Tom D

1000 Jon.

Just paid 45p, its getting better...

Thats only if you reclassify it as a crane, you could just keep it PLG and its not a problem. The reason dedicated cranes can't tow is because they run on red. if you keep it as ply and run on white you can still tow..

I thought long and hard about this years ago, I ended up going down a different route buying a valtra instead but not because the landy crane is a bad idea. Great for picking up timber on jobs and even small dismantles, lifting stems out of gardens over fences etc, plus if you deliver logs in bulk bags it would be ace, I was going to have a 110 landy with a toolbox behind the cab and a hiab behind that.....

Nice! your felling looks good enough to have just stunt felled the three of them though. Maybe next time.. were you tempted?

right now a 2.2 tdci before that a 2.4 tdci and a tdi before that..

First tank of fuel on the all terrains, got an extra 60 miles over the muds! second tnk is going to last way longer too... So this has led me onto a depressing calculation, over the 50000 miles I have done on the current landy this would have saved me about £3k! and over the 250000 miles I have driven in landys over the last 15 years or so I would have saved a shocking £14k...... Almost enough to buy another landy! I'm converted.. bin the mud terrains and buy a winch with the money you save in year one, that way you still won't get stuck..

Theres something called spot response SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger thats quite good for remote areas with no signal I think. Well done for considering it, 20 years ago a guy I knew decided to set up his own log business, he bought a splitter and a pick up and started asking farmers for dead trees to scavenge. He was offered a big elm at a farm up in the hills, it was a bit of a climb but he had a 4x4 and got quite close to the tree. when he was felling it it went wrong, he tried to run but it rolled on him, he was trapped under a big limb with a smashed pelvis.... No one knew where he was, and no one had mobiles back then. His saw was still running just out of reach but he could just touch the tip of the bar, saws being what they were back then the chain was still spinning, he cut his hands to bits getting hold of the saw but eventually managed to get it. He cut the limb off himself and started to crawl towards his truck. He was beaten by a stock fence which he couldn't get over, he had to wait until he was missed and discovered. After a few ops and a long recovery he was ok, but a lucky man all the same. People think it won't happen to them, but sometimes it does.

That pretty much sums it up.

What's if for out of interest?

er no. but it has the advantage of being able to shift the timber too.....

I have a crane fed heizohack that will chip in an hour what a TW150 will do in a day, based in the borders, its towed behind a tractor if thats any good for your site.....

I have the KO2's in 265/75 16.....

Just put the BFG AT 2's on mine today, they are so quiet compared to the muds, Glad I got them. I won't be if I get stuck though lol. I think they'll be a lot better stopping in the wet too..

Tested our new one today. Definitely saved us time, took some big lumps out with it too.

If they are growing in a stand and you open it up too much you will loose loads more to the wind...

People didn't go out and buy stoves because oil and gas were cheap, they did it because its the "in" thing to do.... A change in fashion would do far more harm to the log business.

The bigger wheels will foul the bottom of the trailer so you will need to put a spacer between the spring hangers and the chassis. Hardly sounds worth the bother to be honest. what are you pulling it with because most 4x4's are crap off road once you put a heavy trailer behind them, whatever tyres they have on....

I used to drive an L200 with the track edge, they were a good tyre...

Funnily enough I am thinking of changing mine to a less aggressive all terrain pattern, I reckon if I got an extra 30 miles per tank that would have saved me around £900 over the lifetime of the tyre. I can always take the tirfor if I think I am going to get stuck. I do so many motorway miles these days that I can't really justify the noise and poor economy of mud terrains for the od occasion that I go off road. IME in a lot of off road conditions all terrains are just as good as muds.... Discuss... any suggestions. I have always like the BFG all terrain....

Check there isn't a bit of the discharge chute bending over on the inside, if you get a burr on the inside, even a surprisingly small one can cause blockages.

I don't think you can link to a mail account, try cutting and pasting into a reply..

Just bought one actually, we'll see how it goes, does look handy..

Always flaked into a bag, although we have recently started using these for some of our ropes.. cheap and cheerful and nice and solid / waterproof. Downside is don't put wet ropes in as they will sweat and moulder. I find the cheap rope bags disintegrate pretty quickly and the good ones are pretty expensive, I bought the barrels as an experiment and they are doing ok so far...

I waved good bye to mine today, sad to see it go its been a good machine, the first 'big' thing I bought new. Hopefully have the new one by the end of the week though, that will probably shake me out of my sentimentality. Edit: for anyone looking for a second hand one, Kilworths will probably have it for sale soon..