doobin
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Ironically, pulling the plug means the exact opposite of what you meant to say! Gotta love English.
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You won't need to do cheap quotes. Do them at normal price and you'll be done by 1pm without a sore back. If you're thinking about the extra wheels, try to get them now. Big shortages on the wheels and the tyres- making them part of the deal might mean you can actually get hold of them. I've not tried the Agri, but the Small has the larger wheel motors and electric start, seems well worth the extra to me.
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IMHO if you want to be able to pick and choose whether you are up a tree or in an office then you'll need a head for business and employing people. Why not start gardening again and do some trees as they come along? As for an employee shortage- it's temporary. Only a few short years ago this site was full of posts bemoaning low wages and colleges churning out 'qualified' kids. A year of free money pumped into the economy and Mr and Mrs Miggins spending like crazy on their trees comes along and it's all forgotten. Doesn't mean it's likely to last. Be diverse if you are giving up the security of a full time job.
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I don't know how it works in Ireland, but over here skips are expensive as they have to factor in landfill tax. Skip companies laugh all the way to the bank when people put metal or rubble in a skip.
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£1.67 for premium E5 (actually ethanol free here). Ouch. Almost wishing I had bought a diesel Sherpa- I've not had to put the narrow wheels on yet!
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Hire in a digger with grab, it'll only take a day. Sort the burnables, scrap and rubble out, you'll barely need a skip. A MultiOne would be a help, but an excavator 3-5t with rotating/demolition grab would be even more help.
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I load my Iveco tipper with 3m/10’ ramps no bother. It’s a good size to have for garden walls etc. You’d get away with 8’ for a trailer I reckon but I’d stick with 10’.
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Those are the 12' set, but normally we use the 10' for loading as they fit in the truck body nicely.
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Carries as much as the wider bucket. Standard 76cm bucket is too small to be any use in my opinion.
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Plus charging losses.
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Easy enough to make. Just hooks over the middle of the backplate.
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Your financing it? Just stick extra attachments on the tab. I started with a 76cm grab bucket, normal wider bucket and a leveller, I’ve already added pallet forks and a 76cm high capacity bucket. You just have to have multiple attachments, as Mick so eloquently put it 😂 The nice thing about the Sherpa type loaders is that it’s no trouble to step off the back. So people do that rather than faff about as you find with the avant. Make one up that just the hooks over the backplate. Much lighter and so easier to carry with you. I’ll get a photo of mine.
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It doesn’t hold a lot of volume is the only thing. That’s the 76cm high capacity bucket we were using today.
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It’s been a busy day, she’s worked her little socks off and the e19 has had a beasting too. As for the poor ms461..🙀
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Sorry mate- I prefer the grab bucket!
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Might add some angle spacers to let it tilt back a bit more. That’s all really.
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Best airblow gun for cleaning logs before milling?
doobin replied to Squaredy's topic in Milling Forum
I want that pressure washer!! What is it? -
Best airblow gun for cleaning logs before milling?
doobin replied to Squaredy's topic in Milling Forum
Not a chance. You might as well piss on them. When it comes to cleaning, either with air or water, the volume is far more important than the pressure once past a certain pressure. A 6cfm compressor is barely enough to clean saws with IMHO. I'd look into a decent power washer- 13hp 21l/min models can be had relatively cheap and of course they can clean other things well too. If you can find a system to deal with muddy water (wash bay), then the water will remove much more dirt than air ever would. If you blast it with air the dirt just ends up everywhere, I'd rather have the water carry it to a settlement area where you can shovel it up occasionally. -
I have to run my stove (Jotul something or other, so presumably a good stove) hard with good dry wood (softwood best) to get the temp of the stove body up to the end of the 'best operation' section. Dry wood, small logs, air intake wide open etc.
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I don't know bugger all about the whole situation, but I've seen enough of MSM half truths and outright lies/shoddy reporting over the past few years (Trump, Covid etc) to know that what I'm being told can't be gospel.
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Just under. 99cm. I know because I had to measure for those ramps, I was sure it wouldn't fit and I'd have to go up the wall instead but happily the board lifted the ramps just enough to clear the steps below. I love it when a plan comes together. Going back to dig out and remove the stumps and dirt at some point.
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Not in the same league as many of you on here, but my mantra is small is beautiful. It’s been on order since October. The rep told me to look after it, as he won’t see any more of this model until next October!
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Wide. It's brilliant, we just took the chipper in and out on the pallet forks. It's just so easy to stand the chipper at the base of the felled tree and work upwards, feeding all the branches straight into the chipper. So much more efficient than dragging out to a road tow, even with those size trees. Two of us had those two Leylandii in the photos above out through the access below in a reasonably easy day, with one extra truck trip that I called in off another job for the big timber. It's such a more pleasant way to work, and I reckon the Sherpa and wee chipper cost about the same as a decent road tow. @AHPP- pincers in action.
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She’s great for this domestic tree surgery lark.
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Yup thats the idea.
