arbmark

does anyone know a retailer / manufacturer of chipper blades for echo bearcats in the UK. mine are the 4" part no. 70739 - i know the main distributor is countax in the uk but they are bloody expensive - i tried importing from the US and that wasnt any better!

cheers

mark

rob i totally half beat you there - youre slipping son

harrows-r-us make a hydraulic one for about 450 - made in southwest - buy it and tell me if its any good!!!

is this too basic? it does for us grunts!

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one sympathises!

isnt it just that the oil is cooling in a pipe or something - i guess you need to keep the whole system warm - wrap it in something to insulate it.....fear not somebody who knows better will be along....

be interested to see how this one goes - my truck is getting a little flakey.

the square pie iron looks fantastic, and your post reminds me that i still havent had a decent bonnynbarby yet! I tend to just grab stuff from the kitchen but i guess the decent kit is more fun. Birthdays coming up soon......

cheers for posting

sorry been out enjoying the sunshine, well site visit.... in the sunshine. great work guys - give yourself a pat on the back, in fact im going to knock together a second 'markito' to toast your success. i'd invite you round but it'll be the last of the rum.

sounds like your describing a stalpen jack, but they are designed for felling not moving?

yea thats getting close with the winch handle at the top but it definitely has a cable and a spike collarded around the main pole.......

i cant believe he could have made it but it worked very well, as long as you kept your feet clear.....

hahar yes we are getting closer guys but it has a winch on top and the cable runs down to the spike and pulls it up with said spike in a log - usually the endgrain i guess - its not a cranking action, you wind the cable drum.......

its good but its not right!!! Its on a single pole, ally i think.....the spike is attached to a collar that runs up and down the pole.....

cheers tho

I once worked with a guy who had a cool one-man lifting jack that he used for lifting large long logs, say about 2ft dia x 10ft long quite happily. It looked a bit like a hilift jack at first. It comprised of a pole with a foot and a drum cable winch at the top. The winch wound up a spike that you bash into the endgrain of the log. Once the log was raised, you could then tip the log off to the side and repeat this until you had it where you wanted.

Does anyone know what this is calld or where i can get one?!?!!

pm'd ya TCD

thanks pedroski - good advice - along the lines i was thinking. i do need to check the insurance - it is pretty broad but need to be sure, or at least notify. i'm not totally green to rights of way stuff but any advice appreciated. i do other countryside stuff aswell. essentially safe distance from public and planning of route and signage/barriers seems to be key to a safe execution of works. famous last words.....

cheers

mark

another big fan here - awesome piece of work - lol'd at the hidden bracket. cheers for posting

Hi All,

Grovel.......As title really - plus i am not sure how best to manage public safety and the most efficient way to tie this is in with work patterns for a team of two. Any help appreciated - the footpaths criss-cross a nature reserve but there are a couple of long stretches (700m and 400m). My arb RA's dont fit too well!

Cheers

Mark

cheers guys lots of possibilities there......much appreciated

cheers also guys - will look at the flail mower idea

cheers guys. i have a tri-blade but was wondering if there was a dream attachment that shreds really quickly that anyone can recommend. sit-ons arent really an option due to slope and heritage of site. plus there is some path strimming to do on site anyway so i think economy-wise it needs to be a brushcutter type solution to avoid the cost of hiring.........?

cheers farmer rod, vehicular access and chemical application not an option....im wondering if hedgetrimmer plus another guy with a rake might be quickest but i want to bash it a bit really and shred it to bits at the same time.......

......on foot.....spec is to cut or bruise allowing other flora to grow, about 1ha to do. I have 35cc brushcutter.......has anyone got any tips/tools/attachments they can recommend?

cheers laps and chasses:biggrin:

Mark

i thought there was an AAAC sticker on your truck, but its hard to see with all the mud

bad juju. hope theres some good newju round the corner

Respect - & powered by the RR Merlin engine with its indistinguishable, utterly beautiful sound of a 27 litre V12.

 

One of our friends father flew spits & was shot down over the North East, he was assisted by the locals but thought they were Norwegian!

Nice one! There were some funny stories. Dad was in Burma - The maddest story i heard was at his wake - apparenty he bailed out over and landed in a large Japanese POW camp - they didnt even know they had him. Some Aussie POWs hid him under the floorboards! He just crawled out at the end of the war.

my old man flew mozzies and spits, graceful machines - cheers for posting

blades from countax in case you didnt know - phone them for the nearest stockist to you...or buy from the states. brace yourself they aint cheap!