Ty Korrigan

Next week, Spud shows us how to port a Vanguard 18hp up to 30hp and PeteB shakes his wise head. Ty

That looks like a an old saw. Any ideas on just what it is? Ty

For stability would one wheel work better? Ty

No seals fitted at all. In fact, during one breakdown mere days after taking delivery, I opened the circuit box up under the guidance of an Orange Plant technician over the phone I found it had several cms of water inside. His words where " Well that won't help at all" Ty

Well now, what do we have here...? According to the technicians at ALM in Laval this is caused by water ingress from over zealous pressure washing. They conclude the relays where already in an advanced state of corrosion before when we took delivery of the machine. Other areas and components are also affected. Some have been replaced, others have had their contacts cleaned. Now remains to be seen if the well known U.K dealer I bought the machine from will put their hands up and admit there being faults all along. OR continue to deny any responsibility and continue to insist that it is operator error all along. The bill for the repairs and recovery will be posted shortly... Ty

Well, now the Pie Eater has got himself a chipper, all he needs to do is find a client... Ty

Hello, Parlez vous Francais? If not, learn 'tout de suite' because the chances of employment otherwise are slim to none. If I can be of help otherwise then feel free to p.m me. Regards Ty

Agreed! Ty

I disconnect mine in seconds and the 3 of us can rag it into place as fast as the Portsmouth field gun crew. Reversing seems to be a real trial with the Quadchip, I've never known anything like it! It is either invisible or jack knifed, no happy medium... As for the weight factor. I bought a 750kg machine because of the saving in fuel as we travel long distances. Also I can move it with relative ease. Also because it served 90% of the work very well. Now I need a larger machine, we've got bigger and more productive. Lots of Lawson/thuya hedge removal going on over here and a 6" chipper is just not able to cut it on some jobs so we end up queuing up to feed at times. It's not the power, just the size of the 'letterbox' that it limiting. Ty

Sadly, this also gives us hours of fun over here as the French pronounce 'Pinus' as 'Peeenus' Ty:001_rolleyes:

BLERK! I'd rather eat giant bush rat or Coypu anyday! Ty

You know Swinny, you're not far wrong except one of the worse culprits is also the owner of 50% of the business:thumbdown: I still think the brake handle is fragile though, look at a 200t, far more meat on it and a far smaller saw! Ty

It's going that way soon, I'm racking out the back of the Iveco after the new chipbox has been built on. Also got to persuade people to put covers on bars and hang up their spikes to stop ripping holes in the kit bags too! Ty

Is it me or are they rather fragile? When I compare them with the all the other saws they seem far thinner, much less meat. I've just snapped my second one and at almost £40 a pop! I think it gets broken when kit bags are thrown on top of the saws in the truck. Can I try a resin glue to fix it? This one has not snapped off fully as yet. Ty

It's 10 years old man! sell it and treat yourself to a new one! Ty:lol:

NOT an accident though! This afternoon as I was grinding out a pop I had dismantled that morning with our HB20, I hit some metal embedded deep inside the stump. Now I knew there was a wee bit of soft metal as my chain had just skimmed it when taking the stump down low before grinding. However, I was totally mystified by the reaction of the grinder to a bit of 'metpost' or similar as normally it will chew through metal of this quality without a murmur. The grinder suddenly leapt up and kicked back into my leg giving me a mild dead leg but didn't stall but vibrated madly, a sure sign a tooth has gone. I backed off and took a look and sure, a tooth has flown off but also the pocket had ripped apart which was a first. Anyway, I couldn't bend down too far because of my dead leg so I got my Oppo Seb who was grinding other stumps in the same garden to finish my stump with 4012 we have been loaned by ALM in Laval. When I came to unload the HB20 my leg feeling better, I bent down to scrape off the mud and chips when I saw this, the reason for the exploding pocket and the mad leap the machine had taken.

You may be wrong about these guys Mr Huck, instead of dumping their waste they may have been doing their bit for the environment by creating a bio-niche habitat for wittle biddy cweetures to snuggle up in on the cold forest floor... Ty

There where clearly brambles, that why the price was what it was. Ty

Even higher than greedy old me! I rather think the traveling classes have been plying OUR trade again ha ha ha! I wish they'd just stick to stealing trailers and plant, then we'd all know where we stood! Ty

Tree surgeons are NOT the major predator of song birds. If I don't fell that Conifer hedge in May then some-one else will. By destroying a few nests I'm not destroying the adults though unlike cats who destroy EVERY bird. Keep cats inside or on a leash or better still, keep no cats. Ty

Hey, lucky find! I came across a naturally growing cut leaved elder last summer, sadly long discovered and propagated but none the less an exciting find. Locally, weeping cedars and sequoias are common in gardens from the 60's and 70's. with the cedars often grown into rings/wheels or at washing line height, long and low. Best of luck with your find! Ty

When it comes to negotiating, I often use the stump grinder as the winning card by offering the stumps at 'cost' rather than my usual profit margin. No loss, just no big gain on stumps. It's a very good bargaining tool. I hate to lose a job just for a few 'sous' especially if I've had to travel any distance to quote. Ty

Say's he now he's actually invested in some equipment...ha ha ha! Ty:001_tt2:

I find that the stumps that pay the best are those in places too tight for a mini-digger and too large to dig out by hand. For these I can use the HB20 and charge the earth. The series of big grinding jobs I've reserved for the 4012D are due to start up again tomorrow. Lucky we got a loan machine... so we are going out with the 2 machines to make up some lost time. I'll post the source and price of the teeth once I have the invoice. Regards Ty

I can't believe that in the U.K stump grinding pays THAT well:confused1: I thought you where all awash with people offering grinding by the inch. This afternoons stump was 1km from base and just over a metre in diameter but felled 2 years previously and so already a little soft. We tried to get a load of a Bandit hydro machine on loan but none available it seems. One thing I am pleased about is that now we have absolute proof that the problem with the 4012 is very real and that it is intermittent in it's nature and that the machine was delivered to us with this fault. I have also found a source of teeth half the price of the U.K Carlton main dealer and a supplier of diamond discs at a fraction of what the same company are asking. Ty