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What do you normally drink? for tea, look up Ivan chai. It’s made with fireweed which is fermented first. Surprisingly pleasant, and by all account very good for the male of the species.

Can oi tarmac yer droive?

Not without throwing the other half of the country to the wolves with rampant inflation they won't. I'm not saying it won't happen, I'm just saying be careful what you wish for!

Any fool can see that with interest rates where they are (and where they will stay IMHO), houses won't/can't sell at asking prices to current first time buyers. As a very rough guide, the same monthly payment and deposit will now buy you a 200k house rather than a 300k one over a 30 year mortgage. The difference is that stark. Run a mortgage calculator if you don't believe me- 1.8% vs 6% And the developers will do anything other than lower prices. 'Mortgage contributions', kitchen upgrades, £20k cashback- anything other than lower the sticker prices. Meanwhile any idiot that falls for this is on the hook for a thirty year mortgage for a property that won't resell for 2/3rds of it's sticker price for a very long time. Government needs to force housebuilders to 'use it or loose it' when it comes to planning permisison. Drip feeding the market is only good for the big builders, not the UK. Of course new build subbies will be short of work- the whole reason the big boys use 99% subbies is that they can drop them at a moments notice, like now.

You can easily snap and crunch blackthorn up with a fixed rotator and grab. No shear needed.

Not hating on you guys with small shears, but I reckon I’d have gotten out of the cab, pulled the MS241 from the holster and sned and cut the lot to length before you’d positioned that shear for two cuts! Then bundled all the brash and stacked the timber with the fixed rotator grab. for hedgerow stuff at height, I can see the benefits to a fixed shear on a small machine.

Sounds like fuel. Pull the carb and clean it, also check for debris in the fuel tap and check for an in-line fuel filter (often at the start of the fuel line under the tank) as this will give those symptoms- not enough fuel trickling through to support the engine properly under load. were it a Honda I’d say stick a new copy carb on it, but they don’t seem so easy to find for Briggs. I haven’t looked hard though, as I try to avoid anything with a Briggs engine.

We only tend to cut for ourselves. In the woods I prefer 3m for ease of handling and speeding things up. The guy on the processor prefers 2.4m for the same reasons… As Mike says, 3m it’s perfect size for a log bullet. It’s also the perfect size when saving timber from jobs- small loads of straight timber such as young ash being run back to base in the back of a tipper. On a timber trailer or with not so straight species 2 bays of 2.4 is much more efficient. Or if small skinny timber that you may as well handball, I prefer 2.4s. Why not both? 2.4s in the pickup, 3m on the trailer!

Not been out on them much. Welded some quick connect hooks to the Iseki. Bit of chipping. And some pretty impressive bramble cut and collect for the little Kubota- you can see the height of them where I left a load over the drain cover.

6hp isn’t enough to chip anything.

She’s making herself useful around the yard, managing timber stockpiles, unloading from jobs and loading the processor and the mill.

I’d say you really want something 2.7t ish so it’s towable behind a 4x4 or large van, otherwise your digger will spend more time hauling everything to site with multiple trips than it does chipping. The other thing you need to feed a chipper is a rotating grab rather than a fixed grapple (unless by grapple you meant a grab and rotator?) You simply have to have the ability to feed the chipper with a slew and rotate of the grab, anything else will be ten times as difficult, make a mess tracking about and quickly lead to damage of the chipper. Free hanging rotators (dangle type) are safest for feeding chippers, but a fixed rotator lets you do a lot of other stuff like ripping out also, and with a good op can be used to feed a chipper. this is my bobcat e27, it’s a fixed rotator on the grab.

And it can carry the chip away

Briggs EFI engine by any chance? Search on the forum, it's not good news I'm afraid. An absoloute pup of an engine.

As above, horrible for logs but good for brash. I'd get one with a flat bottom (a bucket grab) as it's much easier to skid along the ground without digging in.

If you don’t have a motor spool (only double acting spools) then the easiest thing to do is to make an adaptor to thread a quick connect into the back end fill port.

I hope you took it back to the shop and asked for your money back! Obviously after insinuating that they must have swapped the pot and piston before selling it to you!

Fair play- it’s certainly as dark as satans arsehole this morning!

Was the garden actually covered in the listing? You can check online. Often it’s just external features such as windows, type of brickwork etc. If buying a property, an indemnity policy to cover you against the costs of any future reinstatement for stuff the previous owner did without consent is surprisingly cheap. So it’s really not a problem if buying a listed place that isn’t quite as it should be. The whole system is complaint driven, so a lot goes un-noticed.

Yup

What forecast are you using? Doesn’t look too bad to me, a few mm overnight but then we’ve had that the last few nights also.

A mini digger on bog mats or wide tracks with a rotating grab is a good method for the large clumps. Whereabouts in West Sussex?

Either grade will do. Not familiar with that engine but I’d say mineral will be fine- it’s a small enough engine not to have dpf etc.

Loosing this loader would be like losing a leg. You simply cannot compare to a digger and dumper. The ability to pick things or aggregate up and place it exactly where needed saves hours of time

I love it when people get pissy when others tell them their thing isn’t worth what they think it is. it’s like selling houses. “our house won’t sell! It’s been on the market for ages! It must be the living room carpet/colour of the walls/ the market it funny right now” No. it’s the price. It’s always the price.