Stephen Blair

No it's a local contract I have, didn't use much last year, need to fine tune the operation though. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

No APF, that's my moving date! Tbh I don't get as excited about them, accomidation is a pain and food at the show is dire! What a buzz though your Mog on Alec's Stand! Say hi from me:) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

Best of luck Stan:thumbup1: not going this year, first time I'll have missed it since Lockerbie 12 years ago!

I've got a pallet barrow and the container floor is smooth. So I'll be moving it back and forward to the doors. It's just a spreadex spreader, so 15 shovels a load, x3 and it's job done. It will be swept up every time it's used, but I know what your saying. I'll try it this way as filling the grit bins around the site by hand, and then shoveling them out again is double handling! If the salt is damp it just clogs up.

I missed that mate:blushing: Mogs doing great, it's been out solid the last month, hedge season finished at the end of July thank goodness and it's been doing what it's meant to do, had to spend 30 mins with JD and loader shoving up the chip mountain as I had ran out of room to turn in the yard. I may be moving the Mog on as life is taking a different direction in the next few weeks. Not 100% sure, I'll know better in a month.

The salt will be dried out inside a warm factory for 2 weeks, so all residue will drop out onto a concrete floor and cleaned up, then I'll wrap it like Graham suggested and store outside and bring it in on the forklift and into the container for the minimum time. Thanks guys, this has really helped.

Timber wolf, that's some crazy speeds !!!!! Did you do the work yourself?

My mates just bought a brand new Honda 450, he loves it!

Cheers guys, good idea with the cyclage wrap, I've got a roll,of it for some reason! Saws need watered TTP!! Graham, I'll bring you a case!!

Lamens terms please, save me googling that big word:sneaky2:

Thanks Graham, I was hoping that would be the answer! Now can I get a go of your skidder please?

He could just take a grinder to his spout!

Hi, if I put a ton bag of white road salt in a steel shipping container , will it affect any steel work or machinery also stored in there? The floor is wooden and it will be on a pallet. Thanks:001_smile:

If you take the legs off, glue a small spirit level on the chipper. Rules are, when you pick reverse, Mr Shotgun passenger should be at the back guiding you, and then signalling down, and you wouldn't believe what some folk think is level!

Also Ti, extend your top link and that will keep the chipper more level and give you room to lift it higher and I'd just take the legs off the chipper. The hydraulics can handle it no bother, you might even have a lock off valve you can turn when you lower it for chipping. If it's a long time and your concerned, stick a couple of logs under the arms. Watch if you do this there's nothing at the base you can damage like oil sump, just be careful .

The spout only needs about 6" movement off centre either side to fill the box tight, the blast power and ricochets will do the rest? Light conveyor belt clamped and riveted on the corners and cut down so they look like the bit where your luggage comes out at the airport will stop stuff coming out a bit.

I'm with the cut and roll brigade! Best not be up the woods yourself, get some mates that need some firewood and go and half some outdoor manly time! Be safe, wear PPE and look out for each other!

Hi Doobin, sorry I missed this, better late than never. The answer is simple, I made more on the job than it cost me to pay for the saw. Simples! I did the job 12 years previous and it caused that much hassle, it was never done again, mainly neighbouring residents who didn't like noise and complained, it caused friction the customer didn't want, and that outweighed the benefits of the tree trimming in their eyes. I did the job and the folk who moaned the last time, didn't know it had been done. Could I of used an electric chainsaw and extension lead? Yes! Could I of used a handsaw? Yes! It would of taken a lot longer. If I had used a petrol pole saw and top handle it would of been quicker, probably done in a day, but that option wasn't available. The reason I came on this thread as I just found this on the internet, Stihl are doing a battery backpack, anyone got anymore info? NEW ?ALL-DAY' BATTERY EXTENDS CORDLESS RANGE | STIHL | Stihl, Viking, chainsaws, brushcutters, hedge trimmers, clearing saws, high-pressure cleaners, lawn mowers, trimmers

How long has it taken you to stock pile 100 ton of rings? Is it lying tipped out in piles on the ground? My concern would be rot factor! Personally I'd sell it for firewood the way it is, to a firewood guy. You've made your money getting the tree down, anything you get is a bonus imo.

Things of beauty!!!

I got stung last week twice, it involved me running out from under a conifer with a sore arm, so we returned with a blower and I continued cutting and chucking logs out, but the guy on the blower is terrified of wasps so he kept trying to blow them away from around him and not me, and I got stung on the other arm! So on the way home in the Mog, 1 got in the cab and I kept whooshing it his way as he went ballistic trying to get away for it, he was nearly on my knee! True Story:001_smile:

Really enjoyed that, beech with big laterals isn't the nicest, your cuts were great and your lowering man is excellent! Cracking fell!!

Some plywood for the big lower gap and some rubber matting for the top would help by about 90%

It's getting the right 1 mate as you know!

That frond has been needing a drain for years, the last one collapsed, hence the rubble and new big pipe, I angled the grab and dragged it back and it filled up with soil like a trenching bucket! Really easy digging! It's amazing what these machines can do.