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Big 'Ammer

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  1. With Tom D's well observed correction.... No one is saying it can't be done in a day with the right guys and equipment, Hama. However, if you have estimated that this operation requires the resources and set up involving four staff and three vehicles to run and maintain, then £1000 plus vat is way too cheap, IMO.
  2. Four blokes, three trucks, one of which is making two journeys. For £834 plus vat. No wonder the jobs on its arse.
  3. Here's a couple of pics of a beech that went over with Kretzschmaria in March. The trunk was solid four foot up from the base.
  4. Thats incredible precision. Bravo! A good watch.
  5. And here we go again...
  6. Dean, for a piece of plant equipment like your loader, agree a value with the insurer and pay a premium based on that. Like CTS said, Trust are a helpful bunch. (But our vehicles are with NFU.)
  7. How much are they a ton?
  8. 100 views and no takers? What's your timescale for getting the job done, Brett? If you get stuck give me a ring and we'll sort something out. Nige.
  9. I have always been happy with Double Esterlon and have recently bought a new 60m rope. We run a 16mm system. We have just got a Stein single bollard to run it on, but havn't tried it yet. 60m is a lot of rope, but by the time you have run it through two or three pulleys, theres not a lot left on a 50m rope on a decent sized tree. Plus, as the two ends get a little tatty from use, it can be shortened by a couple of metres at each end and still have a decent working length. I recently asked on here if Double Esterlon was worth the extra money over Portland braid. Bob and Frank reckoned it was, in the value stakes alone, apart from being stronger. So I have stuck with what I am happy with. This is for 'proper' rigging. The odd light branch just gets a rope over a fork like the old days.
  10. Cut the rear cross bar off and mount it on a couple of stubs with anti-luce pins. You can take it off for chipping, carrying something tall or loading a bulk bag or a big log with a forklift, but fit it back on for rigidity or carrying your ladders. Or just tip the truck up and chip over the top of it.
  11. No. We are exempt from requiring one. We work within 50km radius of base. The tools, equipment and plant carried or towed are essential for the use of the drivers of the vehicles in the course of their work. We do not haul anyone else's goods or produce.
  12. Our mwb single cab transit has a 5 1/4 m3 chip body on it. The tool box and chip body are ally. With a set of triple extending ladders, two men, two climbing kits, saws, blower, fuel, brush, shovel, rake and the usual odds ands and sods, etc, it weighs 2420 kg empty of chip. If we removed the top barn doors and the chip flap it would weigh less still. I have never weighed it absolutely empty without anything in it/on it at all. We fill it full when running about and tipping on site. Most of the time it carries road signs, cones etc and runs about empty. We take little chip off jobs, but if we have a large quantity to shift we fill a trailer instead. Most small jobs don't generate much chip. Depending upon the type of material being chipped, up to 4m3 is within acceptable limits. Like I said earlier, its about the type of work you do and how you go about doing it. I fully agree that for day in and day out, all chip off site jobs, 3.5 tonne vehicles are not really suitable. But, that does not mean that everyone engaged in treework who runs a 3.5 tonne vehicle is running illegally every day, as your first post suggests.
  13. What an utterly ridiculous sweeping statement. Its all about the work you do and how you work. We have a Transit tipper. I am very confident indeed that we do not run overloaded in the course of our work. I don't care what other people do, or don't do.
  14. Wishing your bro a speedy recovery Dean.
  15. Big 'Ammer

    Landy kit

    They arn't very secure. A good lock and a security cable or chain is inexpensive. Fix one end down securely and run it through the handles of your saws if you're out of sight of the vehicle. It might just prevent an opportunist thief.
  16. That's what I thought? Beans are usually the last thing to get cut round here.
  17. Thats a great vid.
  18. 12' high and 4" diameter in your estimation? I'd say it was more like 3" ...... Just cut it down.
  19. Double Esterlon, then! The old one will get the scabby ends cut off and be demoted to the new 'pulling trees over' rope. The 'old' pulling trees over rope will be demoted to new 'pulling stuff out of mucky lakes' rope. You really don't want the old one of those Bob!
  20. Any other brands worth considering?
  21. Well, that's my thinking really. If P B is 2/3 the price but only lasts 1/2 as long, its false economy. The work I have had from the past two D E ropes has made them very cheap pieces of arb gear.
  22. These days I'm mostly at the bottom end of the rope; the light, whippy guy is up above tying the other end on.
  23. I'm after a new 16mm - 5/8" lowering rope. I have always used D E and been happy with it. Bearing in mind the obvious strength differences, P B with a safety factor of 9.1 is fairly close to D E with a safety factor of 10.1 That's still a good margin. A lot of places are selling P B as well now and I was wondering what, in actual practice, the differences are. P B is about 2/3 the price. How does it wear in comparison to D E? Who's used both? Are there any other alternatives worth considering? Cheers, Nige.
  24. My mate John use Partizan ammo in his 6.5 He can't load them cheaper and they produce very satisfactory results. Yorkshire Deer Stalking

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