doobin
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Hard at work. Bashed this bracken flat initial with the reverse topper. Now cut and collect for the second cut and to pick up a lot of the litter. ideal tractor for working between the trees.
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At 26hp for your avant (?) I think you may be disappointed. Add hydraulic losses into the equation and it’ll be equivalent to a 15hp petrol model. I’ve not used one personally but I’ve not heard many good things said about them, especially considering what they cost. Regarding wear on the machine- constant flow hydraulics will dirty the hydraulic oil quickly on any machine. Change it regularly.
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Devils advocate here, but gypos don’t tend to bother with chipping. It’s usually whole branches tipped in a lay-by, if indeed they remove it at all.
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I agree in principle, however iveco can be hard to get any sense out of with a basic code reader. Especially for such a weird problem. I’d be looking at system voltages when reverse engaged. A major voltage drop could cause the system to shut down. You could look at the reverse lights also, possibly a short here (although you’d expect a fuse to pop) is it @Rac man who’s a bit of a whizz on iveco?
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Well fk this for a game of soldiers. Wet and 11 degrees outside. it’s June ffs!
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With a large enough cc strimmer that’s a perfectly acceptable technique, particularly if the grass is to be raked up later.
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Am I the only person who has no trouble whatsoever windrowing knee high grass with just 2.4mm Stihl line on an FS460? Guard off, max string out before it starts to drag. I even use the little bump feed head from a smaller Stihl for a nice accurate cut around obstacles. I can't stand thicker line unless for brambles, and even then a 4 way head with 2.7mm line is fine until you get to old enough brambles to need a blade. I think the main problem people have with cord is not listening to the engine note and running it down to almost nothing. Got to keep it bumped out otherwise it flexes too much by the eyelet and shears off there too.
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The key with a blade is only to have enough revs to keep it's momentum up- which is usually a lot less than people think. If you rev it flat out and swing it into a stump, then yes, you'll have problems. Also, what strimmer are you using? Unless it's a Stihl, Husky or other decent brand, that's probably your main issue- and given that you've described it as '52cc strimmer', I'm guessing you have a Chinese thing. Get a Stihl or Oregon brushcutter or clearing saw and you'll be fine.
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I'd say the percentages might not be quite so absoloute. And listen to your gut. If your gut says they're not for you, then are NOT FOR YOU. Seriously.
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Get out and about. Talk to people even though you feel you don't want to. Two suicides in my local area last month, both 25. Men need to talk more. This is a good step.
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Come off it mate. Leaving aside the issue of uninhabitable wrecks being council tax exempt, farmers up and down the land are rushing to sell off old wrecked barns with the automatic dwelling planning permission their Tory chums gifted them under Class Q. Ranging from £1m plus in the south to £50k in the arse end of Ireland for a shell of a barn. Yet you're telling me that your local farmer would rather spend a day knocking it down with a digger rather than selling it and pocketing £50k? Where do you live, Beruit? Stop pushing this ridiculous myth that without saintly landlords rental houses will just dissapear. It doesn't stand up to any logic or reason.
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There are no stats whatsoever there other than the headline one. Nothing in that 'article' (from a landlord forum no less) gives any indication to what happened to the 400,000 units that disappeared from the rental stock. Are they all AirBnBs? Or did a lot of them become owner occupied instead?
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Just count your lucky stars you weren’t tied in to a years contract, that’s how these companies usually work. No cooling off or other consumer protections for business to business.
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Or you could even try the correct answer on for size….the house price drops slightly as it now makes no sense to rent it out and people who previously rented can buy their own houses. Landords keep trying to push this fallacy that if they sell up the house will just disappear. It will only disappear from the rental market- for which demand will shrink by one unit as the house becomes owner-occupied instead. You are being utterly ridiculous suggesting that they would be just left vacant (with who paying the mortgage??) or demolished if the landlord couldn’t make profit from them and decided to sell. Neither of those options would ever happen.
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What happens to the houses that aren’t suitable for holiday lets, do they just disappear?
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That’s the one. I have them on every machine. Seriously good quality- soft touch on nice bearings and cone with bolts to fit any steering wheel perfectly.
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Bracken control in the new alpine. Lovely with a joystick for the hydraulics and aircon. Hydrostatic drive is perfect for this- plenty of short work on nature reserves, and you can really get a lick on when it comes to the straights. I could never go to a geared machine.
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Yeah, there’s no one machine that does it all. I’d stick with mini skids for the tight stuff, my ‘big’ loader is an 8.4 and it’s about as small as I’d want.
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The Sherpa I find much easier to control. I don’t like the type of levers on the worky but that could be changed. Regarding drive- Sherpa is hydraulic drive too. One motor per side which then drives the front wheels with a chain. I’m not sure why you think four motors is better? It’s simply not needed and is two extra motors to go wrong (that you are also paying extra for). One motor at double the displacement of a those used in pairs will give the same power/speed. But yeah, whatever you buy is better than relying upon labourers.
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If your looking secondhand then it will be whatever comes up at the right price. id go and look at the worky op is interested in and give it a good demo. I can’t stand their control system compared to a Sherpa, but @luxhas a worky 22 and it’s certainly a solid built machine. Just nowhere near as ergonomic to operate for me.
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Band blades for Norwood / Lumbermate LM29 ???
doobin replied to Whoppa Choppa's topic in Milling Forum
I concur. By 'accuracy dropped off' I assume OP meant 'finished cut looks like a washboard'- especially on softwood, and I'd have a sore shoulder from forcing them through too. I treat my saw blades like my chainsaw chains. When they stop cutting easily, I swap them for a sharp one. On a wet day I enjoy a medative morning sharpening my chains and bands. £400 investment in a Ripper 37 profiled CBN wheel and the basic Oregon grinder pays for itself quickly if you're otherwise just buying new Ripepr 37s at £40 each. Ten days to be precise!🤣 Figures from memory but can't be far off. -
Its the standard Chinese engine used on post knockers, petrol drills etc. Thing is, it fills a niche for odd products like this at a sensible price. No mainstream manufacture really makes petrol SDS drills, for example.
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Don't purchase a house that wasn't built well enough- simples.
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Let me rephrase that- trailer parks are an accepted cheaper way of living in the US. I'm agreeing with you here mate. Housing costs are way too high.
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Trailer parks in the US are a viable living arrangement for the poor. here, we have council housing for the chosen/lucky few, and the rest can go fk themselves even as we import get more third world dross. something isn’t right.
