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I want those chips gone FAST! 🤣

It’s not often I disagree with you mate but I have to here. A twist bit is just as cheap, sharpening and wear just won’t be a factor in the intended application. Above all it’s so much quicker, which is the main factor in such a repetitive job as drilling eco plugs. Here’s mine.

Intermecatto mate. I only buy the best!

Way overkill. Smaller, lighter and faster drill is the order of the day for multiple ecoplug holes. Sod carrying that around. Also, the lip and spur drill bit with a stop that they sell you is retarded- there's no other word for it. Lip and spur bits are for highly accurate, well centred holes in dry joinery timber. They take twice as long as a twist bit to drill, and four times as long in green stump wood. Totally and utterly the wrong thing, put together by someone with no knowledge of drilling holes. Drill bit for Ecoplug Max Tree Stump Killer WWW.PROGREEN.CO.UK Drill bit designed to be used with the Ecoplug Max. Makes sure you get the depth right every time. Please note:... I welded a heavy washer around a suitable twist bit, well sharpened with good relief. I can drill a hole in a fraction of a second with no effort whatsoever. It rips straight down to the stop and then spins against the stop, smashing the swarf to smithereens.

No idea about that particular brand, but surely you know a boot needs a while to wear in and soften up?

Worn chuck, just change it. Could happen to any drill.

I can do either flail for the right money 🤷‍♂️

How big a job? What’s access/parking like? Any pics?

Lots of people asking £6k for similar, doesn’t mean they are getting it- in fact I can tell you they are not. I’ve had a nice 2003 38hp Iseki up for £4500 for months and not a sniff. The market is deffo dropping. I’m in the market for a nice 40 ish hp compact with a cab if anyone has one- but it must have air con, hydro transmission or power shuttle at the least.

3-4 days a week using your gear is an employee position.

They are great old trucks, I have two. Mazda underneath which is why they are more reliable than the modern ones!

Indeed, if I wanted to use a membership card to shop I'd go to Bookers. Tescos are overpriced full stop. We shop at Aldi first, then Lidl second. Occasionally I let the missus go to Waitrose if she's been good.😆

How long is a peice of string??

Difficult on such a small area of thin alloy that is exposed to clamp forces. I'm surprised to hear this has happened three times, I used to be pretty violent with mine and never managed to break it.

Prices have totally come down. You can go out and buy a new micro digger with warranty from stock at £16-18k plus vat. Same with trailers. Lots of people are currently looking to get out of newish machines, with clouds on the economic horizon. I'd be tempted to hold on to it if it's a good machine for the odd job and you don't need the money- inflation is still biting hard and machines will keep pace with that overall.

The first thing they need to learn is that a high stump makes fk all difference unless the digger is 20t plus. 'High stumps for leverage' is an old wives tale. Stumps are removed from the roots upwards. A ripper tooth helps. All a high stump does is give them something to rip pipes off when they finally get bored of tipping the digger up towards the stump and decide that it might actually be a good idea to loosen a tap root...

It's like having a very high specced and rare machine. It might be 'worth XXXX' but it's only worth what someone will pay for it which means a lower price or waiting for the right person.

I think he’s assuming a full 20t lorry. Firewood is £70 a ton these days in the south.

What part of 'the salesman is a lying runt' did you not understand??? It's your funeral mate. 🤷‍♂️

Someone was after a big yew butt not long ago on here- try a search.

Did a test on a 45 mile round trip today. Some hills, some flat. Must be around 6t train weight. I drove as carefully as I could, but when you are driving a loaded works truck anticipating for slowing down and trying to avoid braking is about the sum of ‘economy driving’- you need to burn diesel to get up hills or up to speed, that’s all there really is to it. 20mpg average.

I'd be looking for reliability rather than ultra economy. Tales of woe abound of small 'eco' engines with bi turbos and God knows what else simply not being up to the task of an Arb truck, and consequently shitting the bed. Moving trees and chippers uses diesel- it's unavoidable as you well know. A few quid extra in diesel is nothing compared to the loss of a day's money added to a teams wages due to a breakdown. Most importantly, I'm sure @dig-dug-dan has had a lot of problems with recent Canters.

We talking proper micro or chinesium?

£250 a month is fk all money for advertising that works, and I say that as someone who spends zero. Yell, however, are a total utter ripoff. The way it works is this: 1. They promise you the earth, over the phone. 2. If you believe them, you sign their contract. 3. This contract doesn't actually guarantee results. 4. However, it does tie you in for a long period. 5. You try to cancel, then come back here complaining when they tell you that as a business, the sale is business to business and therefore you have no consumer rights to cancel and have to wait for whatever period is specified in the contract you signed but didn't read properly. @Newtons- ignore the above at your peril. £250 per month would get you a lot of adverts in village magazines and post offices. You know, local, targeted advertising. Middle class and wealthy homeowners read a village magazine, not Sharon from the council estate who wants a price to remove a tiny apple tree in the middle of a dogshit maze. Sharon, however, has heard of Yell and Bark....

Micro digger next on the shopping list then?