dig-dug-dan
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Have to say, thats a good price on that crane, and essential in those circumstances!
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What does a crane like that cost for the day? How do you decide what size you need, and do they provide the lifting gear?
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I saw a similar thing years ago on the nissan stand at saltex. It was a double cab cabstar, with the fith wheel axle, and a purpose built low loader trailer, that had a 6 tonne payload. It never made it into production sadly
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from experience, many use the pulling force of the boom, rather than the leverimg force, and the two are very different. You need to crowd under one corner of the stump, while pulling the dipper in towards tne machine, then push the boom out. This puts massive levering forces under the stump, and it should come out. I have dug similar sized ones out with my 0.8tonne machine!
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Holly. Recognise it anywhere
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the scattolini tippers used by vfsmhave a multi stage ram. My three way has one fitted. The power on the first section tip is around 5 tonnes they told me!
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For what its worth, one of my old trucks had a tipmaster body on, and that always came down fast, even faster with a load on. So far, ingimex I used tomhave and vfs tippers I now have come down nice and slow regardless. It could be you have a set up that wont allow slow downwards tip
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well as you can see the side anvil well and truly knackered. In fact, the top bolt had sheared, it was only held on woth the bottom one. Thank goodness it didnt fail and go inside the drum. the other anvil wes well rounded. Had to weld a bolt in the alken key head to undo them, they were a pain. the side anvil was a piece of cake. will be using chipper in the week so will test its performance on the smaller stuff. Shame I didnt replace these when I did the refurb.didnt know about the side anvil, but wondering what purpose this has?
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What you will have on the truck is a clever box of tricks with relays in which is designed to " hide" the trailer lights from the vehicles system. Sometimes you ahve an audible buzzer of flasher that tells you the indicators are working correctly on the trailer, its a legal thing. I have neither on my cabstar, but if the indicators do not work on the trailer, they flash twice as fast on the truck, as any vehicle would if a bulb has blown. if you have plugged two different trailers in,, and the truck indicators fail each time, then your problem will be with the box of tricks which you will need to trace by following the wiring loom from the trailer socket. to the guy who fitted his own towbar, be wary as you will need to tell your insurance company you have fitted it yourself and that its not " type Approved"
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One Man Post Hole Borer - Digga Australia I guess give them a call. Not sure on price, but intersted myself if you find out!
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One man augers are a waste of time round here. Even the two man ones are crap. Hit anything like a flint and it will stop dead, or send you flying round. best one is the one on wheels made by digga, its hydraulic, so has a reverse if it jams. It also has teeth that will grind through flint and the whole thing comes apart and can be put in the boot of a car
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Scrap it. Its just not safe enough, I wouldnt use it!
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spectrum do them as a kit with the bolts, so will order them up and see if it makes a difference thanks guys
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Ok, silly question, but is the anvil bolted on behind the feed rollers.?
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I seem to be getting stringy bits when I chip, mainly conifer but had it with some ash the other day. Seems to be ok on the larger stuff, but the smaller branches its worse. do I need to replace the anvil? Its a refurbed 1998 entec 6inch
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Whats the compromise with remapping or chipping a truck?
dig-dug-dan replied to Woodworks's topic in Arb-Trucks
Surely the manufacturers would set the engines for this In the first place? Better mpgs would surely help sell the vehicle? -
HAve pmd you
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Whilst I suspect you can now remove it, be prepared for some flack. I once turned up to remove a problem oak that was protected during building works, but not tpo'd. Within 15minutes of turning up, and being tied up in the tree ready, the council were out and had slapped an emergency tpo on the tree as tne neighbour had called them. Climbed back down, and lost a mornkngs work.
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My double cab cabstar tipper with a 12' body weighs the same as that transit!
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Whilst this is a sad tale, health and safety will always blame and fine the employer. If they used a mewp, and he decides to unclip his lanyard, reaches out and falls, the employee is still responsible. you cannot legislate against stupidity, but you can impose massive fines
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The only issue I can see is that you usually have to cut the pto to suit the tractor.
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Thats intersesting about the canter. I did consider it, briefly. The double cab version, till I discovered you could not remove the rear seats, or have sat nav! got the cabstar. Been great so far, cab is plenty big enough. Takes a child seat ok!
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Apologies if its not been answered, but why does it matter if they spit when you have stove? also, I have had oak, ash, sycamore alĺ spit. You just cannot guarantee it
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Bloody expensive now too. Drove past my local dealer, they had a brand new swb van, 29k plus vat. I nearly fainted!
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I have dug out hundreds of stumps with my 0.8tonne kubota, and the trick is using the dipper and crowd at the same time so it becomes a giant lever. Crowd under a root, and push forward with the dipper, creates massive forces that pulling will, not achieve. however, years of doing this caused the dipper to crack and nearly fall off, so it had to be repaired! I will add what was said, a ripper is the best tool for the job
