renewablejohn
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Trailer approx 15 years old bought it 3 years ago from a large groundwork company which went bust and they had bought it new. Looking at the studs which are flush with the hubs it looks like metal fatigue so I am going to replace all the studs.
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Yes standard studs but on large horsebox type wheels not the smaller wheels you find on a lot of the newer Ifor plant trailers. It would have been a major pile up had I not been towing it with a 7.5 tonne truck. Thanks to a considerate lorry driver straddling 2 lanes with his hazards on we managed to control it safely onto the hard shoulder without anybody being injured or the loose wheel hitting anybody.
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I have an Ifor Williams twin axle plant trailer which threw a wheel off at 50mph on the motorway. Very disturbing but on close inspection all 4 wheel studs have sheared off. Is this common and if so should I replace the other wheel studs as they will all be the same age. The trailer at the time was carrying a Subaru Legacy so in real terms was well within the carrying capacity of the trailer.
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MOT's class 4 vs. class 7 on Landy 130
renewablejohn replied to Kev Stephenson's topic in Large equipment
I always thought part of the "dual purpose " stipulated that it had to have a tow bar for hauling a trailer. -
Mr Ed Do you know where the nearest multione dealer is.
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Mr Ed Problem is I need a loader with cab to comply with health and safety and the multione only do a canvas cab
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Can answer my own question. According to Weidemann plgloaders have ceased trading and new Weidemann dealers are being appointed but none as yet. Apparently they do not want to sell direct from Germany.
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Mr Ed Output is determined by the speed of the chipper you can always add more trailers as trackside distances increase. Its the same with silage we have 2 to 4 trailers at hand depending on distance to be carted.
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Was that clear felled whole trees or brash as the output for whole trees should be higher than for brash. I am surprised you only had 2 trailers for that size machine I would have expected at least 3.
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In the same way you navigate tree stumps using a flail
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I was thinking more of a twin rotor tyre shredder mounted horizontally the bottom rotor as a pickup feed feeding a conveyor into the chipper.
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Bald Ed I totally agree with you regarding the downtime as I said before the operation needs to be geared to the slowest item which is the chipper and then sufficient trailers to keep the operation constant. Did you notice the downtime of the chipper between grab loading again a feed system similar to a combine would improve production rates.
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Buzz I realise what market it is intended for which is why Kesla market it for bioenergy, precisely the market we are talking about for utilising brash.
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Obviously Kesla spend a great deal of money not listening to people Click on bioenergy kesla 4560c container http://www.kesla.com/videos/index.php?.Kansio=bioenergy&play=ok I cannot see how anybody could make this bit of kit have a reasonable output.
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I am not blinkered just because I am looking for a better alternative to what those in "the know" have been putting forward as they openly admit the present way of brash baling is not economic for brash usage on a commercial basis. I cannot see dragging brash to the roadside to be any better as the cost of the machinery makes it uneconomic. Maybe its time to learn from the french http://www.eliatis.com/en/chaptrack.htm
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Buzz The advantage I have is that I am also the CHP operator therefore I do not play by the normal rules
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Brasher Quite clear to me. Quote direct from the BEIS guidance notes. Grants will not be provided for the following (the list is not exhaustive) Standard items of equipment routinely used for purposes other than bio energy production. eg chainsaws, felling machines.forklifts, JCB's standard transport lorries etc.
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Brasher If you read the rules of the BEIS scheme you will see that all general plant and machinery costs are specifically excluded from the grant scheme.We secured grant for a wood pelleting plant and a woodchip drying plant.
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But surely that involves double handling. loading onto the forwarder and then offloading again into the chipper. In the time it takes to load the forwarder you could have chipped the brash
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Buzz But how do you make the brash dense enough on the forwarder to make it worth your while extracting without the use of a baler.
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Coming from a farming background a silage machine is very similar to a woodchipper in that it is the slowest operation and the number of trailers required to support the machines continuous operation is dependent on the distance to the silage pit and the time it takes to unload. The same logic can be applied to the chipper. With regards the trailer, modifying the existing forwarding trailer would mean that a temporary top could sit on top of the IBC's attached to the existing grapple arm for ease of lifting up to remove the IBC's. Buzz It is because of the uneconomic nature of these balers that I am looking at alternative ways of extracting brash out of the forest using standard forestry equipment. Whilst I accept the extraction of roundwood to roadside for future chipping I cannot see how you can do the same for brash purely in terms of damage caused to the forest floor.
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Does anybody know if plgloaders are still trading. I have tried to phone but no response on any of the phone options
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This is the alternative approach I referred to earlier but how many chippers could you buy for the price of this machine and you still have the problem of Green brash as opposed to letting it die back for 2 months and then chipping it.
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I never said a bulker was 20 cubic mtrs just an assumption for the size of a truck to give a practical comparison of IBC's to fill it as each IBC is approx 1 cu mtr. Why will filling a trailer be any different to filling 6 IBC's on a trailer.
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Handfeeding you must be joking. 3 tonne tracked excavator with grapple into hopefully chipper which started this thread and our standard logging trailer modified to carry 6 IBC's at a time filled like a silage trailer
