josharb87
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I reckon it's water, the bucket filled with water when they washed it or rain water then when they stopped it all splashed out the bucket, or they lifted the backhoe to transport position and water splashed out
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Different country, but yes, 10% rise in hourly rate planned.
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????? Gross train weight of 2250?? Sounds quite light for vehicle, load, trailer and load Do you mean the towing weight/allowance?
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Best mainstream 4x4 pickup for towing 3.5t
josharb87 replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Arb-Trucks
Interesting Justme -
Best mainstream 4x4 pickup for towing 3.5t
josharb87 replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Arb-Trucks
Out of interest, are the Landcruiser pickups actually plated at 3500kg tow weight? A lot of the older (10year plus) american stuff is plated surprisingly low, some 6,5v8td chevys are only plated at 1500kg here. The new single and king cab hilux's are plated at 3500, but not the double cabs yet. the older ones can be uprated. one thing to consider too is the mainstream pickups are all rear wheel drive on the road, so if your "4" wheel drive landy struggles for traction on the roads you drive, i can't see a rear wheel drive truck coping better? 4x4 SUV and a fast-trac?! -
Thanks, it's a 640, it's great, a grab on the front with rotator would make it awesome. Fits on the 12ft ifor tipper which is a bonus. This job it was used for getting the stems of 2 of the trees out of a playground, then bucket to push the takings up into a pile. Really efficient.
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Some recent pics, The felling work was monday/tuesday, 15 trees, 10 straight fells, 350m3 of arisings, rest of the pics are some from the past 2 weeks, Restoration of an álle (felling, pruning and new planting) Reducing of a Lime, Birch, and nice woodland chipping
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Then surely your vehicle wasn't maintained to a road worthy condition in the first place
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Surely if you're a subby climber YOU shouldn't be running to a dump site every 15 minutes anyway? We all love big kit, but we don't belittle those with kit that is anything other than the biggest money can buy. Especially when we don't have it ourselves. Try keeping you're condecending remarks to yourself. Stephen seems to refinE his business every other month to the perfect set up that suits HIM.
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I have no idea tbh jomoco, I, like you had less than 1% of a situation/information and thought I knew absolutely everything, more so than those with 100%
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there isn't space!!!!!! A front hitch still won't get a 8ft chipper through a 6 ft gap
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A bigger crane would have had that tree done quicker too, I don't get your point? You must have something? Are the chippers yours? Thing is about the uk, is that a morbark 2400 and suitable chip Lorry might mean you have to park over a mile away from where you want to be....seriously! I have this rig help me a lot, one job he had to leave his trailer 5km away as that was the closest he could get with space to swap bins and turn around with the trailer.
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Out of interest, What's your setup jomoco?
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:lol:
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I think most European countries have trailer mots, certainly do here. Crazy not too imo
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Not sure on legalities but certainly not a good idea too, this would mean the break-away cable can't activate the trailers brakes if the hitch failed, you'd have a run-away trailer dangerously coupled to you with no positive pressure on the rear end of the tow vehicle (trailer possibly weighing far more than the tow vehicle and no brakes!)
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If that's the same as the small safetrack it's a great performer!
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Nice Stevie! what size is the trailer? like the short ramp!
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Petrol v diesel long and short term costs...
josharb87 replied to Ty Korrigan's topic in Large equipment
Sorry, but misinformation annoys me new versions: tw125 575kg tw160 608kg GM130 670kg (bonnet and braked trailer chassis included) 95kg shouldn't make much of a difference to a "work" vehicle -
they don't have the M, I queried this with my dealer when i picked one up. bit daft imo. no carb adjustment and the triangle on the start stop switch is the clues to m-tronic
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No comparison at all, used both side by side they're leagues apart. They both have their place though, but It's like comparing a Stihl 192 and a 461
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Toyota Sweden say it's uprated rear springs, replate and re test, Cant remember if they touch the brakes. Going on the above, I would guess the normal springs give a better ride
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contemplating doing it to mine, but its 2.5k for toyota to do it over here
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I've the previous generation, 3.0 auto, with the extras, tows perfectly fine imo, I think it's a great truck, brought it purely because of the reliability reputation, and in the 60k km I've done in 18months, just a headlight bulb has gone. short service intervals compared to some vehicles though.
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Want to gain experience but not given the chance
josharb87 replied to Carl_s1991's topic in General chat
The freelancer is a safe bet for your boss, he KNOWS what he can do, to what standard and in what time frame. You may think that because he costs twice as much, you would be able to take twice as long to do the same work? Wrong! the ground staff will then be costing your boss twice as much on that job as it takes twice as long. I would assume you've been with this boss the 18 months? he possibly doesn't realise that you're progressing as a climber. TALK to him about wanting to do more prunes, let him give you the chance rather than resenting the freelancer, see if you can get up the tree with the freelancer (my pet hate on anything other than deadwooding tbh)
