robert t

Any body on hear do contract mobile milling near Stirling/Falkirk area. Not done any milling for a few years, but I need to do a couple of days milling at my yard fairly soon. Only used woodmizer in the past but would be open to other machines if available. PM availability and cost if any one interested. Cheers robert.

Is there any easy way to tell if the clutch is a wet one or a dry one? A least then i would know if it is going to be bad or really bad:confused1:

Its a 6400 year 2000. I noticed the wire to the electrical sensor next to the shaft and your right it is protected with angled piece of metal. It dosnt seem to be broken or damaged so I didnt touch it. Will disconnect it and clean it and look at it a bit further. cheers robert

It dose work with an electric rocker switch, but the shaft engages and turns ok, but as soon as labour goes onto it, it slows down. Have tried different implements at different speeds and still getting the same prob. Cant see any thing obvious that allows shaft to come out so cant check the splines for ware. Stopped using the PTO for now. Will get tractor engineer to look at it, Thought I would run it past on here to see if it might be common prob. Cheers, robert.

This problem has just started. I have had the tractor for nearly 2 years and it has been fine until now. When I now try to run a chipper or anything els off the PTO it slows the PTO down which slows the chipper so it stalls or slows the pump on the timber crane so it want work, It doesn't seem to affect the tractors engine revs though. Dont know to much about tractors but I am guessing that there could be some sort of clutch on the PTO that could have worn, or may be some kind of pump thingy to engage the PTO. Your thoughts or advice would be appreciated. Cheers, Robert.

Mate it is not nice having anything stolen after you've spend your hard earned cash on it and some sh+t walks off with it. You have to think positive, if you've delivered a couple of 1000tonnes of logs with it, at least its paid for it self many times over.

If you genuinely want to sell then tell us what you want for it. If not then i personally think it would be worth about 6 to 7k depending on the speck and the condition

Cant help you with any details on hire mate but I looked into a grinder attachment for a 2.6tonne digger and gave up after 3 years looking. Any thing i came across was too small and only capable of smallish stumps to a depth of 300mm. To put it onto a digger i just didn't think it was justifiable. Suppose if like your situation you need to reach over an obstacle that other grinders cant get too it would work. Seen plenty of good attachments for larger diggers though.

Bit of work from last week. Douglas fir and couple of Cypress trees. The road was into a private housing estate and very quiet so blocked it off and took the easy option and let the climber fell the top at the bend onto the road then felled the rest over some bearers put down from the Cypress trees to protect the paths and road. Lifted the base with tractor and timber boigie in 3bits so got some good timber as bonus.

very well executed. Dam nuisance these BT lines.

Thanks for the comments guys. To be honest I have been so busy on the arb side of things that I haven't given any time or thoughts on this since posting. Been bringing in lots more timber though. Still a good opportunity waiting for the right person.

I get sent info from my bank regularly informing me on my eligability for a loan. Got really fed up with it, so thought I might as well take out a loan. Guess what they refused me. Bloody *ankers.

Coupled of dismantles from last week. Chestnut, didn't get any photos but got some of the Wellingtonia which had been hit by lightning and previously had top removed (not by us) but continued to die back. would have be good job if it wasn't for the driving rain. Also burnt out clutch on shogun on way home.

Thanks your your thoughts and suggestions guys. Will look into the flail with a little more detail now. cheers.

As title, looking for flail to fit onto volvo 2.7tonne digger. Sure i seen one at APF but didn't pay much attention as wasn't some thing i thought i would need. cheers, robert.

Fair comment Harvey! I have no desire to employ any person for this venture, whose main goal would be to collect a wage and to do as little as possible for that wage. I am bringing to the table and partnership a great deal of experience and backing it up with everything I have previously mentioned in this thread. I believe that if you own a business or even 50% of that business you will put that extra effort needed into it to making that business a success. This opportunity is no gimmick, ever thing is up front with transparency. This could be a very good opportunity for the right person to be part of a growing profitable business, without having to invest the huge financial start up costs. I will now try and explain my reasoning for this business venture. I have been running my own arb business since 1990. I started milling some of my timber years back to sell on, as logs were not in demand then. I was shown basic carpentry skills by a furniture maker so I then started to make very basic furniture for outdoors for my own use and then started to sell as I gained skill. Within five years I was making quality furniture for homes and gardens and had opened my own 250m sq gallery/craft shop turning over 200k per year. All the long days at work was no good for my family life as I had two young kids. After lots of consideration and to save my marriage I closed the shop and put the whole furniture side of the business on the back burner as to say. That was seven years ago and from then to now I have still been running the arb side. I expanded and move to my current large site, where I have built my dream house and developed my purpose built yard that will accommodate the resurrection of the furniture and timber selling side again. I do not want to fall into the same hole as I did before, that is why I am looking to acquire a partner to help run this side of the business, 50% of profits but half the work and half the worry. Hope this goes to explain a little more my reasoning.

I would consider entering into some sort of business partnership making furniture and or milling and selling hardwood timbers. The right person would ideally have experience, be enthusiastic, hardworking also to have the ability to drive the venture forward. I have lots of my own designs of furniture that I have made and sold. I also have good pieces of furniture available to use for exhibitions or to use for marketing purposes. I have a secure workshop 30ft X 60ft within a 4 acre site. As an alternative option I would also consider renting half this space with use of all the equipment listed below 3 phase and 240 power supply. Comprehensive range of heavy duty woodworking machines and equipment. To many hand tools and consumables to mention. Mobile chainsaw mills. Arrow smith kiln in 14ft insulated container, also 20ft and 35ft insulated containers. Kiln about half filled with dried timber(Oak, Ash, Sycamore, spalted Beech, Elm) Also approx 6 tonne air dried 2" planked Oak About 100 tonne mixture of round hardwood timbers, some fairly long lengths. Round timbers are constantly being brought in. Tractor with loader, telescopic telly handler, timber crane and timber trailer, 3 tonne digger with timber grab, 3 tonne dumper, two 3.5tonne pickups and 3 large ifor williams road trailers, would be made available to assist in any way. Anyone interested or requires any further information I can be contacted on [email protected] or mobile 07803591153 Thanks for reading, robert.

Pecker for the digger, Never thought of that. If it worked ok it would save a helluva lot of time and also no need for a second man. Cheers for the heads up Stevie. Just goes to show twenty years splitting wood and you can still learn new tricks through ARBTALK

Quote A machine to lift a little ring like that onto the splitter we would put one of those twice that size under each arm to carry to split Ha ha Dave, good one. Maybe ten years ago, must be getting old and soft. Stephen, I would rather spend my money now on machinery that makes my life easy. Down side is waist line increasing with less phisical work.

Get the young one to push the lever on the splitter while I sit in the warm digger. :001_tt2:I turn the round 180 then 90 after splitter goes through the round then drop from height and it brakes into 4 smaller more manageable pieces. Quite time consuming ringing up and splitting these big rounds and for £65 a bag not the quickest way of making a pound. Suppose I shouldn't complain at least I got paid for felling the tree in the first place:biggrin:

had to replace all the guttering after this lot melted

I thought that this grant didnt cover log burners and only covered biomass boilers that used wood chip or wood pellets?

Johnny, i recently installed this type of boiler in a purpose built brick outbuilding to heat a new 350sqm house. I opted for 2 1000lt heat storage tanks and it heats all my domestic water including 3 showers 6 upstairs radiators and 995 meters of underfloor heating. With the cold weather just now i use 2 good barrow full of seasoned logs a day and my house is toasty warm. If you check out the company they have all the info. They also use a very good installer based in Penrith. He did installation and commissioning for me for £2200 with me buying the materials which cost £950. Its not covered by the governments grant scheme but that didnt bother me as this was the one i wanted after i looked long and hard at alternatives and as previously said the money use save with the grant is swallowed up with the accredited installers. Ps it also has back up oil burner included if you get lazy or run out of wood. BaxiDuoPlus.pdf