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  1. monkeybusiness
    Yeah, for some reason that’s not allowed over here. The Scandinavians are light years ahead of the UK with this type of mechanisation.
  2. monkeybusiness
    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.
  3. monkeybusiness
    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!
  4. monkeybusiness
    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in a new system you might as well get the best setup currently available - technology moves pretty quick and things get superseded. No point getting something that’s already out of date!
  5. monkeybusiness
    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.
  6. monkeybusiness
    £2k for a saw with 1 battery, or over £3k with 2 batteries. Bargain!…
  7. monkeybusiness
    What’s the price with charger etc?
  8. monkeybusiness
    Is that the one with the test of it cutting against a blunt 500i? It looks pretty impressive, but the video is bollox.
  9. monkeybusiness
    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.
  10. monkeybusiness
    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!
  11. monkeybusiness
    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.
  12. monkeybusiness
    Where are you?
  13. monkeybusiness
    Are they cracks in the drum?!….
  14. monkeybusiness
    What does the cutting/grinding? What material can you put through it? Stumps etc or just clean timber?
  15. monkeybusiness
    The video stopped at the good bit!
  16. monkeybusiness
    How does the chain brake work? Is it automatically on when not cutting?
  17. monkeybusiness
    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!….
  18. monkeybusiness
    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?
  19. monkeybusiness
    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….
  20. monkeybusiness
    Depends what you are cutting for. If recovering firewood then I’d tend to agree, but if just stacking for skidding and/or chipping then you won’t get near a cut and hold shear for productivity (if it’s the right size for the job in hand). We don’t use a shear on the little Bobcat - my pic above was tongue in cheek as that TMK is too big for that digger (though it does actually handle it surprisingly well!). The Bobcat tends to work alongside someone with a chainsaw as it’s not usually sent to ‘volume’ jobs. However, the 6 tonner with that TMK300 clears and stacks a lot of material FAST, it’s a very productive combination.
  21. monkeybusiness
    TMK300 under a Rototilt if you want to find out how ‘planted’ your digger is….
  22. monkeybusiness
    When they are worn… Depending upon the design they can sometimes be adjusted/shimmed to take out wear. Your video at the start of the thread doesn’t show any boom wear though (not saying it wasn’t worn but that vid doesn’t show it) - it just shows play in the platform mounting linkage.
  23. monkeybusiness
    I’ve always wanted a go in one of those, ideally somewhere steep and snow covered!
  24. monkeybusiness
    2.5 - 3 tonne machine is fine for chipper feeding. As @doobin says, it’s the grab setup that is important. Get a digger with 2x aux hydraulics already plumbed in to operate from buttons on the joysticks ideally as this allows you to easily fit (and operate intuitively) rotating grabs without having to tee into other services and use foot pedals/the bucket crowd etc.
  25. monkeybusiness
    Fuel tank breather blocked?

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