josharb87

🙄 Now why’d you have to stir shit up again?

The logbullet weaves the logs (up to 4,5m) in fine though

Cheers! I milled the wood then built the shed as an open sided pole barn, just to cover kit and kit on trailers, but then wanted cladding to stop the snow drifting in. Bit awkward with the mill where it is but haven’t pulled my thumb out getting more hardcore, building a milling lean to and relocating.

Few hours milling today, cladding, 2x4 and 2x6

Looking for recommendations of a replacement for a Kohler magnum 12, as fitted to Wheel horse garden tractors 1 1/8 shaft size or is it possible to get a sleeve to up the shaft size? Seems 1” / 25mm is common on Loncin motors any help much appreciated

How though?! id have ducked driving a ford fiesta under that bridge!

The specs aren’t exactly great are they? Hydraulic motor will be less maintenance, so yeah, good for a hire company Bandit has 50% more engine power before the FSIs hydraulic drive is taken into account and is cheaper and is proven

Ffs joe there’s security for a reason

If you have a machine that throws rubber tracks often, would it throw steel ones as often?

One of my subbies had a different style of loader but of same value to the ones on this thread. He was relatively cheap at £50 plus his day rate. he was happier to be using his machine rather than body/climb and I’d use him/it far more often, even if it was just for a stem or two a day. had it been £100 a day I’d have probably used him/it 75% less

£500 for cash though, right?

Does the bag need to be “open”? If not then literally a short length of telegraph pole or similar and a big hook - even one of those 5 bar gate hinge things that screw into the post would suffice and be strong enough. if you’re worried about the pole sliding then drill a length of threaded rod through like Frankensteins neck to stop it slipping down if it needs to be held open then get your fabricator mate to weld something up, be a mornings work at the most

for the sake of arguing, you only need enough for the down payment, finance the rest, even kit, iirc honeys started doing finance years back or take a business plan to the bank

Why do I need an app?

I’ve got the 26hp version, no real complaints about the power tbh, but then again the engine is only running hydraulic pumps, there’s no direct drive/ getting a flywheel up to speed like a chipper. this was Pekkas response to my initial concern before ordering

that’s actually in the states! had a search and came up with similar machines sold at auction 2-3 years ago both for about 10-12k over here. Sounds a reasonable price. It’d be great at home (small holding) -stick a snow plow on the front for winter, plenty of digging and leveling planned for the coming years too.

Through envy of doobins bargain I came across this whilst browsing for similar machines. Be perfect for a lot of small jobs round the house!

Sounds a bargain despite the motor! Quick look on some European sites and cheapest are about 10k with 800+hours Hope it’s legit 😂

Might be saying exactly what you’ve done (but haven’t mentioned) but do what you say done but once you’ve a couple of wraps on a couple of loops, pull a bight of rope through and loop that over the coil, pull tight and you’ll now have a coil of rope that won’t unravel. (See pic below) feed out another half meter of rope so the coild rope (I’ve always known it as a donkeys dick but google thinks that’s something else😂) is hanging a half meter down from your hand, and bundle a couple more loops onto that same hand, now you can hold the bundles of rope you’ve just done in your dominant hand and the tail in the other, get some swinging motion going and the coil of rope will act like a weight giving your throw more power and meaning as long as it’s just about over the branch, giving it a few flicks and it’ll come down easier. practice this on the ground first the bundles/coils don’t need to be massive, less is more! once you’ve got the hang of this, you don’t need to lock off the coil of rope you use as a weight, just pass the bight through and hold onto that, then it’ll just unravel down to you once it’s over the branch

How were you attempting to advance the rope/get the higher anchor point?

A day for one by the looks of the picture! do the side then stand on the van/trailer with a 660 for the top 😆 half hour at the end with loppers to tidy up the worse of the horrendous cuts

Neither

There are times when this is a good idea, or has benefits at least - we’ve been thinning and restoring woodland around old charcoal pits, mainly birch regrowth 10-20cm diameter and getting on for 15 meters long. Plus spruce When limbing we’ve been scraping 2-3 sides of the whole length of the stems with the chain then stacking like in the photos. 5-6m long stems. they’ll be given a year or so to dry, and be lighter then moved by hand to the nearby bothy where visitors can cut and split themselves

under 150kgs is possible

Looks good! I often thought about a 14/16ft ifor with crane, like the old jasp Wilson botex jobbies or that Truck and Marine do, but went down different routes. keep the pics coming