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Although I presume these are ag yards, so technically unlawful to run a commercial enterprise from? Not knocking you, I do the same. You'll never make any money in this day and age if you play 100% by the rules.

In the same vein, saw this the other day.

First day out with the E27. Really like the grab and rotator, got the hang of it in only an hour.

No they weren't, looks like the poor bloke got mugged off with them as part payment of an invoice!!

There was a Terex for sale a while back with full Engcon kit, I think that was Lewis too. How do you end up with a digger doing that few hours on Lewis?

Just measured mine- 42 degrees! Would say that's about right.

You're going to buy a heap of potential issues at that money, and none will have a collector worth using, especially on long/damp grass. Sorry mate.

Seems to be. I've only driven it around the yard for half an hour, my op had it out Monday, called me up midday and said I'm in the red for diesel!! So I went out, and ten litres near on fillled it, so the gauge isn't quite right somewhere. The left track lever is sticking but might sort itself out. Hell of a lot of power, especially tracking. The dipper control is a lot less sensitive than the boom, may just be something you get used to or may need adjusting. Oh, and there's 3mm of space for shims in the quick hitch, which isn't acceptable, they should have been fitted. I'll get them to sort it all out at the first 50 hour service.

Yes, turned up on Friday. Can't be arsed to check emails to see actual delivery time, but they were blaming Whites for a late delivery and then problems with the hitch towards the end of it all. Must have been 8 weeks all told. I'm just please they didn't send mine with twin aux to you, I'd have been livid ?

I'm just fitting an Intermecato Tigergrip and rotator with a headstock (thanks for the reccomendation on the digger thread Eddie!) and I spent quite a lot of time playing around with templates to get the crowd angle where I wanted it (ie, so you can hold the grab out straight in front of you with ease) I'd say you want something like the above for a flail. You'll never want to point it straight back at you, thats for sure, so might as well go the whole hog the other way. The cutout in the main plate is to allow the front of the hitch clearance at such an angle- watch you for this.

Mate, just get rid. You'll never look back.

Amen. My 2003 LDV (only 30,000 on the clock!!) might look a bit pikey, but the micro digger it carries is brand new. That's what makes the money. I don't cry when I scratch my 57 plate Ranger or 09 Corsa van either. Or the Merc Vito (51 plate) All bases and requirements (eco, tow vehicle, 4WD, tipper, panel van) covered for under 10k. Cheap enough to fix myself, and rare I have issues as I look after them. Plenty of spare capacity also.

Yeah, but Devon doesn’t have any unobtanium....

I can’t imagine why you’d still use one of those blades as described above, which blunt in minutes, rather than a standard, very cheap, tct circular saw blade.

Recent guidance from FC is that 60% canopy loss is acceptable under DDD. " Thanks for getting in touch with the Forestry Commission on this matter. If your ash trees are clearly dead or are showing at least 60% canopy dieback, then we are classifying this as not requiring a licence due to being dangerous. The trees would also need to affect a third party. If any ash don’t fit within this exemption, then a licence will be required. You are also allowed to fell any trees without a licence up to 5 cubic meters in volume every calendar quarter. It is recommended that you evidence your work via reports and photographs before any work starts so that you can demonstrate best practice in case you are challenged down the line." Take a few photos before you fell them to cover your back. There's huge amounts out here. Local estates have taken hundreds of tons out from roadside with not a felling licence in site. It's much cheaper (although still expensive with them being roadside, £1k/day for 21 ton tree shear plus God knows how much for TM) to deal with them sooner rather than later.

Here's a chainsaw, here's some woodland. I'm gonna go perform me some 'woodland maintenance', no degree needed! ? Coppicing is hard graft for bugger all return. Unless you go into it in a big way with a good market, employing cutters and running a forwarder then I reckon it's like having a ride on mower- it's a race to the bottom and you'll always be that old guy in a beat up truck struggling to make ends meet.

But a 90x90x90 bag is about 0.73 cube...

The Axminster copy is probably a good bet. I'm not au fait with the intricacies of setting up and using jigs, etc, but the best investment I made in my drill bit sharpening was a CBN wheel. CBN is like a diamond wheel, only it doesn't gall up when used with steel tools. It cuts incredibly clean and cool. About £100 a wheel but well worth it.

Did anyone check the oil??

If this is the way the world is going, I want no part of it. Porn is already ruining a generation of young men. We don't know for certain what it will do to their brains, but we do know that youngesters brains are incredibly plastic. It's not just the odd dirty mag on the top shelf of the newsagent as it was when I grew up, it's now twelve year olds and younger watching utter perverted filth on their mates mobile at school. It's a science experiment on our youth with no safeguards. I'd recommend that any of you who are worried you may have a problem have a read of the book, 'Your Brain On Porn'. It's probably the most comprehensive summary of what we know so far about how porn affects our dopamine system. It's ruining girls too. How many girls are now selling themselves, in one way or another? Dirty pics for cash on Snapchat. Sugardaddy relationships. Every trashy girl can find some simp who never learnt how to handle the opposite sex (because he was hooked on porn from a young age) to throw money at her for access to 'private pics'.

I'd be tempted to try a bit of trial and error on the empty shaft. £400 pays for a lot of time tacking a weight one end or the other.

When you do, get the model with adjustable speed. Comes in handy for a lot of tasks- in particular, slowing down when using a wire brush on it, and slowing down when using things like a 7" stripping disc to remove paint. I thought I'd never use it but I do all the time now.

Yup. I'm a total Makita slut, everything from a brace of brushless grinders to the autofeed screwdriver. Top of the range for everything.

No, it’s Chinese made and German branded like everything out there. That’s not a problem, China make some good gear, but don’t fall too hard for the marketing.

Mate, with the ability to magic up 'statistics' like that, you should work for the government! ? Any idea how much it costs a mile to widen a road? What about the Co2 emmissions of doing so? Your proposal is pie in the sky unless you are a third world shithole, in which case the EU will pay for it all! Above all else- it's not broke, so don't fix it. Move to Milton Keynes if you want massive great roads connecting everything.