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Here we go! (Hopefully!)

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.

I can highly recommend Fleet and Commercial for anyone looking for a fleet policy.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Working her hard today. Fifty of these boxes to clear and boy are they deep.

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.

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.

Why is everyone painting their diggers black, they look bloody horrible.

Or the grease tensioner has a leaky seal and is bleeding pressure.

Same, I remember what a revelation it was to be able to move the muck! 🤣 mine came out last week for the first time in probably two years

Thats the 'high capacity' 760mm wide bucket- same capacity as the normal 118cm one. For use when you have narrow access/skinny tyres, but also useful on jobs with a tight corner to swing around. Here is the normal 118 cm bucket on a tight right angle bend before I bought the 76cm one. You can imagine how much easier loosing some width off the bucket makes it. Of course, with a 76cm bucket and wider width wheelbase, you can't scrap against edges any more. You need both mate 🤣

It's weird isn't it, we seen to live in a little warm bubble. Not a hint when I worke up a few weeks back of the snow that was causing chaos on Harting and Cocking hills!

You don't really notice the extra weight (the E27 is very 'planted' to begin with) but you don't slide around half as much.

Misty start though? I stayed at the inlaws last night over near Southampton, came back to Midhurst via the 272. Was an OK ride till Langrish, the sun was starting to peep through and then I hit a wall of fog which didn't lift till, I was back at the yard. Spoilt the rest of the ride, I couldn't see a thing through the outside of my helmet fogging up and it was cold!

Based on those pics mate, you should give Astrak a ring first thing Tuesday after the bank holiday! Unbelievable difference so far. I'm off out today to harvest some ash on a steep slope- will get some pics of the steels in action. They add around 170kgs vs rubber tracks. If I wanted to be squeaky clean I'd have to take the grab and rotator off when transporting....

The above points I've found to be very true indeed. As for those wondering how the mini loader can pay its way- see below. This is the second half of a two day job with two men and one loader. The two trees were removed on the first day, the stumps and soil on the second. This job was quoted at a fair market rate allowing for access. After paying my man and the job costs (grab lorry, a bit of diesel), I made £2200 plus VAT. That's £1100 per day for my skills in seeing how the job could be done efficiently- but it simply wouldn't have worked without the loader. One job like that a year and who cares if you only use it once a month? I'm up to 200 hours on my Sherpa, having had it 14 months. So averaging around 14 hours of use per month. At £260 a month finance (i've done it over five years) it's cost me £3640 so far. Much cheaper than labour.

I love my Sherpa 100. There are a couple nearly new on FB currently with attachments. They've been up a while so clearly they need to drop the price- get over there and haggle! The yellow one has electric start and slightly more pushing power (Sherpa 100 Smal). The red one is the basic model (Sherpa 100 Agri) As stated above, whatever model loader you buy, it doesn't need to be out more than one 'right' job a month to more than pay for having it sitting there on finance. One thing I have noticed though, is that those of us who rave about them buy the lower end models (100, as you are considering) and just treat it as a lift and shift labour saver. Those who spend £25-30k on a larger model with some attachments like stump grinders are often underwhelmed- and little wonder, because the performance will never match a larger Avant or MultiOne. The higher HP models are also wider- so what's the point if you can't get it into tight jobs? On the subject of width- get it with wide tyres and narrow tyres. You will use the narrow tyres much less than you might think, but they still come in handy. Here's the definitive thread- some light Sunday reading for you (with pics!) It's an entertaining read- it only started in 2019, and since then it's eye opening how many have jumped on the bandwagon. It pottered along over a few pages until I revived it at the end of 2019 (yes, I'm claiming credit) and then it's off to the races! You'll see me (and others) start with skepticism before becoming curious, enlightened and then finally evangelical bordering upon fanatical. 🤣

Can’t see that they would as it’s still just laying a track. Motors have relief valves if things get too hard, you will probably find it just relieves rather than spins the track due to the extra traction. you want to run them with a fair bit more slack than the rubbers though I’ve found.

On my own (on concrete) it took twenty minutes per side to swap them from rubber to steel. Battery grease gun and 90 degree impact wrench for the nut sped it up a lot I suspect. I'm expecting putting rubber back on to take a little longer. If you are on your own with a rubber track I like to jam the track motor on a little with a block of wood and then ease the track over the sprocket with a long bar. I really think the time taken to swap tracks will be time well spent, plus you can block steel track jobs together on one week to save time. The difference in traction on hills is insane. Call Astrak- the E27Z you have has a slightly shorter track frame, so you might even be under £800 per track. At least you know they will fit the rollers and idler now I've taken the plunge. Also- steel tracks are great for tracking in stone, which I would imagine you have a lot of up in Scotland.