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  1. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Chill pill darling, and breathe... Too cheap. It doesn't matter if it's officially not overloaded; if it LOOKS overloaded, vosa et al will be on the case. We pulled an expanded polystyrene "boulder" that filled a 14" ifor. It weighed 29 kg, 20kg of which was the grey paint. We got pulled 4 times between St Ives and Plymouth
  2. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Yes, those Nisula heads look really nice. Didn't go down the excavator route in the end as you know but I still have a warm feeling for the small tracked base and roller head venture. One thing we are deffo going to do is get a small forwarding trailer to use with the digger and grab. Beautiful wood, dreamy little job.
  3. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Inevitably!
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    .....
  5. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Dave Martin or Aaron Brooking
  6. TimberCutterDartmoor
    I can spend less time and money motormaual or mechanised cutting to longer lengths; that's the laws of physics. Sure, I can't get two bays of 3.1 on the forwarder so I add greedy pins and then I can load faster than doing two bays of 2.3 et al.
  7. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Yeah; you can't fit that in a back garden and mulch the tree unless you include the whole street in the price i.e. take out 80 houses in the process I'm on a job now where I've had to fell 2/3 of the trees to the harvester and if there was no softwood there would be no harvesters...
  8. TimberCutterDartmoor
    It's right in North Devon! AJS Forest & Garden.
  9. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Fine if the cutter wants to waste time and money. I'll never cut 2.# for chip / firewood again. 3.1 thanks very much. Just goes higher on the truck, simples.
  10. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Likewise in Plymouth! Prob 40 or so big Lawson butts; oversize for chip upto 60".
  11. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Knackered rotor then; bearings or hammers missing. Very very smooth ours is.
  12. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Don't come and have a look at the brash and tops under my harvester wheels then
  13. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Precisely. "Under square" vs "Over Square". I know which I prefer.
  14. TimberCutterDartmoor
    It's knackered or soon will be.
  15. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Get the Echo (from radmore & tucker) or the Dolmar 420.
  16. TimberCutterDartmoor
    In a constant volume cylinder yes, not constant pressure one.
  17. TimberCutterDartmoor
    "No substitute for cubic inches". Splitting hairs when it comes to chainsaws tho imo. My 59cc brand a is torquier than my 61.5cc brand b.
  18. TimberCutterDartmoor
    I got into this position and yes you can choose to buy back from the harvesting side that timber that suits your stock level and processor. The idea that you can flog that which you don't need to keep at precisely the right moment though is hard work, firewood in particular as other merchants in lorry distance don't want the roundwood when it's warm etc either.
  19. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Pm on it's way but my connection patchy...
  20. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Nope. Yep. Nope. Absolutely correct. Straight from the drillers mouth.
  21. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Second that.
  22. TimberCutterDartmoor
    If VFM was the absolute issue Dolmar and Echo are going to be winners. Why? Because bmo experience shows that they are likely to be more reliable £ for running time. 550xp is a dull dull saw, 560 miles better but innumerable reports on here and elsewhere of many issues and I can vouch for that. If the 560 was as or more reliable than / as a 620sx, MS362, or 6100 then you wouldn't bother with the others. Fact is it isn't; shame. If I had to buy new saws now it would go like this (I am a forestry contractor, not an arborist). 40cc - Echo or Dolmar 50cc - PS-5105 60cc - 620SX followed by 6100 70-80cc - Stihl MS461 Bigger - Stihl MS661.
  23. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Remember this: Slow though for any forwarding distance; read the comments below the vid. edit: you can put a 3t mini on a 14' 3500 kg 3-axle plant trailer so long as you fit EH brakes to the trailer; what my mate has done with his hilux.
  24. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Mini Excavator with Forwarding Trailer. Attach trailer to hitch on blade. Quick-hitch a uniforest grab. No lack of lift power, can lift the trailer etc, low pressure, good traction. Downsides are short reach, no 3pl, needs trailed... 7 tonner will run a keto 51... 5t would a stroke head.
  25. TimberCutterDartmoor
    £10/tonne for a 30 ish minute load turnaround? Blimey, I'll come up with my Bruunett tommorow!

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