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Is the pic taken from their (ie the neighbour with the light issue’s) side?

If it is like other Greenmechs there is a splined boss on the roller that the output shaft of the motor locates in. These bosses can eventually wear - you either get a new roller or you can get the boss from Greenmech which a decent fabrication shop will be able to weld into your old roller. Jase or Pete will be along to confirm or deny what I’m saying though!

Speak to Rototilt as well - they did me a great deal on my 6 tonner. It worked out cheaper for me to source QH, buckets and tilt rotator all separately when I set mine up a couple of years ago.

Go 4-hose, get a machine factory fitted with proportional rocker switches on the joysticks. Get S-type hitch/buckets while you’re at it and you can get a tilty any time in the future easy peasy!

I remember seeing a real fast ‘traditional style’ hydraulic splitter on the Ryetec stand at the APF last time - I know nothing more about it than that though I’m afraid!

For what they are those bearings are extremely expensive from Iveco (they are in this country anyway!). It’s cheaper to get the prop shaft entirely overhauled by a specialist (Firow are a firm local to us who manufacture propshafts) than buy the bits! Make sure you mark the flanges at both ends to ensure it bolts back on in the exact same alignment - the truck will shake like a shitting dog if not...

Can’t believe there are no Clearviews in the list - best stoves out there IMO. We’ve also got a Jotul which is also very good.

Have you climbed the stairs in your house tonight? Was it scary? Chances are that was some dead tree....

The insurance co have provided cover for 3rd parties, they are under obligation to pay out to those affected 3rd parties. The insurance company may subsequently seek damages from the insured if they see fit.

I would think that his insurance will have to pay out to the affected 3rd parties. Renewal time will be painful though...

Ground Control insisted on the lads having leaf blower tickets on the WPD contract (I believe at the client’s request). These are lads that they are employing (and who are qualified, experienced and authorised) to operate chainsaws from a rope and harness whilst tied into an anchor point of unknown strength next to live electrical power lines... You have to question the thought process of those making the rules sometimes! Unfortunately that type of brainless tick-box exercise undoubtedly dreamt up by someone sat behind a desk thinking up ways of reducing accidents can then possibly lead to other much more important health and safety messages not being taken as seriously as they should IMO.

200x400 infeed?!!! Wowsers!!

LGP Eddie (and Gray Git also I think) converted forestry winches to hydraulic drive for running off spools - might be worth considering to then mount on the front of your loader?

This is exactly my thought process too, but the enforcement officer appears to see it differently...

Thanks for the reply. What is it a change of use to do you know? If it were an agricultural crop (spuds for example) would it still be change of use?

Hi - I know it’s been kind of covered in the past but does anyone know definitively the rules regarding the storage on agricultural land of unprocessed timber generated through forestry operations? The timber is stored for further forwarding/delivery to end user, no processing takes place. The agricultural land does not adjoin the forestry land from where the timber originates, it is brought in for resale to end users. This is in England. Should there be change of use, and if so what to?! Cheers!

Was that Volvo for sale on here up in Scotland? I wish I’d bought that at the time, give me a shout if you ever move it on...

Why does it seem to happen with such relative frequency on that contract when compared to elsewhere? Time pressure? Inexperienced operatives? Too experienced/complacent operatives? Is there a drug/alcohol culture amongst the workforce? Long hours with a lot of travelling leading to tiredness? Too many hoops to jump through so corners are cut when nobody is looking? Climbers having to use different work methods/systems that they aren't necessarily familiar with leading to mistakes being made? Poor/inadequate PPE stipulations leading to lack of proper control of work tools/karabiner function/fatigue etc? Hazard reporting not being acted upon? It isn't that large a contract in reality, and yet there appears to have been continuous problems with people falling out of trees/getting injured in various ways. There seems to be something very wrong somewhere - it would be interesting to know exactly what and why.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the falls have been down to weak regrowth attachment points failing. Fountains constantly revisit the same trees again and again and again and then only cut the smallest amount the contract will allow off to do the work as cheaply as possible. They should be aiming to fell and subsequently replace more trees - it would be safer than sending climbers back up badly topped/sided carbuncles year after year IMO, no matter how many times the oppos are tied in.

A mate had a van nicked in March and hasn’t had a payout yet - he’s insured with Trust...

Chorley Nissan and Bristol Street Motors both came up as offering the cheapest deals when I bought mine.

I don’t think you can title a thread ‘Pikeys’, but I get the impression that’s what is meant here. Obviously there are any number of travellers out there with different backgrounds/reasons/beliefs in law and order - some good and some bad. Unfortunately there seems to be a disproportionately large group of scumbags who fall under the ‘traveller’ label who are actual living breathing theiving horrible bastards that seem to live outside the law and are protected by their ilk. The way our politically correct society works means that they are categorised as travellers in exactly the same way that hippies, itinerants, those that chose to lead that life and everyone else with no fixed abode is - it is seemingly impossible to refer to these theiving travelling criminal gangs in any way which doesn’t pose offence! The problem seems to be compounded by the rest of the travelling fraternity doing nothing to distance themselves from the bad’uns (I would imagine there are many ‘good’ travellers turning a blind eye to what they know is going on right under their noses). Maybe a better thread title would be ‘Naughty Travellers’ - it would then allow us non-travelling folk to discuss such matters without causing offence possibly?

I’m interested in this - is it a special build or an off-the-peg jobby? 20kw is a big old stove, and they don’t appear to offer anything of that size on their website.

Very sad, he seemed a decent chap. I feel really sorry for his poor family, what horrible news.

I’d imagine they wear in the v - can you swap the blades to double their use before sharpening (ie are all 4 blades the same)?