josharb87
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Im pretty sure its not compulsory no, but its just the done thing to use aspen. Dealers recommend it like a jo-ho recommends religion, machines come with aspen stickers on saying to only fill with aspen, aspen or equivalent is available at every fuel garage AND I get aspen at about £1.85 a litre at todays exchange rate Id never willingly go back to pump fuel
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I'll echo pretty much all steves said Don't be afraid to go in straight away with a price you might think is too high, I aired on the side of caution and went with an average rate, and was soon booked up 3months in advance. great but a bit pointless when more company's want you at higher rates, 10private jobs suddenly get accepted over a couple of days etc The loler days and doing something diffrent sounds like a good plan. Definatly less stress
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Are the Sparks caused from the carbon deposits? If so, if a saw is run on aspen from day one, there will be no carbon deposits, therefore won't even need a spark screen? Would I be correct in thinking like that?
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Macbook Air I wanted a new laptop, (my last, £600 dell, 4years old was almost unusable as so out of date) so i looked at spending £500 on one, then i needed the office package (£80) to actually do anything useful on it, plus antivirus £100, then it was only £100 away from the cheapest Macbook. I asked advise from friends, and the one comment that stuck in my head was you never hear of anyone going from a mac back to windows. I don't get the best out of my Mac as I'm not great with computers, but i am extremely happy with it and so glad i spent the extra for quality. I even got £200 quid knocked off as i wanted the cheapest but they diddnt have that in stock so gave me the one I've now got for the same price (i was told that apple products were sold at a %5 loss by my media friend too so he was suprised at my deal)
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Nice!
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Yes I believe it is avants silage grab. Not closing completely isn't a problem. With small grab loads you can close as much as possible, then tilt the grab up slightly, as long as you're driving sensibly you won't loose anything. I think it's more a problem in your head than it is in reality Tyres, I've used a 200series with the turf tyres, they are useless. If it's wet grass, spinning turf tyres will do more damage than the tractor style ones not spinning That silage grab is the best all round attatchment IMO as it will grab logs, branches even do a rough rake without ever getting off the seat. You can't rake with the rotator one (last pic) and you can't grab branches easily or rake with the pallet forks/log thumb
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This type of grab you can use it almost like a rake, pushing, roll and "bale" branches before grabbing a big load of them. down side is if you have a 3m long branch/stem you need a 3m wide access. This type i believe is a one off build. (a companies i sub too) Grab, rotator and winch. pros is you can grab and reverse to drag/extract, cons is its HEAVY far too heavy for a 420
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Nice Tom!
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Could be worth trying a pair of woolen gloves under your current ones. I saw a program with a swedish skier who recommended woolen gloves first to trap heat, then wind/waterproof gloves over the top
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Not sure that's entirley accurate, non lethal machinery you can buy online (blowers for example) just sharps (including power heads to sharp implements) are now restricted.
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2 km of Sequoiadendron giganteum, Giant Sequoia
josharb87 replied to armybloke's topic in Picture Forum
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Is your local dealer on the tools daily or a salesman? Which one do you think he has a harder time shifting? The 441, which has very mixed reviews, or the 461, which i don't think I've heard a bad thing said about it, only that its awesome. The 441 seems a bit pointless now the 461 is out
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Isn't that what he was doing? Selling kit to fund the treatment of his dog????? So he was "skint" might have been sitting on a load of green wood but I'm sure the vet wouldn't accept that as payment so that's irrelevant. Sold some kit he could manage without, paid the vet, saved te dog, then nearly a year later sells produce to your value of 15k, yet I'm sure no part of that produce was free??? Seems like you begrudge him bouncing back BigJ did you look into transport costs for a container, Sweden to you?
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(Insert dirty old man noises with a sneer here)
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And a 7.5" 50hp safetrac greenmech for the many chip n leave jobs
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Tip and grab truck, although I'd happily exchange this 18ton, single axle, 13m crane for my last employers 6x6 scania, 19m crane, 6 support legs, then the optional 7m jib Towing this......
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This (new top whack 3.0 hilux, plant trailer, 750 avant with timber grab/rotator) Plus.....
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What problems do you have with the flippy caps sub zero? Tim, just buy whatever feels best in your hands. I done this recently and made a different decision to what I thought I would
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Reading the words in the link was much much easier, i diddnt have to concentrate on focusing so much to avoid the words jumping around. Thanks for the link
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What would the fine/punishment be if you caused an accident/death with an overloaded vehicle?
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From a users perspective, the trailer choice makes the biggest difference. At one company i used a tracked greenmech on a tipping trailer, it was pants for small jobs as far too high if left on the trailer, although versatile being able to chip on the trailer on bigger jobs. At another, a tracked tw190 turbo, on a plant trailer, much better as lower, still a pain compared to a road tow as you couldn't really stand at the side to feed as well as a road tow, and being up on the ramp to feed, could be awkward if you wanted to chuck and run a gnarly piece in. I reckon (although not tried or tested) the smallest, lowest plant trailer possible, with a cut down ramp (like Johnny walkers on here) would be great as you could back the chipper up a bit on the trailer so the whole hopper hangs over the back of the trailer. Should be a much safer feeding position? Edit like the Johnny walker above haha!
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Husky or Stihl it really won't matter if buying second hand, either make will be as much a gamble buying it used. It seems the modern big saws, second hand, in advertised "good" condition are only about 30% less than a new one with warranty etc. Worth it?
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Nice Rich, looks ace having all that space on the ground, decent chipper and the avant
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so this doesn't cover carrying wood chip or logs then? as its not 'materials for the driver's use in the course of his work.' its produce/waste so a tacho would be needed for a transit tipper, chipper, carrying logs?
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It was always a stupid rule
