monkeybusiness

We bought a Femac cage-rotor flail that I can’t fault tbh.

Long term solution would be to deal with the waste as it arises - having a shredder in the yard might prevent this being a massive ongoing ballache.

There’s a big demolition/skip firm near us that shreds and screens all of their wood waste - the majority of this ends up going for biomass. Whether it should or not is a different matter (I do know of a farmer who prefers it to ‘proper’ virgin biomass woodchip from the official channels as it burns hot/clean and is undoubtedly cheap!...)

I’ve just had a a quick look at the GM website and their machine (that I thought was a shredder, the combi 200) appears to actually be a chipper so I don’t think it would be great on pallets/sheds/otherwise nail-infested material. However, I’m sure @PeteB can give a definitive answer either way. Otherwise, that Timberwolf shredder would definitely be worth considering IMO.

What do you currently do with your chip, and how much do you produce? Would it be viable long-term to get a shredder for this unchippable waste stream and mix it in with the chip?

Looks great!

Employers liability definitely covers labour-only subcontractors - that’s why it’s a legal requirement even if you don’t have any PAYE employees but take on work where you have other people working with you.

If you end up totally stuck take the coils out and take pics and send them to Flowfit - they’ll be able to match something up.

It’s irrelevant ‘how eager the company you are working for is to jump in and say that it's all on them’. The householder would claim against the company employed to do the job, nobody else. That’s the end of it from an insurance point of view. If the company subsequently want to pursue a claim against the subby that’s a different matter altogether, and would come down to whatever contract was in place between them.

So wefixplanes handed the entire job ‘lock-stock’ to the subby to complete however they saw fit? In that case the subby was ‘bone fide’, and would need their own PL insurance (and I’d imagine possibly PI insurance in the aviation industry). The customer would still claim off wefixplanes insurance though (who would have to pay out) - it would subsequently be an issue between wefixplanes, their insurer and the subby as to how the counterclaim panned out. In theory if the subby wasn’t insured then wefixplanes’ insurance company could chase wefixplanes themselves for the money...

Also, I’d be amazed if Euro Car Parts fuel filters are really bad quality. If you’ve had bad fuel or have a lot of crap in your tank any filter will struggle. Do you have an inline filter in your line as well? If not then get one and keep a couple with you - they clean out the bulk of the smeg carried in diesel and are less than a quid. When the chipper struggles whip the old one off and replace and 99% of the time you are back in the game!

In your example the claim would have been between wefixplanes and the plane owner (their customer). Wefixplanes PL insurance company would have to pay out for the damage - it isn’t the responsibility of the customer/affected 3rd party etc to ensure that the (correctly insured) company they employed meet every single possible criterion of employment law etc (if it was that easy to wriggle out of claims then no insurance company would pay anything to anyone ever...). It might be that wefixplanes’ insurance company subsequently look to make a claim against the subby with the drill - how that plays out entirely depends upon whatever contract has been drawn up between drill-man and wefixplanes. If they insisted that he carried insurance to work for them then so be it - there is no legal requirement though, and the affected third party (the plane owner in this case) has no grounds to chase the subby for damages as their contract is with wefixplanes.

Just had a quick look on their site - I’ll ping the link over to Darren but I’ve a feeling that’s going to be too new/over budget for him I’m afraid. If he shows interest I’ll get the number off you Pete, cheers!

I’ve got a mate looking for one of these - could you give some details/pics/price please? Cheers!

Where do you want this tree to land?

Get a steering drawbar whatever you go for - incredibly useful.

I think you have to go through them for parts - there is quite a lot of machine-specific bits on them. If buying new you should be ok - I’d steer well clear of second hand though personally, it’s a potentially very expensive minefield with no option to shop around.

The UK Teupen service agents are useless, and the machines are massively complicated. I can’t comment on the others as I have no personal experience.

I used to have one of those - it had 9 disk blades and earned me loads of money!!!

No idea! Look in the operator’s manual, it’ll tell you in there. There will definitely be controls somewhere to stop you running it with your fingers in spinny choppy areas though!

Check all of your proximity switches first (bonnet/chute etc). And that your battery is good.

It almost definitely won’t be - that’s gear oil. It’ll be ISO 32 or 46, check with Först.

I’d go with what’s available soonest tbh - can’t see it making a great deal of difference unless you regularly move something that is particularly difficult to load. We had the skids on the previous GH trailers, but I’d avoid them in the future. They were joined together and subsequently flexed/eventually broke as not always unloaded on level ground. The ramp is much better. Don’t get the 10 inch wheels either - I spec’d them first time round to keep the floor heights low but the tyres are quite fragile if not driven with care...