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Sadly the supplying dealer didn’t register it when sold to me, and it turns out it was made in 2017(!) so had been sat on his shelf for a few years prior to sale. Chelford reckon there is no chance of getting anywhere with Husky, so I’ve brought it home and will open it up myself for a look when I get time over Xmas (if I haven’t chucked it in the bin before then!). I find it incredible that something so relatively basic has irreparably failed so quickly - it doesn’t give me a great deal of faith in the Husky battery kit tbh. I’ve got Bosch, Hitachi and Makita chargers that are all really old and have all seen a lot of use and they never break. Chelford reckon they’ve seen a lot of similar failures in these chargers - what a load of Mickey Mouse crap!!!

For ripping and making a mulcher’s job easier I reckoned these look good - I saw them at a forestry show in France in 2019. ISTR you had a picture of something similar at some point Eddie - any good?

Cheers Eddie. I guess you wouldn’t want to go too mad on a long reach - that’s potentially a lot of twisting force through the front end! Does it just spin if no flat face to get started on? Would a bigger machine be able to force it to start cutting, or would it just stall would you think? They are a great concept but not much use for my job if they only get just below the surface. I’m looking at alternatives to ripping and mulching really - the size of the finished grindings aren’t really an issue.

Sycamore. And road planings.

Has anyone used one/seen one in action on anything other than small forestry stumps? What are they like on real-world oversize poplar/willow etc? Is there effectiveness limited by carrier weight (do they perform significantly better on a 21 tonner for example?) How do they cope with contamination? Does the odd rock-strike stop them working until resharpened? They look a great tool and I’ve got a couple of sites lined up where they might work well but am not convinced how well they would perform on the sort of crap we encounter day to day!

Yeah, I just pulled that number off the invoice. I’m on site now, will get the serial number tonight when I’m back at the yard.

There is a code against the charger on the receipt (967 09 15-02) but I suspect that is an internal product code, not the serial number. I’ll pop it into Chelford Farm Supplies and see what they say (I’ve bought plenty of other Husky kit from them in the past) when I’m next over that way.

I bought it with a load of Husky kit from a dealer that was getting out of their Husqvarna franchise (GA Groundcare) on 13 October last year - I’m not sure if it will be possible to return it to them now. (It was a proper sale with full receipt etc). I feel a bit of an arse taking it to another Husky dealer, particularly with it being over 12 months old.

Hi - I’ve got a Husky QC500 battery charger used with 2x Husky 300 batteries. It is 14 months old, and has done 7 or 8 charges max. It’s kept indoors on a workbench, plugged in to normal mains supply when in use. It has now stopped working - I swapped the fuse but that’s not brought it back to life. I’m sure I’ve heard other people mention issues with these chargers - does anyone have experience of them failing at all? Cheers, Dan

I’ve often wished there was a Bhatti Rim Repair shop locally after a curry night…

The Railway is good/clean/basic/cheap - I’ve put lads up in there after Christmas piss-ups and it’s always been good!

If you need an afternoon of laughter and memory loss we are going on a pub crawl around Nantwich this Saturday eggs (not millions of miles away from you by the sounds of it - you’d be more than welcome to join us (but need to wear a Christmas jumper…)

If they were working to a price (that you were happy to pay) then what they ended up earning a day is irrelevant - we all have good jobs that work out well (and hopefully compensate for other days that don’t!). Would you have paid them more if it had taken them longer?

Did they do it on price or day-rate? Did they also supply materials?

I need a couple of brush cutter ops to clear a site behind an industrial unit in Birmingham ASAP - it was cleared in March and needs all the regen knocking back down. 4 man days (ish!). Please pm rates and availability, or call me on 07970188050. Cheers, Dan

A mate was running a job very similar (possibly that actual job) - felling a couple of thousand trees in an ancient woodland and then moving the soil/leaf litter to a set-aside replanting area. I sent him your details at the time - said it had your name all over it. The HS2 tree cutting gravy train seems to be slowing a bit from what I hear. Lots and lots of people with fingers in pies taking their cut - plenty of money has been made but the whole thing looks a top-heavy managerial led paperwork exercise. I’ve gone out of my way to avoid it (though we did quite a bit in the very early days). One of my regular customers are heavily into soil stabilisation - all brand new kit, every health and safety box ticked, no corners cut. They did a small project on HS2 early on and turned everything else offered down on it since as they weren’t allowed to actually get on and do the job. They reckon they’ve cleaned up picking up work their competitors can’t do as they’re overstretched on the big vanity project!

Undoubtedly the unlimited check book of HS2 I’d wager GW!

The huge drives on the estates that you refer to will bring in far more money than the standing crop the pens are spoiling.

This this this!!! We’ve been flat out since dawn, and back out there tomorrow first thing but this is genuinely enjoyable work! Get there, weigh it up, chop stuff down/winch stuff off buildings/open roads etc, leave it in a pile and go!

I doubt it has mown that - there is fresh cut overstood along with maintained lawn. The whole point of robomowers is that they constantly cut a tiny bit - that photo is marketing bullshit IMO.

Spready spready…

Even in that PR photo the grass looks terrible!

I’m only going on results I’ve seen in customers’ gardens - as I said I’m happy to be proven wrong. I love the idea of them but I’ve yet to see anything replicate the finish of a freshly mowed lawn. (Chelford Farm Supplies near me sell more of them than any other dealer in the UK apparently, so people are obviously happy with them. I do know two people who had them installed but have gone back to traditional mowing though).

I’ve yet to see a robotically mowed lawn that doesn’t look crap - happy to be proven wrong though!

My thoughts and the feedback I’ve had from users is that an out-front mower with pivot steer is a much better option for obstacle-mowing than anything mid-mounted. The tool-carrier aspect of a loader would definitely be put to use by this potential owner - there are plenty of reasons for them to own one and cost isn’t a particular barrier(!) How the quality and speed of cut compares to a stand-alone commercial out-front mulching mower is the crux of the question.