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It costs me around £300 interest per year, fixed for five years. That's how cheap money is at the moment.

Don’t lease. Hire purchase so that you own it at the end. Five years finance at 2.3% flat rate is what I’m doing. there’s no security as such on the key start model either. It’s just a generic Honda ignition, you could start it with a screwdriver.

Those blue drawers and shelves were won off a job yesterday! 😍 I have even more drawers the other side of the shot.

Welding a couple of bits of channel onto the chinky chipper to make it easy to pick up and move where we need it.

Nice! Welcome to the club mate. Lets see who can rack up the hours fastest! I'm on 32 hours currently.

Love it. Perfect partner to the E10, long narrow passageway to the materials. Sod using a dumper. I even managed to grade the stone out nearly perfect- did have flat concrete to start off on though!

Can't see that would challenge it in the slightest! Which loader do you run and what model shear are you considering?

Leaving it running isn't really what it needs. Generally it just needs a good thrash, 50mph in third up a hill sort of thing in order to clear out carbon from the exhaust system. It never hurts to run some decent (ie. not Redex) injector cleaner either- I add it to the bulk tank. If a motor is not used too often or only for running around, there's a few little things like this you need to do in order to get them through the MOT. Handbrakes for example- my Vito van needs a bit of enthusiastic handrake action on the way to the test centre otherwise the efficiency isn't enough. There's nothing wrong with the emmissions or the handbrake in this instance- both just need a bit of thrashing.

Sounds like an ideal machine. Pressure is what matters with tree shears, you won't know until you try a particular machine/shear combo but I'd say you'll be OK on that size stuff. Most of the issues seem to be on larger carriers trying to slice 12" of hardwood. @LGP Eddie knows a thing or two about the above.

Those mates look ace. I need to get myself some. You should be able to load it no bother, just go up forwards and don't stand on the back, so as to keep all the weight on the front. The next model up ('Smal', yellow paint) has electric start and better wheel motors- well worth the extra £1000. Every time I use mine on a job it saves me a few hours labour. Today it was just a glorified wheelbarrow laying out hedging plants, but ideal as I also had a few piles of rakings to loose over a fence across the field also. I'm going to weld some brackets onto one of my forklift crates so as to have a lightweight carry box for it- it'll be really useful and still function as a forklift crate if needed. The tines were a bit small for holding the forklift crate, and it'll be better off properly mounted to stop any sideways sliding.

Thing is, it’s so easy to make a half descent action, it boggles the mind why there are still so many shit high actions out there! Half of them should ship with a bottle slide they’re that bad 🤣 A zero fret removes the need for precise nut setting, so a low action should in theory be easy for even the cheapest manufacturer to achieve.

Most likely inboard brakes- thats the norm for a lot of machines. Can still burn out, especially if handbrake also uses them and gets left on. Make sure the linkage is adjusted so it's pulling all it can pull.

Whole thread on them and others here mate, have a good read through and most of your questions will be answered. I tried both WorkyQuad and the Sherpa and prefered the Sherpa. Try both and see which you prefer- the concept of either is a huge labour saver and there's bugger all in it price wise (Sherpa have a basic model £2k cheaper) Gem Plant will be your nearest WorkyQuad dealer. For Sherpa, Compact Loaders UK are who you need to talk to. If you want to have a play with a Sherpa, PM me- I'm just South of Haslemere and as you will see from the other thread, have a lot of attachments! Only bought it a month ago but it's a game changer, even though I already have a MultiOne 8.4

You can never have too many loaders…

This guy gets it!! it’ll be the best purchaser you ever make mate. Splash out on attachments too.

I said it all along throughout the Covid bollocks- that bitch is power hungry and dangerous. The Welsh tosser isn't much better either. Devoloution needs to be stopped. Either all out independence, sink or swim, or back 'under the yoke' of Westminster.

They are unfortunately not compatiable. The Cast skids use the same pickup system as Avant/MultiOne, which is much easier to hitch on and make new brackets for than the Sherpa. The MicroBull system looks pretty complex to fab brackets for too, based upon my memory of trying one. You wouldn't want to go down the route of an adaptor bracket either, you'd loose too much capacity to the extra leverage.

I'd have said that about a Sherpa before trying one too... I was very impressed with the manouverability of the 220 based upon a five miniute play in the dealers (I'd just bought a tractor but seemed rude not to try it)

Well then we need nuclear, and lots of it. Only way people will be able to keep anything vaguely resembling their current standards of life.

No idea! But no reason why not. The back wheels don't lift when you step off, and when knocking a post all the weight is transferred to the post so it shouln't rock too much. I use it on a 1.9t digger a lot and that handles it fine. Obviously it's not a full time fencer's rig, but for a hundred metres or so in a field behind a house it seems ideal- materials, knocker etc on the truck and the loader in a little 750kg trailer behind. Unload, use the pallet forks to carry the materials out and then fork the knocker off and attach. As you are right next to the controls even standing at the front positioning it should be a one man job, and then you have crowd on the tilt ram and sideways on the skid. It's one of those things that I already had, so might as well give it a go! I also have one of these: Atlas Copco LPDT Post Driver | Honda Engines and Generators | Gear GB WWW.GEARGB.CO.UK Atlas Copco LPDT Post Driver |Honda Engines and Generators | Gear GB Which is exceptional value for money in my book and comes in handy for all sorts. Max post size is 4" (gotta be realistic) and it weighs 34kgs. Basically an exceptionally heavy duty man killer that you only need to lift once per post. I usually run it of a 30l/min powerpack but it was quite happy running off the micro at 20l/min so I've ordered some nice smooth 2.5m hoses to connect it to the Sherpa for these kind of jobs. I'll probably also splash out on a smaller auger motor now that I can share it between two machines- good to have optimised options. The Rammer 111 i bought recently is a beautiful breaker under the micro or the E10, or even the E19 for delicate work. The only thing with the backplate I made is that it's not optimised for angles for various attachments. However, it does all reasonably well, and if I decide that some need a bit of angle then I will make up an angled spaced plate and use longer bolts, that seems the simplest way to share eveything optimally.

The pallet forks are a special scaled down design, it’s doubtful that an off the shelf hydraulic clamp would fit unfortunately. Yes, mine has done mainly groundworks, in fact I’m yet to use it on a proper Arb job!

If you unbolted the grab and turned it 90 degrees you’d have all the height you could want for loading a truck with rounds etc. If it’s long logs your trying to stack then you might be better off with a grab bucket or pallet forks. Realistically you’re not going to get any more lift height from such a small machine. I couldn’t agree more about stepping on and off- it’s just so quick. Who did you hire it from?

I've been amazed at just how quickly everyone who has tried my Sherpa has picked it up and become proficient. It's far, far easier to get to grips with than I anticipated.

You can spec either the micro bull or the worky quad or the Sherpa with the Honda gx630 for more flow so it’s really about whether you want to run wheels or tracks. Or there’s the giant diesel which has the most flow of all. But all are a bit of a toy if you want to run things like stump grinders- I’d stick to loading, which they excel at. Spend more than you want to on attachments would be my advice because you will be sure to use them and you’ll soon forget about the extra monthly cost when you see how versatile a mini loader is with attachments. Also- two sets of wheels- I’ve not even used my narrow wheels yet! ive not tried this out yet but I reckon this will be good for moving rings. You could bolt the grab in at 90 degrees round if you wanted it the other way.

Electric is also great in an enclosed dry shed, and the lack of noise is very pleasant.