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Digger. Any one of them. What you can do with one in an hour would take a gang of blokes all day.

That's how it is though. Just don't worry about it. Now much else you can do, 95% of small tree companies run the same. The trucks mechanically are good for a lot more weight, but UK weight limits on a car licence are not.

Brushless Makita tools are approximately double the tool of their non brushless equivalents in my experience- it's a quantum leap forward in terms of output and battery life. If you are doing a lot of sanding then don't overlook the brushless Makita with the speed control- super helpful for sanding and of course battery life. My second 5" makita has this function, and I wish both did. Don't forget that there are knock off batteries up to 9ah available to help with run time, although I think a pair of 9AH won't fit my brushless circular saw for some reason- might be the same with the 9" grinder. Final thing to consider- do you really need 9" or would 7" be enough (oeer missus!)? I've invested in a 150mm Metabo corded grinder and it's the bollocks. All you need for grinding and you can get 1.2mm thick discs for it similar to the 1mm 125mm ones for cutting quick. Makita offer that double battery grinder in 9 and 7", and 7" will most likely be better on the juice. Hope this helps.

Let's not also forget that Britian led the way in abolishing the slave trade.

That was awesome.

It's only a souless task if you don't have the right tools. Mag drill is great if you have a big metal bench you can site it on, and also tack some end stops/side quides so that you can drill every first hole, then change to every second hole etc. You'd really want a coolant system too so it gets complicated and a fly press and punch starts to look like a good idea. For grinding the tops, get yourself a firm vented backing pad and some ceramic fibre discs, 36 grit. Clean steel just melts away, they are controllable and 'soft' allowing you to radius easily. And they cut cold too, not much heat. Basically as they wear, the grain fractures exposing a new sharp edge. The ultimate is a wall mounted grinder with a rest plate at the font.

I dunno. £12.50 online for a 2m post. Plus carriage. 2m of 40x12 steel from Parkers is roughly £6.60 for that sort of quantity, plus you'll need to get the rod from them anyhow. So it's £5.90 per post to drill the holes and grind the tops. I could do 100 in an easy day on the mill with a mag cutter and the disc grinder with a 36 grit ceramic fibre pad. So £590 for a chilled day drinking coffee in the workshop, in the dry with the radio on. Yeah, you might use a cutter or two up and some grinding discs, say £30. But you're looking at £60 for a pallet to get the premade stuff delivered. Not massive money but enough to make me do my own. That said, that designermetal supply only page looks fair value.

Too far for me I’m afraid. However if you have a welder it’s not rocket science and steel is cheap. Your local fab shop should be able to punch out the posts to your spec. I use 10x40 flats for the posts and if round bars (flow better up and down hills as well as corners) then 21mm and 16mm round from memory. If you have a pillar drill you could even use a mag drill cutter to do the holes yourself so long as you have a repeatable and reliable end stop set up.

The iae stuff is dogshit imho. Horses in particular will trash it very quickly, it bends easily. It doesn’t flow like proper estate fencing as you have a welded panel of sorts and then a joint with movement. I wouldn’t use it, especially as the cost worked out similar to doing it properly welded. Where is the job?

If it helps, we've only ever run our lines long on our three FS460s/1xfs480, they must be aged between three to 8 years by now.

What models are they? Are they 4-mix? My FS460s get treated like crap yet are still faultless.

I’ve got the same and used it four times in as many years. Must be doing something wrong!

Busy as ever here, that’s the benefit of the pikey trades. I mean, a diverse skill set!

Chainsaw all the way. Plastics should be cut with teeth, not abrasives. As mentioned abrasives will just clog up. Type of plastic matters- you can get away with a chainsaw easily on soft twinwall, but you're liable to shatter a 110mm pipe using the same. The metal cutting blades in a circular saw make a nice job quickly of harder plastics as well as larger things like barrels. The teeth have much less rake compared to a wood blade, plus a raker like a chainsaw chain so they don't grab.

Jesus mate did the gypos hijack your account?? why not add some agent orange while you're at it? If you've just three single plants in a garden setting, I'd pop on a coverall and gloves (facemask if you wish) and carefully snip each stem and chuck it onto a lit bonfire. Then the roots should be fairly easy to dig out and add to the fire. Any regrowth can then be treated with spray whilst it's young and soft. Why go throwing large quantities of pesticides onto tough, mature plants when you can deal with them in ten minutes fairly permanently?

As above- but the tenner is only for the scare-o-gram, any further (hard) work and costs rise a lot. Used them twice and the solicitors letter worked, but it probably wouldn't on a bigger firm who know how far they can push things.

Yeah but it isn’t going to drop that much more. Fair point if buying new but that sounds like the right money secondhand.

Strimmer is what you need, so you can lift it up and bash back the sides a bit too. Maybe hedge cutter and spring fork for clearing sides also. A bcs flail is pretty hopeless for this sort of work, brambles tend to grow in from the sides so it just won’t grab hold of them. Also it’s a rubbish flail, something like a scag or ferris is in a different league for productivity

Is the commercial tax less then??? I know I pay a damn sight more vehicle tax on my 1.3 scores van than I would on a car with the same engine!

There be a proper farmers hinge!?

Fair play mate, but might as well spend another £300 on a pair of Bethouds and be comfortable! ? Hell, if I was doing that amount I'd have a battery backpack, or a quad setup if the terrain would allow.

I had a cooper pegler for 5 years, believing it to be the best. Then I tried a mates Berthoud. Night and day in terms of comfort, ergonomics and performance. I would have to say that CP are shite compared to Berthoud. Berthoud Vermorel 2000 Knapsack Sprayer 16L | Garden Sprayers | Pitchcare Shop WWW.PITCHCARE.COM The Berthoud Vermorel 2000 is a 16 litre knapsack sprayer featuring a unique contoured back-frame for... This is what I have. The lance is way less flimsy than the CP, and the comfort levels more than double. The CP equivalent doesn’t even have any padding. but by far the most annoying part of he CP (apart from the cost of spares) was that the lid would be stuck tight every time you came to refill.

Chinese carb off eBay should sort it.

Depends how you define low hours. You might get an older style machine with around 2k hours for that or a newer (2014 ish) with 3-4k if you were very very lucky.