doobin

Royal Mail has the universal service obligation. No other courier company is lumbered with that. Royal Mail bosses simply want to cream off the parcel business and lumber the taxpayer with the loss making bit. Same old Tories. Privatise the profits and socialise the losses.

A grab is brilliant on any machine but you have to be realistic. I’ve a tiger grip under a fixed (not swinging) rotator that can go on my e19 (I ordered it with double aux). Even with the short dipper option you run out of lift height quickly due to the stack height of the combo. A grapple might be a better bet, although a tiger grip type grab without rotator can be handy. Advantage here is that it’s more flexible than a grapple and you can set the headstock so it closes vertically (as here) or horizontally like a grapple. williams point about a thumb holding more weight (due to the load being under the dipper) is a good one, although I’d have a grapple with adjustable stay any day over a thumb. See here- as you adjust the ram, the load shifts to under the arm.

Headstock.

Sherpa did have some cheap ones from a UK supplier rather than genuine. Hence how they were doing deals throwing narrow tyres in, etc. What were you quoted?

Then they are the same as Cast, they and MutiOne use the Avant type also.

Double check on the brackets, you may be surprised. My Sherpa fits perfectly with the bucket tipped down into a little 750kg trailer. You barely know it’s behind the truck. Perfect when you need to take the Sherpa to load the truck and then bring it back.

Here you go

I wouldn't use fork pockets. Just weld the bracket plate directly to the splitter (or weld on a bolt-on backplate to use between multiple machines as I have). You want a fairly solid connection when using the machine to hold it sat on a log for height, and depending upon the splitter you will be close to the limit of the lift capacity anyhow. I'll try to find a photo of mine. The Intermecatto grab in the photos in this thread is a TG12SR5, but it's acumbersome thing on the Sherpa. I've since bought one of their little grabs designed for quad timber trailers. Had to replace the rotator mount point with a welded bolt plate (voiding any warranty as not designed for direct mounting) but it's been fine and you won't get lighter. It's ideal for the Sherpa or Micro for handling large strainers for example.

Spring assistance airbags are great on my pickups, make them much nicer to tow with also. I agree with the above, the system is fked. Pikeys don't care, the amount of downplated 5.5t trucks advertising rubish clearance with a grab crane and greedy boards is unreal. Then you have all the plant and arb lads running bent with tractors. Nothing ever happens. I know a lad got pulled whilst moving diggers, copper just said to run white in the tractor. No mention of the fact that the agri exemption for driver etc doesn't apply if you are not doing an agri task. Seriously tempted to get myself a larger tractor and crane to be honest.

Will an ex bomb trailer even be road legal? Id imagine it’ll be a pig to tow. Surely there are more suitable base trailers for such a conversion?

Well to compare with a logbullet I was thinking alpine with forestry trailer.

Looks a proper sweet setup mate!

How much more efficient would you say the logbullet is over an apine?

Very hard to make sufficient tonnage from what I gather.

Not a pto splitter- I think you mean just a hydraulic splitter? Works great, just rest it upon a suitably large log stood vertically in order to obtain the best working height. The Sherpa produces around 20l a minute flow, at a pressure greater than a beaver pack. So actually not bad on a log splitter. Re the holes- just find yourself a man with a mag drill. Where are you based?

Warren Buffet , via Berkshire Hathaway (of which he owns around 16% of the economic interest) owns a large share (not by any means most) of US railways because his investment strategy is, and has always been, to invest in companies that produce or offer services that the majority need.

If they are the ones for the 130 max then I’ll have them

Sorry mate, totally missed this! That grab I use sometimes under a rotator, sometimes direct mount to digger, sometimes on the Sherpa. Whatever the job calls for. To be honest I've only used it once on the sherpa. I've since bought an even lighter Intermecatto which is perfect for use on the Sherpa or E10 for handling timber. I use the grapple bucket a fair bit, it's much better for garden jobs. I can't see the attraction on dragging long lengths with a sherpa, just take a micro chipper in and chip into the bucket. The high volume bucket holds the same as the normal 118cm bucket, just within a 76cm width. Handy when using the narrow wheels for access and also sometimes on normal wheels but with tight corners (you don't have to worry so much about catching walls with the edge of the bucket). With me at 80kg and and extra 30kg counterweight, it will handle a full bucket of Type 1 but you need to be very careful lifting it to load into a tipper for example. Soil is not too bad as lighter. These loaders are all about quick repetetive cycles, not max lift. I bought the genuine Sherpa forks, they are well made scaled down pallet forks. Limited uses but still come out occasionally. Wheels and tyres I have a set of the widest turf wheels on most days. For narrow access the narrow muck truck type are OK but soon make a mess and make it less stable. I've not found the need to make it narrow except for a couple of specific jobs- most of the time it stays on the wide wheels and is still able to get in everywhere and be very useful. I'd certainly order it with wide wheels as well to start with.

Just get a few steel barbell weights with the 1" hole (not olympic hole size). Make sure they are steel not plastic filled with sand. A pair of suitable M24 bolts and nuts (or studding), a four large m24 washers and use the two holes in the sides at the back. I am around 80kg as operator, and I find 15kg a side perfect.

Laying eucalyptus sounds interesting, any pics?

Whats the crane you have there?

I wouldn’t trust trust.

That thing will be utterly useless. The Chinese lie about every measurement, and watts are no exception. You'd be better off investigating why your truck won't keep you warm at tickover. Check the thermostat isn't stuck. For a quick fix, stick some cardboard over the radiator. Other than that, for reasomable portable heat and emergency home heating, consider a Japanese kerosene heater. https://toyotomi.co.uk/shop/zibro-heaters-rs29-wick-burner-3-0kw/I've got one for my office at the yard and it's great. You don't need to vent to outside, and my carbon monoxide alarm is telling me I'm not dead ye111111111111111111111111111111111 😂

They're a bog standard design, you can get similar from Toolstation etc. I have a few pairs that I bought for cold weather, but they are such a pain to get on and you can't feel a thing using them. https://www.screwfix.com/p/uci-aquatek-thermo-full-dip-latex-thermal-gloves-orange-large/182gx

Even if you use dry oak, it’ll then move ‘the other way’ as it moistens. Oak cut and left to reach your ambient humidity would be best bet. You should be ok with a field gate style, I’m pretty sure these are made from green oak anyhow. I once had a joinery friend make a pair of oak t and g gates. From joinery spec oak. He is a clever lad, and on the CAD design he allowed an extra couple of mil between each board. Still moves like mad, he had to come back three times to plane down and re-do joints.