doobin
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I don’t do tree work much, but that’s how I’d do it. I often have a micro digger or mini loader on the back of my trucks, leaving the trailer free for more gear.
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Scaffolding can be used with Clipex to make box strainers. Works out a lot cheaper.
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The Chinese ones are crap. The Honda powered ones for £1k plus I was surprised by- the keeper hired one in for knocking in Clipex posts in chalk. Any handheld knocker will struggle with proper 4” timber posts however. Best I’ve found is an atlas copco hydraulic one. It weighs 30kg, and the weight is critical if you actually want to thump things in. If you are doing half round posts on soft ground you should be fine- lots of places hire the Honda type these days.
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So that’s what that well known brand of heavy duty tape is for?! I always wondered!
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The only time I’ve ever found work to be lucrative is once I’ve got all the gear to make it easy.
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Is this the same brother who’s booked up for months solid at over £600 profit a day doing basic handyman stuff?
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A skilled computer games designer can make a company a lot of money- there is a mass market for these products, despite what you or I think of them. Anyone can be trained up to be a digger driver (cpcs) in a week or so. We’d call them a seat filler, but hs2 and other bloated government projects are full of them. The whole working culture of the UK needs to change. Look at Scandinavia.
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I'm out if they are gonna insist on a stupid safety button. The one on the Makita is the most annoying piece of shit ever. We don't have them on battery grinders or circular saws, we don't need them on a chainsaw. If someone can't be trusted to use a saw unless they push a safety button first then they can't be trusted with a saw full stop.
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I reckon I've got more load capacity in the back of my Corsa van 🤣
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Only things that would create sparks are dirty wood, a lack of oil, or bad tolerances between the chain drive links and bar slot. Sparks would generally indicated a harder (rather than inferior quality, softer) metal. I find the chains bob on for the money, but I like a decent light bar and when I tried a Rotatech bar on a cheap saw it wore quickly. But yes, have just ordered reels of the chains, they can't be beat for value for money. 95% as good as the big brands for half the cost, compared to brands like Archer which are 45% as good for half the cost, which doesn't stack up. Keep the chains and change the bar, see if that solves your issue.
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Yeah I have been wondering about their culinary suitability. There'd be plenty of meat, they're goose sized easily. Weren't they an essential part of the medieval 'ten bird roast'? You know, where they stuffed the birds inside each other like Russian dolls..
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E27 doing what she does best. Superb machine and grab combo for this kind of work.
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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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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..🙀
