MikeTM150
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I'd take loads of wood chip free of charge in return for the firewood sized stuff staying aswell, but i suspect i'm not gonna get much take up on that!
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my opinion is electric when u really balls the teeth up.......nice bit of steel or stone, then get the ellecy out and even it all up good. Otherwise its a hand file, i find i get much sharper nicely shaped tooth with a hand file. Its £100 of oregon on bar ellecy system, but i find it just doesn't give such a nice shaped tooth, and time u've set it up on the bar u could have a few teeth done!!! Each to their own, but owning a 48" bar for the 880, hand sharpening isn't a 5min job either way.:thumbup:
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we've had loads of them this year, light the wood burner after about 10mins they're flying around half dopey still but soon warm up to full life. I get the vaccum to suck it up, seems easiest thing, while the wife has the preferred method of using the ash shovel to 'swat' it..........not her best moments! Never known them like it before, but we must have had 20 this winter, but less now i've changed wood sheds which was stacked after the first!
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they're types of bird calls aren't they?
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whilst at uni i used to drive a 14ton roll on roll off trailer with a palfinger on the front of it for a chap to earn some extra cash. The only thing against it in my eyes (and it probably wouldn't be so bad on a smaller trailer) was the extra length of drawbar for the crane to fit onto. Seemed to make the trailer so much more clumsy. Aslo sometimes the extra weight right over the drawbar when the trailer was empty could make it bit more difficult to get the tractor to push the trailer where u wanted when reversing if it was real slippy ground. Great bit of kit, very versatile and found he had me picking up all sorts of wiered and wonderful things with it. he had quite a big crane on it, came off an artic revocery unit if i remember right, would lift something like 3t at 10m. U'll love it, go wireless on the crane if u can!!!
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I think you should be treating this as a lesson to everyone to watch out for mistakes like that. You shouldn't make him pay for it, that would do more harm than good. You just have to take it on the chin and lump it. Thats one of the downsides to employing people, if he keeps making mistakes and becomes nonchalant about it then P45 it is but you gotta teach young people and sometimes that costs.
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go to your local ag merchants and ask for a long term grass ley, you wanna put about 125kg on 10acres, you can plant now but as above you'd be best leaving till march. We've planted in early Feb before now into cold soil and it took nearly 6weeks to germinate, and hence germination was poor. Plant in early to mid march into warmer soils them it'll be up in a fortnight! Grass seeds aren't cheap this year, poor harvest last year coupled with higher wheat prices forcing growing areas up and reducing grass seed production areas mean big hike in price. And that when i brought 235acres worth of seed it was still a hefty price!
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that is the one thing with dogs, but our night dogs only eat food if its in the their day runs, i've been very careful to teach them that so hopefully they won't eat any food outside day runs. But never say never i guess. Good luck getting the food in the yard, there's only two of us here who will put them away or let them out. I wouldn't trust them too far, they like to nip you if u don't feed them quick enough in the morning!
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yeah we've had a spate around us, apparently a white transit is the culprit. Come into your yard and ask for batteries and scrap and then leave only to come back later for the expensive bits..........the night dogs are being kept a little bit hungrier at the moment just incase they need to have a good feed one night! I hope he gets his stuff back, but in reality he'll be lucky to even get a sniff of it!!!
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could have done that with my eyes closed obviously! :lol: thats impressive, not sure i'd wanna try it first time i jumped in the lorry!!!!
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find the nearest farm with a decent telehandler and offer them some notes to shift it for you. It'd prob be cheaper and easier than building your own log arch as it'd be a fair construction to shift them monsters!!! Telehandler, pallet forks, chain and drag away if they're toooo big to lift outright.
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it beats this one with the lack of guards!! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40sCGb678sQ&feature=related]Redneck Log Splitter - YouTube[/ame]
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having spent a day last week clearing up someone else's mess because they started felling tree's in a wood without a machine and soon realised they had 20 fairish ash (14" DBH) hung up in the bigger tree's and they were still walking round under them cutting bits off the bottom trying to get them down i can believe how accidents happen. And apparently is now starting again as 'he' cleared some space to fell some more into........ Its a tragedy for these two families, but a lesson to be learnt to the rest of us to consider the true risks of what we take on. Common sense is much underated health and safety guide! I keep telling all my chaps, use your common sense, don't jump in blindly. Stop, THINK, listen!
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12 ton trailer stuffed with ash hit a grand 6.5tons on the weighbridge last week, but some of it wasn't the straightest so it didn't sit too well. Would have thought oak would have weighed in 9 or 10tons if it was well stacked.
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I think what i said about moderators was more tongue in cheek in my mind than what it appeared on the screen........ sorry didn't mean to offend moderators, just wasn't sure google perving was a good topic for a family site. I stand corrected and bow down to the wiser ones, its the best way to learn i've found! Just sometimes you gotta know when to sit down and shut up, and thats exactly what i'm doing now.
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guess your right really, just couldn't see it in keeping with a family website..........
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nice but i'm sure a moderator is going to come along and spoil our fun!! :thumbdown:
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never a truer word spoken!!!
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Our TM155 has got 8500hrs onb clock on an 05 plate, straight and tidy its now our back up to the T7235. Been fairly good tractor i personally don't like it but the tractor driver loved it, i prefer our TM150. The 155 cost me £14000 for a new transmission 18months ago, think it was caused by the brake discs breaking up and obviously swimming round the transmission for a while! I'm on the look out for a TW-35, just fancy having one of the beasts for the shear fun of it. Thats a proper engine with the turning circle of a container ship!!!
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then why do they have dealers with workshops????
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oh and by the way its ford or newholland here, closest dealer and they're after sales is brilliant!!! Would like a fendt but the dealers twice as far and they as much use as a chocolate fire guard!!!
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could it be any worse than a manitou? Ours drives me nuts, but then so does the jcb, have been thinking merlo aswell seeing as its lot cheaper. Mates got one on dairy farm, they change it every 2yrs(they haven't a clue what oil change or grease gun means!) so they like it cheap and cheerful. But they don't use it for silage pit work as they have contractor and bales are done with big tractor and loader! Nothing is built to withstand a hard busy day on a farm!
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i keep telling the wife this about her horse who i hate (and yes he HATES me, ALOT!), its what happens to my milking cows so why not the horse!
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ha ha ha ha its the best bit about having a dog after too many sprouts for christmas dinner........ must have been the dog dear!!!!:lol:
