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That comes across as selfish and bitter tbh Because perhaps the uks education system isn't actually the best and you shouldn't have to pay to be educated imo Example, Your son lives in England and wants an education from the best possible university of its kind that happens to be in Germany? Then return home to England with the best education possible...I don't know about you but I want the best possibilities for my children Many seem to to think the U.K. Only gives? Right or wrong, I just hope that these possibilities still exist in the years to come.

IMO the U.K. Holds an overinflated view of itself, a view shared by many overseas. I just hope Brexit doesn't screw things up for the younger generations with regard to ease of movement, work and study in other European countries - being able to study in another e.u country and your home country pick up the tab is huge. It's things like this I truly hope aren't lost.

Good post Mathew but 40mph on a motorway for example is unsafe imo. the vehicle should be rated to tow a laden trailer in whatever traffic/road conditions/speed limit safety and comfortably

I'll like or follow a company on Facebook, but if they don't have a half decent, established website theres no way I'm going to be contacting them to do some work.

Not everyone can suddenly accommodate an extra 3.5" like you can Joe If machine feeding it'll be worth it not to smash the först up!

I thought that about a cabstar tipper (super rare here) for sale for nearly a year until the day before I decided that yes it would be a good buy and to go get it!

Looks like its on a turntable too? Just unbolt it and bolt it onto a french registered flatbed/plant trailer. Might even be able to make it so its not too much hassle to unbolt it from its new trailer and lift on/off with your multione if you need the trailer freed up. No experience of the chipper, sorry. But if that was here thats exactly what id do at that price! I think I've used the slightly smaller one, even that was a beast to hand feed!

That's a pretty poor argument, most people have not fought or died to make Britain Britain, its like your parents or grand parents worked really hard, destroyed themselves doing so but became millionaires and you inherited it without lifting a finger, just born into it. Then being a selfish little brat not wanting to share "your" (not yours, but your ancestors) wealth and freedom, you then sit on your backside squandering away your parents hard work watching others make something of themselves and kick up a fuss i guess it was and has always been 100% British people fighting for the British isles too right?

Sounds sensible. I'd suggest a small van and (e.g.) 8x4 cage trailer to start with, it's supprising how much you can get on if you mash up the brash with a saw, or hedge cuttings probably wouldn't be chipped anyway. then a greenmech cs100 when funds allow. Any bigger jobs sub in help with larger vehicles/chippers.

Good review and I'm a little bit tempted to get one now the 150t is worn out, but I worry about battery life both long and short term being exposed to temperatures of minus 30 if left in the truck overnight! how does it compare to a 150?

Nice finish Stefan!

What is the cost?

That says to me that the local British brits you would perhaps like to see here lack the aspiration to hold any symbol of status, are perhaps "content" with what they've been born into. (Lazy) looks like there's actually a good diversity there tbh, I count possibly 9 different country's!

Good review here: https://www.4x4australia.com.au/reviews/road-tests/1703/mercedes-benz-g300-vs-toyota-land-cruiser-79-comparison-review Id love a diesel v8 cruiser, well, i think i would! Or one of the Swedish military 6x6 mercs

Out again yesterday felling a pine stem, no room for swinging an axe because of the hedge it was growing in, and this morning on an oak stem fell. my colleague summed it up nicely, it’s civilised. He didn’t break his back pulling on a pull rope and I didn’t spend an age twatting wedges in!

I think they're knocking on £500+vat now. Have a word with the guys at Treadlight-Forestry though

Thats exactly the sort of boring job i hadn't thought about, I've a 500meter gravel/stone/road-planings track to my house which needs re-grading a couple of times a year, another job a loader could do!

Definitely! Most of the time only one hand is needed to work the ratchet, sometimes when colleagues are watching, ill use 2 fingers to work the ratchet as a bit of a joke (Especially with one colleague who backed out ordering one at the same time as he was being tight, and now really regrets it!)

What a tool! I brought one of these Ratchet felling wedges over a year ago, reason being that I've always wanted a hydraulic version as i like the engineering principle, but at 2.5k the hydraulic ones are a bit expensive! These are a fifth of the price! So when i saw Treadlight Forestry advertising these on Facebook, i ordered one straight away (despite loads of typical bitchey Facebook comments) I kind of expected it to just sit in the truck not doing much, but I'm amazed at how much it gets used, and what it will lift/push over. 25 ton lifting force, and lifts about the same height as 2 wedges stacked ontop of each other (which tips a tree a fair way!) However you can insert wedges into the open back cut, remove the ratchet wedge, wind in, re insert and keep going if needed (not yet!). Its really easy to use, much much less effort than banging wedges in. The last pic was 30c in summer, 30 trees to fell away from a school, no sweat was broken! most were leaning towards the school slightly, so we would normally have set a line in with a throwline (LOTS of faffing about!) No need with this little beast! Its really goon on dead trees, where banging wedges in shakes the whole tree, this gently pushes it over. The size is really compact, easy to find a place for it in the truck. Its relatively light, marketed as being able to hang it on your forestry belt is stretching it a bit, its too heavy for that imo - It weighs as much as a small ground saw. No problems at all so far, and its been a really good buy, if i lost this one id have no hesitations about buying another! View full review

I started experimenting with SRT 7or 8 years into climbing, it took about 2 years before it suddenly clicked (using SRT primary for access then swapping to ddrt, then the occasional prune on the way up, then, one day, the whole tree) Small trees and felling is still ddrt. All self taught, i don't think SRT climbing is any quicker (after crown access-SRT is way quicker) but i have far more energy and can do far more big trees per day!

Seems a strange thread to me. Theres nothing stopping you getting bigger vehicles/heavier trailers, but it comes across as if you don't want to go to the effort, but think the law should change instead? Its the same rules for everyone FWIW, i read somewhere that trailers with over-run brakes are "safe" at a maximum of 80% of the towing vehicles weight. so a 2 ton pickup will be safe towing 1600kg.

Stop rope on rope friction

Had it been in-keeping of the thread title it'd be cool, even if a sales demo (that happened today). I genuinely would like to see what day to day jobs loaders are doing, even the mundane stuff

Never mind, with a bit of thought, just answered my own question-it'll make the rescue quicker - cutting the hitch will still leave the pully "trapped" on the wire strop and require a bit of faffing around to release the carbabinas to release the loop of the strop....