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Small scale timber extraction
Big 'Ammer replied to john k's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I wouldn't want to go down hill with it loaded either. Which is the biggest crank? The pedals or the inventor? -
Interesting stuff as usual Reg.
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Shame I wasn't local to you, I'd have had them and stood you a few drinks of your choice. Out of interest, what make and load are they?
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Little Dave's uni-stilt.
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Sorry to hear about your friend. RIP.
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Well done Ian.
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Not so lucky... Felled it at four foot high too. Bloody farmers!
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A mewp with its own crane, I'm getting a semi .... Mobile crane, it'll be red diesel then.
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Nice job, well planned and carried out.
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Don't pull it with a rope. Fell it with caution, bore it out a bit to see where the sound wood is. However, the easiest, safest and most predictable way to take that tree down is to knock the big limb off and then fell the top out, whilst standing in a man basket on the telehandler you have brought to the site anyway for moving the timber.
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New Jensen A540 Turntable Chipper
Big 'Ammer replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Large equipment
Maybe you are really tall? We have a 530T and I like the fact that you can just walk stuff into the hopper without losing momentum. It saves my back. With a flat table machine you drag to the chipper, stop, have to lift the butt end of the brash up higher and then pivot it over the back of the feed table for it to get bitten by the feed rollers like a flat table machine. Its two movements instead of one. The fold down hoppers with an open top are far better for bent material, but if you are going to cut wide / bent material up to put it through a chipper with an enclosed sloping hopper, it takes no longer to dress it out a bit straighter than to just cut it smaller any old how. When we got this machine it took me a couple of weeks to adapt how I worked, and IMO, the pro's outweigh the con's. The small amount of bits that do fall out on the floor isn't really an issue. -
Leaning sycamore with great high anchor point!
Big 'Ammer replied to Rupe's topic in Rigging and roping
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New Jensen A540 Turntable Chipper
Big 'Ammer replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Large equipment
The cost of blades will be a major concern to Dean seeing as he sharpens them twice a week! I find Jensen blades last a long time. Maybe to do with the sloping hopper shaking a lot of the grit and rubbish out before it goes in? -
Leaning sycamore with great high anchor point!
Big 'Ammer replied to Rupe's topic in Rigging and roping
Nice job Rupe, thanks for sharing. What kind of slings and of what length do you prefer on your rigging plate for general use? -
You can shoot within 50 feet of the centre of a public highway back towards land you have permission to shoot on, provided it does not cause distress or inconvenience etc to users of the highway. In summary. Its part of the road traffic act, I believe. However, common sense should prevail when you are shooting near the road.
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Check the connection to the throttle cable hasn't slipped a tiny bit and you are not quite at full engine revs, even though the lever is wide open. It may be set high enough that the rollers will work, but any slight drop in speed when feeding bigger brash could make the no-stress kick in. From one of your previous posts, I think you said the engine mounting studs had sheared. If you have recently had the engine out to replace the mounting studs, the cable may require fine adjustment after putting it all back together. Or, if the battery has been off for any length of time, the no-stress counter may need to be reset.
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What he said. You have a Kwik Chip 222, right? Check the clearance from the the little roller wheel switch to the part of the stop bar that touches it. If thats ok, then the switch itself maybe faulty. If its not those, then work your way back from there.
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Doesn't anybody make a bucket for small machines with a disc coulter on the side for this sort of job? If not, then they ought to. easy peasy lemon squeezy. When you have made one, send me the royalties, you read it here first.
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Despite the job spec, and all the hiccups, fussy client, etc... Fair play for getting on with a crap job on a horrible slimy day and making the best of the situation. You didn't break anything and went home safely. When you are faced with a bad situation in future, you'll look back and think 'well its not as bad as that poplar we did' , you'll calmly work out what to do for best and take it in you stride. Everybody who has been in the trade any length of time will have had days like that. Thanks for posting.
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Yeah, we wouldn't like to see anyone getting ripped off by paying a lot for it and when they got there finding out its much smaller in reality.
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Cheers, is it a stumpgrinder supplied through Boxer or one you have sourced and made brackets to fit?
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Blaisey,what kind of money was your stumpgrinder attachment and what kind of flow rate does it need please?
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I'm in. I'll bring my 262xp, gotta have that in the 60cc comp!!! It'll be like a night out with an ex girlfriend! And my 2100 CD with 15" bar.
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Outside of work, I had a Jonsered 2045 on a long term borrow for weekend work. The first saw I bought myself was a old Husqvarna 162 for £40. Did four jobs with it and then it seized. Replaced it in 1998 with a hardly used s/h Husqvarna 262xp for £150. Got 15" and 20" bars for it. It has been my 'Go-To' saw until I retired it a couple of years ago. Super powerful, ultra reliable, lovely balanced, do anything saw that has earnt me a fortune over the years. ... but probably cost me the feeling in my fingers. Its still in the shed, and starts and runs spot on. The Stihl MS361 is the only thing that comes close, power, weight and balance wise, the anti-vibes are superb, just a shame you can't run it effectively on .325 chain.
