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  1. mattplace
    I'll be trying that! I've got a few pieces of etched glass in the garage from when I've changed them over the years. It needs doing again so this could save me £70. I also read that prolonged over heating can cause the glass to be etched. Sometimes I've come in and the wife has it running flat out like a raging inferno... so she's had the blame!
  2. mattplace
    I'm on the lookout for a tw190 dead or alive for a project. I basically only need the flywheel housing back but I would consider a tired machine, or one with a blown engine, knackered chassis, etc. There must be one looking sorry for itself in the corner of a yard somewhere! I have tried a few places and tried on Facebook with no luck. I might also consider any other 8 inch + modern chipper.
  3. mattplace
    Is that a Pto reverse gearbox mounted on the frame? If so, where did you get it?
  4. mattplace
    Anyone got a Protech P10 post knocker for sale? Or even for hire if fairly local to South East Wales?
  5. mattplace
    Same here on a Samsung s6
  6. mattplace
    How did you have the lowering rope configured through it? Could it have possibly been the wrong way around so the weight of the timber was pulling the top of the safebloc down? Sent from my SM-G925F using Arbtalk mobile app
  7. mattplace
    I wouldn't touch a truckman.... Its only 2 years old and it's awful. Poor quality, leaks, everything breaks, and the fibreglass is cracking all over it. Sent from my SM-G925F using Arbtalk mobile app
  8. mattplace
    [ATTACH]221700[/ATTACH] Get yourselves a bottle if this! Got bitten loads yesterday in the woods as I forgot it! Applied it today and didn't get bothered once! And you get soft skin! 😉😂 Sent from my SM-G925F using Arbtalk mobile app
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    I keep toying with building a horizontal billet splitter to tow around with my 2.5t digger. With the grab on the digger, I could lift any sized log onto the splitter and split it with remote control, then drop the split billets into a bundler. Sent from my SM-G925F using Arbtalk mobile app
  10. mattplace
    The lack of big arb suppliers was a big disappointment this year. For me, and a lot of others too, honey brothers and frjones are the main reasons for coming to the show. Especially since the stihl distance selling rules came in, these suppliers can't post any new machines. I was ready to spend a lot of money on new saws and kit but I came away this year with a flip line! I personally think the aa should be enticing these big suppliers to the show because you will pull bigger numbers in. If it's the same next year, I won't be coming (along with a lot of other people!) Sent from my SM-G920F using Arbtalk mobile app
  11. mattplace
    I've got type 1 down in my yard and no matter how gently you turn a tracked machine, it tears it up terrible! Driving on it is fine, and even turning twin wheel trailers is OK.
  12. mattplace
    You could get some laminated glass cut at a glass shop. I had a piece cut for a machine which was an awkward shape with radius corners and all edges rounded for £30... Approx size 500 mm X 600mm. Just gave them a ply template.
  13. mattplace
    👍3ph? How you getting on with it?
  14. mattplace
    And it seems they're in Somerset too. Saw these posters when I drove through Taunton a while back. I thought it was a joke until I Googled it! 😠 http://m.somersetlive.co.uk/beavers-wanted-dead-or-alive-by-woodlands-castle-owner-sir-benjamin-slade/story-29783900-detail/story.html
  15. mattplace
    We were getting around 3000 nets to an artic load.
  16. mattplace
    You could always make the landrover a flat bed and load a tracked chipper on it. My 3500kgs 110 tipper has a payload of 1300kgs so without the weight of the tipping gear and high sides, you could carry a forst tr6 at 1300kgs and tow a tipping trailer.
  17. mattplace
    Pm sent
  18. mattplace
    Thanks for the replies. With a digger it looks a lot of weight high up on them and if things did start to get squirmy (with a blowout or poor loading), I fear it's only going to end badly. Maybe a tri-axle is the way forward and not this 16ft twin axle I've been offered.
  19. mattplace
    Does anyone use a lm166 (16ft dropside) for transporting a 2.5t digger? I've got a gd106 with fold down ramp which is nice and low and easy use but it's a one trick pony and it's f'ing wide! I've been offered a 16ft ifor which would be a much better all-rounder as I could get the chipper and grinder on it and it would get used a lot more for general use.
  20. mattplace
    Sent you a pm
  21. mattplace
    'The stove hut' in Langstone has fitted stoves for a few of my friends on my recommendation. Very well priced and does a great job.
  22. mattplace

    550xp

    mattplace replied to Gary24's topic in Chainsaws

    Mine just started playing up. On full throttle when ringing up, it started to hunt. Very similar to when it's running out of fuel but it had a full tank. Any ideas? I'm going to order a new tank breather, fuel filter and fuel line and see if that fixes it.
  23. mattplace
    Sorry, only just saw your reply. My stretch airs are type c's and the engelbert Strauss trousers are MUCH lighter and cooler. There's little zips behind the knees which I leave open for ventilation.
  24. mattplace
    The single phase posch is slower than the 3ph/pto machine. I could keep up with mine on my own if it was loose filling nets but couldn't keep up making neat stacked nets. It was a cracking machine.
  25. mattplace
    The material isn't stretchy (like my stretch airs) but is lightweight and very durable. They come in short, regular and long which is what swung it for me. I'm 34W 34L in jeans and the 34L trousers fit perfect. I'm going to order another pair soon

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