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HI all Cant remember asking and cant find a answer. I have a timberwold tw230 chipper and we have to take the chute off daily for storage. As a result the chute never tightens down properly. The bar is tight as it will go but as soon as you chip it bounces due to the vibrations of chippings as turns to the side resulting in ending up spraying outside of the van. Obviously this isnt good especially if there is a car or such near by. Ive tighten it, main dealer also did and it doesnt stay tight for more than a day before it does it again. I dont even great it as that just makes it worse! I use a bungee to control it but this isnt a very good solution and it always ends up broke when the truck is moved and not unclipped. Has anyone else had this issue and how have you resolved this? Im thinking perhaps a section of tubing or such i can fix over the top ( end of the chute) with a hole for a bungee tied to the cross member of the back of the truck ( in front of the roof section). This wont stop it moving completely but perhaps limit it. The other thought i had was to drill some holes through the 2 lips of where the chute attaches to the main body allowing me to insert a slim bolt or such to stop it moving but i am very reluctant to do this approach. In an ideal world i would have the chute attached in a fold down system similar to what green mech did a few yrs back but seeing as its a round chute i dont think this would be possible. SO after and hints or solutions people may have. Many thanks Jose

there was a electric chipper demo online a few months back. Like said its all coming.

Hi Guys Thank you for the responses. It does make sense what you are saying. I will probably drop a email to the council and see what they say. Cant hurt to ask. Many thanks Jose

HI all Sorry couldnt find a answer so thought id ask. Customer has permission to fell a sycamore in a CA. they are now thinking of reducing it for the time been ( has already been done previously). My question is where do i stand in terms of the law? I can fell with council blessing but can i reduce it instead? may sound like a simple answer but the laws a bugger if you ask me! ive been bitten before when it seemed the answer was very obvious but apparently it wasnt! Cheers

RJ and Sons based in Maidenhead. Not sure if he travels that far but brilliant owner operator. I and everyone i know uses him, have done for years!

electric chipper? be interesting to hear how quiet it may or may not be when working. didnt get the chance this year to go so any other highlights would be welcome

roughly how long does a file last before going blunt? Cheers

dont know that much about the discovery chassis but my 2 p is its ugly and expensive. 24K excluding VAT. Could be way off but thats the initial impression. I actually thought the website picture was a kids drawing! only good thing perhaps is the engine possibilities. Dont they do a V8 still for the disco of those years?

Had the guys go to a site where there was a nest with chicks yesterday morning. We didnt do the work ( going back in 3 weeks time) but the joy of it is by the time i managed to find another job to do i lost at least a couple of hundred pounds of working time. So even doing the right thing cost me. The joys. But if i can i will always give them a chance, even if it is damn pigeons.

i too looked at them, and the only thing is they weight about 4 tonne empty ( well not quite but u get the idea). In fact i am back on the idea again. I have a Isuzu Dmax and i know its a work truck but really isnt a comfy place to be. Whereas the big yank trucks can work and be comfy at the same time. And in fact they are not that much bigger than the current crop of pickups. I would be tempted by the 4x4 ( disco etc) but due to the tax rules i cant sensibly run it through the biz as a asset. my pickup is used for pricing and occasionally pulling a tw230 so doesnt do any real work. So i think why not have the comfort to go with it? Personally i want a big V8 in it so either a dodge ram or a newer f150. And new (ish) they are on par cost wise with the uk pickups. Obviously u can get silly and the super raptors i have seen up for 130K but does anyone really buy them?

no i had both and when distance and heavy timber combined the track barrow kicked ass! and i love the arb trolley. We had to take out a load oh large scotts pine with both the trackbarrow was away. when used as a barrow and not towing it can go forward in 2nd gear and flies. makes a hard tow of the arb trolley easy!. Was trying to tow the arb trolley but didnt have anything to tie them together or i would have.

im sure someone with a welder could. Its not that fast especially in reverse. We use to stand on the rails when towing the chipper as it would add extra weight creating more traction. Mine had all the grunt but was so light that it couldnt grip. A local platform hire shop i know uses one, they welded a old oil drum onto it and filled it with blunt grinder teeth to give it weight and traction.

company i got from was Cautrac. cheers

i bought mine at the Saltec show a few years back. guy delivered it in the back of a discovery. if i can ill dig out some pics. If your going to use it a fair bit over the months weight up total hire cost vs buy use and resale values.

had one, great for moving a 750 kg chipper around tarmac etc but in woods not so great. works in reverse ( going backwards ) but not forward. Not enough weight. With the wheel barrow attachment if u can get it on it will haul it but bear in mind its not that big so ur not going to long lenghts on it. Ive moved 3-4 ft diameter logs on it as long as i could strap on it and the weigth was not a problem. Sure i paid like £1800 +vat new. mine was a track barrow 350. They threw in a tow hitch too which is great. give them a call.

i got a little rock stump grinder, 6.5 hp jobbie. been a cracking machine, saved the day when the predator 28 puked its guts up and had to do a 2 ft dia holly. Dont get me wrong its always last choice but it gets where virtually everything else bar a alpine magnum wont. and cheap! not worth getting rid of as it paid its self off in about 3 months of minimal use! These little one definately have their place!

maybe im missing it but i thought this thread was about travellers. not homeless people. and the other guy said he sleeps 5 nights a week in a van. so assume by that he goes home come the weekend. the 5 nights is out chasing the work. could be in forestry, working in the back and beyond. limited or no nearby accommodation. so its a necessary part of the job. OR maybe hes away from his lockup working and so as many will testify to he finds Sleeping in his van with his kit is the best chance he has of it been there the next day! the polish guys use to come over to work, live in a caravan to save money. doesnt make them travellers. think your trying to muddy the water here.

maybe you have. For all i know you may be a guy that works away from home alot. that doesnt make you a traveller does it? I have a friend in Newcastle that is up and down the country every week of the year, what that make him? we are talking about travellers and gypsies. Ask most convicts in jail and they claim to be innocent of the crimes they were convicted of. I cant see anyone coming on here and saying " yes i nick stuff and pay no taxes" just not gonna happen is it.

in my case yes. the police handed over equipment based on the gypsies word in the middle of a raid as witnesses by the recovery company called int o recover the vehicles, and when we called up repeatedly to find out what was going on ( 6 stolen vehicles on a site occupied by 2 families only) we we classed as harassing the police and barred from calling ( said we were a nuisance). Probably called 4 or 5 times, taking into account our lively hood was taken and we couldnt even go back to work as insurance company wouldnt even consider a claim until a couple of weeks had passed. Never know if they got prosecuted as never heard from the police again but was left about 20k out of pocket. So yeah if im a little biter about that sue me. I reckon any one here would feel the same if it happened to them. I cant see why they r defended at every step. If anything they prove they are not decent or honest or in fact anything but a scourge on society! Bleeding hearts say they are not all bad, i say the vast majority are bad and the good ones are in fact the small minority. Still waiting to be proved wrong.

Always amazes me how people are so quick to defend those who consistently show a total disregard for the wider population. over the last 30 yrs i have seen almost daily examples of travellers/ gypsies doing what they want at the cost of tax paying law abiding people, and the law literally turning a blind eye to there actions. Ive been a victim to them first hand to the tune of thousands which i worked like a dog to earn. Ive seen the aftermath of there visits to a local hospital near me where they come in and destroy the facilities when they are bored while their loved ones are treated. And you know they havent contributed in terms of taxes. In most decent lands where the law is strong they wouldnt be allowed to behave in this way but here they get away with so much and then god forbid someone voices a dislike ( through experience) they are tarring them all and they are not all bad. There was a thing where a local village was harassed by them and at the annual village fete they burnt a effigy of them. Next thing the old bill was doing them as they had offended the gypsies. Nothing i remember about actually addressing the original problem. Still waiting to meet my first Not bad one that isnt eyeballing my kit or any other way to make a quick £ off me.

Yeah right up to the point they nest in your back garden that u paid the mortgage for the last 30 yrs and they tip up, screw the rules and laws and end up saving on all the years of hard work and interest paid to the bank. How many times do they buy farm land, illegally build sites on it over a weekend and then apply for retrospective planning. 3-5 yrs of cheap living and then repeat. and then the gov protects them calling them a ethnic minority! and protects them. If joe public did the things they did we would be in court in about 1 hr flat. But they can take over community fields and it takes weeks to move them on, not to mention the mess they leave behind. The double standards stinks so bad you almost have to laugh.

naw as others have said i like job and knock. Climbers get down and help everybody goes home early. But i dont do the get it down fast in one giant mess line. Thats sucks and is a lot slower than it coming down in a steady flow.

climber but all climbers i know climb, then come down and work the ground too so i guess they would be biased

dont get a LDV crap motors. had one for a few years. Ford be aware that the gypsies all use them and chances are if it catches their eye it may disappear. I know from experience ? i got a vauxhall movano which is basically a renualt which has been good for the last 6 yrs, only 1 fault in all those years ( a valve blow out in the clutch pipe work) . I got a cracking deal on it too at the time. Not as comfy as my transit ( though it has AC which can be a god send). If new i may look at the next Iveco next in auto. All depends on budget. I was toying with a little peugeot partner tipper as a pricing/ back up truck. apparently good for 600-800 kg payload (depending on model). But dont know anything about them. Anyone had one?