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Excellent,that's going to take all the fun out of throw lining ,fun being endless tangles and snagged lines !

Does anyone in Sussex,Preferably Ashdown Forest area,want to go halves on delivery of the Selway Charcoal bags - the Coppice ones,Minimum order is for 200 and that would take me a while to get through !! Cheers Steve

I've had one for about eight months and I'm quite impressed with it - you do have to get pretty physical with it - and the cutters need to be sharp - not figured out how to change them for better/cheaper teeth yet ! The brake is crap,the throttle cable has snapped,and most bizzarely the exhaust fell off because one of the studs had sheared ! spoke to Rock,who said speak to local B&S outfit,did this but they were very sceptical about getting it through as a warrenty claim - said I'd be charged if they didn't wear it,so did it myself in the end. Good for small conifer stumps,did a 20 inch beech with it once,that was a work out - never again

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Tim,the outfit that did my conversion were Ellis and Sons in Paddock Wood 01892 725720 - really good people to deal with in my experience.

I use a 2mx2m tarp,heavy duty 380gsm or more - they seem to last a fair time and you can't get too much in them that you can't manhandle them into the truck - I do get a bit of stick about it though !

Thanks for the replies,forgot to mention cage sides,doh - but I have just the ground for the job !!!

Has anyone ever put a 10x6 trailer over a weighbridge full of hedgecuttings - I know it will depend on whats in there - say a mix of holly and leylandii,but if anyone has a recollection of approximate weights I would be most grateful as wondering how much I can get in one when full to the brim? Cheers Steve

Cool - like the look of that !

That's a thought,get one of the hedge cutting boys to do it when they are passing!

Thanks Goaty - I'm guessing they might need a fairly hefty tractor to drive them,i've only got a 60HP ford !!

Has anyone ever used a tractor with a flail to smash up hedge cuttings ? Need to replace my topper soon,and been getting increasingly fed up with the huge pile of hedge cuttings that build up in the yard - so have been wondering about running a flail over the pile to reduce it to a manageable mush - tried it with a rotary topper without much effect,but a flail ???

Yeah - seems to be the way to go - I just wondered if there was any solid basis for their "concerns" ! Thanks Steve

Does anyone know of any issues from contaminated woodchip,fungi etc.. being transferred to woodland ? I've got a very good situation where I can drop woodchip on some local community land and it is spread on the footpaths to keep the mud down - a couple of local busybodies are creating a bit of a fuss for deep political reasons within the village and citing that "contaminated woodchip" could harm the woodland (mainly chestnut coppice) I'm aware of the leachate being an issue for watercourses,but this is not an issue for us. Cheers Steve

I've got a chipper for sale on EBay at the moment,one bloke phoned up to come and have a look,when I mentioned that the chipper was at my house for viewing - not my yard - you could almost hear the disappointment in his voice - predictably he didn't turn up !!