Chris Sheppard

Our local Husky dealer's prices always used to be great on the Oregon chain oil (£39 inc vat/25l of late) but recently he's not been gettign oregon and the new stuff is working out a fair bit dearer at £35 /20l Might not sound a huge jump but seem to be getting through a fair bit at the mo, think the last drum was my 8th this year. Does anyone have a supplier who can get it down below £1.75/l delivered? We'd even consider 205l at a time if we had to.

Course he should stay, if anyone actually thought he was being serious for a minute then they clearly need to get a grip. Didn't actually see anything any different to normal yesterday round us so guessing strike didn't really do a lot.

How much £?

would you be looking just for Arb or would Forestry be of interest too? Is York too far to travel?

Reckon you'll be surprised at what it will pull - great little winches. We've been using one recently on some fairly rough pines and it's been surprising what it will do for the size of it. Dead easy to work on too, we did the clutch pads a few months ago and if it hadn't been for one of the new ones being mis shaped it would have been a few minutes from start to finish.

It was that plastic strapping that uses some sort of buckle rather than a crimp - I think it can be re-tensioned too. We found that you had to be careful not to over tighten it as it did snap a couple fo times. Could have been operator error or maybe just cheap strapping/clips or both

Got to use the one Riko sell at the APF last year as we had one on the stand. Seemed a well built thing but I found the whole process a bit of a faff. You'd get the bands on and think they were tight then tip it out and it would end up in a bit of a heap. Sure it get's better with practice but it's not a system I could be bothered persevering with

Agree about the axle lockers - would have been a good move. Crazy isn't it with the 90's - I've towed near 3500kg with mine a few times but it certainly doesn't handle it like a 110 or 130 does, however you load the trailer.

300 tdi - usually every 6000 miles or so, sometimes a bit longer but not by much

Caledonian do the Kranman ones, they look pretty smart. Think you can get the vahva jussi traielrs from a couple of other suppliers too - know Jonathan Latham was advertising them on ebay again recently

I'm liking my current defender, got 275,000 miles on and still going strong. Would agree with the others - buy a cheap, knackred one and it's bound to break down a fair bit. Either spend more and buy a sound one or go cheap and expect to spend a bit replacing bits as and when. IME using genuine LR parts for the important bits is money well spent, a few of the pattern part manufacturers quality is dubious at best.

Thing to watch for if buying a used one that isn't hycrack, is to be sure you can still get the replacement tips for the cones. I know hycrack still do them but know of at least one major one that ended up scrapped as no one could supply a new tip for it. That said though, even fairly rough ones seem to be making quite good money on there - probably due to the time of year.

How long til you're ready to port a 357

Was on a job a few months back where they had a grab almost identical to that - also dealign with some skanky thorns. Was really impressed with what the guy could do with it. Wasn't bad for shifting chunks of wood about either, maybe not as easy as if it had been a normal grab with rotator but stil la lot better than handballing it

sounds like either you have the wrong bar or the wrong chain for the bar. Edit: There is a possibility of you having bought a small mount bar when you need large or vice versa - my 2163 was small mount despite it bing a similar size to a husk 372 on big mount.

We've a spare couple of loads (8 wheeler) of Scot firewood available - from around 20" diameter down to 5or 6". It consists of anything too wiggly for a sawlog (which doesn't take much) and anything too small for a sawlog (so sub 6" TD) There's nothing massively bendy, and generally the worst of the bendy bits are of the bigger diameter. One load will have been down a good 2-3 months, the other more like a couple of weeks to a month. We might have some Birch spare in a couple of weeks or so, but can also look at the possibility of some 50:50 loads (one bay of each). PM if interested.

We've wood coming out near York and I'm sure our haulier would do it but the haulage might be a bit high. would be somwhere between 17-20 tonne on a load. 99% birch from 12" diameter down.

used to have a Hakki Pilke Eagle - really liked it. In many way,s the processor that I replaced it with was a bit of a letdown in comparison when you considered the cost difference.

they look like real small tubex guards - might even be made by the same

It's a Weimer, Andrew Holmes is the importer still I think. From what I can gather, ours is a bit of an oddball special build as they don't list the 3000 crane (3m) or the smaller trailers. The only bad thing I can think of with ours is that the wheel track could do with being a bit wider as I've tipped it over a couple of times now, oddly though it's always been only partly loaded when it's gone over. It's built very much like the Farma ones that Jas P Wilson's bring in now. We used to build similar sized stuff when I worked at Riko; reckon they probably still do? Price wise, I dunno, we got ours second earlier this year. smaller ones don't tend to come up much used so we grabbed it.

This is pretty much what we do at the moment. We're running a 4 tonne trailer with a 40hp 4wd tractor, both of which are light enough to go on a trailer for transport. We're not at the tiny end of the market, but definitely aren't full size. depending on size and spec of timber, we have had up to just short of 4 tonne of timber on it in one go (die straight pine sawlogs) but most of the time a fair bit less. The extraction doesn't act as a stand alone business but we're not averse to going out just to forward out what other have felled, though there'd need to be either enough wood to go at or be of a reasonable value to make it worth doing. It does have it's limitations, but does very well considering. The site we're on at the moment is varying between small diameter hardwood thinnings (where it will fit up the rows without cuttign racks), right through to Pine clearfell, handling sawlogs up to 20" or so diameter and 16' long - so all in all fairly versatile. In the past I've ran tiny stuff (alpine and 1.5tonne trailer) and bigger stuff (county 1164 with 7 tonne trailer) and the current set up works well for us at the mo. We do have another tractor, 4wd this time, to go on the front of it to replace the little nasher, but we're curently guarding it up. Hopefully a week or so and we're ready to rock

still umming and ahhing about it.

Not done it but have seen it done. 16ft Ifor williams flatbed with all sides and headboard removed. the old JMS 900 trailers used to have a fold up rear bunk so went a good bit shorter. Reverse trailer up onto ifor, slide drawbar right in (one bolt from memory) then drive the tractor (AGT 835 it was) up forwards so the engine sits over the forwarding trailer drawbar, keeping the weight fairly in the middle. It was very very tight but doable - dunno what it was liek to drive with though

Nice little trailers but a bit small if you're planning on using it behind a tractor in the future. They're not the only ones to do drive assist on the trailer; Kranman do too and I'm sure I've seen others on youtube but can't think of brand off top of my head.

One thing to remember if welding a nut on is to disconnect the battery so as to reduce the risk of damaging the alternator.