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Nothing mate, its a good thing as is but if you turn it over to tree work that extra axle is just robbing payload down to an insignificant ammount
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The one I owned needed the operator to lift the log onto the plate and push it on to the cone until the cone bit in. It was pto driven and the only way to stop the cone was to stop the tractor or disengage the PTO, you cant do either from the operators position, particularly if it has your hand trapped and if its under load disengaging the PTO is going to be difficult How do you get the log onto the cone and what's your emergency stop?
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Convert to hydraulic? Well everything is possible but I recon the cost would be prohibitive
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Yes and no, much will depend on what you expect of it and if the machine is tracked. Not difficult if you know what you are doing
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What do you think of this bad boy???
treequip replied to A Pettersen-Firewood&Chip's topic in Arb-Trucks
The big give away is the name of the company that owns most of these combo units. Asplundh are Huuuuge in the line clearance market and in the US where Asplundh started is Huuuuge by comparison with the UK. Its a fairly specialised unit, a bit of a one trick pony but it does that trick well. -
On the electric winch front its a good idea to have an isolation switch on the feed. I was gifted one of the PRC made "electric clothes line" type winches which I fitted to my chipper. It was great for pulling trees over and allowed safety while being "adventurous" on slopes. It shorted out in use and without the isolator could have become a bonfire under the chipper. When I fit another it will be hydraulic.
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It matters not how stupid he was or wasn't, what's important is the fact that you have to have your hands in there and there is no emergency stop in the event it does go wrong.
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Not inexperienced just bad experience(es) Cone splitters generally don't have an emergency stop and the nature of the design requires you to have your hands in the mix. When they bight, they really do bight. I saw an old boy try to kick a stubborn log onto the cone, he missed and the cone screwed itself between the sole of his boot and his foot. He couldn't stop the machine and just had to wait (and scream) until it bust his boot off his foot breaking many of those little bones in his foot as it went. When there have been enough accidents (reported) the HSE will inevitably turn their gaze to these machines as they did with the chipper in feed situation. On the up side a cone mounted on a crane or 360 is a magnificent tool.
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What do you think of this bad boy???
treequip replied to A Pettersen-Firewood&Chip's topic in Arb-Trucks
They are a bit numb for UK roads, the obvious solution is to build one on a UK chassis. -
Mr Blair is spot on. Anything on the 3pl tends to be a bit "loose" if you ask it to reach sideways. Side arm flails need side reach, they are demountable but most are mounted to the axle which gives them a lot more stability.
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What's to interpret? "for use in the course of his work" Its pretty simple, what it doesn't say is cart timber back to the yard to be split nest time its raining. What it doesn't say is cart chip and dump it at the allotments.
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They tend to run on 3/8 or bigger, they run slower than a petrol powered saw but they have bucket loads of torque.
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Wot they said plus your mini digger wont have nearly enough flow on the hammer circuit
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Why it's best to leave cutting down trees to the professionals!
treequip replied to AA Teccie (Paul)'s topic in AA
I think he meant how did it get on the wall -
Why it's best to leave cutting down trees to the professionals!
treequip replied to AA Teccie (Paul)'s topic in AA
Slow news day at the Metro?? That clip has been in circulation for well over a year [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNrb0rZYzbg]Awesome Tree Felling Fail - YouTube[/ame] -
I disagree The exemption is "for the driver's use in the course of his work" and removing waste is not "for use in the course of his work" its waste removed from site, back to a depot for further processing. Your bowser is the perfect example of the exemption, clearly you don't need to empty the bowser for the journey back, the contents of the bowser are unused materials and not waste you are removing from site.
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But that exemption wont cover you if you move anything off site. No logs or chip away.
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That's the way to go particularly if you have a tracked chipper, hitch it on and shove it around with the chipper:thumbup1:
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What do you think of this bad boy???
treequip replied to A Pettersen-Firewood&Chip's topic in Arb-Trucks
Yup Many years ago when I was young and impressionable I saw one of their depots on a week end. At the time I was amazed that there were that many chippers in the world, and that was just one depot:laugh1: Bucket trucks, "chuck and duck" and Mexicans, its what Asplundh are made of -
What do you think of this bad boy???
treequip replied to A Pettersen-Firewood&Chip's topic in Arb-Trucks
And in the states, outfits like Asplundh have them by the dozen -
What was it doing?
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They aren't saying you cant earn a crust, they are saying you are going to have to do that somewhere else, my yard is on commercial land, they don't bother me.
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When this conversation took place were either of you under the influence of drink or drugs? 4 is a doozy, I will get myself a muck licence instead of an "O" licence, much cheaper and a lot less work
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On a roadside job a member of public stopped on a slip road over the crest of a hill to scrounge some logs, while he was asking an artic gathered his polo and moved it a ways down the road. He couldn't see further than a boot full of free logs.
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That set up seems to be successful. I know a guy that did the same thing in a disused quarry When planning enforcement visited and he just shoved the building a couple of feet with a huge 360 and they went away satisfied.
