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I’m surprised that Jase didn’t buy you a new Timberwolf out of his own pocket just to get rid of you/pass your wrath onto the competition!

Did you pass?….

I’ve bitten the bullet and ordered the Eder based on the very helpful advice on this post - have a ‘guerilla-felling’ job for it this weekend so hope it turns up in time! Thank you everyone for your input, much appreciated.

They look very good - saw them demo’d at the APF and was impressed. Will they work on various rope thicknesses or are they limited to 13mm (I’m thinking of how the rope brake and throttle mechanism operate)?

I want to buy a petrol-powered lightweight winch for assisted fells and general pulling timber around on pedestrian-access sites. What do you have, what do you like/don’t like about your setup, what would you recommend, what would you buy today? All input gratefully received!

We’ve been running them like this for 10 years and had no issues - the rims do touch on their own (don’t need dogging together with the nuts).

Nothing gets trapped!

Twin (with the exception of 4x4s such as MAN TGE/Merc Sprinter etc).

Mega pics! Why do they lift the blade up? To clear the rear tailswing around bends is the only reason I can think, but it looks to be lifted incredibly high!

Pics of the sawmill please - and some more pics! 1000 tonne a day is incredible!

Farmers always run saws on neat petrol/diesel/whatever’s to hand, they are nearly as bad as builders. Muppetry of the highest order!

The tree is overhanging the first LV span (which is also open wire) coming from the 11Kv transformer - depending on the DNO it’ll probably need to be worked on under an HV shutdown. Call the electricity company and they should sort it for you FOC.

Might as well just put the heating on!

£8-£12k - you could crane a crane in at that price! 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve got one of those and it’s a weird thing to use - not sure why they have set it up with the bar on the wrong side?

Weird ponzi-scheme type sales setup, but incredibly powerful hoovers in fairness! But they needed to be as were the price of a small car!!!

Get an old Kirby off eBay for £3.50. They’ll suck the dye out of your carpet.

And this is where too much weight is given to the vociferous ‘green’ agenda imo. We require electricity - unless human populations decrease (which wouldn’t be a bad thing in any way, but it’s not going to happen any time soon) there will be a continued need to sacrifice a bit of flora and fauna to fuel the demands of our race. There are many ways in which we can generate ‘clean’ electricity - the most obvious and dependable one for our island nation with one of the world’s greatest tidal ranges would be to harness the power of the tides with estuary barrages. This has always been a non-starter though as it would disturb existing ecosystems in one way or another, and no politicians have the balls to back such a scheme as there would be uproar from the tie-died green-haired nose-ring minority. We are in a ridiculous situation whereby new industrial buildings (and new houses for that matter) aren’t made to have solar arrays on the roof as a planning stipulation - hundreds of acres of wasted space a year are thrown up all over the country. Developers would absorb the costs (and in reality probably benefit from the investment long-term) so it would theoretically be cost neutral to the government. Firms/funds would undoubtedly buy in with localised battery storage to sell back to the grid at night/during peak demand.

I think it’s brilliant tbh. Not sure I know anybody who doesn’t agree with it actually.

And also since fuel prices sky-rocketed - the tax take obviously goes up as the price at the pump rises!

£15-£40 a tonne for biomass depending on access and distance to market I’d suggest.

Now the towing laws have changed I don’t understand why manufacturers worry about the 750kg ceiling any more - just build them a couple of hundred kilos heavier if necessary.

That’s a dolphin’s gooch. Fact.

I’m not sure what engine is in your mower but the chipper manufacturers have been forced (because of ridiculous emission laws) to all use the same problematic Briggs engine as it offers the necessary power output in a handily sized and priced package to take the place of the now outlawed 35hp diesel Kubota (which is still available from new but in a significantly detuned format). Chipper engines operate in a very harsh environment - lots of heat, lots of dust, often worked at maximum power, always running flat out, often operated by muppets with zero mechanical sympathy (no warm-up/cool-down etc), regularly filled with fuel from dirty containers in dirty environments etc etc. They are bolted to a lightweight platform and are shaken, beaten, soaked and blasted with salt, and that’s just on their way to and from jobs! Old fashioned mechanical industrial diesel engines tolerate this very well but they aren’t available in the necessary power output from new any more (without very expensive and bulky after-treatment). If buying new I’d spec the low-power Kubota and personally de-restrict it (which would forgo the warranty and is probably illegal in this namby-pamby world we live in) before chancing that Briggs POS.

I wouldn’t touch any new petrol engined chippers, regardless of the make. Better off spending money on a decent second hand diesel and/or allowing a bit extra for a refurb. Anything with a Briggs and Stratton engine wants taking directly to the scrap yard, they are absolute garbage.