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Processor grade, 50% thin on about three acres. Trees skinny but little brash to them, ash and beech average 10-12” diameter. Only really access for a tractor based forwarding outfit to move. What would be a fair price per ton standing? There’s not a lot there but it’s easily felled and processed with our processor.

Hate to say it mate, but if you are getting quiet then so will the firms you hope to sub to.

Flexible is my middle name. It's gonna hurt to let lads go but if it comes to it that's what it'll be, my machinery makes the most money and paying the finance on that will be the priority. I'm seeing used kit prices start to drop from their giddy post Covid heights.

2600kg is going to put you firmly in the category of 'relatively thirsty 4x4' I'm afraid.

I’m not getting many takers at £100 for that size post. Not sure why, we are in a rich area. people went nuts for these yew planks though that I sawed just to save from the firewood pile. £20-£30 each.

What do you charge for a 6x6 gatepost 8ft long?

Bitcoin down to £16.7k now.

Who's cashing out then? Oh wait, you can't, the exchanges are freezing funds 'temporarily due to extreme conditions'. So much for your unmanipulatable, free market ponzi scheme.

I've been saying this all throughout this thread. They are all the same drum unit from China, these companies (Skarper too) just stick a totally superfluous stop bar on it so that it looks like a roller fed chipper, add a Briggs engine, then charge literally five times the price and make a big thing out of 'stafety features' and the 'proven engine' Briggs engines are indeed proven- proven to be wank rubbish. The only people who still say proudly, 'It's a Briggs' are those who also wax lyrical about their Stanley tape measure and their Spear and Jackson spade. All crap riding the very last of the wave of a once good name.

Sounds like a good idea. You wouldn’t need a crazy large winch, so the starter battery might be OK.

And buy machinery!

This with a touch of welding brackets etc will fit the Sherpa like it was made for it. 29hp Loncin engine on top, should be wicked! SGR-60 PTO Stump Grinder ROCKMACHINERY.CO.UK Introducing the new RG24 PTO Stump Grinder. Our new PTO powered grinder easily connects to... I’ve seen videos of the klou, it just looks painful.

Had a Google of specs. Both the spiramix (yours) and the imer 350 (mine) produce a batch of 280l (ten cubic feet). mine has pallet lugs. So if I stick it on the front of the multione I’ll have the same as you 🤣 The mix action of the spiramix does look very good. But I quite like the portability and self contained nature of the imer.

There’s no way the Sherpa would lift that empty, let alone full!! Or power it when driving. Mix on the move doesn’t really work in my book- by the time you’ve got the water right then the mix is done anyway, so I went with a big 350 litre towable mixer that will work with either the Sherpa or the multione. There’s limits to how efficient you can make things unfortunately. A bucket mixer on the bigger loaders would be great, but by the time you are on a job large enough to tip up big piles of ballast to drive in to, then it’s more cost effective to get a full ready mix lorry in ! This mixer purchase is because part loads even on a volumetric are becoming so expensive that you may as well mix and control the whole process.

What a mish mash of an article. Confusing tree surgery with minimum wage polish tree planters.

Not really any benefit to that in my mind. Still have to shovel. And it won’t fit on the Sherpa!

You won’t go wrong with a mini loader. My Sherpa has done 140 hours since I got it, and every hour is multiple hours of labour saved.

You’d mount the brackets and reinforce as necessary to make it work. Or if easier you could just mount the engine the other way around on the other side to spin the shaft the other way. piece of cake 😉

Just tried and you're right. Marginally slower than my 30l/min beaver pack, but marginally more pressure which I'd say makes it better overall. Thinking about it logically, that would be what you'd expect seeing as both machines use a GX390 engine.

Loving the tracked dumper conversion. What’s the flow like? keep thinking about mounting my splitter on the Sherpa. But it’s an 18t splitter and 20l/min flow. Doesn’t sound like a good combo.

Rock machinery. The 125 model. I’ll let you know what it’s like when it gets here, but their pto stump grinder is seriously impressive, especially considering the purchase price. We are not really tree surgeons, so our only chipper currently is a wee chipper. Tractor mounted made a lot of sense for the larger jobs we do, but it’s still overall a small chipper. I could have gone for the larger model but wanted to be able to run it on the 26hp compact.

To be fair, your machine should have the flow to be reasonable. I'd take a look at your choice of flails, as this can make a big difference. The flails are probably light L-shaped flails? Try some heavier swinging paddles.

Yup- as I alluded to, expensive piston motors with the swash plate set to the optimum for the machine/implement flow balance. Doesn't mean that they will work well- there are still horrendous losses in even an optimised hydraulic system compared to PTO drive, and low HP to start with compounds this.

You'll get a second hand compact tractor and flail for less than the cost of the loader flail. I don't know why people insist on using a loader for tasks that could be acheived with a compact tractor. A hydraulic PTO is so inneficient, and 3-pt linkage attachments are way, way cheaper. Even secondhand, an Avant flail commands strong money due to rarity- probably £2.5k You can pick up tractor flails for £1k all day long. My Kubota compact has been a great purchase, way more useful than I dreamed. In the last two years I have bought: Flail collector- £800 Second flail collector plus scarifier blades- £1200 Vacuum grass collector to pick up from the mid mount deck- £250 PTO driven deep aerator- £500 Topper (new)- £800 Stump grinder (new)- £1800 Mole plough- £400 Firewood processor- £4500 Heavy roller- £250 Fertiliser/seed spreader- £250 PTO generator- £400 Roller fed chipper (new)- £2500 All those attachments are available to fit a loader, but you'd be very lucky to find them second hand and they would cost five to ten times as much new (really not an exaggeration, £8k for the Avant flail collector!) I can provide a huge range of services with gear that cost me peanuts. A loader is to load and carry (and they are great at it). A tractor is to run implements requiring power efficiently. You won't run any sort of flail on a Sherpa or Cast. Even the 22hp option only puts out 28l/min. A 1.5t mini digger puts out 30l/min, some claim that their 1.5t runs a flail great but lets be honest, they don't really. They can only slew- any other movement robs all the flow. You need very expensive piston motors on the flail to get even a reasonable performance. As the little loaders have hydraulic drive, you simply won't be able to drive and flail, it'll be like tracking and flailing on a mini digger which is widely acknowledged as impossible. In your circumstances, I appreciate that a compact tractor won't work (width). I'd get yourself an engine driven flail like they use behind or in front of quads, and fit loader brackets to it. That would be very effective. You could also consider a two-wheel tractor with flail mower, or a Scag/Ferris self propelled pedestrian flail.

And plastic parts instead of metal