tommer9

I think the first 3 are g.adspersum, here on hazel (IIRC), plus a little parasol type of affair (dont know what) and some white brackets on a rotten stump, taken very quickly whilst stopped in a lane!!

Its got a 3 cyl deutz. Has yours got the perkins? I may fabricate an HSE system- i have sen a couple of very good hoe made ones that tick all the relevant boxes. Regarding chip quality- I have the blades pro sharpened, but the pic was the day after i got back, and hadnt had time to get them done, and they were so blunt you could run you finger across them with a fair bit of pressure!! :thumbdown:They are now razor sharp (i removed a chunk of finger and half a nail without feeling it when i fitted them (stupidly not wearing gloves (knob!)). My point was that all the chippers i have used that have been set up right, have had pretty much identical looking chip, and that at the end of the day its only woodchip waste.....or am I missing the point:confused1: (not being in the market to sell chip)

a thirteen tonner is a different world to a seven tonner, but then again, a takeuchi 7 tonner is a very very capable machine. If you want to move stuff any distance, obviously the 13 tonner wil be quicker, having a longer reach. As far as road making and ditching are concerned, the digger is perfectly adapted to this already with the grading bucket. It sounds to me as if you have little experience of these machines (?)(hence the thread) so i would advise geting one with a driver. Both these machines are expensive bits of kit to have on hire to learn on. I would also seriously think about hiring a wheeled digger. I have started hiring them in preference to handlers for loading logs onto the mill, as the 4-in-1 bucket is very useful for grabbing and moving logs, removing the need for a second person. These machines also have amazing power in the back actor, and with the 'extendahoe' the set up is near perfect for grading roads etc, plus the grading buckets can be supplied with holes in them, and are then known as ditching buckets. IME they are cheaper to hire than a 7 or 13 tone swinger, and would be far more suited to your job. With the combo of carrying capacity, and the blade on the front bucket and float on the front loader, you also have further grading potential. You would be able to quickly clear up spoil from the ditches too etc etc. In fact the more i think about it, I would strongly recommend a wheeled digger, even more so with an owner-operator. Compared to someone who doesnt spend all day in these machines, these guys can achieve phenomenal amounts in a day, and round here average about £25 to £35/ hour all-in.

yeah- and if you take it down the pub, you will pull all the birds...............maybe!!:lol:

LOL- I dont know why ady is even considering a baby saw like that- get an 088 with a 48" bar and have done ade:lol:

Just remember that it is a road vehicle with 4x4 capability, and its built to a (very limited) budget, and you will be fine. You start doing to it what a land rover will take, and it will show you why they are half the price (new) of a defender. Having said that, I do reckon they are half decent.

But then again you can fell a 70" girth tree with a 28 inch bar if you are cute, and we dont get much over 3' diameter down here, and those that are bigger are very well protected in general.

It chips like a bitch mate, fast as hell, and throws the chip miles. This was 3 hours chipping with incredibly blunt blades!! I dont give a monkeys what the chip looks like, its a waste product thats going to end up on a garden, or more likely under my neighbours cows to save on straw. As far as im concerned, all this nonsense about chip quality out of an arb chipper is nothing more than a way of finding fault with a machine. If you are producing chip for an end purpose (woodfuel etc) then maybe it matters. I use my chipper to get rid of as much waste as i can, as fast as i can, end of. Dave was down here today telling me all about it when he returned the trailer. Its only marginally bigger than the 935.

Sweet. I have been waiting for a few.

Save your money mate- your 362 wil cope with ANYTHING you have got to fell!!

Yeah it must have been 'kin awful. They originally thought that they wouldnt be able to carry out the rescue until christmas!!

Looks excellent that!

Its not best practice to use steel krabs as if they corrode (unlikely with constant rubbing of the rope) they can weaken the rope.

no no honestly- that was it- just the chipper:blushing: Yeah- its a heavy old lump, but the day rate has just gone up to reflect the fact that i am now measuring fuel economy on the galons per mile as opposed to miles per gallon scale:laugh1:

It was a fair trek from here to northampton to pick it up in the landy....towing near 2 tonnes all the way back!!

Haha yeah!

Yeah they have had it for a while.

I recently sold my 620i and replaced it with a second hand, fairly elderly 935i, which was not pretty to look at. It had been outside for a fair while and as you can see the weather had taken its toll. My initial plan was to have it grit blasted, but the downtime to do a thorough job of it was too much, so instead i spent several hours with the mega twist-knot wire brush attachments on the 4.5" grinder, and a flap disc, and removed the rust scabs etc to clean metal. I then primed the whle chipper, after rubbing it down with sand paper, and gave it a couple of coats of caterpillar yellow, which is an almost perfect match according to the machine in the paint place, and today I got some new decals made up. I have changed the lines a bit (there should be white, and the black should be on top to be correct, but I just wanted it a tiny bit personalised:blushing:) I also took the feed roller out and sharpened it, and replaced a bearing and a bush in the feed roler mechanism. Ok- it isnt a wotk of art, but I dont like perfect straight shiny new machinery- old but looked after I prefer. Each to their own etc:biggrin: and it will soon be scarred up and filthy anyway.

Surely you should know that....you have just bought it havent you:lol:

That is terrible.

Tell your missus to wear ear defenders when she goes out in the street. Its all around us, even the wee kids are swearing nowadays. People oughtn't get so offended by words IMO.

Awesome mate!

I never torqued mine. They were done up viddy, then tapped with a hammer to make sure. No probs.

Saw one at sodbury sort out about 6 years ago, when it was still going. The owner said it was good for advertising, but useless as a work vehicle due to prohibitive running costs. Looked brilliant though.