Tom D

Number 2

My first:

I'd love a Mog but we do 80 miles a day and a mog would'nt put up with that for long. Plus I dread to think how much ribena it'd drink. Whatever I get it'll be a 3.5 tonner, it just suits the way we work. The question is which one. Does anyone know wether a landrover tdci clutch will go in the transits?

Putting squirty cream on that would have been a crime. Trust me it didn't need anything.

Something I considered once was: add 2' - 3' of chassis to your chipper ( should be quite easy ) then put a nice toolbox on there. So long as the chipper will still fire into the back of the landy being that little bit further away, and hey presto you should easy have enough room for a couple of saws and climbing kit. I considered this when thinking about getting a landy like yours but price of 130's put me off.

I like landys Dean but even a 130 would not have anywhere near the load space of my ldv, I'd have to sacrifice the toolbox. Also I can get a 55 plate transit with 30k on the ckock for around five grand. Five grand doesn't buy much landy unfortunately:sad: .

I'm not sure what the mpg is but my LDV only gives around 18mpg so the transit surely cant be worse thatn that. I am thinking of a transit because the rear chassis is a similar size to my ldv and I am planning on keeping the tipper / toolbox and just buying a chassiscab. If the ivecos are a similar size then I could go for one of them instead. Re the clutches, are they a recall type part? ie are the replacement cluches better?

Ithought that pico micro stuff was all you could get anyway. Have you guys all been using full chisel while i've been suffering the pico micro or have they invented something even safer (worse)?

I am replacing my LDV soon, and would like oppinions on the transits, I will probably go for an 04 - 06 plate depending on price. What I'd like to know is are the 90hp models any good towing with a load or the 115 or the 125? anybody got one?

I've had bacon rolls and all manner of bicuits before but this was a first, home made too. :drool:

Right now I have plenty of work and as I say can guarentee at least 8 weeks with more work very likely. But I'd hate to take someone on permanantly only to let them go in the mid winter if things go quiet. Sorry but thats how it is, if you are still interested pm me and we can have a chat.

I could do with a bit of extra help over the next couple of months, I can guarentee 8 weeks work, possibly more, maybe even a full time job eventualy. Money will be only £50 - £60 a day so I'm not expecting a great climber or anything, just a responsible hard worker with a chainsaw ticket if poss. Ideally someone who lives in eastern borders or east lothian, as our yard is near dunbar. Thanks.

Thats the same as my bashlin alloys, I've noticed on our other set they ar much nearer the ground and hence blunt quickly.

I cant beleive no one else had a Mk1 Fiesta 1.1 great litle car, if it needed any parts just pop down the scrappy and help yourself for a small fee, there were thousands sold. Cheapest car to run for an 18 year old in 1992:001_smile: God I'm old

I was really quiet 8 weeks ago, now I'm really busy, with as much work in front of me as I've ever had. Need to take on a new guy actually. Its not worth panicking, just stay focussed and think smart with your marketing and you'll be ok. Still quoting for big jobs too but more than happy to do 3 £200 jobs a day instead. I'm still seeing loads of vans and chippers going about which is a good sign, if they have got work that means there's work to be had for you too.

Lonisera ??

Same as you Steve, I try to take the most off the sides and then the inside last.

2054:001_smile:

This is a great drive, near Loch Torridon and Applecross. If you get across to Skye, you'll get the meal of a lifetime at The Three Chimneys three chimneys - restaurant and accommodation, isle of skye, scotland It costs a bit, (around £50 - £100 a head) but is one of the top 50 restaurants in the world, and well worth it IMO. Hope you have a great time.

I'm not blaming the harness as such, but my point was that once the bolt has loosened it is free to move with every movement of the bridge. A nylock design would be better IMO. I posted to warn people that regular checks, whilst very important are not good enough, and locktite or some other threadlock must be used. It would appear to me that once loose, the bolt could come out relatively quickly through repetetive movements such as body thrusting when ascending. A preclimb check may not find any fault yet by the end of a dismantle the bolt could be completely undone.

I used to have a 150, it was wery good, the lister petter 3cyl was excellent, the onlt thing I replaced in 4 years was the exhaust and the drive link for the hydraulic pump.

As I mentioned in Rob's thread, I had one of the bow shackles open on my treeflex yesterday, ultimately this is my fault for not checking it properlt before climbing however the reason it opened is as follows. The shackles are supplied with a small plastic collar on the head of the pin/bolt, this is squeezed on closing into the eye of the bow, the surface of the pin is knurled at this point too provide grip. In the case of my harness I had opened the shackles when I bought it to attach extra gear, I locktited the threads when I had finished. This lasted for a long time untill recently when I opened them again. This time I did not use locktite, the harness was not supplied locktited so I figured the plastic grips would be sufficient. The plastic grip on the shackle that had opened was gone, it had obviously broken up and fallen off leaving the pin free to turn. Therefore I can only say that IMO the plastic collar is not a safe method of securing the pin and a thread locking compound should be used on these harnesses from new. It is worth noting that I was able to rotate the pin simply by moving the bridge up and down under load and it is therefore likely that had i not spotted it it would have opened later that day, and also possible that it was screwed fully in when I started the climb and came undone after I left the ground. So if you climb on a treeflex, locktite the shackles because once loose they could come undone very quickly.

I get my kit lolered, but tbh I don't have a formal weekly check in place, we thend to inspect things visually before each climb. Or so I'd like to think, whilst about 30 foot up a beech yesterday I noticed that one of the bow shackles on my treeflex had loosened, considerably, maybe four or five complete turns!! had this opened i would have almost certainly fallen. I will post a thread on why it failed shortly. Maybe a more regular formal in spection would have picked this up, maybe not, but the point is , had someone else been wearing it and fallen I'd be in the s==t.

An ms441 will weigh about the same as your 61, I have used both, but not side by side. I was very impressed with the 441, just be careful with it as I know of a couple of cases where rough handling has crqacked the casting where the front handle joins the bottom of the saw, this casting is half the crank case and is a very expensive repair. Other than that I think they're a good saw.

About 4 years ago I lost my rake and needed a new one in a hurry as we were on a job when we realised it was gone. I p[oped into the nearest garden centre and was totally unimpressed with the selection, I noticed that the wilkinson sword one had a 15year guarentee so I thought i'd buy it and take it back when it broke, at least it'd get us through the day. Four years later I'm still using it. Although I have justy bought another as we've worn the tynes down and it is not quite as good as it was. I have had quite a few over the years and non have lasted anywhere near as long as this one. There are lots of wilkinson sword ones out there and I can only vouch for the type I have but it has an aluminium shaft with an orange grip on top and a black grip lower down, the head is t shaped and NOT triangular like most. The head LOOKS flimsy but is is virtually indestructible. Can't beleive I spend my evenings chatting on line about rakes.... the wifes right....so sad:blushing: