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  1. Ty Korrigan
    I'm 62-65kg depending on the season and I find that swinging a 300kg+ grinder a real grind...hhh! The swing action in the HB20 is great and requires no serious but it really needs level ground, very level. I recently lost a quote to a swing shovel for 20 Douglas stumps each 1 metre across but I don't mind as I must admit that it was really a job for a much larger machine. Since replacing the bearings at some serious cost I am manic about greasing them before or after every job. They are purge bearings so I grease until the grease shows through the seals. We find a grinder is an important factor in the number of jobs we win and although doesn't go out every day certainly goes out enough to pay good money. Next one will be orange to go with our T'shirts and saws...hhh!
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    Hello, Well it's a bit hotter down here and so when possible we climb early mornings in PPE and later change to lightweight but tough trekking trousers and use the silky a lot more. Our T shirts are cotton but strangely I find them cooling enough and wet myself down with water sent up from time to time. I always have a change of kit for the restaurant and drive home. It is the 5th day of Ramadan and I eat before 4:15am and fast until 10:15pm. However, I have permission to drink as there is no way I would survive the day without doing so. The fasting is quite good, I get a real sense of well being from abstaining from food but I do need to drink about 4+litres per day.
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    Working towards it Dean! It is certainly a profitable add on sale "Stumps with that Sir?":biggrin: Ty
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    Just done our biggest ones, a 30m Douglas close to a manor house and stables with butt decay and a large Macrocarpa in the same garden. We did a resistograph test on the Douglas and found profound butt decay. The Macro was full of rot but much higher up in it's multiple stems. 3850euros not including the stumps. I put an appeal out on the internet advertising free wood and about 70% went that way, collected from the site by members of the public.
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    Hello, We have run an HB20 for the last 3 years. It's a good earner for us and so far has coped with 95% of all stumps thrown at it. It can be very difficult to operate on sloping ground without first cutting a level step for it and I've had it over once when I was new to it. Global are good to deal with and very responsive to getting parts etc. I use green teeth but recently managed to get some red teeth for conifer which certainly breeze through anything stringy but get blunt fast if there are stones. I recently cleaned it and it came up like new apart from the nose and cutter head. Regards
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    I use a wee green Kangoo and the Sidewinder is a tight squeeze but it goes in with the front seat down, no room for passengers. Alloy ramps on the roof and all the kit inside. Lash it down tight as 300kg+ rolling around next to you is a bit of a risk. Empty, the Kangoo will do 1000km on a tank too Regards Ty
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    In fact, now I have gotten to know you guys on this forum, I think I would bid super low just to take the bread from your precious kids mouths and see you all go under before buying your kit at auction...
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    Well, Allowing me to revise a quote in order to win it I win, client wins, win win! I won't drop my pants over a quote but I hate to lose over just a few quid. Now... I have just received our end of year accounts and as a result it looks like a new John Deere 1026R with wood splitter may be on the cards. I'm doing very well here and don't tend to worry too much about what others are pricing at these days. Regards
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    I don't ask how many other quotes but offer to negotiate should they receive a 'like for like' written quote that is lower. Regards
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    May I ask how do you know how many quotes the client is getting? Do you ask before hand or what...? Regards
  11. Ty Korrigan
    Big Leaf Tree Company Walk Tall Tree Felling 'E' Tree (just phone) Patriot Tree Care (All our clients are Loyal) All American Tree Care Company (imagine a flag aloft a redwood) Big Tree Demolition Company (Imagine Big fat fellas, bare chested holding V8 tuned home made saw with bar that isn't available here or anywhere)
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    A what...? Bakerlight Blair!
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    Hello all, A question, The weight of Douglas fir. I intend to cut it into 4m lengths for transport as I need to hire a loader that will cope with the weight. The stem is clean up to 20m and is 1m DBH slowly tapering. Regards
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    <p>Hello Chap,</p>

    <p> I have been asked about a job on Normandy.</p>

    <p>Grinding 20 Douglas stumps with a 1m diameter cut face.</p>

    <p>I have not been sent any images as yet.</p>

    <p>From your experience, with a grown ups machine like yours, what price would you put on such a job?</p>

    <p>It's a bit big to be economical for my HB20 but it may be worth asking another with a bigger machine (such as...?)</p>

    <p>Area is Vire.</p>

    <p>Hope all is well.</p>

    <p>We are looking at 1. land and buildings 2. New JD 1026R with a bucket and log splitter.</p>

     

  15. Ty Korrigan
    We lightly pruned a 25-30year old cedar 18months ago (2 winters now) You'd hardly know it had been done in fact. Shortly after, a fencing company did it's stuff and dug 2 holes for concrete posts as well as taking off some lower limbs. This summer the tree is going brown after losing all it's needles over the Winter then re-growing sparsely this Spring them only for them to go brown again. Any idea of what could be the problem and even what I should look for to help diagnose the malady? Regards
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    Does your Dad know that when forest is transformed into pasture anything over 2.5hectares attracts sociale charges payable to the MSA...? I don't know how much exactly but it may be around 350euros+ per year for 3 hectares. I've just been watching a HUGE swingshovel about 17ton rip out stumps and roots before putting them in a 30m3 skip. Not my job but around the corner on a building plot. He did 30 decent stumps in 2 hours! What are the dozer guys doing with the 420+stumps?
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    So how much to clear it all up then...?
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    Any-one any experience of these stoneburiers? They are the Rolls of such machines but no where on the web can I find a price. Looking for one for a 25hp tractor. Regards
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    To add concerning UK pension contributions whilst over seas. I have just asked for a Pensions forecast as I have 21years paid up and wish to continue paying into as a 'precaution' You need 35 years for a full pension and 44 for certain death benefits although I don't know what they are! In conversation with the pensions people it seems I may be able to pay class 2 contributions as a self employed person whilst overseas which is £3 per week rather than the £13 as a non-worker. I'll keep you all posted. Regards
  20. Ty Korrigan
    Well we have more arb work in Winter and less in Summer but that then brings in the decking, fences, sheds and awnings. We are installers for Castorama (B&Q) so rarely a quiet period between arb work and Casto clients.
  21. Ty Korrigan
    Nuts...6 teeth gone in total, smashed on hidden iron. Just shattered off the peg! Er, Dean... I'll be placing an order shortly it seems!
  22. Ty Korrigan
    Back for a late lunch. Been grinding out a laurel hedge underneath pleached limes all morning in the drizzle. In the 3 years I've owned my grinder and only used Green/Red teeth I have only ever thrown a tooth once...until today. I have lost 5 this morning! Smashed them on hidden iron bars like rails embedded in concrete and sawn off below soil level. I'll take images later. Luckily, I have lot's in the tool box and they only take a few minutes to change over.
  23. Ty Korrigan
    I've just wasted 5 mins there when I could have been looking at Asian nubiles instead...
  24. Ty Korrigan
    Are these any good...? The chipper is a bit Walter the Softy though... Arboriculture & Augers for Planting | Kanga Loader
  25. Ty Korrigan
    I found this video of a Negri 225B It's a self propelled single cylinder Honda 13hp with a feed roller. 10k though... Personally, I'd get bored feeding it and a CS100 is far quicker and half the price. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4p-y_3g05U]Biotrituratore Negri - YouTube[/ame]

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