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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

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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

Ifor jockey wheel and rear stands bent when loading an avant onto an unhitched trailer?!

Digging them up would be the quickest in conjunction with ground works but some recycling centers class roots as contaminated waste, a couple years ago one was charging 5000kr a ton (regular green waste 300kr ton) for commercial. grindings the digger will loose in the soil when they get round to ground works, just the odd fat root that’ll maybe need to be gotten rid of. (If not too many then may be worth the client taking a few trailer loads to the tip and tip for free as a private person plus grinding you’ll earn money

I’ll echo Slack ma girdles comments, I’ve a miniforwarder, it comes into its own when needing to deal with a mess, being able to back in, sorting into piles then forwarding out, it’s nimbleness and off road ability runs circles around trailers. Plus user comfort. But long easy drives it’s much slower in transport speed. There at other makes though that will do 25kmh I’ve often thought about a set up like Matty F - an alpine tractor that could do other duties and a trailer, I’d really like to try a reverse drive alpine with a trailer, but for me, I’m worried I’d miss the aforementioned pluses of the forwarder too much. No difference/saving in price either

Have a look at @IronMike ‘s posts for inspiration, or even threads

Has alistar and lgp Eddie teamed up now?!

Think about condensation. We’ve an old style house, the hallway and porch has always been unheated and single glazed in the porch. traditionally we’d have had a set of loose frames that get put in place in the autumn and removed in spring as a very old cheap type of double glazing. Without these condensation builds up extremely quickly in colder weather when the warm inside air hits the cold glass. even in the rest of the house we’ve wooden windows, double framed so a form of DG, hundred years old, those that need tlc and allow inside warm air escape through and hit the glass that’s outside get condensation

I know its Scotland, but i really don't think its gonna fit on that trailer Stevie!

With a rope that high that truck would have had to be rocket propelled to give enough speed to do anything meaningful. Looks like that stem had the shape of a fidget spinner, no width to the hinge. lucky no one was hurt that Irish vid smashing the Landy though 🤦‍♂️

Finish your course, a year’s experience isn’t interesting

Probably better to ask the Finns! Check out the Finnish chapter on the ISA webpage, there’s a link to the Facebook Finnish tree care association there

Although I lack sympathy for your original post Eggs - you must have known you’re not living 100% legit so you can’t really moan about getting moved on, just part of van life. I do hope you get sorted though, and fair play for not being main stream 🤟 takes balls to be different. I was close to getting a boat on the river cam years ago, still regret not doing it tbh

You say you’re new, my advice would be to decline ALL advertising from those who ring you. think about how you search for a tradesman, how your parents do, your friends, then YOU contact that advertising outlet. Telesales are sneaky slimey parasites that are very good at being your best friend on the phone

Over here, being able to run on ethanol gives the car eco tax status, your ranger would be about £2500 a year to tax, the dodge, less than £300

Yeah i do actually, take the heating for example, its much clearer what you're doing, rather than having 3 identical dials. I guess its a bit like any new vehicle you jump in, takes a couple of minutes to "discover" everything but then its 2nd nature