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No Simsimo it does not hide me chipper so i simply roll back the tarpaulin or remove it, lift de barn doors off the hinges and remove the box section cross member (yew can see it leant against the tail gate in the chipper photo) and winch it up the ramps (no front wheels have been added to the chipper). It's not the nicest of operations i hafta admit as winching it up can be a bit of a faff and winching it down more so, i need to perfect it. I do have an electric winch but i haven't boddered fitting it yet ! My chipper is even older dan a CS100, it's a 14 horse power GMR100 which serves me well. Despite my truck being a dubble cab it can hold a fair bit of chip. The beauty of this setup is i don't need to drag the Ifor with the Chipper perched on it if i'm simply chipping onsite, and if a customer wants the chip moved across a field i can chip into the truck and drive it most places within reason. What i also loike is i can fill the tub up with rings and cos they cannot be seen when the tarp is pulled over i don't look overloaded ! Reckon the whole lot cost me about £450 including box section, red oxide, hammerite, hand winch, plywood, green paint, tarp and various stainless steel fittings. T'would have bin cheaper if i'd done the welding but a local chaps welds are better and he's alot faster.

Did mine cheaply a few months ago. It does not tip but i rarely use the truck for chip as i use an Ifor trailer for woodchip. It takes minutes to fork out the chip if i do fill the tub on the pickup. I can remove the sides, headboard and rear barn doors in seconds and remove the box section from the truck in 5 minutes if required. The hand winch is fer pulling /lowering me chipper onto the truck and not for collecting dead farm animals!!!

i tried a 254xp a few weeks back Stewie and it was a gr8 saw.

Wisecobandit handed me a new 395xp to play with for the day a few weeks back, tink twas on a 30'' bar and i loved it. It had a muff mod already done by him and i reckon with some porting it would easily pull a 36'' bar. Much noicer dan any stihl 660/880 i have used in the past.

true. Oil update this thread as i learn more

Tried a late 2014 model (tink the sticker on the chain brake lever stated oct. 2014) and really liked it, i dunno if it's M tronic or not though. The saw wasn't even fully run in and i dead wooded an oak with it and was suitably impressed. Wood i buy one, a big fat YES.

Thanks lads. The compression has not bin measured but it's very high in our opinion. The piston does not strike the spark plug afore anyone asks !

Hi i was wondering if anyone has a loose piston or a stripped old saw and cud measure the piston dimensions for me as this old saw i was given has silly compression and Wisecobandit and me reckon the incorrect piston may have been fitted at some point. it's the correct bore size but we are wondering if it's a bit too tall/long maybe ? It's a flat topped piston thats fitted. Tanks in advance folks

That is indeed a Monster with a capital M ! Steve thats alorra alorra work and just looking at the pics has me wanting to lay down on the sofa and catch some more ZZZ's. The Scale of that thang is massive and you must have felt 'how am i gonna reduce this with a climbing saw!' I did a black pop bout 18 months ago and he was only about 38'' across the base and topped out at an estimated 120' so was alot smaller all round but the crown was well spread out and it took me bout 2 days of actual climbing to reduce it. It really made me tink 'what the hell am i doing up here' as i had no groundie (i know i'm a bad lad and shud be in the sin bin) and at times i felt disillusioned with the task but soldiered on. I nicked me prussick with the climbing saw at about 100' and that gave me a fright! I was not happy with the reduction points and the finished result but the customer was insistent, when i did some more work for he on udder trees a year later he admitted we shud have had more off the pop ! I love the photos of that pop u did as it really gives some idea of scale. Ok i need the sofa now. Proper job man.

Cheeky bar steward ! we had a fun filled day all the same

4 of us did this yesserday, 2 climbers (Myself and Stu) and Haforbes and his pal Jim as groundies. I dismantled the beech, it was completely enveloped in moss and had sizable diameter ivy growing right thru it. Overall it was not very sound with heavily laden weak limbs that had to be rigged out. It was alot of work. Stu did a superb dismantle on the very large/tall conifer type thing so all was good. It was a long day for me as i set off at 6.15am and got home at 8.15pm with a couple of ton of beech wood on the Ifor. Really enjoyed meeting and working with more tree people and establishing future contacts. Cheers folks.

Morten the specs might be written on the actual belts ?

i used an MS361 with electronic quickstop and it did indeed automatically apply braking to the chain immediately once you took your finger off the trigger, it didn't actually actuate the chain brake ie; you didn't have to reset it. I was amazed but when it went wrong it cost bout £90 to fix.

wowsers i actually understood all of that post Jon !

me tinks the big shot is simplistic, proven and foolproof. The udder options are bulky and take up alot more space in the truck.

Tink some Discos can pull 4,200 KG with hydraulic brakes.

I've not got a Ranger but i do drive a 15 year old Isuzu TFS69 to which i have fitted the manual front hubs which are more reliable then the automatic hubs that were fitted from the factory. The pair cost me about £90 new from Milner off road. I loike being able to leave them set to 4X2 and as Scraggs says i can shift into 4L (but i'm actually in 2L as the front axle is taken out of the equation) and shunt my trailer or start off in 2L if loaded thus taking the stress out of the drive train. My truck does NOT have a rear difflock but does have a Limited Slip Diff.

I have the 360 TES also, i too would buy anudder one if required but it's a toss up between a new MS201T as they are excellent imho.

It's a noightmare for me cos when them guy's have tried to sell crap generators and chinese copied 'Stihl' chainsaws to me they hear me 'dialect / lilt / accent' and assume we have some kind of connection ! luckily i ain't had any come round in the last few years. Alot of dem sound as though they were born and bred in Ireland while in actual fact some will never have been off the camp site or out of GB. Young London 'Irish travellers' used to come up to me car when i'd be sat at a red loight and want to wash me windscreen and you'd swear they'd just come off a rough camp site on the edge of a Dublin Industrial estate ! I try avoid at all costs but having said that some of the settled older ones i encountered in London pubs were straight and sound. Tink i'll buy a Tony Martin mask and put it on the next time i see them and (12) gauge their reaction.....!

mentalist.

spoke to a garage owner today who had a 64 plate Fored Ranger Wild Trak 3.2 with a canopy fitted over the back tub. It was sporting 265/75/18 BFG A/T hoops and he maintains the best he's had on a decent run is 27mpg but around town it's normally 15-16mpg ! Lovely looking motor though.

2.2 Pete ?

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