garth mc garth
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Everything posted by garth mc garth
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you get what you pay for in terms of quality but they dont seem to be touched on price.
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Cant you Just stick 12v on to each of the wires in turn and see what lights up on the trailer. You will only have brake, tail, indicator lights and an earth surely?
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Why not just get materials delivered to site by the supplier and get a quad and trailer to run round off road with. A transit with mud terrains is only gonna get you stuck in a field further away from someone with a proper 4x4 or tractor. I'm on a 1200m post and rail job at the moment and I had to abandon my trailer in the field and rescue it with my tractor as my 4x4 wouldn't drag it thru the mud.
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The cost of converting a transit to 4 wheel drive will be more than the cost of a landy and wont be half as good. Give MJ Allen, cobbs wood industrial estate Ashford Kent as they did supply county parts for conversions.
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Stock fencers- what order do you strain up?
garth mc garth replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Landscaping
Netting pulled tight thru boundary clamps or quickfencer on the mog or valtra. Then pull the barb up tight, let it hang for a few seconds and stretch it away from the fence line with a claw hammer then re tighten, staple and tie off. -
In all honesty i was crapping myself as the wind was gusting like mad and i could see their previous cuts opening and closing whilst i was working! Even found a used chainsaw file in one of their old cuts! I should of felled slightly higher or trimmed the butresses but i was kind of rushing!!
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Yesterdays job: Attempted large oak fell by local land owner with 12" spear and jackson chainsaw didnt go to plan as you can see in the first 2 pics! Another firm had a go at felling by adding more cuts before bottling it and calling for help. Scary thing was hardly a small tree and was in falling distance of a footpath, tree had been severed all the way round from the previous attemps at felling the tree with back cut lower than face cut!!
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just more power makes the difference, tho if steve isnt running up and down the road with it a plant spec machine would be cheaper. i would just stick to a basic 530 70 plant spec so its not overly heavy for its power and wont sink out of sight like the 12- 17 meter versions.
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problem with the big multi boom loaders with stab legs is the size and weight of them. i have driven most when i worked for agri contracting firm and couldnt think of anything worse for deep mud than a plant spec loader with bugger all horse power and massive weight. i had a jcb 540 140 on a clearance job and it didnt have enough beans to pull itself up a muddy incline loaded without being in bottom gear and on the steeper stuff i had to reverse up and push myself back on the boom extension.
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looking for a large hp alpine, got a spare one?
garth mc garth replied to treedave's topic in Large equipment
have you tried lamberhurst engineering or np seymour? both in kent. -
What type of fencing is it and how many meters needs doing mate?
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try lakeside container services 01375 384637. They have delivered alot of the cabins and containers forthe sites that i have been clearing on. Good delivery drivers too, never seen anyone manage to back a wagon and drag at speed along a narrow london street whilst chatting on the phone, smoking a fag and eating a sandwich!
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Cpcs tractor ticket would probably cover you for most stuff either trailed or mounted behind it.
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try roy francis plant hire, they have new and used fae machines , spares etc for tractor and excavator mount
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<p>shiny toys with massive tyres and plenty of horses is what its all about aint it! must be nice being left to your own devices rather than being in each others pockets like on utilities.</p>
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<p>yeah, all is good mate. Still got plenty on with local council and a bit on railway now and then. Picked up a bit of estate work here and there and the private stuff keeps trickling in, just wish it would dry up so i could get out on the ground. </p>
<p>how you keeping these days? still farming?</p>
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i have got a decent sized lump of oak 16ft 6 long, 33 inches one end tapering down to 24" or so. was standing deadwood that was felled and stacked on bearers about a month ago. weighs a good couple of ton but can load open backed vehicle, trailer with timber crane. located just outside ashford kent, make me an offer!
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Do you mean for tidying a lawn with little bits or chunky brash on clearance jobs? Something like a modified scarifier or spring time cultivator from a compact tractor would probably work
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It's not that they aren't capable it's just they don't really have massive ground clearance or lots of power so your find your in bottom gear when you are carrying a load in mud or up any incline and carry no momentum to get though. A old 520 or 525 with 2 or 4 wd will run rings round those that you pictured.
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Those little 520's are good machines if its hard going on the ground. I hire them for carrying security fence panels around sites and they struggle a bit if its hilly or soft. But if you want a yard loader they are good tools. Manitou do the buggiscopic range which would be similar.
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If dont intend running it up the road or doing lots of towing with it buy a plant spec machine rather than Agri spec as there is a huge difference in price. The farm models generally have high speed gearbox, soft ride hydraulics and pick up hitches. If you can find a basic plant version that isn't specced with these you generally get a much newer machine for your money.
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Another vote for wraights, distant family relation and the tractor graveyard is full of ford gems!
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Nah, he just realised he had caught crabs from the bog seat at mc Donald's!
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Best Tractor / Crane / Chipper set-up ???
garth mc garth replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Large equipment
how did your 8950 power that heizo mate? decent speed? how was it on the road with that chipper on the linkage? -
Exciting times ahead !!!
garth mc garth replied to combined tree services's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Steering drawbar? What weight can it carry? Been looking for a pole trailer to go behind my valmet since selling my tipping crane trailer that I use behind the mog.
