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  1. monkeybusiness
    Any reason why you went for this as opposed to a more straightforward shear (TMK etc)?
  2. monkeybusiness
    I’ve a feeling that that will be a day of woe. Hopefully I’m wrong (take plenty of files though!).
  3. monkeybusiness
    If you take that down/away for free I think the landowner is the real winner!
  4. monkeybusiness
    Not sure where you are Swinny but you are welcome to grab a saw to try if you are anywhere near Cheshire.
  5. monkeybusiness
    The 3/4 impact wrench is my favourite tool tbh - I had a wheelnut nearly defeat it the other day though (standard socket so not delivering its full potential). I allowed the nut a couple of seconds to consider its options as I checked the charge in the battery (which was low) and sure enough, the nut decided that coming undone at the next attempt was its least-worst option. So the impact wrench has maintained its clean sheet to date!
  6. monkeybusiness
    Makita all the way. As said, you can then share batteries with drills etc which you may already have? You say you aren’t interested in any other battery kit but the big makita hedgecutter is excellent too, and not expensive if you already have batteries. Just saying like...
  7. monkeybusiness
    Same shit, different day!... At least it has stopped raining!!!
  8. monkeybusiness
    Depending on how you are providing oil to the crane you might need a flow restrictor as the tractor will be running at high engine rev powering the chipper. It will be much harder to feed than with a digger too, as potentially less control (depending on what is on the end of your digger) and zero visibility.
  9. monkeybusiness
    I’ve had a lot of stuff off them over the last few years (including a replacement 12v tipper unit for an ifor williams trailer at a bargain price, a number of complete rams for various kit I’ve had fabricated, big cetop operated valve blocks to set up radio control on a bandit chipper, loads of hoses and fittings, new electromagnetic coils they have identified from photos etc etc) and it has all been top notch stuff. Nothing has ever arrived that I felt was of poor quality - quite the opposite to be honest. And they are really helpful on the phone too.
  10. monkeybusiness
    I’ve never had any issues with their kit tbh, and have a couple of motors that will have done 1000 hours plus on a chipper.
  11. monkeybusiness
    Hydraulic motors are ridiculously cheap from Flowfit too. They’ll match whatever is fitted.
  12. monkeybusiness
    Like this?
  13. monkeybusiness
    That’s nearly 2 litre 2-stroke!!! I bet it goes like fark!
  14. monkeybusiness
    Drastically thin it out to get light down to the woodland floor - leave the edge trees in place to shelter the inner trees from windblow. You need to remove 50% of those trees minimum - that’s a monoculture cash-crop that is grown to force tree growth and kill off any competitive understory. Thevillageidiot and Bigj are the people to input here imo, this is right up their slightly varied streets!
  15. monkeybusiness
    Once the houses are built/signed off (which will almost definitely have been done by the time they are sold/being lived in) the conditions no longer hold any weight, and any trees protection measures insisted upon by the planning conditions are no longer relevant. Unless TPO’d/within a conservation area you can fell the lot. It’s bonkers, but there you go!
  16. monkeybusiness
    Yeah, big hydraulic winch with mega ground anchors. Took quite a bit of pulling but no real dramas - we had quite a few over in the day including one quite a bit bigger than the vid (it was the first tree and nobody filmed it as didn’t expect it to go over tbh, thought we may have had to weaken the root-plate).
  17. monkeybusiness
    What’s the story with the tiger grip failure? Looks like the hitch bolts have sheared but it also loses hydraulic pressure at the same time and pops open - I’d have thought that would occur momentarily after the bolt failure as the hydraulics would still be connected for a nanosecond.
  18. monkeybusiness
    What sort of hose setup does your mega flow machine have? Sounds ace!
  19. monkeybusiness
    I’ve run brand new Navaras for the last 14 years (alongside a load of other second hand trucks/vans etc), have put 20-30k miles a year on them and generally swapped them in for new when the warranty runs out (with the exception of the second one, which I ran for nearly 6 years). I’m currently on my 4th. I’ve bought/paid for them all (not finance/pcp etc). To date they have cost me £2000 a year in depreciation (that figure made me hold on to the second one a bit longer, as I couldn’t get a decent price for it at 3 years old). Obviously I’ve paid for fuel/tax/servicing on top, but that’s the same with vehicles of any age. I don’t think that’s crazy money for the piece of mind and reliability you get from running a new truck personally.
  20. monkeybusiness
    Sometimes stoves are set up that way, particularly in modern well sealed houses. Houses are that well sealed nowadays that you can’t get a draw unless you keep a window open (which kind of negates the point of running a stove!). You also don’t pull the warm air from inside the house into the stove and up/out of the chimney, you use cold air from outside.
  21. monkeybusiness
    Close the wheel and the bottom vent fully and see what happens. I don’t think that it will go out if it is a DEFRA version, but I may be wrong. And check your door seals - you can adjust the hinges and latch if it isn’t sealing properly.
  22. monkeybusiness
    Is it a smoke control version? If so they can’t be shut all the way down I seem to recall. Is your door adjusted and sealing properly? When cold you should be just able to slide a credit card in (with minor resistance) all the way around the edge. Any bigger gaps will stop you having control of the fire. When lit and up to temperature what happens if you push the slide all the way in? It should slow the fire right down.
  23. monkeybusiness
    I’ve never rated Fury, but he boxed very well and really proved himself in this fight. Wilder never recovered from the big hit to his ear early in the 3rd round - I reckon that damaged his eardrum/inner ear and affected his balance. Fury dominated from the start, that was a great display and I am having to eat my words about his ability!
  24. monkeybusiness
    Are the belts slack?
  25. monkeybusiness
    That’s not a contract lift, that’s crane hire by the sounds of it. If things go wrong it will be on your head/insurance. You need to book a contract lift - this leaves the lift-plan and insurance to the crane firm. They then plan the whole job - size of crane required, crane positioning, worksite layout, ground pressure/pad size, weight of pieces to be removed (maximum), signaller etc etc. It is very important from an insurance point of view to get this clarified before you start though...

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