doobin
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Happy now? 🤣
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OK, it's wet. If it clears up I'm off topping. If it stays wet, then today's job is to make.... a mancrate for the Sherpa! It'll be the perfect thing to increase profit and safety on your average large back garden hedge. I've tested it with my current crate and the forks, and it doesn't tip over once you climb in although it rocks about some! So I'm going to fabricate a smaller crate mounted direct to the loader hitch, as I can see an awful lot of uses for it. Most of the time you'll drive up to the hedge and set it 'against' the hedge to reach the top- being able to push in to the hedge like this makes a heavy reduction on a hedge that's only been tickled for years a lot easier. I have a mate who recently lost a finger to a hedge cutter when the ladder gave way, so I don't care what anyone says- this will be safer than a ladder.
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I love mine, but I’m not Arb.
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Thanks guys. The stacking area is reasonable. Any best guesses for the tonnage per acre? Appreciate it's a wild stab in the dark without photos....
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If you wish it to continue running so fantastically, might I be the first to suggest that you change the oil?! It may not have shit the bed yet due to a complete absence of (very cheap) preventative maintenance, but thre's no reason to tempt fate. A failure due to shitty oil isn't like just swapping a spark plug when that fails.
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How is that fraud? No dodgy BACs details to pay to, no similar-but-not-genuine websites. Looks like a mistake on HMRC's part.
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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.
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Hate to say it mate, but if you are getting quiet then so will the firms you hope to sub to.
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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.
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2600kg is going to put you firmly in the category of 'relatively thirsty 4x4' I'm afraid.
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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.
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What do you charge for a 6x6 gatepost 8ft long?
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Bitcoin down to £16.7k now.
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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.
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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.
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Sounds like a good idea. You wouldn’t need a crazy large winch, so the starter battery might be OK.
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And buy machinery!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What a mish mash of an article. Confusing tree surgery with minimum wage polish tree planters.
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Not really any benefit to that in my mind. Still have to shovel. And it won’t fit on the Sherpa!
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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.
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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 😉
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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.
