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A bit late on this one, but worthy of a reply I think. I've got a Hycrack on my old Unimog. I think that if you have an older tractor with slow hydraulics they will be faster than a ram type, unless you go for a splitter with a built in pto pump of course. Safety wise, well you can't really leave someone stupid with it because it will rip them apart. There's a comment further up saying that someone ended up fighting with it to avoid getting his finger squished... Well god knows how because it would be a pointless fight with the one on my mog. If it wanted to roll you over it would do in the blink of an eye and anything between the log and the bed of the splitter would be flat before you had time to react to the snatch. BUT... Don't put your hand that side of the log! The splitter spins clockwise, so guide the log from the left side and nearest you. I've had logs spin in my hand and slam against the bed but my hand is never in the danger zone so it's not a problem. All in all they're very good, but make sure you understand them before operation. It's not as obviously dangerous to the eye as a chainsaw. That said, you wouldn't put your hand near a running saw chain would you? Or climb onto your chipper to kick a piece of stuck brash? These things are just the same - 100% safe for a sensible and informed operator, bloody deadly for an amateur! Last words - keep your sleeves tight and don't wear a tie when you're using it!

I think what I want to make should hold about 5m3, so I don't think weight will be an issue? The mog can carry about 2700kgs

That could be a consideration. Don't really want it bowing when it's left in the sun. How do you guys make your frames up? I've been thinking 50mm box section with top hinged angle iron doors made so that the weight of the chip pushes the board against the steel frame. But what gauge/mm box and angle to use? I'm no engineer but I can weld to an acceptable standard.

I'm pretty interested to see where this thread goes. I need to make up some sides for my mog and I'm not sure I want the bother of replacing ply every few years.

That new mog looks stunning. I can't help being a little bit jealous, but you must have worked hard for it so fair play to you all.

Hey guys. I've got a little Entec 18/100 gravity feed chipper and the engine is having trouble when put under load. It runs fine at tick over, but when I try to rev the engine up it starts missing badly. It can just about pick itself up and then holds smoothly at full revs and can cope with branches up to about 2" (so stuff that the flywheel momentum can handle without loading the engine). As soon as anything bigger is put in, it starts coughing again until the chip has cleared and it's free from load again. I've stripped the carb and it's clean. Plug connections are tight and I can't see any holes in the fuel hose etc. I'm not big into engines so I've now hit my limit. Any idea what it could be before I take it in to be repaired? I'd be really grateful for any ideas.

I have some pretty annoying issues with the wrist I got a blackthorn stuck in when I was in my late teens. Now 32 and a hard day with an axe or hammer causes me pain for a couple of days after. The thorn was in there for a week (I was hard when I was that age you know:001_rolleyes:) and eventually I lost pretty much all movement in the joint so had to go to the docs. When the nurse pulled it out it was a whole thorn over 1/2" long.... It must have got right into the joint because it came out pretty much 90* to my arm! It's never been quite the same since.

That's a nice splitter. I think the only mod I would really need to make is to bevel the edge of the wedge guide... I assume that's what the log hangs up on and jams it now and again in the video? Being able to just drop the log on the bad would be a real bonus and a bevel would allow it to lift the log out of the way rather than sticking on it.

You clean your saws?! I only service mine and scrape the worst of the muck off... I feel lazy now!

I just nipped back to see if there were any updates here. The tumour being benign is fantastic news. Still a pretty big deal, but much more easily dealt with. Sounds like she has a decent boss too which is good to know. It's great to hear that the results are heading in the right direction.

I can't find anything anywhere to suggest that they can be fitted.

That's an impressive little tool. Looks to have pretty good ground clearance too.

I witnessed a rear cross member ripped off of a 110 once. That was with a big strap pinned onto a Dixon Bate hitch. I'll never use anything else now. The only down side to them is that they stick out further than most. Not a great way to be on a pickup that has the tailgate lowered a lot.

I could put one on the front. That would be easy though and there's no fun in easy!

It's amazing how some folk even get by day to day isn't it. Some of these things have simple solutions yet people just sit there and moan. It's baffling! I think we are so used to having everything done for us that we can no longer think. If water was seeping into my house I'd dig a bloody hole in the floor and stick a pump in it - it's serious damage but would keep the water at a manageable level and reduce the drying out process massively. I know that in some cases the water is that serious that they're out of options, but for many a bit of common sense and effort could save them an awful lot of bother in the long run.

At a rough guess I think we get through between 15 and 25m3 per year depending on weather. I'm expecting this year to not need a lot more than 15 as it's so mild so far. I get through that in an 8kw Clearview. Our house is fairly well laid out so with a stovetop fan it circulates around the place fairly well, but we do run the stove pretty hard when it gets cold out.

We had a downpour about an hour ago that was about as heavy as I've ever seen. It's now calmed to steady gusts and light rain. Looks clearer than it did. I hope we don't get too much more of it for the sake of the folk who are already struggling.

What he said! When I was looking to buy my first house we viewed several from a vague description from the estate agents. On arriving at the properties I found that they were on or very close to fields which flooded regularly when I was a lad. When I questioned it I was told that drainage had been allowed for. That's all well and good but what happens when the place that the drain goes to is full? It's quite clear to see - it's in the living room of the house that I looked at! What with an ever increasing lack of maintenance from councils etc, brought on by government cuts, there's no way I would ever buy a house anywhere near a low lying piece of land like this. It's plain daft! I do feel for folk who are suffering in areas that don't usually flood, but if you've bought a new build on a flood plain then duh... Didn't you see it coming? I think that councils planning departments should be held responsible for giving the go ahead in the first place. If I with my childhood memories (I'm only 32) know that there is going to be an issue, why don't they? I suppose they do, but money talks. Now they should be made to compensate for their stupid decisions. These houses should never have been built.

Sorry to hear this fella. Hopefully she'll make a speedy and full recovery. Docters are pretty amazing these days and in all but a few cases they usually get the issue sorted pretty quickly. Keep us updated and good luck to you both. All the best.

I've just found the two videos that got me thinking. If you don't like AC/DC mute it, and if you're not interested in a long but informative slide show of a near complete rebuild of a U900 winch set up, don't even bother watching them because you'll get bored quickly. Fair play to the guy though, it looks like he's done a fantastic job. The swivel bracket I talked about is being put together at around 3.45 and fitted at around 7.00 in the first video. It looks really smart. I can't quite stretch to that sort of work, but the mount looks easy and I could make it for a smaller single drum. The rollers look fairly simple too.

Werner - that's the company that fitted out my mog when it was new we think. They used to fit the round tank, I think so that branches would deflect off if they poked up and hit it? Price wise I know what you're saying. Werner stuff costs a small fortune but then it is supposed to be one of the best out there. I think I'll just need to copy the setup. If I can get pictures together I can make the rollers on my lathe. Making a bracket with a 3 point attachment so that the chassis can still flex doesn't look too hard - it's just a standard 4 point mount with a swivel in the middle.

Couldn't agree more! I know the U140 can be fitted with this kit but can the L? Just thinking out loud here really but I didn't think the LWB models were designed with that use in mind? I'll nip off and have a look if I can find where I read the above...

1.73m/s? Christ John, that's shifting a bit isn't it! I wish I had the money for it now - it sounds like a cracking piece of kit. Feeling rather miffed by the fact that I've just been shown a link to a manufacturer website with everything I've asked on it, I returned to the Igland site in the hope of fighting my corner. Turns out there's a little pdf link that I hadn't seen before and guess what it contains.... Yeah, it's all the info I didn't think was there! Whilst I've got a couple of you talking, what do you think of the old winches complete with fold down anchor that used to be fitted to little Ferguson tractors? Made by Hesford I think? They look quite smart for a part time user and they seem to sell for a very reasonable price. The only thing they don't seem to have is the choker chain grooves, so you probably can't haul in several stems and lift/hook them on to drag behind the truck?

Thanks... I think! I've looked at a few sites but hadn't noticed line speed. Probably looking in the wrong place to be honest, but I did try! I have spotted a few on ebay. Most on ebay.de are hard to get delivered but you are right, there are a lot more over there. A small Igland type thing would be great and I have seen them sell within budget, but they don't come up often. What I really want is something that can mount on the chassis between the tipper bed and the cab, which then feeds through rollers to the rear. I have seen them before (youtube I think) but have never seen anything like it for sale. Home made perhaps? My mog was a forestry truck at some point. It has the round fuel tank that was usually fitted to logging mogs and there is space between the bed and cab for a winch of this kind. Sadly it was removed long ago.

I think the sun may just have come out here too... Am I dreaming?! I hope it dries up a bit soon. We're not having too much trouble with flooding here but some folk not too far from here deserve a break!