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Well worth asking the local estate for a price too. Often they will deliver a decent sized load on a tractor and trailer.

Thats a seriously useful winch setup- particularly the remote control.

As above, it's gonna cost you. Probably with added expat tax, knowing the French.

For £500 a day, I much prefer pulling levers sat on my arse in a digger costing half of that MEWP. Mind you, for that money I do have to get off my arse and make a few felling cuts every now and again so it's not all roses!

Ay, road tow niftys have painful setup times.

Another successful afternoons milling. Did have a band go bang- didn’t snap, just put a bad kink in it and derailed. No metal in the timber. All I can think of is that it pinched as I was cutting a row of three blanks into posts at the same time?

Milling day today- got a fair size cutting list. im starting to get the hang of getting the best use out of each cant. It’s always nice to find some nice figure in the boards that you thought would be waste too. im cutting oak for an archway and trellis on the job in the photos first, then a load of 3x4 posts and some 5x4s. Then some boards for a gate. The curved slabs will be cut on a bandsaw to provide two arches- from a branch that would be firewood otherwise. The gate posts (which will be weather topped) for that job we cut ourselves too. A mill is a very handy thing to have about the place

Shogun commercial. 3.5t towing, van body, extremely short.

Those pegs and posts will rot and rail in under three years. I use steel supports.

You’re not going to like this- but I did weight an 0.9x0.9x0.9 bag full of ash the other day, using the aforementioned crane scales. trouble is I can’t remember what it was!!

We live in hope.

If you're that skint sell your house and buy a flat with no garden to worry about!

Its inneficient, and the last little bit flies out and twats you in the face! 🤣

I’d plan to use belts and pulleys. Following with interest.

All these Chinese machines are the same. I’m very happy with my 15hp for the money. The feed rate is what it is. You can’t compare it to a roller fed 40hp machine. Keep the blades sharp and it’s ok, but I wouldn’t want to be feeding it 4” all day long. It won’t really feed short sections either- they just bounce around and sometimes back out at you. You need to feed it the whole branch, starting with the 4” end. Gravity and well adjusted anvil gap will do the work this way- as it gets lighter it gets thinner so still self feeds.

7hp simply isn’t enough. You need the 15hp model. Here you go- the cheapest 15hp on eBay currently. NEW Summerdale Ninja Shredder 15HP, 120mm Petrol Wood Chipper 420cc WWW.EBAY.CO.UK The modern design, large wheels and well balanced construction allows the...

They are the same as any other Chinese mini chipper but with less (or even no) backup. They’ve gone broke at least once. mine was a bargain at £800 plus vat for the 15hp one

In fairness, probably at least half of the recent inflation in consumer things is the price going up because the cost of energy is shooting up. But the asset bubble is down to quantative easing.

This guy gets it. The money supply was increased after the 2008 crash- kicking the can down the road, rather than face the necessary pain. Since then, the bankers paid lip service whilst carrying on their shenanigans in other things than the subprime mortgage market. Just as it looked like the music was about to stop (removal of the Term Funding Scheme and others which basically let banks 'borrow' from the central banks at close to 0%, to lend out at 30% on credit cards etc)- along came COVID. Cue an avalanche of helicopter money. Furlough, bounce back loans, grants with no criteria other than 'are you a business'. A massive increase in the monetary supply. Surprise surprise, Bitcoin hit $65k and houses shot up by 20% as people found themselves awash with (essentially) free money. We need to hang the bankers from every lampost and revert to the Gold Standard. That's the physical gold standard, not the paper gold market, which is the bankers current plaything: Paper Gold Price Manipulation—Rigged to Fail - Matterhorn - GoldSwitzerland GOLDSWITZERLAND.COM As the paper gold price falls in the previous week, manipulation in the markets has never been more blatant.

Getting rid of the kid for an hour/possibly permanently dependant upon just how far inland the Daily Star is reporting sharks?

Well we are digging out and running 3.5t tippers of soil (or rather dust!) four miles back to the yard all day- nice easy job, and not in the sun too much. I've gone commando in shorts😲, and when it's too hot I just take a quick dip in the 3t dumper full of water at the yard.

My money is on your last sentence.

The company. No question about it. I’d order a new rope for the freelancer, and make sure everyone rips the piss out of the lad who did it. “Watch out Timmy, here comes another anaconda slithering out of the tree! Here, use my axe this time!”

Maybe I read it wrong. Either way the price is right for the job in my book.

Of course the costs change. All that is required is two men and a ladder. So he either sends two men and sends the machines on another job, or he says ‘I’m sorry, the job is too small for me’ Or he prices stupid, hopes he gets it and doesn’t care if he doesn’t. What he shouldn’t do is come on here, acting the big ‘I am’ and slating a firm with just a hedgecutter for doing a decent job at a fair (and profitable for them) price.