doobin
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Lovely. What do you use it for?
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Spruce is what I've been cutting with virgin Ripper 37s and the 50% screenwash was a game changer.
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Ripper 37s will most likely be a general purpose 7 degrees. When cutting softwood, run 50% arctic grade windscreen washer fluid in the coolant tank. Cheaply available in packs of 4x5 litre cans from your local motor factors. It'll make a big difference- your problem sounds like resin build up.
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Yes! Yes please!
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Nice little machine. Will be interesting to see what it makes. How much do they lift with the back weights, can you remember?
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Too tickety for me, but thanks for thinking of me! It also sounds suspiciously like the job requires labour/physical effort, which is another no for me.... Ben Nicholson will deffo have ticketed blokes, you could try him.
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PICS!!! What a machine, you kept that quiet. Either that or I'm not very observant.
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You’ll piss that with a 3t never mind a 6t. If you’ve a lot to do, get a ripper tooth. If you’ll be log handing, get a grab. A grab will be all you need to pull those stumps.
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For that kind of use anything will be fine. 15hp best but if a 7hp one comes up for a few hundred secondhand it would do that kind of diameter no bother.
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How much is a new jaw? What kind of hours has that one done?
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If he won’t buy a digger and grab then he’s only playing at the firewood game frankly. tell him to cut it himself
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You are indeed missing something. Those levelling rams are axle locks- and you need to make them work so the axle is locked and can't pivot under load!
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Mechanised Flail / hedgecutting cost- how do you charge
doobin replied to Jamie edwards's topic in Business Management
Yes, I was suggesting to get a tractor with saw in with an operator for the initial clear, sorry for not making it particularly clear! -
Mechanised Flail / hedgecutting cost- how do you charge
doobin replied to Jamie edwards's topic in Business Management
Get a decent saw on a tractor or digger in to reduce the hedge. Then buy the best bit of kit to fit your Avant and the other jobs you have going forwards. -
Identification again please
doobin replied to stewie1046's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Looks to me like a Hunter Herald. If so then value maybe £100 to the right person, they're not great stoves and pretty dated. -
Love it!
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They're not stupd replies. Tongue in cheek, maybe, but with serious undertones. All the time that menial physical work pays a few hundred a month more than being on the dole, you won't find them. Blame the state. I sympathise with you, cause I've been where you are and I really can't see how dealing with low paid staff is worth the hassle for the profit it brings you. The machinery route is what I've gone down. Todays job at 9AM was move a few pallets of bricks and some bulk bags of sand with the multione. Two hours including travelling, £350 plus vat. Cient is happy because it was still cheaper than struggling to find labour and paying them to shift them by hand. Doesn't take many days wages to pay the monthly finance for some pretty handy kit.
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Where can I get a hydraulic winch pump for a Land Rover?
doobin replied to William Clifford's topic in Arb-Trucks
Got to be easier to just chuck the current winch on Marketplace and fit a decent electric one? You're only using it sporadically. -
I've seen a middle sized big cat, brown, in the snow in a chestnut coppice miles from any houses. I've also found giant paw prints, no claws, in the snow around my digger on the South Downs. Nearby were some Great Dane sized turds, full of hair. I took them in a bag to a customer who headed up the local Big Cat research group- he sent them off for analysis but the results were inconclusive-though most likely feline. Our local black panther was seen by a great deal of people. Often up trees, once with a pigeon in it's mouth three hundred yards and a week beofre from where I found the prints around my digger. It must have died some ten years ago as the sightings peaked and then nothing since, which is a shame.
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It's a Sunday. No? OK- then it's five o'clock somewhere!
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Possibly you are thinking of Elm? Had t heard that about yew.
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If I only have to throw it on the fire already seasoned and split, I’d go with yew. If I have to process it as well, then larch thinnings or slabwood.
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This is a bit extravagent, but handy to have about the place. Soapy water substitute in a handy aerosol. Action Can LD-90 Gas Leak Detector 500ml | Toolstation WWW.TOOLSTATION.COM Gas leak detector spray for safety checks on all types of gas systems, including oxygen. Highlights leaks even on...
