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    Dont use wood that’s too hard, it’s technique that makes the axe stick not power. spruce is fine ime. My target at home is a good 40cm thick spruce ring, holding up well (pictures a few months old now)
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    I get where your coming from Vesp, a driver with a hgv licence, driving a downplated truck, only the paperwork is different, but if it'd been kept a hgv, it'd be inspected more often for a start. Pretty sure lewis hamilton would still get done for speeding/wreckless driving/murder if he hit a child in a 30 zone doing 80 in his ferrari. Its still speeding/breaking the law even though the driver and car are capable of those speeds. True, 80 in a 30 is fecking stupid, but so is driving around 2-3t overloaded Theres a guy on instagram with a 4x4 iveco daily, downplated from 5,5t, pretty sure i read unladen it was 3,3t! yet carries 10m3 chip ?
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    Horrible accident, hope the guy has a decent recovery/quality of life I get where you're coming from Matty, and the vermeer grinders (That I've used anyway) stop the wheel when you let go of the controls, that's really good, yet my bandit, you can leave it spinning full revs, and walk away from the machine . . .or go infront and dig out grindings ? quite supprised there's no dead mans handle type thing to be honest
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    Another vote for the 530 varitrac if you’re after a small tracked chipper. About 1250kg. They are about with the folding hopper too tp do an even smaller, lighter machine but never seen one let alone used one
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    ashley g

    josharb87 replied to ashley g's topic in General chat

    I'd recommend a 10 week course, like this at Merrist Wood https://www.merristwood.ac.uk/CourseInformation/ShortCourseDetails.aspx/727000325205844/Arboriculture & Forestry There are similar up north, but i haven't a clue on the colleges im afraid, once you find a college, ask them if you're legible for funding.
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    First thought is if you have a pedestrian grinder for tight access, a ZT might not be suitable. The ZT is, or might be as narrow as the HB, but its long too. 2.7m if i remember correctly. The length might make tight access turns awkward? Ive no idea what you're "tight access" look like, but narrow and sharp turn will be tricky with the ZT A pedestrian style wheeled machine will also be kinder on lawns when positioning in small gardens. Tracks do scrub up grass. Didn't Jo-beau come out with a pedestrian grinder with hydraulic powered swing? best of both worlds?
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    Removing them asap defiantly won't be a bad thing
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    Are the 25” Stihl compatible bars the black ones or the light(?) ones as in the picture above?
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    Hi Rob! The Cannon light bar, 14" for a 201T, £73+vat.......Gulp! Is that right? Edit: Just looked through the rest of the bars, what makes them worthy or the premium price over say the Sugihara ones?
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    Nothing to do with me.
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    Neighbor has some large ash trees, the ones that stand alone in the lawn are affected by these small green caterpillars each year, there’s thousands of them and strip the trees bare of leaves each year, the trees then flush again. no other trees in the area are affected, there’s maples and apple trees they don’t touch, and the ash trees that have lilac bushes around the base are not affected, only ash trees growing in the lawn. i know the name of the caterpillars verbally in Swedish, but not the correct spelling so can’t find the Latin. my suggestion has been to build a chicken enclosure around the trees as the caterpillars are constantly falling down and climbing up again. . But better solutions are appreciated.
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    Skyland are top notch!
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    Me neither. I too have a decent array of kit and an excess of saws, kit and saws are fun to buy, paying excess money to someone who doesn’t deserve it isn’t fun. I resent paying a shit climber £100 a day, yet have no problem paying my regular 2 who not only are decent climbers but good workers an people that don’t piss me off each day the equivalent of 450. someone will only pay you what you’re worth to them. Europe’s different to the UK, different types of contracts, different tax rates, different turnovers, different expectations. paying 450+ in parts of Europe is probably like paying 180+in the UK
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    Picture a colleague took of me, like Pete, I find it hard to take whole body selfies by myself
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    Consumable/warranty part or not, the running hours should be irrelevant on a warranty measured in years? A saws warranty is (for example) 2 years. Whereas a car warranty is 3 years OR 100000miles
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    Awesome! A photocomp is long overdue! Heres a few recent ones
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    SV Tech are known for uprating vehicles. Even Toyota (Here in Sweden) will update the towing rate of the older style hilux from 2800kg to 3500kg. paper exercise and uprated rear springs.
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    Pm sent
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    If it makes you feel any better, i was born....just ?
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    I don't think so, i was in Cambridge working for a cambridge firm, might be mistaken, but sure the guys said it was in Saxmundham, at the church next to the big hill, which was only a few miles from where i grew up, hence remembering it.
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    Nice work mick! I absolutely love the ladders, reminds me of a classic photo of one of the guys i used to work with, 3 sets of ladders strapped up a big cedar in Suffolk in the 80's. Easier than body thrusting on 3 strand! Was the rot caused by the removal of those big limbs in the past do you think?
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    Briefly, but predator machines seemed to have mixed reviews Online and was more money. The vermeer 362 was option nr2, but was 1500 more. Simply came down to price and wanting to try a bandit product in the end.
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    A friend with the bandit 2550 and another who hires a ZT1844 has the same problem with the wheel/teeth. What rayco you got? I quite like the look of the rg45, 4x4, but I feel the price difference far outweighs the moderate increase in performance. Not worth it for me just now.
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    Need to screenshot your written English comment and send it to my old English teachers! UK expat, very mild disappointment, not massive. It's a good grinder for the price, and its mainly small niggles, certainly earns me good money and a big step up in performance from the 272 i used before.
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    Small things, the tracks catch the body work sometimes when turning, the exhaust guard is now rattling, difficult to get the holes to line up when refitting belt covers, there's a plate between the hydraulic and petrol tank covering the battery, i removed that to disconnect the battery when welding, needed a ratchet strap to pull the tanks together again to line up the holes, the hydraulic/fuel pipes etc rub against a metal plate when swinging the motor/cutter head, theyre bound together with a protective thing but sooner or later they'll wear through

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