you post a photo of it? If it's red with a ratchet brake it's probably an early Krpan and if it's green (or maybe blue) it's probably an early RM one - chances are the only person at Riko who could help would be Steve.

Congratulations

If I understand right, in simple terms, if you get a double acting valve and run the feed from the existing single acting valve into the D/a valve and then from there, take a return to the top of the tank (so probably the back end of the tractor on yours) and put the s/a valve on constant pump then the d/a valve should work both ways.

I'm hoping the thread will keep growing Spec wise, I've found in the past that some places have very slightly different spec and what one will take, other's might not (i.e so Xinches of deflection across the length of a sawlog) - If you can get even just something like an email back from the customer with the spec on then there's no come back - if you've cut it to their spec you've done your end of the job. In theory, unless it's a pig of a job, you should do well doing it for the timber if it's big enough to have been put in for clearfell. Price wise, from a felling/extraction point of view, I look at the average size of timber, take into account how hairy it is and what I think I can get on the floor, crosscut and stacked in a day (or on the floor and snedded if we're skidding) add a bit of a contingency on and then do similar for the extraction and then work backwards. Rich, if you need a hand with the cutting let me know

Biggest I've ever seen They had planted loads on the Estate I used to work on and they had a habit of blowing over once they got to around 18" diameter

Shame Mr Neale isn't still looking for one on there

I think we're both saying the same aren't we?

looking good - keen to see it in action The americans seem to do quite well extracting small stuff with two wheel tractors

think we've crossed wires somewhere What I meant was that since Technorton have shut down cundey systems set up and still produce the models that technorton used to - only reasonably recently as this last APF was their first one.