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  1. Tom D
    This is my kind of hiking! Might make a decent mini-skidder..... I want one whatever... [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame]
  2. Tom D
    As little as possible.
  3. Tom D
    Or its just blown its engine and the owner would rather claim on his insurance........
  4. Tom D
    Look at your pictures, it says on the plate next to the riddling lever "coal" and "wood"....
  5. Tom D
    I have an Aarrow stove, the riddle lever has two positions, down is for burning wood and up is for solid fuel, if you look at the grate when moving the lever you will see that the coal setting has much larger gaps in the grate to allow more air through. The trick is to allow the ash to build up on the grate for a couple of days and then only riddle it occasionally. PM me if you want any more info.
  6. Tom D
    Sounds remarkably like my mornings Mark, the second part that is.
  7. Tom D
    for a base layer a crew fro me, then you can wear what you like on top..
  8. Tom D
    Well done! It is a single leaved ash, I don't think its diversifolia, I can't remember what it is now. I'll come back with an answer. Its just growing in a hedgerow, its been topped with a flail several times hence the odd shape..
  9. Tom D
    No. Manna ash has a compound leaf like regular ash does.
  10. Tom D
    There you go....
  11. Tom D
    ?????
  12. Tom D
    We have a Rayburn, it stays in all night every night, and can heat our 3 bedroom cottage as well as doing hot water, we also do all our cooking on it. I'd have another.... It is on its second boiler though as the first one was weeping at a weld. Its 10 years old and burns nearly a cube a week..
  13. Tom D
    I heard a local hire company had problems with them cracking up too.... Basically this is a 7-8" chipper built as a 5" chipper to keep it under the 750kg weight. There comes a point where physics takes over.... If that machine had another 500kg in it it would be great, but then it would be a shliesing......
  14. Tom D
    Still got the atlas too, although to be honest the ifor is better, the steel on the atlas is soft, bends easily. If the brian james tipper is built like the tilted it will be good...
  15. Tom D
    I have the new ifor tipper. I like it the design is more monocoque and I think that's a good thing. I'd have another. I also have a Brian James tilt bed and that's a great trailer too. Before the Brian James I had a Bateson which is made of bakofoil when compared with the Brian James. The old Batesons were great but now they are soft.
  16. Tom D
    My latest musings on arb waste.. TD Tree and Land Services Blog
  17. Tom D
    Until people report this kind of thing to trading standards it will just carry on. That's what I'd do. For every clued up customer who smells a rat there'll be ten who just pay up.
  18. Tom D
    Time serts are great, but they aren't cheap
  19. Tom D
    How big is the job, I know someone who would travel with a big machine if there were a few.
  20. Tom D
    Its just the ratchet Mark, but its cut into the tree, we botched ours on the other day without cutting it in and it slipped up about 6 foot, they are pretty solid when cut in however.
  21. Tom D
    How the **** did you take that picture? Mine needs replacing actually as it has a significant nick in it now, they are pretty standard lorry ratchets think, shouldn't be hard to find...
  22. Tom D
    I've had a couple of calls from people fishing for my biomass chipping rates, i'm happy to tell them what I charge. I still find it a bit sneaky though.
  23. Tom D
    This is it... the sap is very nasty stuff, I'd wear paper suits and gloves, and a mask, don't chip it, take it somewhere and burn it.http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/91564-id-test.html
  24. Tom D
    Unless you have other work for it it's not worth getting a big chipper. Mine was 44k and then you need a decent tractor to power it. I could travel as far as you if there was a decent quality to chip. I can chip up to 16". Chipping 250 ton with a hand fed machine would be torturous you really want crane fed.
  25. Tom D
    The fuel ones just need to be wee stickers...

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