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A fixed (ie non-swing) rotating grab gives massively more control and dexterity than any other type BUT is subjected to a great deal more forces than one that swings, so needs to be used with a degree of mechanical sympathy and built as strongly as possible. For the money suggested above I’d probably consider the Kelfri free swinger, as I’m not sure how well a cheap grab would stand up to being fixed onto a digger.
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That’s all mine do.
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The trouble is the police (like all walks of life) have their fair share of dickheads. I know a few coppers socially, all bar one of them are sound. That one individual is a nasty piece of work though, a power crazy bully with no idea how to talk to people and no understanding that he rubs people up the wrong way.
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I got pulled over by a traffic officer on the M62 a couple of years ago as his ANPR camera had flagged up my pickup (he was driving and not actively checking me, whatever system he had fitted must check all the plates going past him I guess). Apparently my vehicle (same model, colour and reg) had been used to steal something from a building site in Kent a few weeks prior, and I can only assume the reg was being looked for across the whole country (which I was quite impressed with!). Anyway, I was in Gran Canaria when the theft occurred and my pickup (only driven by me) was parked on my drive in Cheshire whilst I was away so it was obviously someone with cloned plates. The copper was really sound, and I didn’t worry about the half hour lost.
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Were they watching your yard, or where the van was collected from, or is there a tracker on it, or is it registered as stolen for some reason and has tripped ANPR cameras?
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I’ve had similar - been stopped with a sheep trailer outside my yard in the dark before now, I was really pleased they were taking an interest tbh. There’s a really proactive rural crime team in our area (which makes a change from 3 or so years ago when there was nothing!) - they go all over the country arresting people for crime committed in Cheshire which is great!
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Yeah, for some reason that’s not allowed over here. The Scandinavians are light years ahead of the UK with this type of mechanisation.
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It’s down to the numb way the plant hire industry is set-up in the UK - a 13 tonne excavator with 3 buckets and an agency driver costs x per week, there is no appreciation of efficiency gains so there hasn’t really been any incentive for machines to be up-spec’d by hire firms as they won’t get their investment back from hire rates. Tiltys are gaining traction over here now (I’ve got 2, and I know plenty of other people with them) but it tends to be owner-operators who invest and benefit from the increased efficiency on price works and ability to use the machine for a lot more than just digging square holes.
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I’m clearly a retard too as find the electric saw occasionally out of oil. Largely because I’ll grab it to cut something (rarely a tree!) and then chuck it back in the van/on the shelf, using the batteries for something else. Life is too short to check the oil just in case, I’m only using it as a rule because I’m being lazy in the first place!
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Yeah, but if you are going to invest in a new system you might as well get the best setup currently available - technology moves pretty quick and things get superseded. No point getting something that’s already out of date!
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Off the kress website someone linked to - I CBA looking again but the big batteries are £1100ish plus vat, the charger is £600ish plus vat, and the saw itself was only cheap (under £400 istr). Mental money to get set up with an unheard of battery saw imo.
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£2k for a saw with 1 battery, or over £3k with 2 batteries. Bargain!…
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What’s the price with charger etc?
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Is that the one with the test of it cutting against a blunt 500i? It looks pretty impressive, but the video is bollox.
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The individual tines will bend if you are rough - they are only as strong as the thickness of steel will allow and you are putting all of the force of an excavator through them at unusual angles… They bend back though - just learn from the experience.
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There is also the consideration of what is being cut growing away from the machine - the weight itself might be ok but that weight might actually have a centre of gravity at a greater radius than the cut point. Depending on the head it may not fall to vertical, but instead massively increase leverage (and subsequent tippy-over-forces)… I’m also surprised that we haven’t seen a big hiab grapplesaw through a house roof yet - once these units get old and second hand and more affordable I foresee carnage!
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I remember a historically very prolific (and in fairness really interesting and creative) poster on here showing off his latest large excavator-based grapple saw creation. When I questioned what it’s swl was at full reach and how he could know what he was going to end up holding once cut he poo-pooed my thoughts as ridiculous, stating something along the lines of ‘There’s no tree in the world this machine can’t lift’… I’m guessing he either learned the error of his ways through a near miss or via a clued-up employer dismissing his RAMS as worthless as he apparently now preaches to all who will listen about load charts etc! There is a lot more to cutting and holding timber at radius than is often appreciated.
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Where are you?
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Vermeer HG6000 Horizontal Grinder Staffordshire
monkeybusiness commented on Vermeer UK's blog entry in Member Blogs
Are they cracks in the drum?!…. -
Vermeer HG6000 Horizontal Grinder Staffordshire
monkeybusiness commented on Vermeer UK's blog entry in Member Blogs
What does the cutting/grinding? What material can you put through it? Stumps etc or just clean timber? -
Vermeer HG6000 Horizontal Grinder Staffordshire
monkeybusiness commented on Vermeer UK's blog entry in Member Blogs
The video stopped at the good bit! -
How does the chain brake work? Is it automatically on when not cutting?
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A lad who used to work with me did this in the other direction and never looked back - I regularly wish I’d followed him!….
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Sycamore tree overgrown?
monkeybusiness replied to jazzman's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
OP - why don’t you ask your landlord if they would let you pay a contractor to remove the tree entirely, at your own expense? -
We are definitely slower on the big site clearance work than previous years, and builders are much more price conscious. One of the guys I use for big mulching jobs is very quiet, and he doesn’t normally stop between September and March. I’m glad I don't have anything on finance and subsequently need it working to make the payments - there are already guys going out with big kit for no money just to keep kit busy….
