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It's not really overkill. We use FS460s for everything. Pro tip- the trigger is a throttle, not an on/off switch! The FS360 must be as heavy and not much cheaper than the 460. Below that you loose all the anti vibe, so that would be a no from me. If you care enough about your worker to find the right size strimmer, make it a decent one. I have some that have done 8 years hard graft before dying, very little goes wrong with them.

No, but he can mill em! 🤣

We are now all indoors. In those at the time were stuff that didn't matter if it got wet, but out of all those plus ten more you don't see, only one got rain in.

Your Codmidi does look bob on, but if I go down loader route I think it will be mini wheeled variant.

Only if exceeding the rated load. My point is that the standard skip when cubed often doesn’t make even half the rated load.

It doesn’t make even half the money though, that’s the sore point! They should be cheaper for that they are. Way more engineering (multiple pumps and valve blocks / rams for a start ) in a mini digger yet they are the same price. That tracked dumper of mine is nothing more than an engine, hydro box and tipping skip on tracks. Incredibly basic yet still 15k

Generic Chinese rhinoceros micro. No offset boom,single cylinder Chinese engine. You’d be mad to buy one.

I suppose. But I bet it doesn’t hold anything like a ton, none of them do. The skips aren’t big enough. I have a 1.8t rated tracked dumper, it barely takes a ton before it’s fully loaded. Had to make some greedy boards! that was bloody steep for what it is too at 15.5k. You’d get a mini digger for that ffs.

The e19 was great, it pushed the trailer full of materials up a very steep and narrow drive you could barely get a car up. Slung the posts and boards off then pulled out and stacked the old sleepers for the neighbour. Pulled out the old fence too including some big balls of concrete. Materials in and site clear in two hours with three of us, it made my day.

I have a muck truck too, it’s a good machine for the right jobs. Got turf tyres as well as the flatbed and a vacuum leaf cleaner thingy.

All graded off today to match the new levels.

Fair enough. I’m probably jealous, I only have the cheapy lumag high tip, but I only use it every other month or so.

Augers are great. This was today, first time I’ve used it in a few months but it saves a lot of time in tough ground.

Jesus that’s steep for what it is. You’d almost get a micro digger for that.

£120 per bay for larchlap panels on concrete posts/boards so long as access good and a clear site. Would probably work out £60/£60 materials/labour as mentioned above. good luck getting hold of concrete posts and gravel boards at the moment though.

It won’t when they don’t pay out or it happens for the third time. Layers of security, a gsm or phone alarm and a camera you can access remote to check things out should the alarm go off are what helps me sleep soundly.

The BR800 will piss all over any battery blower. I bought one recently, it's a step up from the BR600 I used many moons ago but that was so long ago I can't judge exactly how much better it is. I wouldn't be without it not though, even if we only use it a couple of times a month. Brilliant for everything- moving leaves, blowing out the yard or cleaning out the yard logburner flue. The problem with Stihl blowers is that they are all only £50 or so up from each other. So if you're looking at the 600 you may as well buy the 800. I did see mentioned on here however, that the top of the range Echo is even more powerful and also cheaper.

Sounds like a short, I'd have the ignition out and test/replace. Either that or it's got a fireball type pre-heater system fitted but wired up in wrong sequence, but the lights going out sounds like electrical fault.

I was doing that in the early 00s, albeit on more modern tractors. Agriculture doesn't seem to worry too much about drivers hours 🤣

And make sure the front tyres are inflated properly. I was always a fan of water ballasting the back tyres, means you could pick up an implement but still always had weight on the back end for loader work.

Exactly this, I've always said it.

This x100. Listen to the man. A Logbullet caked in mud needs flow, not pressure. Tap fed ones are laborious, but tap fed and running at 8l/m is pointless. You need at least 15l/m The best compromise (ie, available at not stupid money secondhand but still more than your budget unless you're handy with spanners) would probably be a 13HP petrol 21l/minute machine, paired with a 210 litre plastic barrel fitted with a ball valve as a reservoir tank. Trying to clean mud off a machine is pointless even with my semi industrial 12l/minute steam cleaner. With that Kranzle, at 8l/minute? You'd be better off pissing on it, and that's the honest truth. I have a 200LPM firefighting type pump matched to an IBC for wet mud and rinsing off. Cleanwell 12l/minute steam cleaner for degreasing. And a 13HP 15l/minute petrol jobby. I'm looking for a 21l/min 13HP one at the right price too. Flow, not pressure. And you need HP for that, which means petrol or three phase.

That's a very good way of putting it.

You don’t have a clue mate. Take your do gooding elsewhere until you’ve actually bought kit worth a few grand and had it robbed by these ****s

Unlikely in my opinion, especially if you pay it all back. They may try to mke a few high profile examples of people who lied and then went bust, but this is essentially helicopter money. Remember, you are submitting an estimate of this coming years turnover....