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I'd recommend the plain, the bacon flavour and particularly cider vinegar and salt. I'm not keen on the cheese ones, they taste just like quavers. But if thats your thing then go for it.

I lvoe pork scratchings as much as the next guy, but these are to delicious. Plus, I don't always feel like the full fat experience!

What are they trying to achieve there? Removal of pine regen?

The ones who are put off by it are the ones you need to shed in order to grow your business.

No cooking as she’s away and I can’t be bothered (note the dead flowers). Smoked oysters- food of the Gods. Plus Curators Pork Puffs- really worth trying if you like dead pig. Pork crackling, but light and fluffy!

How did you get on?

Really? Why on earth not?

The reason for a license to trap crayfish is simple. It’s so people don’t trap the native species in areas where they are just about holding on.

No, I tried that around a pond in soft clay with the p180 and it wasn’t really having it. It worked but I ended up cutting off more than I thought I would. Didn’t cut a spike though, I reasoned that the surface area of the profile wouldn’t be much reduced by doing that, unlike a solid round wooden post.

What kind? I’ve done clipex strainers with them but on hard chalk ground they start to mash over the top of the post! Scaff poles no bother, I made up an insert to replace the spike also. This was with a 150kg weight.

Or just being able to take it to site and knock in fifty metres after clearing with the grab. That’s where I find the most profit. Used it Friday to bash this lot in.

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Can't reccomend puffballs. Slimey and tastless. Give me chicken of the woods and parasol mushrooms instead any day.

The fabrication work looks good 👍🏻Now that you’ve developed your skills, how about welding a pin grabber screw hitch to replace the half hitch under your powertilt? BMC will do you a plate with their excellent screw hitch on, then you will always have tight buckets with no play. It’s excellent for things like the post knocker in particular. I will try to find a picture of my powertilt with the screw hitch added. The plate they supply as standard is pretty much the perfect size so it’s a half hour job to cut the old hitch off and weld the screw hitch on.

Sage advice from here years ago- “yes madam. ‘Can you just?’ starts at £150 plus VAT”

It’s all a faff compared to just having a machine in the yard to pick up the logs and hold it at waist height! Especially for that volume of timber. we don’t do anything like that amount but we make it easy. Pick up log, slew and hang it over area next to splitter, then cut with a guide rod held to the saw handle with jubilee clips. Obviously this only works going one way, but guess what- you go and cut the rest of the log from the other side! And once you’ve done that, you have an odd random short bit in the grab which gets dropped in another pile to be cut in half and make a ‘random length ’ crate up. You’re never struggling or bending over. You’re never falling over existing cut rounds. You also don’t have to move the rounds far to the splitter as you cut them right next to it. Life is easy. The hardest work is climbing back into the digger but if @JDons boss doesn’t want him to be as profitable as he could be, that’s his prerogative. Running a timber yard that size without a crane is just daft.

Know that feeling, I’ve ordered a ro ro for the yard!

God you’re keen. You could have bought a secondhand p180 for £1800! best mounting for me I find is to have the mast straight in front of the dipper. Matt Storrs (is he still on here? Can’t find him to tag him) gave me that great tip years ago- chain the plate to the bottom of the mast so as you can put a bit of pressure on the post, so you’re totally on the right track here!!! Makes it much easier to do on your own and easier on the machine too as it doesn’t wobbly all over the place on the first few hits. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Leg on the ground, sliding the cap up the mast etc is all very well on a big solid tractor, but a digger requires a different approach. Also means you always have the full length of the mast available from the first hit, which is a benefit with the smaller weights on diggers. I agree with the above- two people makes it super quick. You shouldn’t have a problem lifting the mast up to the post top- as soon as you rest the chained clamp on the top of theit becomes much more stable. As you are transferring some weight from the digger to the post you can get away with less weight on the knocker too. You will get the hang of adjusting the mast angle each knock to keep the mast vertical and the plate in a ‘neutral’ position as the arm lowers with each knock on the post. I’d build a hitch for the back of your mast like mine so you have options. Play around with it and get the pin angles so that the mast almost touches the digger dipper when fully crowded back but make sure the ram arm can’t hit either- that’s optimum positioning and will let you get closer to posts.

Introducing inefficiencies for no reason, just replace the winch with electric if your going to get all the power from the battery! the engine driven one’s were supposed to be better as you could draw a lot more hp straight from the engine.

Sounds like a good haul.

How many ton do you have?

Bucket and forks. Grab must be another £800 worth.

You'll usually get docked for wire, they hate it.

An 8 yard skip full of electrical motors will be more than worth your time to handball.

I've seen them in similar condition at dealers for £8k plus VAT, so it sounds like market rate to me.