josharb87

I've got this one, great bit of kit

You're thinking the wrong way imo. If you're getting a verticle chipper, or even a bigger tracked, the whole point of them is being able to take the machine to the tree, and sell in leaving chip on site - The customer saves £xxx in disposal fees and has awesome chip they can use on their garden, spread out, loose in the rough etc. You don't need to mess around dragging stuff out, carting it away etc

Awesome setup!

Why would you be shoveling chip out of a tipper?! Yeah, the double cab tippers do seem pointless, I was (unclearly) on about single cabs

I can see the use, with a little 5 inch chipper for pruning/small works, subby climber who does his own small jobs ect. As for tipping trailers, volume wise, I get nearly 8m3 on mine, far more than even a 130 single cab. 3 more perhaps? More than toyota dynas for example too. I can even get the tracked chipper on and 2-3m3 chip. But returning to collect the chipper can be a bit of a chore. There isn't a single vehicle perfect setup!

Unfortunatly i doubt they'd give a toss about little old Sweden! Perhaps ALL devices should be banned, back to prussiks and hip thrusting

Who did you ask? Funny you mention the Spiderjack 3, and the complaint, as only yesterday i heard that one or more of the people behind the spider jack 3 were the ones who influenced/behind the decision to ban SRT devices in Germany in an attempt to get the SJ3 selling. By money grabbing pricks, i really hope you don't mean the organisers, as they certainly arnt doing it for the money! The amount of negativity they receive i can't understand why anyone would want to volunteer do it!

I think that'd be pretty shortsighted actually Mark. They've had hard enough time finding someone to organize everything as it is, last years almost got cancelled. It's a surprising amount of work to hold the comp, as I understand voluntary but expenses paid (with a limit) Perhaps trying to educate the organizers would be a better approach (they're just ordinary arborists, neither have that much experience but hats of to them for trying!)

Did someone make a complaint?

What rating are on the winches on those 1928s Pete? How about a wood chip wrap, or leaves, or timber. Or like an old spitfire with the jaws at the hopper

Now that looks like a Ljungby vanett 138, seems like half the miniloaders are the same make just re badged! Minilastare, kompaktlastare, redskapbärare, minigrävare, grävmaskiner Fwiw the ljungby or pixy or whatever else it's called did look well built in the flesh at a machine show last year Interesting that the pixy is cheaper than a giant as the ljungby is a few grand more than Avants here and giants are cheaper than avants!

I had similar last year, first day using a guy, sloppy on the first tree, smashes a bush, then on another breaks a saw bench of the clients (dropped a branch on it, should have moved it, but out of laziness he didn't) no apology, then moaned about going to another extra job, made it clear he needed dropping off at 4 on the dot. In my world he'd have shut up and got on with the extra considering the breakage. Got the extra job done with time to spare in the end, but don't need that pessimism! Full day's pay, no apology, no remorse= not using him again, simple!

Looks extremely similar to the Thaler actually!

That blaney looks good. Looks like wiederman, schäffer, thaler and some of the Chinese stuff of varying quality that have similar designs. Any more info? I've recently been looking at a Thaler, as it has some advantages over the avant style loaders

On the Facebook pictures global put up its a double cab Iveco. Maybe a 6.5tonner?? What's the price of one like that dean? Is the trailer effectively new with its own identity?

Hilux's don't smoke, i wouldn't accept it back if it smokes even a little. Mines a 2015 3.0 auto, brought it new, now on 65,000km no smoke ever 99%long journeys, but when its minus 10 or lower in the morning i'll let it idle 10 minutes to warm up, no smoke.

The TW230 is almost on par with the old 190 IMO. But i saw a video of the Estonian TW dealer doing a head to head of the 190 vs 280 and there wasn't anything in it. Jensen and Först? Something like the son of the then Uk dealer of jensen designed and built Först based on Jensens but "improved" them. Ive an older Jensen (2007) pleased with it, changing the blades and anvils is a doddle compared to chippers I've used of similar age.

Hi! Can anyone recommend a machine for blade sharpening? specifically Jensen blades, but able to do Timberwolf would be good too. Ive got 3 phase electric if that makes a difference. Price wise i had been thinking around £500, realistic?

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It would appear that you never had total train weight of 12t, but instead, those who passed before 97, were able to drive vehicles upto 7.5t AND able to tow trailers exceeding 750kg (hence the "E") along as the GTW never exceeded 8250kg (hence the 107) Those that got the 7.5t after 97 could ONLY drive trailers unto 750kg, even if the vehicle was only say 5t. (unlike the pre 97 who could then tow 3250) Passing the E gives the 12 gtw So Midget man, you can now only load your tranny upto 8250 GTW But even though your over 45, you don't need the medicals every 5 years, silver lining and all that

I found this: The 107 restriction is only found on licences where the C1 category is present by virtue of grandfather rights, ie if you had a full car licence before the new categories came into force (1997 I think) you could drive vehicles up to 7.5 tons gvw and 8.25 tons gtw. This entitlement has no age-related restrictions, so will remain present as long as you have your licence. The "new" Euro category C1+E allows 12 tonnes GTW but since this is a greater gtw than you would have had with the old car licence, the restriction 107 was invented to reduce the scope of your entitlement. The new Euro C1+E has the same age restrictions as the cat C, ie it needs to be renewed every 5 years from age 45, but this only requires a medical, not a driving test. So the current situation is that if you have C1+E through grandfather rights you have the code 107 restriction and an enduring licence (ie it doesn't need renewing at 45). To remove the restriction you would need to take a current C1+E test which would give you the full 12 tonnes gtw entitlement (ie remove the 107) but this will need renewing every 5 years from age 45. If you have the C1+E (107) by grandfather rights and take the C1+E test to get the 107 restriction removed, and then don't renew the licence when the medical falls due, you will revert to entitlement you held through grandfather rights, ie C1+E (107). If you have taken the C1+E test since the new category was introduced, you will be 12 tonnes rated anyway. This also will of course need renewing every 5 years from 45. One slightly odd outcome from all this come is you had a full car licence and a full HGV 1 entitlement prior to the introduction of the new licence categories, like I did. Despite having full car and full HGV1 pre-97, my licence now has B+E, C1+E (107), and C+E. It took me a while to work out why the 107 hadn't cleared since the C+E obviously allows me to drive unlimited gross trains weights on the road (subject to Special Types regs etc). The reason is due to the different expiry dates; the C+E now has to be renewed every 5 years (since I am over 45) whilst the B+E and C1+E (107) do not. So if I chose not to renew the C+E entitlement, the 107 restriction would again become effective. I hope that you can make sense of this, it is actually less complicated than it sounds when you write it down. It does however require a little thought to figure it all out!

Thanks for the replys. Done it at the weekend Didn't know about glycol degrading, useful info!

That's terrible, they should have a Segway to get back to their vans

Thank you Justme for posting helpful stuff Its quite black and white as to when you need the licence or not. You have no place here Roseyweb. I mean, you've got common sense, doing things legally, might even know what you're talking about

Could anyone direct me how to do this please? Needs to be done as i suspect the coolant is rated to -15c as stated on the machine, but temperatures here can plummet to -30c As i understand its drain from the radiator, refill with water, run with radiator cap off for 10 min, drain again, refill with coolant, cap on and done? what about bleeding air out? thanks!