Tom D

Could you find a plug with a wider thread and drill out and re-tap?

I'll pop down tomorrow after work...

Wanna buy my 110 Richard?

It would be possible to put a third seat in but it would probably invalidate your insurance. The transmission tunnel is wide so there would be no legroom either. If it was an old Landry made when 3seats were allowed then it would be ok.

Gonna look into that... I'll try the kit in the back and see how it fits.

My new one. N&J Aluminum built the box, really pleased with it... Sent from my HTC Desire HD A9191 using Tapatalk 2

Starting out in forestry work is a lot harder than arb work, the contracts are much bigger and therefore tend to go to the bigger firms. All the fcs stuff is on a frame work... PM me your details, I ocasionally have stuff..

Large logs 2-4 foot diameter, 2-5m lengths. Pippy grade on some of the logs. near Coldstream. Call Tom 07801 538 717:001_smile:

Yes, just further up the road in the dip. We have felled taller ones by the loch side but that was the heaviest.

Council. Country park job. I don't have any pictures of the hinge, I wouldn't want to embarrass Andrew lol. It wast too bad actually, he had to bore from both sides with the 36"bar on the 66 and release at the back due to the weight and wind direction. Not easy to make them look great.

Not many harvesters doing that size stuff, most of it is yield class 24.

Just fell sned and section, we tidied brash with the wee tractor. Its a forestry site so not much chipping except round car parks etc. Glad we didn't have to chip it...

Its ok Dean, he's going to come back and set fire to it.

We had to fell this old edge tree today as it was moving its root plate. Height: 36m Girth: Chunky Weight. 8-10ton? 29.6m of 10"+ sawlogs, knotty though..

me too..

How does it tend, there looks to be quite a sharp bend in the rope coming off the pulley and onto the first ZZ bar?

Friction hitch will self tend, just as well as the ZZ if its loose enough, BUT the looser it is the more sitback there is, and thats where the ZZ scores.

I like that, a lot. RE the bottom link, it needs to be that way round, or it wouldn't line up with the rope very well, the bottom link is like that on the ZZ too, its just shielded by the body so you don't see as much of it..

No, its riveted, the rivet is 7or 8mm but the holes in the zigzag part are 10mm, there are a couple of collars inside which support the pulley. On the ZZHC I have just used a 10mm bolt and some washers for now, if it performs I'll machine up some spacer collars for that too. To get it off file or grind or saw off the top of the rivet and knock out the rivet with a punch, its tight!

havent climbed on it yet, works fine as shown...

I left a ZigZag in the same bag as a Hitchclimber.... They must have mated!

This highlights one of the big problems with arb insurance. You were not a subcontractor, irrespective of the fact that you have your own company if you work under the direction of another, i.e. in this case the man you were working for, then you are an employee (or a non bona fide subcontractor). In any tree felling operation then the man on the saw is in charge, regardless of his position within the company, therefore you were working under his direction at the time. This means that you SHOULD be claiming on his employers liability cover (if he has any) If he hasn't then you may need to sue him. I agree that you are entitled to claim, your costs are perhaps exaggerated, but you do have a case IMO. If he had left you to it and all the men on site were under your control then YOU are a bona fide subcontractor and therefore responsible and should claim on your own insurance. Many small tree firms try and circumnavigate the legal requirement to have employers liability cover by, deliberately or otherwise, claiming that "employees" are in fact subcontractors when they are not. If you bring in another individual or company and they work alongside you they are not Subbys. If you bring in the same people and give them a job spec and leave them to it then they are subbys, and it will be a condition of your insurance that you check their insurance and competency. Ever noticed why the big firms you work for insist on seeing insurance and CHAS, NPTC's etc? its because they know the law!

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8 or 9 should be fine, clarkes sell it.

Get in touch, I will be hireing soon, based E Lothian / E Borders though.