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Aint just him mate... I stick one on and that's it, no stretch.

If you're going to be using it just around your own place for milling, then a rough terrain forklift is very good value. You'd pick a very very good one up for £10k, an old but serviceable dog for £4k easy. Will laugh at big old lumps of oak. Put some longish forks on it and it will be much more stable when loading the mill than a telehandler too. Often they are sold with a toe tip bucket which would also be handy. My local sawmill use one and they are on the roughest, muddiest shithole you can imagine when it's wet. It's not 4wd and it does just fine.

I really really rate the Oregon hydraulic one, with the Baltic Abrasives CBN wheels. Worth every penny, gets them as sharp as a fresh file and you don't need to take much off at all.

I'm not knocking you for getting as high a day rate as possible. But trying to justify it because it takes you ages to collect together all the bits and somehow fit them all on a little pickup truck is just silly IMHO, when it could all be on a trailer ready to go. Justify it as a unique service, wide boards and planed/thickenesed- that's where the extra money is for sure. I'd pay the extra for thicknessing if I needed it.

Will do. Do you run the Oregon grinder? As that will be my base, but so long as I know diameter and lock thread I guess it could be made to fit any grinder.

You need to get a bit more efficient at the maintenance and unloading by the sound of it! An hour to unload and blow off, wtf! 🤣 Backpack blower on site, get home, unhitch or forklift off. Let alone and hour and a half to load up and check the oil on a 14hp single cylinder petrol, don't be silly. And perhaps try keeping a few ten litre jerry cans handy, filling up at a garage is a total waste of time in my book, I have 150l of petrol and 2000l of diesel most of the time. I take your point about pricing and what you can earn bricklaying, but I can't see many takers at £600 a day although good luck if you get that rate, I'm not knocking you, anyone can be a busy fool and it's good you value your time. At £450 a day plus any blade damage this mill will easily pay it's way (it costs about the same as an auger plus breaker for a mini digger for crying out loud). It's a relatively unique service that can easily be sold as a bolt on to a tree job when the rest of the kit is already on site. No brainer. For me, it's not about what I can earn bricklaying (which I hate anyway 🤣), in my business it's about how many times you can duplicate yourself by putting men in the cabs and behind the controls of your machines. I then just drift about and do what I fancy (usually welding and running the yard). Works for me. But if you are a one man band then I agree it's best for you to make every day as profitable as possible. For me, there's a sweet spot and I need to keep a volume of work/recommendations coming as well. I'm also keen to see how much I can save by doing things like halving sleepers for thinner sleeper walls (might warp too much but worth a go), milling my own oak or chestnut posts (£110 net to buy here, I resell on the quote for £160, got to be some money there) and milling basic things like 4x4 posts (costing £16 to buy these days). My local sawmill are great but everything is a month's lead time.

I plant to offer it with the MultiOne for £450 a day- both should fit on the wagon/trailer, and the loader won't be doing much work. Just replacing a man, which is what it's all about for me.

I prefer your indexing system, nice. Baltic Abrasives did my CBN chainsaw wheels, I'll get a wheel off them to suit the ripper. I have a lathe, so fitment no problems.

What setting tool is everyone using? Can I use the Woodland Mills setter for Ripper blades?

Thats great. Will be piece of cake to weld up similar for my Oregon grinder. Thanks so much.

You’d just buy a Menzi surely. Better spec out of the box so to speak. That doesn’t even have an extending boom, and think of the work it took to convert it! And it looks like it’s on street pads 🤦‍♂️

I was thinking around £450 plus band charges. I run a lot of gear as many of you know, and my reckoning is it’s good to be diverse and have a multitude of things that can make you that money as a wage each day in case more lucrative quoted jobs are short on the ground or you just fancy an easy week. Stops me getting bored. Just need to make it the next four years so the finance is paid off 🤣

I'm definitely buying a mill! £600 for a morning's work having fun....

That looks fantastic. Excuse my ignorance, I’m new to bandsaws, but could you please describe the routine for using a chainsaw grinder with that wheel? How does the jig etc work, do you do all the left teeth then adjust for the right etc?

Some people will do anything to keep running red diesel… 😜

Would be very interested in pics of your grinder setup. I’ve got the top end Oregon one, and would be happy to spend more with Baltic abrasives as their stuff is excellent.

Yet container shipping is overall an incredibly efficient way to move vast quantities of goods.

About to order. Just need to decide whther to stock up on their blades plus sharpener/setter. Where do you get the Rippers from and how much? You send them off for sharpening? Was it simple enough to adjust the tracking for the rippers?

So I need to decide whether to use their own blades (and the auto sharpener) or go with Ripper 37s, which I presume I'd need to send off to get sharpened? Opinions welcome.

The leaves will work wonders for hiding that green carpet you have there.

Had ours lit all last night! Why is it that I can keep a fire going all day at the yard, but she working from home just complains about the cold? So light the fire and work downstairs love. But then I can’t see out of the window! Well at least keep it lit! But then I have to go downstairs all the time! You’ve got five mugs by your table! That’s five trips downstairs, and probably another five for the loo! 🤷‍♂️

Finger crossed. Got the doublecab at 70k and it’s been very good to me, on 130k now.

95% as good as stihl for half the price. I buy them by the reel.

I don’t follow. How is a hydrostatic loader not the very essence of separating aux flow and travel speed? cruise control is just a fancy way of keeping the flow to the wheels where you set it. It’s not essential.

??? All the loaders I know are hydrostatic, surely that’s ideal? My multione has a cruise control, you could just set a forward speed with your foot and then press a button for jobs like this. But I’d still use a (hydrostatic) tractor, I think a lot of those loader mounted things are expensive gimmicks.