Gray git
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On a badly storm damaged site we have been on N off for a few months today to help out cutting of stumps and dropping the odd oversized tree now that the client has eventually listed and got some serious hydraulic power it to deal with the softwood windblow
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Started badly with a busted bar but soon looked better when it ment it was time to convert to 3/8ths and shiny 👍
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Been looking at the Rico winches and look good for the money with different options like hydraulic feed out and remote control in etc, was talking to a lad who had an 8ton and he was very impressed with it
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Hydraulic or pto, recovery type or forestry skidding type?
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This I'd rather be in the cab where it's not raining. Tidy job he's done for you.
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Wish we had stake big enough to need mechanical advantage to get it into the pan!
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He didn't want it leaving high as wanted the logs, going to fiddle it out with a compact tractor later in the year apparently and leave the brash for game cover. Made for a interesting niggle in the back of my mind knowing the undercut was almost back to the main stump.
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Good advice, might do just that.
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Had a old yellow botex like that set like that years ago, quickly teaches you how to be a smooth operator when your getting bucked about on the king post. Looks a tidy set up.
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Big beech dismantle today as it had been severely undermined by the river, most of the crown had to be rigged back into the wood to avoid ending up in what turned out to be quite deep water just off the bank side, client wanted to avoid more erosion so had to go before it ended up in the river and no real way to get a decent winch in to fell it and wanted to avoid damaging the remaining trees.
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Get some light guards for the back and extend the checker sheet back over them to avoid bits getting dropped and smashing the lenses, I did 3 fog lights and a indicator before I got round to sorting it.
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Think they will only do it on a new rope not a used cut down 1.
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That's often my thoughts on it as rigging avoids everything being smashed up resulting in lots of tidy up and often means larger bits can be turned easier to face the chipper and dragged as 1 instead of needing to be cut up. Once you have a decent system set up and everyone knows what his role is and with decent communication I think rigging can actually be faster than cut N chuck an a dismantle, pruning not so much so. I do tend to cut N chuck from the picker but that's mostly as I can get into a much better position for better cuts and to manipulate the brash from a firm stance instead of half upside down in a harness.
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Looks nice to use in the video.
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Tidy looking picker, you will find more uses than you'd imagined for her, takes a little getting used to getting your position rite for setup to optimise your reach with how the boom works. Get a sheet of 15 or 20mm stock board and cut it down into 8 2x2' squares as outrigger pads for softer ground and get rid of the heavy steel shoes you've got on the body in picture.
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Keep in contact if you get it as a wagon might be an option to fetch it down for 3 or 4 days work if it's going to make turning what is basically wast at the moment into a salable product in a economical way.
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Hopefully we can find a good quality solid flywheel from a decent manufacturer so as getting a guaranteed with it. It's because the picker has some extra brackets underneath that make getting the transmission out a bit more fiddly and bringing a td5 out forwards is quite a bit more work than getting the 200tdi out my other landy, not riding the clutch is easier said than done in a vehicle that comes in at 3.3 tons all the time and live in a area where a flat bit of road is a rarity. Like bob said sitting at just off tickover for long periods has probably given it premature where.
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Tell me about it! Got it to do in 130 cherrypicker as duel mass is fubar and making some real funky noises. Garage I use is looking into a conversation kit to do away with it and get a standard flywheel into her. Apparently a 130 td5 is also a git to do with how everything is mounted.
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I'd have no problem with getting you in at all and do it locally quite a bit, almost have a local cooperative of us who share gear and even staff from time to time, we work for them, they work for us and so far seems to have benefited everyone. For firewood I'd say especially easy as you're not going to site or interacting with clients just turning up at a yard doing your thing and going. How far would you be willing to travel as have a company we work with who have a lot of oversized timber they are looking at getting done. If I remember correctly your looking at a slitter for big rings rather than billets which is what they are after.
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Drove past it on Thursday and it looks strange with its spiky crown on top of the tower, can't have been nice for the lads working up on top this last week with all the sleet!
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Could do with 1 as well as local tree officer has just kicked off about a tpo application not including hights of trees.
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Best plan I've heard all day but other way round as iv been stump grinding all day so up to the nuts in mud nd my local might not be too happy with me leaving my boots and trousers in the porch like I do at home 😜
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Should get 1 of these, should be better on fuel at least.
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Not far off financially but in saved effort and extra safety on some jobs we get it most definitely has although it's about to cost me about a grand for new clutch and duel mass fly wheel 👎
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Stump grinding yesterday and the lads found a nail for me just before I arrived to do the stump and thismorning a nice failed hanging tree to get down, left a nice hanger when I felled it over but luckily had the picker so was fairly easy to get out.
