doobin
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Every third post you make here is about how 'some geezer offered you a job, but it wasn't enough money'. You go on and on about how you won't work for less than £200 a day and then when you get offered that servicing pumping stations, you work out that the boss man would be making (shock horror) profit upon your work. So you post on here about how he's taking the piss. Why don't you go and get your own service contracts then? Maybe your own insurance, advertising, staff and machines? See how the real businessmen on here do it. If you really were Billy Big Bollocks, drain engineer supreme, who's highly skilled and won't work for less than '2 a day mate, take it or leave it', then you wouldn't even be enquiring about a job posted that's clearly for a general labourer. Instead, you enquire and then puff your chest out on this very thread about how the 'money was poor'.
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Best to go heavy on the grease. It tends to emulsify and collect above and below the gears, but not on them. I usually give them a good half dozen pumps every month, it'll only work its way out past the plastic seals, you can't do any damage. On the long reach machines the grease port that does the angle adjustment doesn't need that much.
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Yes, we just stick the grease gun nozzle in and pump away.
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With your attitude and track record mate, I don’t reckon anyone would employ you anyway.
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You need a hedge trimmer ticket these days??
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If the grab claws will close around it, it’ll often lift or pull straight up/back with the power of the E27. I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Takes a bit of getting used to to not use the crowd ram so much- just a different way of working. They spec a 5ton rotator for an application like this with axial load
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Couple from today. Bunching up and pulling out brambles from behind a fence and then removing selected hazel stools on a nature reserve. Loads of lifting power even with the rotator- I didn't take it off in the end as it wasn't struggling and it's so hand to be able to rotate when windrowing waste for rehandling. Turns out the fuel guage reads high when working uphill- so I ended up walking back to the truck...?♂️
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Is that on a front quick hitch? Easy enough to put a grab on the front ??
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Loncin engines are fantastic. I have half a dozen in various guises. Would take loncin over Briggs any day, probably Kohler too going on past experience with them. The Jansen type will handle most stuff that you can fit into the hopper, but you have to be prepared to help feed it sometimes and also hold it back from choking on certain stuff!
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Can’t speak for Gray, but I have an almost identical setup. I find that with the rotator on, the opportunities are much reduced to do most of the things that could cause bent tines and the like such as grubbing out stumps. This is down to the geometry- way less breakout force. I plan to direct mount mine sans rotator in the near future, so watch this space.
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At a guess, just a wild stab in the dark, I'd say it involves groundying on jobs, with some climbing on easier jobs. And maybe a bit of fencing. Plus, probably not using text speak.
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I keep finding myself buying more machinery and focusing on skills and machinery rather than staff. I can't be the only one.
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Actually, I might know where there's a JCB 1.4t for sale. Got a cab, but it's sticks, not servos, so is a dog to drive IMHO. Year around 2000 if memory serves. Should be cheap however.
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I’ve been on my micro today with the tracks pulled in most of the time. So tight. As we’ve discussed previously, there’s no perfect digger, which is why I’ve ended up with three! There is a similar amount of engineering that goes into a top end micro like an E10, so I’m not surprised the price is close.
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This. But do it quick, 5 years 0% is only till the end of the month, then it's back to three years. All you'd have to decide is whether you want micro (1.2t, 700mm narrowest) or mini (1.7t, 990mm narrowest, maybe £2k more)
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Yeah, it’s been done. Then you did it again and broke a spring. No doubt you will continue to do it until you have a serious accident, and I pray its only you that gets hurt. Maybe if you didn’t price jobs so cheap you might be able to afford to take two trips and do a decent job.
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If you can't even afford a new spring and have to buy a shagged one from the scrappy, maybe it's time you took a job mate.
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Anyone used or know of anyone selling any tree loppers for excavator
doobin replied to Bustergasket's topic in Firewood forum
To reduce noise and manual handling, I'd say you want to me bechanically loading a circular saw or something. Processing and tree lopping are two different things, and if you try to use the same implement for both I'd say you'd be making compromises for each situation to the point of it being little use. -
Indians are a pain in the arse. I've nebver worked for one that didn't moan about the bill, try to haggle or just not pay.
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If you work for the wood you'll always be dirt poor. Just sayin....
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Give us some more background on that mate? What happened, was it his boat?
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No mate it’s not funny. I can’t even begin to describe what kind of a twat you are. Grow the fuck up, get some less pikey gear and stop risking the lives of others to save a few pathetic quid.
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The other favourite is 'hardcore/concrete, free to collector'. Usually followed by a picture of what looks like it should be the contents of a skip.
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When my old 454 was bad on the brakes it didn;t want to bleed by pumping, but happily bled with a vacuum bleeder.
