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IME its a waste of time unless you have a minor niggle. Used it many times on horses......amazing!!! TOTAL waste on spondylolysthesis and missing vertebrae tho.

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All well and good doing deep gobs....until a big gust takes it backwards when you arent ready......IMO not a technique when control may be an issue!!

if price is what will decide it then go for tw/ gm etc.....if you want longevity and build quality go schleising vermeer or bandit. You get what you pay for basically.

glendale....what a shower of......

Tazistock chainsaws are no more, as of about 10 days ago....big sale up there last weekend. Abbey pro in plymouth or tavistock (if they are still going lol) or has been mentioned radmores in exeter. On no account go into truro tractors in chacewater.......unless your life depends on it lol!

ST austell you could try Geoff ham, or possibly Kev from Timberdown forestry....both like buying and selling wood lol. Nigel Chapman from Newquay is always after firewood. TBH though unless you can load them or make it very easy indeed, its probably worth more to the owner as firewood.

Churches used alot of horse chestnut inside. Spiders dont like it!!

No disrepect but this is an accident waiting to happen. People watch the experienced operatops at work and often think 'I can do that'.

 

I doubt the person doing the felling will have all the legally required qualifications to carry out the planned operations, the telehandler has it been annually inspected - the list goes on......

Your employer will also be culpable should an accident occur.

 

Some well qualified experienced posters have freely given their advice on the Forum and you would be well advised to follow it.

 

Pay a Tree Surgeon to tip them over - it will be money well spent!

CVouldnt agree more

PM sent btw:001_smile:

Most of the hardwood cord on 8 wheelers in cornwall is being brought in from devon and further at the minute- i regularly see evans transport with hardood coord on it heading down here. Not much help, but I think you probably need to look further east than you are!!

Rgularlarly have. Dipped out the top half of an ash last year at about 40'- had to do a dog tooth cut and the tree was over 3' at that hieight too hahaha. Great laugh.

john Toms and sons in bodmin , Jo Sawmills in mabe, Branston sawmills (?) glynn valley, Cornish Chough on here (camborne based).........

Yeah it wouldnt be the most spacious for a giant of a man like yourself J. You have to sacrifice something somewhere- the best towers out there are the toyotas- the big landcruisers are streets ahead of anything else, but like you say you lose the pick up. LAndies are the ultimate off road but arent necessarily designed for long distance comfort if you are huge, most of the others seem to be made of double sided sticky tape and spit and wishes as opposed to proper engineering lol....TBH though although i have seen alot of rangers absoloutely shagged after very little really hard use (the diffs are total cheese for example) and the older engines were crap after about 80k, I have always maintined that they would be my second choice after a defender. Like someone else said though, all 4x4s have their limits, and are pretty much on a level playing field in the grand scheme of things.

Its only a matter of time before somebody mentioned the dreaded green oval, but to be honest you are looking at a 110 or 130 to do what you want....thats why they have such a strong relationship with the arb industry i suppose.

Stick a galvanised marsland chassis in it. Better the devil you know as it were. cracking truck then.

I ran an Oscar 236 hudson mill for years, and was very pleased with it indeed. The bed was a little bit fiddly to set up as i had the mobile version, but once set the results were superb. Another local mill to myself and i were both supplying the same large job a while ago, myself the softwood and the other guy the hardwood, adn according to the customer my mill was producing more accurate timber. On chatting to the other mill he was having issues keeping the bed of his miser fom bending! I am not trying to demean the mizers, they are superb, all i am saying is that there are cheaper alternatives. the hudson I bought was very basic, albeit big, and since then alot more guards and features have been added without too much of an increase in cost from what i can tell. I would recommend them very highly. Curtis at Just saws is very helpful, and parts are very easily obtainable. I have to say I found woodmiser blades awful in comparison to the Dakin Flathers ripper 37. Others may differ of course!!

I was also very impressed with the norwod lumbermate BTW. Some members on here have one IIRC.

The roots don't generally pass the drip line of the tree......essentially the spread of the crown.

pics of my truck?

Bought an ali flatbed sherpa and turned it into the tipper bed on my defender.......with a transit pump and ram off a small grain trailer....the whole lopt cost me about £500 and a couple of nights work.....

LOL that sounds really underhand. What i mean is simply that the level of service seems to have dropped (anecdotally) and certainly the quality of their fabrication (they make tipper conversions in house for a local utility subcontractor for example) is worse than shoddy. They have recently taken over another independent landrover centre and that has lost all its business and that has just gone to pot, as most of the customers have been scared away by the way they have been treated- heavy handedness on accounts, poor workmanshiop, mechanincs who have been there for 20+ years leaving under clouds etc etc etc. They have lost their franchise with some major players downhere, not limited to Western Power and Imerys (china clay)......people are speaking with their feet/ wallets.

well thew size of the chassis for starters, the ampunt of plastic trim on a work vehicle, the amount of unnecessary bling, the fact that it is what it is and no more- totally locked into being one vehicle. Overall it seemed a bit flimsy TBH. He couldnt give me a straight answer regarding GTW, towing ability, off road ability loaded or otherwise....he kind of looked confused and almost worried that I was catching him out on simple things, and i just got the impression he was trying to be evasive...not the way to make a potential buyer feel at ease i would have said....

It might be worth mentioning here that the general concensus here in cornwall is that Roger Young USED to be the name in land rover in cornwall, but that due to recent business practices, mostly since MAtt has been more involved it seems, they have been losing their reputation somewhat and other dealers seem to be getting even larger slices of the pie. Many think it is a last ditch attempt to restructure the business into something profitable again. The attitude i found at the show is indicative of this.

Everywhere I ask, people tell me Defenders are unreliable and very uncomfortable to drive (I'm 6ft 2) and very expensive 2nd hand. And they tell me the newer ones are worse than the old ones!

 

Our old Hilux has not caused a single unscheduled missed work day in the five years we've had it. We paid £2,400 for it and it is 18 years old now. We had a lot of problems with (new) unreliable british chippers until we bought a new Jensen and I don't want the same with trucks. Unfortunately single cab Hilux's have by far the lowest legal payload (820kg excluding driver) of any of the main picks ups sold in the UK at the moment.

Well i can only speak from experience......I am on my fourth landrover, this one i have abused for the last 13 years. It has oinly ever really let me down once in all that time. It gets abused, overloaded (been pover 9.5 tonne with an ifor at the quarry before) and just comes back for more. I have had toyota hiluxes and daihatsu fourtraks (one daihatsu) and worked with people with l200s galore. They ALL break down, wear out and rust to pieces in no time. They are extortionate to repair and the chassis are so weak its a disgrace. I have no passion for landrovers (or any 4x4 for that matter) but in 20 years i find myself biting the bullet and sticking with landrovers because they ARE reliale (no less than anything else in the same conditions) and they ARE the only ones that can do what they do. Everything else falls bty the wayside quite badly. In all honesty, the detractors fall into the category of the jealous (cant afford a good one so settle for second best), the ignorant (those who dont know when NOT to buy a vehicle and get lumbered with a knackered one) and those whose mates have ignorantly spouted nonsense at them as part of THIR personal vendetta fort whatever reason. The bottom line is if you want a car derived 4x4 get a jap thing and suffer the lack of true ability but enjoy looking poncy and having car-like comfort, or go for function over form and get a true workhorse and suffer shoddy build quiality of the body work and what have you, to benefit from the phenomenal chassis and drive train etc etc etc.

Just my opinion formed after nearly 30 years of being around overworked undermaintained 4x4s lol

Cheers for clearing that up.

 

 

 

 

Really? so 4 ton towing or 4 ton truck, how come ? I thought the max combination with a landy was 7 ton.

not that I would want to try 7.5 ton, it struggles like mad with 7 ton.

3.5 ton vehicle towing 3.5 ton trailer = 7tonnes.......sincere apologies fore my atrocious maths the other day hahaha:blushing:. However you can tow more if you go for air brakes like the utilities do sometimes- water board more than any IIRC.

You are clutching at straws as the only vehicle you can do what you want with is a defender in reality. I looked at those isuzus at the royal cornwall show on the roger young stand.......they are a joke IMO, and Matt YOung did every thing he could to dodge my questions.....7.5 ton gtw on my defender.....

Sorry to hear that mate!

I pay my groundy £100 a day whether it is a full or short day, and if it is a long day i TRY to give him a bonus. I paid for his boots, lid and trousers, and his climbing tickets. He is more than worth it, if i could i would give him £120 minimum a day. Never complains, excellent onthe rigging line and can run the job on the ground flawlessly if i get subbies in. However the last guy started at £60 a day and TBH wasnt worth half of that, costing me a fortune in wasted time and broken gear. In my opinion you get what you pay for.

FWIW i sometimes climb for two other companies one of which gives me £175 a day and the other who gives me £200.......not at my request I might add. I give them my all though.