doobin
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Thats an absoloute piece of cake to reverse compared to a single axle 'tip run' trailer behind a LWB Transit. The trailer is 5x the length of the short wheelbase lorry- everything happens nice and slow and you can always see the trailer in the mirrors. With a transit and 750kg trailer, those dimensions are reversed (pun intended!) and you can't see shit. My brain can reverse absoloutely no problem, but the best wagon driver in the world will struggle with a 750kg trailer lots behind a transit when they can't see it in the mirrors until it's nearly jacknifed.
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I’ve not been asked but I’d definitely charge a premium. Oak that straight and long is hard to come by and would make two sets of 2.8m posts.
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A days processing (mainly splitting) with our dog of a tractor and processor combo. Out of one barn and into the other plus a truckload for the customers house.
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Simply not the case with the small twitch trailers being discussed here, unless you are putting them behind a Fiat 500. Much better off being able to see the trailer through the rear windscreen over your shoulder.
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Finally fitted the lap sider.
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A cube of dry wood is 400kg tops. It’s not a truck for aggregate, it’s a narrow truck to get down driveways with a cube of firewood and to help out around the farm. if he had any money he’d have bought one like mine 🤣🤣
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He’s going to try it for a bit as is. Towball a pain but with reverse camera not too bad. He’s not an idiot so will be careful to load anything heavy over the wheels. It’ll be getting airbags soon. At the end of the day it might look odd but it’s no different than any recovery spec transit. fitted the tipper pump yesterday evening (nice strong bit of chassis handy where I plated it up where the body was rotten 🤣 All works, which I didn’t expect given the condition so bonus 👍🏻👍🏻
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Budget tipper! Ranger with knackered tub, Landy 109 tipper in surprising solid nick. Had it on and safe enough to drive in a morning, it wants a few bits doing and the power pack connecting but much easier with it on the body. The plan was to cut it down, but it’s three inches short of the 60% of wheelbase overhang rule and holds a perfect cube so my mate wants to keep it as is.
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Will look dog rough IMHO. Sleeper ends vary by 10mm, much better to use a neat post or angle iron to hide the join. Will they be able to see both sides then? What's the purpose of this wall?
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Someone 'dealer' on FB was listing a new 750kg unbraked ifor with cage sides for £2400 plus VAT the other day. That can't be retail- surely they are just trying to price gouge?
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On my alpine (Antonio Carrarro with very similar looking spool block) the 'position' lever is simply a spool lever connected to the linkage rams with a float detent on one side, power up the other and neutral in the middle. Even if in neutral it would still float to an extent due to the single acting rams.
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The accumulator I would say is for 'soft ride' when carrying heavy linkage mounted implements. All tractor linkages float in my experience, whether through being single acting rams or having a float setting built in to the spool. The knob could well be just a flow restrictor to stop heavy implements from slamming down into the ground when you lower the linkage, almost all tractors have this in some form.
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Trailer prices will be following digger prices back down shortly. Make sure he doesn't overpay. What kind of trailer is he after?
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You just drop the flail on the ground and drive. Draft control is for automatically lifting a ground engaging implement such as a plough up a little if the tractor is struggling.
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Generally the spool block will be fed from the steering column, which in turn is fed from an engine driven pump. So that’s two pipes into the valve block. Two more will go to the linkage, probably via the accumulator. so follow the others to reveal all!!
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You can't stick arb chip through a boiler!
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You'll be competing as a greenhorn (aged 45!!) with basic tickets and no experience, against a thousand fit, keen young lads with basic tickets fresh out of college- many with some experience having just been laid off from their first job as the recession starts to bite. Can I have some of what you're smoking?
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What would your business be like if you had regular commercial clients?
doobin replied to HRG's topic in Business Management
Give it a rest mate. -
Your local fencing merchant will often have Stokbord.
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A very strong case for a micro chipper here. It’s a different way of working, yet often far far more efficient. The time savings from feeding the brash into the chipper at the base of the tree rather than dragging far outweigh having to sned up a little more. Couple that with a an electric wheelbarrow with high sides and a decent ramp into the tipper body and you have a very effective setup for narrow alley jobs. Too many are blinded thinking big chipper = efficiency, or mini loader dragging to big loader is the ultimate. The lack of mess from a mini chipper can’t be overstated, and Lord knows I love my loaders. It’s not an either or scenario either. Mini chippers are very cheap, no harm in having one sitting at the yard for the odd job like this.
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How much a day should I charge for the hire of my firewood processor ?
doobin replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
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Are there spools hidden under the front nose of the tractor? The lever block on my Carraro does linkage on one, double acting spool on another (and had an outlet at the front for this too) and single acting spool on the third. like dumper says, we need clear pictures of the whole tractor from multiple angles.
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How much a day should I charge for the hire of my firewood processor ?
doobin replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
I’d want £500 a day for me and a jappa 355+ on the back of a compact tractor. that woodland mills looks a similar spec- not seen them before. Don’t sell yourself short- £300 is micro digger rate.
