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An experience we had years ago may put you off these ideas. We had a piece of tube and 6mm plate you put a blank cartridge into a piece of fishing wire a split pin and weight. You open the door the weight drops and result a big noise. We set it up and forgot about it. Went in the shed the thing went could not hear till lunch time but even worse the bit of 6mm plate shot out and broke Bill's little toe now this was very serious as he was in pain for weeks compensation was metioned but I explained he should not have been in the workshop without his toe tectors on. His defence was it would have bounced off and hit him in the goolies. Now in hind site we worked out that the plate shot out because we had lost some of the bits. I realised this accident could have been much worse it could have been me. We have not used our device since and it still sits on the shelf.

Or even worse you forget about your own bobby traps.

Yes no problem if you can read jons posts you can read anything

Make sure all the links move freely there may be a tight spot that wont go round nose or sprocket.

I used steel pipe over scaffold tube about 3" works well then.

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I will have a look probably not great ones but should give you an idea

could be a better idea. I used scaffold tube and put 3" gas pipe to make the rollers slipped over the scaffold tube worked well.

I have two exactly the same I bought as new 5 miles away for £80. I think they are chinese. The one on ebay looks a bit rusty and you will struggle to get the legs up and down. They are a bit light on the build twist and topple alot the branches will get stuck between the rollers. I have used them for several things but not cord. You may be able to improve them by adjusting the front legs and leaning them back and fitting some boat keel rollers. I have a feeling some heavy cord my kill them in a few weeks.

I would imagine that is right. Insurance companies dont take risks lying down if the problems were that great premiums would be sky high. Does make you wonder when you look on the nfu auction site though. If you look at the accident stats for very young and old drivers not to mention drunk drivers, boy racers in tractors come along way down the list.

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I might be able to help with that. I get them for £25 ea single trip but had pva glue in them. Cant get any till after christmas though.

I had a look recently and the hilux single cab still only carries 750kg with a tin buck. The extra and double cab carries nearly 1100kg. Its always been the same if you fit a proper tipper you will reduce this by another 350kg so best to go for and extra cab and go up a bit. Remember also any passengers need to come out the payload.

I have had a go twice at buying a cheap quad or compact tractor and given up. I usually buy a fourtrack or something similar and put muds on. Cheaper , less nickable and the seat stays dry. When I searched for a quad I came to the conclusion you need to spend 4-5k to get value for money and no headaches probably a Honda. But thats just me others I am sure have more luck.

Due to cost of fuel and lack of hardwood etc 8 wheelers are laying up everywhere with bolsters on that I think you will find plenty of work.

I think farmers like this are the exception rather than the norm with huge estates. What made my mouth drop open was he was gutted as the latest range rover is 1/2 tonne lighter so would be cheaper to run cheaper to run to me = £2000 and lasts 5 years on one oil change and a set of tyres.

I dont think we have the power to change any laws not this weekend any way Safety has to come first over profit where there is a will their is a way. I understand margins are tight I was talking to a farmer this week who said things are so bad that he cant afford £95,000 for a RR autobiography and he is thinking of keeping his 12 plate for another year. £250,000 for a combine £100,000 for a tractor some profit their somewhere.

Looks a good tool. I would go with the bolster idea and get them over made proper job. If you need to pick up rings and waste may be worth getting a roro skip and pulling it up on the tilt body with crane or winch. Or getting some midi skips you can load and unload with crane.

I assume the norway spruce is about 10" in diameter. I would be interested if it were 15-22" I would put it through the woodmiser for kindling. The chestnut is ok for firewood in a wood burner as it spits on an open fire.

So if you have been towing 3.5 tonne of plant for 20 years with out problems or incident counts for nothing unless you have been on a days towing course.

If its outside they will take it. Even if you take four wheels and hitch off. They will bring their own put two on the back and chain through the A frame.

Tractors under 100hp doing less than 20 mph with hydraulic brakes keep things as they are. Over 100hp driving test and minimum age 18 lots more regulation. And I hate regulations but this is crazy at the moment round our way young kids flat out round country lanes.

Where do you start on a post like this. Alot of good points maybe a bit too much generalisation. A licence or ticket says you have had some tuition and hopefully reached a minimum standard to operate that piece of kit. No substitute for more experience. All generations can be safe or dangerous the old boys can be careless and slow to react. The young dont have a sense of self preservation till they hit 25 limited only by how much they can open the governor. The owner driver of an £80,000 truck is unlikely to want to scratch the paint and rip the mirrors of just to deliver your pallet. The employed driver with an 8 year old wreck wont give a toss. I think alot of farmers dont really give a toss if a young lad is competant as long as they sit in the cab for 16 hrs for peanuts. The kit is insured. Unfortunately its the lives of my wife and kids that is at risk sharing the roads. I think the idea is to slow down your not answer an emergency or putting out a fire. Its low value agricultral goods. Remember you may not get hurt in the accident but you will when the husband comes round to see you.

Our logs were always the right size for the customer, no trash and easily below 25% moisture. We had around 100 regular customers and all but a hand full would go elsewhere for cheap logs when they were about. We used to charge £80 a cube and still do when we have some. We would be dead until January then sell out in a few weeks unless it was mild then we would be left with a pile of logs. I looked into importing logs but the price I would pay was exactly the same as the idiots charge around here. I have other much better ways of making money and cant see the point in making an already difficult time harder for the decent log sellers in my area so now concentrate on supplying them with kindling. If you encourage the import of logs they will get established and by pass you and supply the public direct.

Because of the grants they get more to supply softwood so feel you should pay the same pro rata for hardwood. But the public wont pay proper money for logs. So you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The grants are drying up now so the tide may turn.