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what size/model is the little landini and i'd be interested to know how it handles a flail mower of what size, if you have one? thinking of downsizing at the moment either to an alpine tractor or something like yours

why do you want a hitch for a compact tractor? surely theres no weight in the things you pick up so you can wang them around slightly if you dont come in to them square? sems a bit of a waste of money thats all? just my 2pence sorry. am used to picking up implements of 5t or more. no messing about then!

personally i think its great, but yes very limited. in my case, we have 25acres of woodland which has been unmanaged for years so there is little quality in there and the timber that is needing thinned is quite thin itself. some of it is too small for the processor, and we dont have a chipper, but we do have a woodfuel heating system. if i bought this, all my little brash piles could get used as fuel, and i wouldnt have to worry about getting a chipper and a means to burn chip. ok so theres still a few issues regarding H&S and also the maintenance/life expectancy of the machine but if it does have CE marking i may look at getting one. i would question the marketability of the product it produces - people want to see 'logs' on their fire (and gifts on the tree as cliff says) but in a situation like mine it fills a gap.

hello we are looking at putting a dragon burner in to heat the house and outbuildings (and also plumb in a 20ft insulated container to use as a log kiln!). these are basically like the farm2000 burners but a lot more efficient and 'engineered' for purpose. anyone got one? what you think? we are only looking at a 50kw one and weighing it up against a log boiler of a similar rating. Looked at chip but chip system is £50K. Log boiler about £15K and dragon burner about £6K (thats installed with a load of new plumbing in the outbuildings)

by the way would you recommend a walk behind flail or rotary, if i were to hire one? cheers

yeah the other problem i get with the big flail on the back of the tractor is that you go into something in reverse, as you dont know whats there, then you hit a big stone and because you are crawling you dont notice the stone pushing the mower up and in the end it bends the linkage. done it twice now. not happy. so i have stopped using the flail until i can clear the area first and lift the stone out.

dean what tractor and mower did you do that with? doing a similar thing myself at the moment, 8ft ferms and brambles but lots of stone and deadwood on the ground. cant get the tractor and flail in as there isnt enough head room and also i keep breaking flails on stones so i am doing it with a big brushcutter. which i am absolutely loving. and so is my back. and arms. and generally feeling like i've been shot at all day by little flying stones. you know what i mean.

hi guys i have a karcher petrol engine cold washer model hd1040 b. someone used it today and i went to use it before leaving the yard and it is spraying intermittently. engine is fine but the spray is coming out on, off, on, off, on, off with about 0.25 second intervals (although i wasnt timing though that is my most accurate stab in the dark). the water supply was on full, and there was no other water being used elsewhere at the time. i cant find any info on the pump, but i would assume it is a two stage pump, and therefore the above description makes me think that one half of the pump is cream crackered. am i right? am i worrying over nothing and its probably just hot? as i sit here writing this i am thinking that the hose is probably just kinked! but no, it shouldnt be because the lad who was on it earlier went home because he couldnt get the washer to work properly. he had been on it most of the day. i did notice a very low level of oil in the pump though, which is concerning me. any help appreciated cheers

hi guys i am starting a new venture and am looking at how i can provide contact details for what is essentially going to be just myself for the first couple of months, before an anticipated rapid expansion at the start of next year. two things i need are a postal address and a telephone number. i have decided to go for a po box address as it is the easiest option as there are no 'virtual offices' near me so it would seem silly to have an address miles away from where i actually am. i dont have any office facilities at my yard so using that as an address is also out of the question. secondly, i need a phone number. now at the moment its just me and my mobile number, but i dont like putting a mobile number as the main business contact. its something i have never liked the look of. i have looked at getting another line put into the house but because i will often be on site i would have to set up call forwarding, which looks like it could end up being expensive as i would have to pay for all calls. i also looked at things like ereceptionist.co.uk but again i think that could prove costly and i also thought of getting an 0845 number and forwarding that to the mobile but again, costly. it seems daft i know, but the main reason i dont want to have just the mobile number is because in six months time we will be looking to take on more staff that will need to be contactable and possibly get an office set up at the yard. has anybody been in this situation before or can you suggest any other virtual office type services that could possibly help me get off the ground and establish my new venture in the best light cheers

quite rare to see 2wd these days. any particular reason why you gone for that and not 4wd?

problem with pigs is that i would have to spend as much on electric fencing as i would on a brushcutter as i would have to contain them in blocks to concentrate their grazing. i keep pigs on the farm anyway so its no real bonus to me. plus the forestry dont like it i mean after all they did pay me a rather generous £1.12/m for fencing to keep stock out of the woods.

i found a good bit of detail on tools/heads on the stihl website

good thought but theres a lot of stone on the floor in places and the terrain varies so a flail wouldnt suit. plus i had one a few years ago and could never get on with it. i expect theyre a lot easier to use these days mind.

hiya i have a fair amount (probably 8 acres. (i know:thumbdown:)) of clearance to do in areas i cant get in with my tractor and flail. mainly bracken, bramble, fern, you know the usual stuff. i think i need to get myself a clearing saw (or big ass strimmer) as it looks like thats the most efficient way of getting progress in these areas. i currently have a stihl fs45 which is perfectly adequate to do my garden, along the drive and the verge down on the road, but i dont think she will be up to heavy work. i did have a flail head on it for a few days last year and she could never get to full revs with it so i know its only a toy in terms of power. i have since binned the flail head based on recent press. can anyone suggest what to get? with the stihls something like a fs450 springs to mind but would this be overkill? there are a fair few in the stihl range. also husq do a few also. i would be stretched to buy one new but on the other hand i dont have much faith in buying second hand items like this - any advice? ebay etc? this is only my hobby by the way. also, i saw something once that had details of all the different types of heads you could get (blades, saws, cord etc etc) and what they were good for. can anyone point me in the right direction for this also. thanks guys. i would be stretched to buy one new but on the other hand i dont reallyu

bilke do one too but when i looked at one the sales guy reckoned everything needed to be long straight and thin for it to work. was quick though.

hi mate i'm in bridgend. would love to come have a look. i'm just playing at it really cos we produce timber as part of our management plan so i'm picking up bits of kit as the years go on. a long way off being reliant on it though unfortunately.

hard work getting 20" stuff to stand under a horizontal splitter? can you explain more? takes me onto my next question (vert or horiz splitter???)

when they split metre long lengths and stack them. the prsumably cut to order or cut at point of use.

does anyone do billets in this country? they seem all the rage in europe (from what i can see on youtube anyway). keen to hear the pros and cons. cheers

whats the price of a lump of stone like that? i've been digging out for a new yard this weekend and have got about a dozen of them out of the ground. also had two the size of a small car. would be good to know what value is in them before i bury them or break them up.

was actually going to order some today mate what a coincidence

no not at the moment theres too much risk and time involved with burning. plus i wouldnt have any chip to use. good suggestion though. although you should have seen the fire i had last week i ended up melting a few pto guards unexpectedly.

your oop north though arent you david? may not be worth it just for a day or two?