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I’m a fan of 16” picco on an MS261. The new narrow .325 is a great chain, but expensive and only available in full chisel. So I prefer picco.

Yup, they are going to zero IMO.

Do a search, it's been covered loads of times and invariably descends into willy waving....

That’s quite enough of the frankly shocking puns.

Exactly as Dan says above. If you’re hoping to use it like a 5” roller fed, you’re going to be disappointed. A mini chipper can be very efficient but you have to change the way you work. Take the chipper to the tree and save yourself the drag.

Get a new set. Not worth your safety. They look a little bent elewhere too, and to snap they must have been abused or fatigued.

If that fails, just get a cheapo non genuine carb off eBay. I've plenty of GX390s with non genuine carbs, its a simple fix.

Then you have to find somewhere to put the trailer, out of the way where it won't get nicked.

Ideal for back garden jobs! Simply lower blade for access

I agree with you. Stupidly low interest rates and quantative easing have trashed the economy.

As far as I’m concerned, finance was an absolute no brainer at the rates I bought at. I’ve always worked on needing one day a month with a machine to pay its finance for that month. Small kit obviously, but lots of it.

Would plastic piling be acceptable? Could just knock it in along his boundary with fairly small kit.

1.3m is nothing for a footing on clay. I've literally just got back from a footings job in the Havant area, no idea if that's even shrinkable clay. 1.8m deep for a single storey extension. The householder was telling me what a nightmare his single storey lean-to garage was- he dug the external wall to 1.8m deep with a hired in mini. Then the BO turned up, looked at the tree in the back garden and told him he wanted it down to 3.2m! Then told him he wouldn't find anyone to do it, and walked off! Luckily a couple of dads from his sons football team were old school gravediggers, and they got it done.

So there we are, it's not that simple. Put in a root barrier and tell them to whistle Dixie.

Is it really that simple? The tree roots could all be on his side, but the water they absorb causing subsidence- due to shoddy building work- after the tree was there first!

I’m with @Clutchy finance over wages every time

Hayter decks cracked for fun and wouldnt collect for toffee in my experience. Lawnflite/Kaaz all the way.

So they are still making them for the European market by the sounds of it.

That’s some messy welding.

Tax burden on profits are pretty much the same whatever way you go.

Did you buy it back from the insurance then? There’s your starting point.

You guys are too good at this!

You wouldn't generally run an agitator until you are needing to pump it. Individual farms may have different circumstances however.

Judging by what other firms quoted to do some stumps recently, the recession is a long way off in Surrey! I don't think that's actually the case, I think it will hit very hard and very quick, just folk don't realise yet. Two large stumps, around 3 ft each. Took me two hours on site including drinking coffee and then I went on to another job. I went in at £250+VAT just to get the job in order to test the PTO grinder on the alpine. Not the sort of thing one can test at the yard. Normally I'd guess around £350 for the lot? I'm new to grinding and there seems to be a lot of money in it. I made £550+vat by 2PM with the second job so I was happy with that, plus the grinder worked a treat. Nearest quote for the first two stumps was £450, a bloke a mile up the road wanted £960 plus VAT! Even if spending all day with a pedestrian grinder that's stupid money. People don't realise that this boom is all down to mortgage rates. Just as soon as your average Surrey house has to remortgage the £1m balance at 6% rather than 1%, that's £50K per year that they will not be spending in their garden. It's coming.