doobin
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You can get a euro hitch backplate for around £200 delivered on eBay. I bought one to adapt for the linkage on the alpine tractor. The Kelfri log grab is rough but cheap. for a curveball- what about a hydraulic clamp for your pallet forks? Best of both worlds? This looks just the ticket, design appears perfect even for smaller stuff. Pallet Fork Log Grab - Various Bracket Types WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Pallet Fork Log Grab -...
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I’ve found it very easy with a forklift to turn a log against the stops and pin it there whilst I dog it up. Granted thats a counterbalance forklift on flat concrete so might not work so well on the Massey in a yard setting. I’ll never knock anyone for buying any kind of grab as you know 😉 possibly consider adding a euro quick hitch if you are going down this route. Would be very handy, you’d not loose much lift capacity and it would probably be cheaper overall than sourcing or building attachments to fit. Euro bracket grabs and forks are very common.
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I’d stick with just pallet forks. All you need for moving and loading butts and much easier to handle stacked cants with.
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How? Looks gash, yes. But unsafe?
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Depends entirely upon how large the batteries are!
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Well I'm really impressed with these steel tracks. Should have made the switch (or at least bought a set for certain jobs) when I first got the machine. Way better traction. Better all round for rural type jobs. What's particularly impressed me is how good they are at tracking in. I've used them on crushed concrete and also dirt. Technically they are the same footprint so the same ground presure, but they really put it down. Make a very neat job. I always say that you can't use a mini digger for tracking in- they are designed for low ground pressure after all. Well you can with steel tracks! These are double grouser so probably the optimum for my kind of work. I'm sure I will be equally impressed when I try them with some bolt on flotation bars for bog work. £1600 well spent.
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Depends a lot upon quality, quantity and size. Sawlogs or not? Processor grade or knotty gnarly lumps of hardwood?
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Give us your location and someone will be able to help I'm sure.
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Old line tree - rotten middle but healthy and edges
doobin replied to SDWR's topic in Tree health care
That'll most likely be fine, and it's not like it'll hit anything if it falls over. If you like the look of it, leave it. If not then remove. Simples. -
Look beautifully made mills. What kind of money are they?
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Fk the council. Mums the word.
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Works a treat- only problem is that the other side now appears a touch weak in comparison! I will try to adjust the stops on the replaced motor's control lever to compensate as it's still got plenty of power. Hopefully I've caught it in time with a full fluid and filter change. Let this be a free (for you at least) lesson for all those of you who think hydraulic fluid and filter changes don't matter!
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Here we go! (Hopefully!)
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Doesn't look like yew to me, certainly not bog yew. If pressure washing damages it then its feck all use for a table anyhow. I'd chuck it away personally. Not worth spending any time on.
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I can highly recommend Fleet and Commercial for anyone looking for a fleet policy.
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Hardly ever because I only cut wood, with my saw, not dirt and rocks. if you need to sharpen every half hour you’re doing something very wrong, let alone every half tank!
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No reason it shouldn’t work if you can get the right size auger fittings or an adaptor. just be aware that if the power unit is direct mounted rather than free swinging you could side load it with a long auger into earth and reduce bearing life etc.
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I don’t know what you’re trying the achieve with these posts. Do you like what you do, can you live on the going rate? Then good. If not, do something else. how do you plan to reduce overheads? You’re a subby climber not a bona fide firm with a yard, staff and machinery.
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Old boy on the farm told me to dose my ringworm with Monceren- a fungicide we used when planting spuds. Being young, dumb and itching like fk I did- luckily it didn’t kill me and it worked a treat.
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this is the main difference between a Sherpa/cast and a kanga. A kanga won’t clear a tipper transit, let alone this gate. got my 15 year old Friday boy on the Multione and tipper today. I’m staying in the dry in the shed. He’s loving it
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It’s a commercial horsey farm place (stud farm? What’s the word). Anyhow they are nice people, only a young couple making a go of things and freely admit it’s got out of hand this year- so hard to find labour and they’ve just had their second kid. To be fair the horses are all clean, they haven’t skimped on straw and if it was cows people wouldn’t bat an eyelid. back there today, hoping to get it all done and dusted! Can’t believe some of the lumps little Sherpa was lifting. She was made for this kind of thing.
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Working her hard today. Fifty of these boxes to clear and boy are they deep.
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Makes sense, so is the op pulling the clutch lever when he pulls that lever? Is that an independent clutch? My Antonio Carraro is a pedigree alpine, but you still have to dip the foot clutch to engage the pto. You just put your foot on the brakes.
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You are dipping the clutch to engage pto aren’t you?? According to that manual the left lever is pto engagement, not speed selection. You have to dip clutch and engage it via the clutch as if you are changing gear.
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Why is everyone painting their diggers black, they look bloody horrible.
