Gray git
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I think the only time I've come across a problem with the hb20 is when I was trying to get between a garage and a fence, the grinder fitted no problem but had hardly any room to swing the handles and couldn't see a thing infant, managed though!
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Bit of a call out today, it was cracking and hung when it was called in but thankfully for us had made it to the ground by the time we got on site.
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Reeth, might be room on the stand if you fancy bringing your big toy along. August bank holiday Monday.
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Always interesting to see what success people get from shows and how they make the stand interesting. Doing our 1st 1 in August presenting the tree work and equipment. Always after presentation tips or tricks.
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Getting to that time of year when village, town or county shows are cropping up so any one who's put themselves on show to the public let's see some pictures.
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Important question relating to the Stihl calender
Gray git replied to monkeybusiness's topic in General chat
Please not you in a mankiny my eyes would be scared forever:-P -
If they are subbys and good regular one's why not offer to go halves on it with them, that's what I did with 1 recently with his climbing ticket. Probably wouldn't call it training on the paperwork but femilyrisation (prob not spelt correct) of the machine and use afag guide as checklist.
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I think so but should the proverbial hit the fan the question of whether you have any formal training might be asked. You could deliver a tool box training talk with a combination of manufacturers handbook and the afag guide as a basis. How many staff? Only ask as if you are friends with any other companies localy you could get together and get an independent trainer in for a day to deliver a Lanta course which if there's say 6 shouldn't cost that much per bod and will definitely satisfy and insurance or site inspection.
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Important question relating to the Stihl calender
Gray git replied to monkeybusiness's topic in General chat
Will have a good look tomorrow but I don't think it is. -
It'll do it but you will have to alter the blow out on the winch or fit a 2nd circuit, also worth looking at fitting a small oil cooler into the system somewhere as I've found after about 20min the oil can get very hot due to the tank only being small. Why not spend a bit more and look at the 1 from Rico like mine then you have a recognized make with some comeback also that 1 has a very small footplate that will drive you mad. Get some picks up when you do it.
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This big thing came to visit my grinder today.
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Yes, that'd do it for sure!
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Getting it in would have been fine but eating the wrought iron fence part grown into it might not have gone down too well!
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About 6hr I think, about 30ltrs of fuel but luckily only found 1 stone of any size so teeth are still good.
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Don't know what you mean Mike, total coincidence I've hung my cap on that handy control leaver. ;-)
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Nice hanging branch for the boys to sort which I tackled this monster beech stump, before you say cut it down lower I tried and blunted every big saw I had within seconds! Removed about 6m3 of grindings, hard going shoveling in this heat! And had this big critter come land on the grinder.
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I had spotted that Jensen and a lovely gravely chipper on eBay, it's a gamble with older machines with no warranty. Cost of repairs is 1 thing but downtime is far more costly in reality especially since we get a lot of time sensitive jobs that might have taken months to book for a road closure so reliability and back up is playing a big part in what I decided to do at the moment.
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To be fair the forst is looking good Ian. Would love to go for a bandit 90xp but a lump more money and 2.2ton to drag round all the time. In an ideal world I'd have a big 9" machine and keep the quadchip but don't have the money for that.
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Nice<3
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It is.
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Like you say Gary it's fine for the TO to recommend several contractor at a 1st visit if no 1 has been appointed to carry out the work as hopefully by doing so the work would be carried out to a standard that everyone would be satisfied with. But as I said when I'm acting as agent and have already 'won' the work for them to suggest another is just bad practice as it makes them think I'm not a good choice. I strongly believe as a local authority employee they should not influence a client unless it's not in the interest of the trees on bad recommendation reasons or bad work specs.
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I started with a rg13 which I tackled some fairly big stumps with and then hired in bigger if needed (selling it soon) it's not been out since getting a hb20 which is far ahead in what it can do but also a lump more money. The little predator is quite good and quite aggressive for its size and easy to transport.
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Got the inline 190 coming on Thursday for a demo and see how we get on with that.
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Poisonous ones ;-)
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The TO or the contractor she obviously fancies ;-)
