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Anything from £50 a month and some logs to a reasonable farmer to £500 per week to some greedy ****************. By far your best bet is to get out there and ask around.

Where is the job? Does sound a bit like making a mountain out of a molehill.

Bolam put it best. He said a Sherpa needs a machine operators touch, whereas he has the touch of a rapist 🤣

Mainly for use on a 38hp Alpine but will probably also be used occasionally for odd jobs on a 26HP Kubota. Any reccomendations, anyone got anything to sell?

What whisperings have you heard as regards >3.5t licensing?

Honestly, I think you should. Each of my machines makes me way more per day than the profit on a subby or employee without the hassle, and they are assets on the books rather than a liability.

Storm damaged birch, already rotting (possibly not as summer so dry but still…). Small machine access only. Sounds like they just want a sucker to tidy it up. I’d think very carefully about getting involved, even if you bag it up you have to keep it properly undercover (barn) and even then it’s pretty crap.

I’d have sacked the machine off by now

Sounds like an expensive way to charge batteries to me. That’s why i run petrol saws.

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100 welding amps is different to 100 amps at 240v. And you can’t mean 300-500amps for the charger, you must mean 3-5 amps?

🤷‍♂️Mad dogs and Englishmen…

Surely you mean 3000w?

This x1000. It’s all bollocks.

The previous owner has already done that as well as made one side hinge 👍🏻

Yanmar 1.5l I think. Deffo yanmar at least

Thread resurrection. I picked up this the other day, got it into the workshop over the weekend. Child’s play to work on. Bolt on belt driven hydraulic pump, outboard mechanical linkage operated brakes, simple engineering. Took a while to get used to the non live pto- it’s a lot like it’s two wheel tractor cousins only it has a hydrostat so it’s bearable. Clutch in, select pto speed and hydro range (3 choices). Let clutch out, control with the hydrostat. I like it- only had a quick play on some steep ground but it’s very capable. Wasn’t too sure at first having been used to the luxury of a Kubota but it’s growing on me. As a niche machine I think it will excel. it’s front steer, and reversible. 2000 hours, 38hp. Came with a reverse drive flail which wants all the flails replacing. It also came with a pair of home brew snow chains which I’m looking forward to trying. I gave 8k plus vat which seemed fair given the rarity- although it’s a 2001 machine!! Prices will no doubt drop like a stone shortly 🙄 I wanted hydrostatic and around 40hp, so that it would run everything I use the Kubota for plus have power spare for hills. I was very pleased when the flail collector fit straight on, only had to spin a few pipes. The hydraulic top link works too! Only has one double acting and one single, but as the single has a return and a float setting you can use it for the top link so long as you don’t need to push it out. Works ok for this application at least. Guess you can always lift the links, float it out and then lock it, but would imagine that might not pressurise it properly. I’ll see. im also thinking it will be spot on for the pto stump grinder. More hp than the Kubota, still hydro and a reversible seat.

Surely if you have a reliable pickup that you like with a rotting tub, the obvious route is tub off, tipper on, airbag assister springs and any chassis repairs/waxoyl whilst you're at it!

The black drag queen...

What kind of gear will you be putting through it? All the cheaper machines need good processor grade timber not much over a foot to be efficient.

There's a few around with proper heavy duty cut and collect flails that could do it that way. A bio baler however is the most efficient way of handling the arisings, which I suspect is what you are looking for.

That’s the worry. Mind you, the Russians could probably broker a peace deal overnight and the headline BBC article would still be something like ‘peoples memories of the queen’ currently.

All fair comment but I’m pretty sure your going to have to take it apart to find the fault. a very badly worn sprocket can cause a lot of heat built up. It’s highly unlikely but maybe yours has a manufacturing error on the sprocket?

How well do you find the stone rake works?

Here's a corker of a cover of Worker's Song by the Dropkick Murphys. It's originally a protest song from the seventies, I know it from a more folky version but this version has a real energy about it that screams protest.