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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.

You're preaching to the converted mate, I even have the Makita grease gun and have just bought the missus a Makita brushless hoover for our new place ?

As above. I stuck a tenner Chinese carb on a TS410 and it's ran faultlessly for three years since.

As above. It’s a good wrench but often wheel nuts will be too much for it. I have both and use them both equally, but a lot of my stuff is larger/rusty.

At 150HP I should think they've got the flow. Would be an interesting project, it's certainyl a cheap enough base machine.

It's a bit animalistic, but most of the stuff in those photos I'd expect to just snap off and lay down with my grab and rotator. But then I'm usually not being paid to leave a tidy finish, just to get rid of it.

We're ALL about to get royally shafted for years down the line. I'm just availing myself of the free lube, you might as well do the same. I bet there's a few on here got themselves a liar loan- otherwise known as a self cert mortgage. My generation have been paying for that for years through unnaffordable house prices and steeply increasing rents, coupled with mortgages for self employed being nigh on impossible to attain. My turn to self certify (my turnover!)

You generally don't want to be towing on a bog. Too cumbersome, gets you into trouble easily and makes it much harder to get out of trouble!

My gripe is that tickets mean sweet fa. It’s even worse in the plant game, people who shouldn’t be allowed on a push bike can sail through their dumper ticket.

Don’t forget pa6WA- wipe arse....

In my experience, an impact wrench will always trash a stripped allen head further. I far prefer an old fasioned imapct driver that you hit with a hammer, as mentioned above.

Sorry Stubby, didn’t realise it was you! ?

Theres not a lot in price between all the major manufacturers. I've just priced up the following: All around the same money, hard to compare as things like the tailgate is an option (!) on the Brian James and the ramp holders an option on the ifor! I think the above prices were with both tailgate and ramp holders. In the end I called Buffalo trailers for a price, around 4k, but they had a s/h triaxle 10*6 tipper that had been thru the workshop for 2.5k plus VAT. So I bought that to see if I like having a tipper trailer, it's had new tyres, new brake cables, all lights and brakes work which is the main thing on a secondhand trailer. Nothing I can't do myself but that trailer has to be the right money for that. Floor is steel plated so although the board underneath is going in places it should do a couple of years then l'll flog it for new if it fits the business. I quite like it. It's clearly had a hard life, but has stood up to it well, 2.5k is about what I'd expect a secondhand 3.5t tipper to owe me if I bought it as cheap as they get and put it through my workshop so I'm happy. Here's a beavertail I bought for £900 with new resin ply fitted (had to flip it over though! muppets put it shiny side up) Brake shoes were good, had two sets of ramps with it, I changed the cables, a bearing and put brand new wheels on it. Stands me in at £1600 including two full vehicle tie down sets, a spare wheel, new prop stands, new jockey wheel, box and a few other trinkets. Handy for bulky stuff and as a backup plant trailer than can handle all my diggers (just) Pro tip- if you have to change all the tyres on a trailer, then it's not a lot more just to get a set of wheels and tyres off eBay. I went for the more modern wider tyres/rims, and flogged the knackered set for £50. My plant trailer I bought for £400, added a steel over boarding floor, new lights and a few extra tiedowns. Ran sweet for a year then I did the brake shoes last month. Buying trailers at the right money for the condition is an art, and it's hard when you're VAT registered as the s/h no vat values are stupidly high because every smalltime builder wants a trailer. I seem to have ended up with as many old secondhand trailers as old secondhand vehicles, but you can't beat having exactly the right tool for the job plus spare capacity.

JCB seem to know their stuff regarding plant insurance. They were also happy to cover me for the limited amount of tree felling we do.

I only use my 462 occasionally, but it's a really nice saw. Yes, it's quick on the uptake- but aren't Huskys supposed to be known for that? It's certainly controllable power, I really like it.

Kohler parts are a nightmare to source, massive wait times. Would never buy again.

Sorry, just read this. I have 4x 5ah makita and 2x 6ah waitleys, been using them equally for more than 6 months. They hold their charge and work well, probably as well as makita ones. Both the cases of the waitleys are now cracked and taped up. They seem fine though and i have never dropped them, so must assume its just from flopping around on a top handle whilst climbing. I’ve smashed a few through abuse, Stixall works a treat for glueing them back together!

Waitley brand on eBay mate. Look like this- available in other sizes too. The Makita genuine charger doesn't like the 9AH, but the Chinese chargers will charge them- takes a good hour though. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18V-9Ah-Li-ion-Battery-For-Makita-BL1830-1840-1850-LXT400-With-LED-Power-Display/223203647336?hash=item33f7f95f68%3Ag%3ArSIAAOSwRI1cxuFi&LH_BIN=1

When does any arborist ever have bark chippings? People keep asking for them, and I bet they're expecting a load like you'd get from B and Q.

Will still give you nothing if the terminals are corroded. Best to check them first on the machine

Undo them and use a flat file across the surface of the ring terminals to freshen them up. Same with the battery earth- often overlooked but critical.

Hard to see exactly but most likely yellow one with a spade on the end mate. Pull it off, stick the earth lead of the multimeter onto an earth point on the machine and the probe into that spade. Hold the igintion in the crank position and check that you get 12v at the spade. But if it's clicking, then it's clearly getting a signal here. What's the system voltage? Have you checked ALL terminals? Obviously the the battery terminals, but also the two terminals on the starter motor and where the batter earth strap bolts to the machine chassis.

That's bloody ridiculous. Try RS supplies for a range of microswitches for around a fiver. Probably the same place GreenMech buy them from...

It's all shit. As a business to business service you have no cooling off period. Often the contract will tie you in for X years, or have tricky conditions under which you must cancel a rolling contract (cancel three months in advance but no earlier etc) Unfortunately your options are limited, unless the paperwork that you signed (did you read it?? Take note people, this is how all these lawful scams work) explicitly states that you will not need to quote. What the salesman told you is utterly worthless in a B2B contract. It's what you sign that matters.