steve@black

PHAS is spot on , £260 for a days work , I am guessing he is a experienced guy but doesnt really care if he is dragging brush or rigging a tree out. £260 for a days work with a 7.5 tonner full of logs on a good day full of chip on a bad but still has a value in some eyes.

Can anyone please tell me where I can get kubota parts from for the down time is doing my nut in at this rate I am going to buy another engine in bits just to have as a spare.

The weirdy beardy types are as bad as any of them , had dealings with them the work shy soap dodgers think everything should be free . There thinking someone left the timber in the woods in nice neat piles just for them.

Ten years time it will look like no one was ever here .

PM me a price availibillity and where they are need a look . cheers

Maybe a great idea but correct me if I am wrong nobody has been formally trained to climb on systems that legally require a back up line which is not being used. Might as well be doing it in shorts and flip flops.

REYNOLDS BOUGHTON RB44 RB 44 DODGE 50 4X4 TIPPER LANDSCAPER OR TREE FORESTRY | eBay Anyone have any experience of these , looks like a well handy bit of kit.

Hungover no but the bloomin AA would not bring me home , I was only 3 4 miles away on the same road (they only bring you to a place registered to drain tanks), had to get the old man out to drag me back with his car and sort it myself.Guess I have 40 liters of high grade fire lighting material now.

Filled my navara with petrol this morning if that makes you feel any better.

Poison every time , use two different types , bate the place right up really fill the bowls on the run they will gorge this will infect nursing mothers also .That should do the trick for a while and next time try a different bait the can supposedly become immune.Might take a week or so but you will start to see the odd dead un about.

A lesson in how cutthroat it is out there at the moment , it would seem to me that almost anyone will stab you in the back ,people seem to be always asking too many details about who you are working for or where did you find certain work ect .Keep them like mushrooms feed them full of s##t and keep them in the dark

Here,s mine taking down a pine in east Devon

Pump does not seem to purge I have had it running for several minutes that is why I was wondering about bleedng or something , feeling a Jon Cleese moment coming soon with this thing.

Type of thing I would do but I did refill when I put it back together

Was on a steel pipe (sorry not hose) got an engineer mate of mine to weld it

I have got my hands on a little 6hp log spitter which had a split hose coming of one of the rams. I have repaired the split and put it all back together and get no hydraulic pressure , my question is do I need to bleed the system or am I missing something completely

I expect it is the same chap with all of those chippers on the isle of Sky or whatever treeless island they are always on.

:thumbup:Perhaps being French it has gone on strike due to adverse working conditions

GRCS all the way and am in the same position as Testcricket , will bring it along when doing freelance work , once you have used one you really dont want to dismantle any other way.I was thinking of hireing it out to more responseable companies or do I just retain the comercial advantage locally by having one.

The building on the right looks like a mobile home John you could have just jacked it up a bit :thumbup:

Having used both extensvely would opt for the mx220 better built and as Rich less snedding

Having used both extensvely would opt for the mx220 better built and as Rich less snedding

GRCS if the price is right:thumbup1:

Have you got windscreen cover?

People keep on moaning about the market being at saturation point which it probobly was years ago there is so many people havng a go and lets face it the majority of tree work is a piece of cake.There is loads of companies gonig around my area mummy has brought them a chipper and there biggest saw is a 18 inch and they still keep on gonig. Alot of customers would not know a good tree job from a bad one and believe what the nice man that came and cut the trees told them and I think this also applies to some comercial clients also. Ge yourself a flashy website and your are off because of course everything on the internet is true. It would seem to me its all about the bs I was asked by an arb manager this year how you determine the the diference between a 20% and 25% reduction and he was serious he did not know. As for the utility contracts the quality has dropped dramaticly since the new contracts around here a couple of years ago,the clearing up even roadside is shoddy to say the least and as for the sites you cant see some of them look like someone has crashed a tractor through the woods at 60 mph and yet when I pointed a site out to a surveyor who happened to come past there response was the lads need to get in and out as quickly as possible. But what the heck I am on here on a Sunday lunchtime and after 20 years still love it and will keep going .