Gray git

Cool, though you'd gon all posh and had alloy planking sides made up to replace the original. Looked into this last year and for 4 Pannal for the sides, headboard and full hight barn doors for the back around the 1500mark but at a estimated work out not much difference in wate to the original low sides. Just went cheep for now with some wriggly tin ;-)

You on the gin again mark? Few random pictures across the forum tonight...

Intercooler pipes will be next.

Pulls well, getting going on an uphill start often needs a lot of right foot or low box but once rolling it's good, been towing the quadchip around with it fine and had ifor trailer full of brash on it last week and towed fine. Just replaced the rear shocks as they were shot which has helped with a bit of body role and going to put heavy duty terrafirma anti role bars on it in new year, possible respray to match big truck if ££ alow soon as well.

No td5 cherrypicker jon, ain't fiddled with anything under the bonnet yet but this is the start ;-)

To me that means the van had Sheffield council written on the side

Pictures of trailer please as thinking of making mine a bit more permanent than what it is at moment.

Yip..

Funny you should say that, this just arrived last night for my td5, hope to get it on along with new coolant pipes tomorrow so will let you know.

Running a truck that can carry 7.5m2 helps put the trailer on and iv got 15m2 capacity which is aquivalent to a decent grain trailer. Used to get a friend in with his hiziohack but getting harder to pin him down due to getting more and more biomass contracts, always like doing as much in house and ofter the tractor chipper truck trailer just takes up too much room. A mog and chipper would suit but couldn't justify it for everyday use. As many have said there is no 1 perfect set up and everything is a compromise at 1 time or another and just have to find something that suits as much as possible.

Summer do sounds good to me, ow hang on ain't that the arb show at westenbert arboretum in 2015 better not let the boys disappear to gather fire fuel in there as might cut down something rare :eek:

Tempted to have a better look at the timberwolf 350DHB T as it sort of fits what I could do with from a chipper at the moment, again love my quadchip just not quite big anough for around 40% of the work I'm doing these days.

So that means you shot the chicken, left the black eyes in the potatoes and dribbled oil all over the veg :what:

Nice 1, better than it going into a chipper, well strate away anyway. How'd you persuade the trees owner to let it go like that and probably put job off till December or did it just work out convenient like that

I answer to many things jon and thats fine. You boys and girl having fun, wish I could have made it but circumstances said no - this year...

It's a beauty jon ;-)

White jeans.... Retro!! Nice shirt jon, are the gloves to slow you down a bit. Mrs shires been having a bit of a tumble with that foot? No saterday night fever for her then ;-)

Gopro 3black and the gopro editing software. It was Brompton on swale Rich.

The pretty reckless, absolution from the going to hell album Correct on the last G L A, keepsake from the handwritten album. 1 advantage is the bend radius on the splice eye as the backbone spreads it out over a large area of metal and as no moving parts to get stuck open or get cross loaded is a bit safer in that respect.

Scotspine, this was it's 1st outing so really a bit of a experiment. Since then have used it lots and have tried to get the slings to come of the posts with things like you say (on safe trees of course) but never managed it yet. I think it's because of the bend around the eye causes anough friction and the slings are soft anough to flex along the length and not push slack up over the post. It's like any tool good in the right situation and you just have to learn when that is. Darrin, roots causing foundation problems, dryads saddle forming in an old wound and strange fluting down the main stem which turned out to be internal fractures but not as bad as serspected from the outside. Fredward, I always have spare chains for big saws to save sharpening them on site to save time then I can do them in a vice later. The crane probably knocked over day off the job as rigging it would have been slow with everything under it and then cut up small as couldn't get valtra in close anough to reach anything. That waggon had the biggest boom for the smallest carrier I could find as a rigid would not get round the corner further up the lain and a proper crane didn't have any room for its legs, was pleases with how well it worked.

Already got a chipped front tooth from a steel crab, this thingd just take em out!

If a sling is trapped just leave it till you can cut it free or help to lift the section is available but you can get the main rope back to the climber to ready the next bit which is where it's easy to loose time. Don't tend to do many controlled zip lines, plenty of speed lines on light stuff but nothing on bigger timber. Enjoy and try get a few pictures if you can

Always when you've got a new chain on aswell think the last bit will become habitat somewhere eventually Enjoyed it as also always like a dismantle that takes a bit more thinking about. Used the backbone on almost every job since, so easy and the groundsmen love how quickly they can get it off and back to me, added bonus is that because it's quite heavy it won't just disappear back to the pully if you accidentally let go.

Just a naughty tight spot where it was growing and not 1 bit of damage. Spot all the orange dots on the 1st 6ft of trunk.... Nails, over 25 just on the surface alone,hit 1 strate off with the 088 on the last cut then 4 more before finishing the cut :-( Just did turn wet at the end of the day as well which didn't help.

Quite a long video but skip the 1st 3.3min to avoid me wittering on about stuff to where the real work starts. Got a bit of hydraulic help from lunchtime on for a few hrs to make sure the job was done in a day. Hope you enjoy. BACKBONE TREE RIGGING: