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Gray git

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  1. A ongoing job this week, a little out of the ordinary for us but made a horse starvation paddock with 5" of chip covering the grass so far 140m³ of chip has gone in which has nicely emptied my yard. The botex has been brilliant for the corners and edges. Another ongoing job for me has made a leap forward today, getting the cherrypicker sorted, gear box is back, engine is back next week so fitted a new wing to replace the damaged one and gave the whole thing a spray tan, just the bars to finish in black on Monday.
  2. Your not a proper grinder operator till you have found a water pipe or two [emoji6][emoji56]
  3. Just shows its not just stormy days that trees can let go! Very lucky it was so slow and everyone was out the way.
  4. Too young, kinda hope he didn't have kid's to leave behind, sad news
  5. Don't know why but that's not what I thought you looked like... [emoji6] Wasn't my business I felt like that with it was working for someone else who expected me to put my life on hold for his business which was definitely having a effect on my home relationship. Own business is hard work, long hrs and still effects home life but in a different way and affords me the option to just not work if I need the day off or early finish and the rewards or more noticeable as efforts put in are reflected in reward back.
  6. Something like this might be a cheeky way of making a return line.
  7. Got one of farmi and was about 75quid I think but had to add sling to that. Really handy thing on the right job, especially windblown we found
  8. Are you based at Catterick? If you are thinking about doing a few courses try giving garath at arb-for training nr layburn a call as he looks after the training for a lot of service leavers and is ex forces himself.
  9. Good good, all doing well thanks. Yes it's amazing how many times you end up looking at a new scratch or chip thinking how the hell did that happen, annoying sometimes but as long as it keeps running well it's just that.
  10. 5 months on how go's it? Hope your still loving your new chipper and it's blasting through the jobs and earning its keep
  11. No, outer ones are longer than the inners, tending to find the damage is more on the outer edges than in the middle of the v
  12. Rkp platform from Ferryhill, for 1 day get it operated as saves you having to learn the machine and ultimately saves you time.
  13. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F283005324726 Looks nice
  14. Quickchipp 222 37hp I'd guess
  15. Very good, garath knows his 1st aid stuff inside out as was or possibly still is a 1st responder and worked with the fire service. Definitely a well structured and delivered course when I did it with him.
  16. https://www.arbfortraining.com/course-availability 15 June available.
  17. We didn't have that crack on our st8 but had plenty of others, some cosmetic which were irritating and some structural which if left unspotted could have been seriously dangerous, redwood did sort everything eventually and did it very well giving me back a rebuild vertually new machine but the hassle and down time lost my faith in the machine and brand. Hope you get it sorted easily mick
  18. This was only 8.5ton of timber on a 11 ton trailer So as said your unlikely to ever overload it. Not many have 4 wheel braking as standard and we had to specify it on this trailer. Something to consider is what you think you'll be shifting and from where, are you doing forestry and shift small thinnings or arb and handling ugly hardwood Really like these units for ugly hardwood https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F132648402660 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F153008120972
  19. Very nice, love the smack down in the fire ash. Will the timber be claimed and used?
  20. Nice job to get stuck into, at least the winching distance isn't to bad up the slope.
  21. Bit of oak extraction today for a friend who's smaller trailer just didn't have the grunt for some of these big long bits.
  22. I know, it's been left to the nettles for a bigger machine but it was rediculous putting 150hp through a 6" machine. It would make a brilliant front mount for a smaller mog as can be close coupled and take the reversing box off and spins the correct way as standard.
  23. Here you go, this is what they look like in the disk, even got twin lined spout with a rubber insert to help quieten down the discharge.
  24. Yes two pairs of blades, I'll take a picture of the disk tonight for you. Bit of a pain to set up as takes longer than regular blades, not done it enough yet to work out if a easier way exists that I'm missing. Probably wouldn't have been my 1st choice but when such a clean second hand machine came up within budget I thought why not. Chip is definitely better than any normal disk I've used apart from my old farmi.

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