dig-dug-dan
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Vosa, or whoever they are called now, are clamping down on this sort of thing. Gone are the days when you could buy a tractor and trailer and start hauking diggers ,timber etc, even if its for your own work. It requires correct licencing, and you cannot use red diesel
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Keen to know more about your choice of tracker. I cuurrently use a battery operated trackers on my fleet of crushers, with 10 years battery life. It sends me a location every 24 hours, although i can change that to more often but it reduces battery life. I can go onto the app, and it displays the exact address and postcode of the machine, or pinpoint it to location on a map. Its useful as i can see if a hirer has moved the machine to another site without my knowledge. Does this system of yours do similar and what kind of price?
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Will we require a felling license
dig-dug-dan replied to paulb2785's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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Bateson do a lightweight trailer that you can remove the ramps from to get the weight down. You have to bear in mind the weight of the digger when its got some mud on it!
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At 60p a litre for red diesel, its half the cost of petrol So, lets say your chipper has a 20l tank, and you fill it twice a week, thats an extra £24 a week on petrol, say over 40 weeks a year, thats £960. And thats assuming the petrol engine is as efficient as a diesel, which it isnt. Sorry, its diesel all the way!
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Does anyone hire out things to collect chip and logs
dig-dug-dan replied to Charleton Chips's topic in General chat
Looking at your avatar i see you have a dropstaddt shredder. Are you able to deal with fence panels? The number of times i pull down a fence covered in ivy, they are a nightmare to get rid of -
Surely only toxic if you breathe in the smoke, and why would you ever do that?
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i only got the 5 tonne, as i thought it was man enough for kindling. going to try it on some decent size logs in the spring i see rockwood machinery do a 30tonne one!
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I brought ome of those to split old fence posts into kindling. Its super fast, but the thin stuff does get jammed under the ram occasionally
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Always fancied a pto stump grinder for my compact tractor. Rock machinery do a decent enough one, with two hydraulic cylinders, and a decent size wheel. 32hp tractor should be more than man enough, anyone have any opinions on them?
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The stuff i buy foams all over the place, so if the have added an anti foaming agent, it dont bloody work, but it does have an additive to combat water from the bio diesel, but i gather bio diesel is added to road diesel now
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It used to shear too often when it was a rollpin, now its a proper bolt. I take your point though
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I think the highlighted bold text is bollox, excuse the language. Its just a dye thats added, it womt do any harm to the engine, it might not pass emmisions tests, but since there is no mot for them, it cant make any difference
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I find the trick is to push the log on, and let go, wait for the log to split and stop, then remove it. I am running their smaller model on a 32hp compact, still dangerous. It has a shear bolt on it, but if it can split a knotty piece of oak ok, a shear bolt wont stop it ripping my arm off
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Surely it will cost more as it will burn more fuel being a petrol? Its c for me, i have a red diesel tank at the yard. I cant have a petrol tank and buy in bulk, there is no saving
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Years ago, i had a pickpine boscalio splitter, basically a lawnflite one. Those days, 1990's it was a one handed operation, and i remember crushing my fingers under a log as it was splittin. Painful, but not as bad as my dad who rolled a huge great round onto it, and as he held the lever back to split, the log pinned his hand against said lever, so not only could he not free his hand, but it continued to move the wood and crush it further. As luck would have it, the lever snapped and he only suffered minor bruising. The story above about losing an eye worries me though, as i have a hycrack that could possibly do the same thing?
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Tediously slow compared to an axe and maul Can you not have,an engine driven one?
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That's what they said to me... But I only ly had to wait 4 months I was told to wait 4 months, i never got round to co ordinating dates with the hospital. Besides, being married form15 years, i am like santa, and i only get to come down her chimney and empty my sack once a year?
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That's ridiculous. Had the ship nearly two years ago. My follow up to check for blanks is on the 8th. It's done by dropping in a sample to the hospital, who then tell my doctors the result, who then tell me.
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Don't own one myself, but often hire them, and they seem to be unrivalled in it's class.
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Hi mate. It should not come on unless oil temperature is hot enough. Sounds like the temp sender is faulty. It's screwed into the hydraulic tank, usually on the breather
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One of my customers, who I had previously extended his block paved drive, had them in to rip up the old blocks, and replace with new. Simple job, but they managed to cock that up. Did not mix the blocks up, the cutting in was appalling, with some gaps up to an inch, just filled in with lion dried sand. I asked why he did not get me to do it, and he said he didn't want it done, they kept coming back with a cheaper price, he couldn't resist. It's now got to be redone again, so he hasn't saved anything.
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I despair at the idiots round my way. Firm starts up employing foreign nationals, flood the place with leaflets and get all the driveway work, not one conforms to suds regs, no terram used, no one can compete on price. They will then move on to another town.
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Thanks guys!
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Out of interest, I have a 20 year old 044. Is this the current day equivalent?
