tommer9
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Everything posted by tommer9
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Bite his arm off mate. I have one, and have had it for 10 years. I put a deutz twin cyl diesel on it almost as soon as i got it, (the kohler was knackered, but i paid only £1k) and havent touched it since. It has no no-stress, but as you say its so overengineered that it doesnt need it. B-Trac (vermeer uk) are incredibly helpful too. You wont be disappointed i reckon, and could do a hell of a lot worse for your money.
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The Stihl red stuff. A few years ago it was the most advnced. I just stuck with it. Very interesting to hear you are going away from aspen BTW..
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Yew and Holly are waiting to be milled at the mo.
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Ace, you and Grandad are legends:thumbup:
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Im probably telling you what you already know, but for rolling logs a good way is to take the wire over the log and back to the vehicle. You can roll a log quite a long way and over all sorts too. There is a name for it but i can't remember it...
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Nice one.
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This ones quite cool too, although a lot shorter...[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIoZ0J7x1Cg&feature=related]YouTube - Climbing the World's Tallest Tree[/ame] Thanks for posting.
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Havana club rum, carlsberg export, most draught real ales, scrumpy, in fact most anything with alchohol in it sadly, although i dont drink very much at all nowadays. A nice argentinian Malbec Red from Mendoza is good too.
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Used engine oil is about the worst thing you could ever use, for you (its highly carcinogenic) your machine(its full of minute filings of metal that prematurely wear moving parts) and the environment.......I like veg oil as it runs freely, and the chain seems to run better too. I cant describe it very well, but i think i prefer it to bar oil TBH.
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About £2 round the back of the chip shop....
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Its an impossible question to answer mate. You would have to find out who owns the land the tree fell from and approach them, or approach a contractor (if there is one working there) and find out from him/ her what the arrangement is for the wood. One thing not to do is get caught just taking it, as someone MAY have paid for it.
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Much the same as Rob, down here in cornwall. Beech also.
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Like i say, i am sure there must be more to it than that...
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Good deal i reckon. You have so much power there. I had to replace solenoids four times in a year i think, but my winch was only 9000lbs, and it was pretty early days for me, so i was getting logs that had lain across a stream or in the mud for years from around the farm and neighbouring farms. Dragging logs around the yard was never really problem for it, and you can usually roll them too, which puts almost no strain on the winch anyway. I reckon youll get a few years service from it mate.
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As i understand it you are entitled to take and sell goods exceeding the value to which you are owed, and give the change back to the debtor. I dont know the legal protocol, suffice to say I know of a case where a road gang took a JCB in lieu of payment, drove to the police station and reported it stolen, and on explaining the situation were told that they were entitled to sell the machine etc, that it wouldnt be treated as theft because they had informed the police. Needless to say the money they were owed was paid pretty sharpish.
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If you hunt around you can find pretty good ones for under a grand. I got mine from a small landy dealer who had taken it off a breaker, and paid £700. The uj's in the drive shaft were pretty ripe, but other than that it was cool. Quite often they do come up cheap but you have to watch that the hexagonal section at the front end of the prop shaft isnt missing...
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Yeah the prics for 2nd hand down here is ridiculous. Most stuff is rusty as hell underneath, and the sellers seem to think they are sitting on golddust half the time.
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Chaiwallahs was great. Sooo smiley all the time. I spent a fair bit of time there too. Excellent chai.
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Hear hear- and they are pretty good ones too IMO.
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Yeah its a load better than glastobollox. Thats just a commercial venture dressed up as a festival nowadays....The minute i (finally!!!!) got through the gates it was utterly magical and otherworldly. Would have liked more techno, but the guy whos party it was (Ed) hates techno basically, which is why it was so hard to find.
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More than likely......I saw alot of things......many of which probably werent really there.....
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I agree with logrover- the ultimate is PTO, closely followed by hydraulic. Elec winches will NOT take hours of constant abuse. When i described how i was using my x9 to superwinch, they said for dragging dead weight they would advise MAXIMUM 5 second pull with a minute in between pulls!!!!! I sold it and went PTO.
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I wasnt doing anything tree related mate, and the other stuff was mindless gibberish.....I think i broke my brain a bit, hence the party must have been good:blushing:
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Ali geckos are ACE!!!!!!!
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Dave- tell them you arent interested in any money, you want a like for like replacement. If they cant do it for the money, you will have proved your point. Sorry to hear it mate.
