doobin

It's the Rapture mate. Gather your family and repent.

Reminds me of when my labourer and I were hanging a catenery wire across the yard. He shouts down from the mancrate, "OK, bring me down mate!" Quick as a flash I shouted back, "Your fat and even your missus doesn't love you!"

Thing is, I've been to plenty of jobs like that where I concluded the boss was an idiot and that I could do it better. The final straw was being given a pair of 13mm spanners to change the combine knives. I went down town that afternoon, bought a battery impact wrench with my own wages (they weren't cheap then either, especially on 18 year old wages) and got the job done in half an hour without loosing any fingers. A month later I quit and went out on my own. If you think the boss is an idiot- he often is. So put your money where your mouth is. Too many employers look at jobs in terms of man days, ands men in terms of a disposable commodity. I find this just leads to stress as employees call in sick (because they are treated like crap and really don't care) and they don't work to anything like capacity as they are not motivated. Machinery makes the job easy, and you just keep the smartest employees. The wee chipper is a great example- what's the bloody point in dragging the brash from a garden clear up all the way out to a big chipper when you could stand it at the bottom of a bush and feed that 3" bramble stright through with a pair of welding gloves? Then barrow, wheelie bin or dumper out the chip, each load equivalent to twenty sould destroying drags and leaving a quarter of it along the way to be picked up at the end of the job once you've trodden it to pieces. Go on mate, finance is cheap!

I will need them for tight jobs no doubt. Seem pretty good quality.

God this thing is so useful. I’ve not even put the small tyres on for the narrow access type jobs I bought it for yet! I love being able to chuck it in the back of a tipper truck, and also being able to just step off to shovel up or roll a big lump in. Your 'dumper driver' is always busy- and if he's taking muck away he can bring stone back too. It does like a drink, you'd easily do 10+ litres of petrol in a day. But I don't mind, I wanted the narrow footprint and light transport of a petrol machine. Still way cheaper than labour.

Always good to hear of decent backup.

WIth all the things just posted, is it any wonder this industry is full of cowboys who just crack on (and clients who employ them)?

Younger than you you old fart 🤣

I just searched eBay for the cheapest. Can't remember the size but search for that.

Most dealers offer spare blades. Some are total ripoff, but others OK. I recently managed to pick up two sets for £30ex VAT a set!

Tell them to whistle if they only give you a little work, any decent company is snowed under. I had the same thing, told them I didn’t need their work and they were ringing me up desperate for an emergency job the next week, accreditation didn’t matter 🙄 Its a box ticking exercise simply to line the pockets of parasites.

Good idea, but the pump might be a little weedy. Ideally you'd have a pump that was well matched to use all of the engine power, plus cooling system.

Every time I use my Lister generator I’m amazed how little fuel it uses.

I love this chipper. For anyone thinking of buying one, go as narrow as possible. Who cares if you can’t tow it around? A wee chipper is useless if it won’t fit into a job. Shitty eucalyptus reduction and some magnolia butchery. Strong candidate for worst access of the last twelve months. Fifty metre narrow path and then this sharp turn. Bumped it round, squeezed it in. Saves literally hours.

How much do you want to spend?

You'll still be able to carry our an exempt operation (which this is, forestry) running your plant (which this 4wd would be if kept off the road) on red. However latest guidance says you'll have to totally flush out tanks with white before performing a non exempt operation...

What about an Easylift harness? Take the weight off your hands. If it's a nice easy hedge without too many obstructions they are great.

I've got a vision of the op hitting the gas by mistake and careering down the hallway, bouncing the cutter wheel off either side. He lashes out widlly for the emergency stop, but only succeeds in turning on the wheel. The clients cat shoots out from under the hallway table, right into the wheel as it loads up.🤣

Hmm, plausible. However I have a fleet policy and didn't get done. Also- just used the online checker. £9 in Bath, free in Portsmouth.

You and me both mate, exactly the same. **************** Bath, it's full of tourist tat anyway. Spend £400 a day there somehow, now that's £440 a day! Not going back. Incidentally, with reference to the Portsmouth one. Apparently they are not going to charge private vans and cars? An I'm sure I must have been there since the zone started, but not got done. I wonder how they enforce that? I can't personally believe that they are capable of automatically sorting log book details into companies and private unless it's just scanning for 'LTD'

What did everyone spend theirs on? Thank you for my birthday present Mr HMRC 🤣

I got caught by one recently whist visiting Bath. Tossers. I didn't see any signs, apparently it's only been active since March too.

Not a bad engine, I have a Corsa van with one in. Got a lot of go for a 1.3 diesel and very economical.

How much flow rate do you think a pickup PTO actually puts out?? Let alone running the hoses around. You'd better budget for a massive oil cooler on the pickup somewhere also. Direct drive is the most efficient drive posible, and a petrol 30hp engine is so much cheaper than all the above.