doobin
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The new 2t bobcat got a great review in this months earthmovers. Looks a nice machine
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1.5 ton and grapple will save you so much time and make you a lot of profit. Buy smart and it won't cost much either, they hold their money well. Start with a grapple and buckets. Other attachments will help later but might not add that much to the bottom line on a small carrier. It's the cheapest man on the job by far .
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Does it snap forward and just not hold? Or does it refuse to snap into the lock position?
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It's no-brainer, the 2-mix engines are also cheaper than the 4-mix.
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Fair point. You'd need your head looking at if you were planning to use it on a ram raid!
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True that. A wise man once said, 'if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life'.
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Don't replace it with 4-mix (FS90, 100 or 130), replace it with 2-mix. FS-70 or FS-94 are the equivalent power. Drop the engine straight on the old kombi shaft. FS-85s were good solid engines. I ran them as kombi tools until the 2-mix engines came out.
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What killed the front end? Kingpins? Mine is rough as **** but costs pennies to run and dents just add character. I'm not in the tree game so the state of the van doesn't really matter. Which is just as well Mind you, the rust in the floor will need looking at soon. Can't hide the key under the mat no more, it just ends up on the ground beneath
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Isn't hardwood vs softwood something to do with the cellular structure of the wood? I love softwood, it burns much hotter. Quicker growing, can be harvested and processed 100% mechanically. Instant heat, as others have said.
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Keep the faith, brother!
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They won't make it as far as Ireland- they will be bought by someone probably not far from you. Easy resale down the pub, etc, no need to ship them across the water.
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PTO washer is a good idea for cleaning saw logs, they can provide way more litres per minute than a normal pressure washer and it's volume as much as pressure that's needed to carry the grit away. I'd look for recommendations from pig and poultry farmers- they will give their PTO washers a good regular workout.
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And a Dutch oven...
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Here you go OP, problem solved. I was in your boots four years ago and have used these guys since with no problems: Business Telecoms - Chess Telecoms They'll do you a professional voicemail recording too and email you voicemails customers leave if you can't answer your phone. I now have a landline at the yard and prefer that as it always has 'signal'...
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No, a rubber is a johnny.
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Free delivery, but 110l. Pre-Owned | Used 140 Litre Wheelie Bin | Dark Grey Presuming you're not fussed that they're second hand.
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That's most likely the problem, but not the way you're thinking. £20 says the seller changed the bearing, and nipped it up one more castellation to eliminate all play. A tiny bit of play in a wheel bearing is almost a given. Do them up till there's none and they will heat up and blow. Especially after a prolonged run down the motorway.
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18" is a bit too much for a MS251. Sounds like your dealer doesn't deal with pro saws or users much. I'd look online. Can get an MS181 with 12" bar for approx £220. If the Stihl delivery policy kills that with your location, screw 'em and get a Husky 135.
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I bought a new 86 the other week. It does seem a bit bunged up. The one it replaced was less than a year old though, and seemed much better. So it could just be running in as they are theoretically exactly the same model nine months apart? My latest MS181 took about two months of intermittent use to really run in. Could be a 2-mix thing.
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You local dealer may well make more profit on a discounted Solo than a RRP Stihl. Solo are like Mitox- better than your usual Chinese junk, but still pants compared to Stihl. I'd be going for an MS181 or possibly an Echo given the 5 year warranty for domestic use and recent positive reviews of their pro saws.
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Fair points re compaction, but if you can only get a bit out at a time behind the quad is it economically viable? A 4wd compact on wide tyres is pretty good, and a tracked dumper the best for small scale work in my experience.
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So long as the arisings are burnt on the site they are produced, it's fine. EA D7 exemption. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/74363-legalities-burning.html
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These are pretty handy for this sort of thing: 833133A 300Kg 0.3 T Electronic Digital Portable Hanging Crane Scale LCD Display | eBay
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If you spend five minutes with a small tooth bucket scraping off the soil, you should be able to clamp something of that size between the blade and bucket on a 1.5t without much trouble. Especially if you relieve some weight by chainsawing the clean portion off. It's even easier with a ripper tooth on as you can hook it into the rootball, giving you a solid point of lift on the jib but with the weight back towards the machine. I really recommend a ripper if you do much stumping, the difference between the ripper and even the smallest digging bucket is night and day. Clamping between the blade and jib probably doesn't do your running gear many favours, but for the odd stump the profit on that job outweighs that.
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Please don't tell me you dug that out with the grading bucket. Frickin animal.
