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A spot of Laurel reduction, loader making it easy. Clearing up will be even easier with the bucket grab.

Animal slurry is the liquids you see being spread. Human waste is treated till solid, this is spread by contract muckspreaders, often the terra gator type.

None so far, touch wood!!! the blades aren’t knackered as when you hit metal, just dulling.

Spend yesterday milling on and off. Cutting an order (on pallet, £520 plus vat) and also going through the smaller of my free oak logs to turn them into rough cants. They take up less space this way, and it’s much quicker to grab a cant to knock something up quick. I’ve been living a charmed life with my first oak cants- got tons or material out of them, but they were big butts. These are smaller and with more branches and therefore, I’ve discovered, a lot more defects and rot holes. I still think they were worth cutting, however. Mainly as they were free off jobs 👍🏻 Being smaller they took much less time to square up, and it’s always surprising what you can get out of even the scrappiest cant when you know you can hide a defect on site, either in the ground or against a hedge. Ended up with a a load of odd boards too- leftovers from the order wastage. I must remember to sticker and strap these. I also had a trial run of a sweet chestnut from a garden job that I’m hoping is in a sweet spot size wise to not be full of shake- time will tell! It made a lovely sized cant very easily. So straight and with little sapwood compared to oak. All told, less than a tank of petrol used. I changed the blade four times. Does this sound excessive? I’m guessing this is because I’m cutting a lot of bark squaring the cants, and then I also remembered that I crushed a load of concrete next to the log pile too 🤦‍♂️ I’ll try jetwashing the logs I do today and see if it makes a difference. I can’t tell you just how easy this milling lark is single handed with a counterbalance forklift on concrete! Barely break a sweat, and I’ve positioned the mill to be in the shade most of the time too. Luxury.

Yup. Add to this the rise in 'zero hour' contracts and the gig economy- the employment figures look great, but in reality three part time jobs have replaced one full time, with benefits making up the rest.

That makes more sense 👍🏻 what do you ride? I’m a big single fan, have an F650 and an SLR650

Either will take you an age to saw a full load of logs. can you up your budget to something like an ms261? The gimmicks like ergo start and quick chain tensioning are only found on ‘domestic’ saws, but avoid them as stated if you do stick with the little models.

He’s both 🤣 Annoyingly he’s right a lot of the time, but then spoils it with his ‘I’m all right jack’ attitude and complete lack of self awareness. Which I also think he puts on a bit. Theres a middle ground in every argument and every society. The problem is nobody is happy when it’s finally reached, so society lurches wildly from one side to the other. Is it tree work you do for customers who are on minimum wage? I’m down south and I don’t think I’ve every worked for someone on minimum wage.

No, it’s still on the shelf! 🤣

You want a digger with a rotating grab, or at least one that opens in a vertical plane. Grab the bamboo tight, apply slight lift and use chainsaw to cut the bundle. Stick it on a fire. Then get in with the ripper tooth, get the root matt into pieces and use the grab to remove.

Where is the job and what’s the access like?

Jesus mate, that post was 12 years ago! Things have moved on🤣I didn’t even have working two way flow on the first digger!

Update on this job.

Trailed units tend to have a slightly larger hopper. The limiting factor is that as the flail is throwing the grass in, it can’t fill up too far before it stops working. you might be able to find an old tarupp style flail forager which you put a trailer behind but they are all getting very long in the tooth now and need an airfield to turn around on.

For what I charge rich Surrey folk who want their overgrown paddock cleared, I'm quite happy to get a bit of dust down my shirt! I'd love an air conditioned cab, but we have to be realistic about access and the need to fold the rollbar down on occasion- same with the 1.9t digger.

Would take you forever and a day. The BCS ones are shit as pedestrian flails go- much better off with a Scag or a Ferris. Stronger decks and bigger engines but we still only use ours for the odd steep bank maybe once every two years! Can’t beat sitting down. Here she is, I bought her as a pallet of bits for £400. The Kawasaki engine started first pull, so I went through it all and fixed it up.

A larger capacity machine doesn’t help much. That’s a 5’ flail, the bigger 7’ machines don’t hold much more grass, and a tractor is so slow running to the dump site. This is what we do. Today we cleared two days worth of cut and collect in under two hours. One on the loader and one in the truck. The tipper pickup is very quick off-road, and holds around three to four tractor bins, especially when the grass has wilted for a bit. Work smarter, not harder. This is the best brand I’ve found for thick stuff. It’s a Major

With the advances in battery tools, air impact wrenches are obsolete. As regards air flow- yes, bigger hoses are a must, and also the pcl XF quick fittings- which thankfully seem to be standard even on cheap compressors these days.

In thick grass like that, every twenty yards. We just make local piles and then load them into a tipper to run to a dump site. Where are you based?

Not uk made at all but perfectly serviceable. you should go for the 2.5hp model, 1.5 is painfully slow. I have their larger belt drive model. Quieter and higher pressure.

Feta or halloumi?

Spec and price?

If you think the out front Avant flail leaves wheeling, wait until you’ve gone over it with the quad first! The finish will be terrible. you need a contractor with a flail collector if you want it tidy. This is us today

I'd be amazed if you were properly covered for any sort of tree work at that money to be frank.

No, if you space the side poles right you can clip poles between them and then the roof sheets clip to this with the scaffold roof clips.