Ty Korrigan

Ty

Hello, We lost ours today and splashed a great deal of cherry on route between Rennes and some horrible little Breton village only a fool with rose tinted glasses would ever buy a hovel. Anyway, I digress... Any ideas of an online supplier for these or is it only G.M for a replacement? I found these but am not sure if it is compatible. Reluctant to spend out £26 plus international postage only to find it isn't the right fit. Ceandess IC80 | Ceandess Wolverhampton Cheers Ty

Exactly! We all know that a chipper is a key element. Having a grinder too can be the difference between winning or losing the quote. Complete clearance, job done. Ty

For us, over 80% of all trees felled have stumps ground out. We own our grinder and only sub out very large numbers or when inaccessable for our 4012 which is utter pants 'hors piste'. I know of only one guy who tried just doing stumps but he found that unless the trees where his jobs no-one bothered thinking about grinding out. Ty

Behind your local garage from the used oil bins... Ty

Rennes, landscaping around 2 new appartment blocks. Ty

Examine and photograph it before hand. This way you are covering yourself in the event of any dispute. Some buildings here covered in 50 year old sheeting should be condemend anyway. Ty

Ours also froze up in 2012/13 Had to put a hot air paint stripper inside the infeed for 10min several mornings. Guess our drain hole was bunged up. I love our Quadchip but we are going to need to get some aluminium welding done then a tidy re-spray on the front panel as it has fractured in 4 places and dropped a panel peg. Can't have sharp right angles on alloy panels I have been informed. Didn't work out for the Comet airliner and it don't work well on a Quadchip neither. Ty

Somebody slap him! Ty

Us too. Ty

I've just exchanged my licence for a French one and to my delight it has come back with a 5t trailer entitlement. We've now almost 4k on the clock and still no tacho cards have arrived. Starting to get nervous about being stopped by the Gendarmes. Ty

I think it could do with a re-write. Perhaps by some-one with some proof reading experience. Other than that, a very comprehensive offering there. Ty

Mac told me he is in fact at least 5 years past retirement age! Ty

Why is that so hard to see? Ty

Much like your own Dave... Sorry, please don't beat me for that! Ty xxx

Here across 'La Manche' many tree companies run a landscape/grounds care offshoot as a separate entity. On grounds care, clients may benefit from a 50% tax credit up to 1800euros per tax year and a reduced rate of vat 10% Perfectly legal. I had considered registering a holding company in Morocco which owned all the kit and billing the French limited company for the hire... Company tax is VERY much lower over there but alas... I have a business partner so a firm NON to that idea. Ty

I do believe, that is about what we pay. Being VAT reg actually increased our turnover long term through commercial work (other VAT reg businesses and organisations) Ty

Mick has injections too for his third leg, it's comes to all of us eventually... Ty:biggrin:

You've more disco in your legs than John Travolta:001_tt2: Ty

I get disco legs accessing on ladders but fine once I've a rope around the tree. Also on skinny pops where your trying hard not to look down whilst spiking and hoping you don't miss and spike your self. Ty

I'm very sceptic. The dealer has 'found' the problem. Debris, resin, sap and chip collected between the roller and motor causing friction... Really? With 3000psi coursing through the system. Besides my Quadchip gets that and it has no effect on performance. Anyway, still jamming but I'm bored of taking videos and complaining. Ty

We've just changed our 4012D over to metric bearings. One new jackshaft and one re-machined. Bigger better bearings, less expensive than US imperial, sealed and greasable, not the purge type. 480 hours on the clock before the belt shredded due to worn bearings which is normal. Bearings though, silky smooth, just worn. The toothed belt is a shocking price though eh? I did read of one guy who has changed over to using 2 motorcycle chains instead. I've spoken to others who have used the hydro head and they all had serious issues and have gone back to belt driven machines. I have a suspicion that I may a bit unique over here in bothering (almost obsessively) to sharpen the grinder teeth. Whilst our 4012 was down having it's work done we subbed out to a local competitor with a tracked 5014 44hp. Aside from being better able to work on poor terrain than our 4012 wheeled, I observed that the actual grinding was no faster than ours. Later, Seb got a look at the teeth and was amazed to see them almost totally rounded off. This company had previously been running a Bandit with a hydro head and had no end of issues with it. I'm not saying that blunt teeth are the cause but a company that ignorant about maintenance of teeth probably can't see other problems as the arise. I can see that a hire compnay might like hydro machines because of their low maintenance but there again, they shift machines on to the likes of us after a couple of years... So your likely to get some-one elses dirty laundry to wash by buying a high hours used hydro machine. Having said that, when I replaced a hydro motor for a chipper, I was a bit shocked by the cost of an original spare. Later, I googled around and found that for 3-4 times less I could have bought one online. Ah well, next time. Ty

Actually, you may get: 1. Cold 2. Chronic Gameboy thumb. 3. Accused of laziness by your team. Ty

Our 4012 is an efficient enough machine on dry ground but gets stuck in it's own chip, can't deal well with damp slopes including the ramps up into the trailer or truck. Next one will need to be a 4x4 version. We've just had the bearings changed over to metric ones. Slightly larger, better quality sealed with grease points. Top jackshaft re-milled and a new bottom jackshaft. Same pulleys with new centres. This at 480hrs. These metric bearings are very much less expensive than the US imperial ones. Changed the 2 drive belts as well. Our machine is a radio control model and was 3 years old with 176hrs on the clock. Not alot for a hire machine eh...? It was shiny and very very clean which was not surprising as it had been pressure washed after every hire. This intense regime of cleaning had in fact caused the premature failure of many electronic components. Our machine was a Lemon, sold by an Orange. Over the next few days stretching into weeks then months Orange plant showed their true colours. Orange refused to accept the machine back for repair and instead wasted many of their own hours and mine searching for a solution via the telephone. In the end, we replaced a great deal of small electronic component. Make sure you get spare micro switches for the remote. These are a No.1 cause of glitches. Also, grease that main head pivot madly and purge the 4 cutter head bearings every 4 hours whilst warm. Don't just DON'T pressure wash your machine unless you really must. Get a warranty too, don't accept the 28day guarrantee or worse, sold as seen that O.P got my 'delivery driver' to sign without explaining to him first. Lesson learned here at some cost too. Ty

Eagerly awaiting the 991 top handle as used by Desperate Dan and Paul Bunion... Ty