monkeybusiness

I’ve never bought a pair of Haix boots (for myself or my staff) that haven’t fallen apart after 6 months. Expensive crap IME.

When I was in the market a couple of years ago it ultimately came down to SMP (their package was very very good value) and Rototilt (who I ended up buying from - a bit more money but I felt more comfortable with their UK backup). The other 2 suppliers were both significantly more expensive for their equivalent set-ups. I bought an SMP qh when the digger was brand new (it was available off the shelf in Sweden and I had it fitted and out working less than a week after ordering - I couldn’t source an S40 qh for my machine from anyone else without a significant lead time). This was bought and fitted before I’d settled on a spec for my tilty - the machine did a couple of months work before I ordered that. Daniel and Caroline (SMP UK at the time, I don’t know if that’s still the case but hope it is?) were very helpful and great to deal with and I would have been happy to spend the big money on the tilty with them had they had a more established UK presence - in terms of quality everything I’ve seen of SMP appears top drawer IME. I was very green/new to this market and felt more comfortable spending my money with a more established outfit (and I have no regrets with the decisions made) but more suppliers = more choice which can only be a good thing for consumers!

A very sad question (based on UK legalities) but do you know what it weighs empty?

Sheet bend. Similar to a bowline but uses 2 ropes.

If you are set on a cherry picker for this job bear in mind that from an access point of view length is as important as width - you can’t bend them around corners so the narrow access point needs to have a good straight approach and departure.

Flip your bar. Is it a Rototech/Northern Arb Supplies chain?

Makita/Dolmar DCS 7900 exhaust by any chance?

Phil Haseldon - 07943076475

The cameraman nearly got taken out during the first fell!!!

If you’d held a towing licence I’m sure you would have been legal though. Without a towing licence you can only tow a trailer with a gross weight (which is what it has to be plated at) of 750kg, and this is what you will have been prosecuted for. Otherwise you would simply have been prosecuted for being overloaded surely? If you hold the correct licence to tow whatever weight trailer you are hitched to, the plated weight of the trailer doesn’t matter providing its actual total loaded weight doesn’t exceed any of the various limiting weights (train weight/axle weights/hitch weight etc). If this wasn’t the case the majority of 3.5 tonne trailers on the road (empty or full) would be running illegally, as not many vehicles have a 3.5 tonne towing capacity. From your case history all of these drivers wouldn’t be licenced or insured either. I feel confident that there would have been a major clamp down on this glut of unlicensed uninsured drivers before now - I think your case isn’t actually the answer to this query.

What did you get prosecuted for? Incorrect driving licence or towing a trailer beyond the vehicle’s capacity? I’d imagine the former, but the thread is regarding the latter.

Get it bought, you know it makes sense!

You can have whatever you want if you don’t have to justify it commercially, that’s why!

Ah, bugger. I’m there Friday mate, would love to have caught up with you and Mac. Send him my regards!

Are you going Jase?

A mate had one on demo and unfortunately dismissed it for being underpowered and having a really noisy slew ring (which is obviously not right in a new machine). He is a ‘Buy British’ stalwart but ended up keeping an old (but owned from new) New Holland (actually Kobelco I think) 13 tonne zero as he reckons it still digs better than the 131 he demo’d. He put a muck pit in with the demonstrator so gave it a decent workout, and was all set for having it before he drove it. On paper it looks great though, and hopefully he drove a duff machine.

Yes, but be warned, it could get very expensive very quickly!!! Great day out even if you don’t do any shopping though, it’s a fantastic show.

I’ll be there on Friday - a mate has organised a bus so it may be a good excuse for a couple of cheeky pints....

I bought an ex military Rotzler hydraulic winch to run off my tractor’s hydraulics (180 bar). It wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding - when I finally got the specs from Rotzler it needed 300 bar (excavator pressure). New pump and it runs great - I wouldn’t be surprised if your military DAF pump is delivering too much pressure for the MEWP though.

Doesn’t look as heavy as a TMK either, but obviously that might not be the case! Do the blades ever bend on this style of shear in your experience?

How does that T-Cut 25 compare to the TMK Eddie? For both cutting and holding onto what it’s cut?

Lol - not quite the same but I do get where you are coming from!

I’d love to see it work as a concept, but personally think it’s a bit too compromised in terms of capacity to be worth building. Chasing twigs around with a forestry crane would soon get tiresome. There is a reason you don’t often see this sized chipper fitted with a crane! If Big J has an old suitable chipper kicking about in the nettles then yes, it would make sense to do a bit of fabrication and give it a try. To go out and buy a suitable machine to test the concept wouldn’t be how I’d personally spend my own money though - I reckon you could soon end up with a load of money tied up in a niche machine with limited/no market.

Feeding a chipper with an excavator is a different proposal to feeding a small mounted chipper with a small mounted crane. And this isn’t a site clearance job - the main role is harvesting any timber of value. All that will be left is small brash, not hulking great lengths of heavy timber. I stand by my thoughts that it would be quicker fed by hand on this scale. There would be a lot of repositioning with that sized crane just to reach the brash for a start - I can’t see it being viable unfortunately.

Exac-1 had one at Hillhead that looked decent and didn’t require crazy flow.