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  1. Gray git
    Nice, what's the payload? http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  2. Gray git
    Started the day butchering a beech hedge, client was insistent it's what he wanted diapite warnings it's got a 50/50 chance of snuffing it. Made better by a sympathetic sycamore reduction over a caravan thisafternoon. http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  3. Gray git
    Just been totally soaked topping a beech hedge, went from sweat to wet in seconds! Now scorching again and almost working in a steam cloud off my shirt. http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  4. Gray git
    Cheers, over filled it nd dressed it back like a old boy taught me drill the holes to arrest the crack nd fill from bottom up then spread the puddle into channel, definitely getting better at it but still got a lot to learn before I'm even half as good as a few lads I know. http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  5. Gray git
    Birch bark is nice, like it. http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  6. Gray git
    Got warrior on both my landys and have been good winches but the standard battery leads are cack and worth changing when fitting for the thickest you can get. Remote control as standard is very handy as well. http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  7. Gray git
    Did that Monday Mick, checked all water levels on all vehicles as well, even in this heat and without the fan on I can't get the landy to run hot with its new Super shiny new radiator, should have changed it ages ago but will probably regret it come winter when the heater is even more pathetic. http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  8. Gray git
    Pruning and faffing on at a caravan park today luckily up the dales and high up so a breeze all day but talk about hot when I got back to yard and had to put a load of logs into trailer ready for tomorrow, home and shower turned to full cold for 10min. http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  9. Gray git
    Cheers mull, I'd forgotten I liked the tunes from the water boys. Quite into this blokes album at moment https://youtu.be/5vJmoqbAjyI http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  10. Gray git
    Ok, worked through the settings and got it not so bad now, few days nd I'll have forgotten what the old 1 was like nd I'll all be good again http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  11. Gray git
    Quite a lot. http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  12. Gray git
    Hmm not sure about these changes Steve, just a random picture showing in the thred list nd not always the last 1 posted. http://www.dryadarb.co.uk
  13. Gray git
    Got caught up with some fixing today Slave cylinder on rb had popped last week so replaced, brakes had seized on ifor nd wrecked a tire so new 1 on and new pads in as nowt left, got the bench set up for sharpening greenteeth so while doing something a tooth can be set away. Serviced the chipper, new blades and cut out and welded a crack in the plate that holds the hood shut.
  14. Gray git
    Na would have still been worth it, don't quot me on it but should have been about 200 ish but how people charge for part days varies so much it's hard to say. Too drier timber or stuff that's slightly turned due to being standing dead or windblow can cause a lot of fines as can badly set up machine. Species can make a vast difference as well western red will produce a lot more fluff than pine and Spruce chips finer than larch, even the size of the timber can alter how it is presented to the drum and the size/quality of the chip.
  15. Gray git
    That's tosh, it won't produce as good chip as it's cleaving bigger chunks off the side rather then off the end grain but I've never seen a ring explode and as for causing damage have you ever seen how well built these machines need to be to cope with being fed by a crane all day. More likely they didn't have the skills to feed arb waste effectively as gathering up mixed shortwood and rings takes good control and more patience than just grabbing 2.5m + cordwood.
  16. Gray git
    That's a cracking deal on that especially with electric solenoid valve which could give you the opportunity to fit remote control should you want.
  17. Gray git
    That's complicated to add a value to as I help the owner out when he's stuck for an operator in exchange for use of the machine on odd jobs. If anyone is interested in the machine working for them it's busy daddy's on here so worth speaking to him as it's incredibly productiv on both biomass timber and whole trees for site clearance work.
  18. Gray git
    This is 1 of my favourites of his, always liked his ability to tell a story in song
  19. Gray git
    For starters trying to shift softwood logs round here is nye on impossible and what you'd get probably wouldn't cover the wages needed to convert such mixed size arb waste, also included all the nasty bits of hardwood it's just not worth chewing on with to split and all the rotten stuff no one else wants,I did cut some larch logs out of the heap with the palax but only nice easy stuff for myself to mix in for early autumn and spring burns. Simply put my turnover would have potentially been more in logs but profit was definitely better in chip just simply in time saving so by lunchtime everything was done and I was off to another job and the next day everything was sold where logs it'd have been best part of a week for a man on splitter then no guarantee it'd sell till winter then probably in dribs.
  20. Gray git
    Why not consider getting a big chipper in and turn it into a salable product, did our heap which wasn't a patch on yours in 2.5hrs and got 90m3 of good quality biomass which I sold 60 for nearly 500quid as biomass and 20odd for play parks on 2 stattic caravan sites we were working on at 80 for 6m3 ifor load, money for old rope if you ask me
  21. Gray git
    Nice set of pi nd some big sticks , what's that crane on in 8th picture?
  22. Gray git

    Holly tree

    Gray git replied to Gbaz's topic in Firewood forum

    Had a harvester driver say the same about rown trees, wouldn't cut them down with the machine even though they were in his way while clearing the windblow over them, quite happy for me to rip them out the ground with the botex but wouldn't let me cut them while he was on site.
  23. Gray git
    You've definitely missed your calling as a career motivational speaker 😜 Sadly you speak the truth and we have all been in that place, exactly how I started off on my own but soon said sod this for a game nd took the plunge on finance and the business has never looked back despite the stress that go's with it if your in it for the long haul sometimes it just makes sense.
  24. Gray git
    Did that come from Dean little in Carlisle by anychance, looks fermillior to 1 I hired of his some years back, it was a beast!
  25. Gray git
    Mmmmmm ale 🍺😍🍺

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