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Those opicos looks great, just a bit too wide for me. Really tempted by a secondhand one but decided to spend double on a new Sherpa and know that I can get it in more back gardens.

Yup, and the use of polystyrene forms for raft foundations etc is another issue! Demolition of these structures will cost a fortune as it’ll all have to be treated as ‘contaminated’

Why collect it in a field? We just used petrol blowers.

Honestly though, how hard is it to cut anything that you can reach with an avant or mini digger with a chainsaw or pole saw? You’d need a lot of repetitive work to make it pay imho.

You could line that 220l food grade barrel with a wheely bin liner (or two) also. Takes care of most of the mess.

It’s there in black and white mate. Category f is licence to drive *agricultural* tractors. Anything other than a narrow list of agricultural exemptions needs an o license.

Either get a firm in who specialise in it or mount that cyclone jobby onto a 220l ‘food spec’ barrel with removable lid. That’s a lot of beads!

You can get cyclone attachments on eBay. Mount one of those on a 20l pail with lid and run it off your domestic vacuum Cyclone Filter Dust Collector Woodworking For Vacuums Dust Extractor Separatorღ WWW.EBAY.CO.UK 1 x Industrial Extractor Dust Collector Set. Detail Image. Color: black. Suitable for CNC machining, wood... I run one for collecting concrete dust when doing small floor planing jobs. Or if you can hire (or have use for) an industrial sized vacuum, that’s another option. I use a 3x1500w jobby, you can use it for wet or dry, you’d be fine running it on just the filter to suck those beads out, no need for bags. Something like this 80L Vacuum Cleaner Wet and Dry Industrial CARWASH KIT 6pc Free Kit Power 3000W WWW.EBAY.CO.UK click to see more.

Or indeed the scum themselves who abuse the kids?

A tractor is only a tractor when used for agricultural applications!!

When are we finally going to have a test case and a line in the sand? People round here rip the piss with fasttracs hauling thirteen tonners.

You can with the cast loader as the headstock is the same. However all that would really work would be something like the leveller, as anything else would be most of your payload gone in just the bucket! I had the cast on demo and it worked well with the multione leveller. this is for narrow access, so starting with a 76cm grapple bucket. Will probably manufacture a larger bucket for when it’s on the wider wheels. Coming with grass tyres and a set of narrow tyres. Gonna make my own backplate to fit the multione pallet forks as the 600 long forks these mini loaders come with are only really fit for busting out the middle of a pallet!

Just reviving this thread as I'm about to pull the trigger on a Sherpa 100.

Why, how do GreenMech fare on TrustPilot? 🤣

Bloody hell- yes, I think I'd avoid.

Biggest downside looks to be the high infeed over the handlebars.

What sort of job did you need all those on tracks for, and where on earth did you find them all??

The diff is how they normally do it with sprinters and transits. This however is different- just low first and reverse. Normal gearing otherwise.

Well I don’t know about anyone else, but seeing men who are ready to tear each other’s throats out over the honour of a woman squaring up to each other and calling each other ‘babe’ is exactly what I was hoping for when the new swear filter was introduced!

Yes, 09 plate. Sorry to hear that they’ve buggered a decent vehicle!

That picture looks good. I have both the Kelfri log grab and a bucket grab that you are welcome to borrow for a day if you want, I'm over near Midhurst. The Kelfri grab is fantastic for logs and also large amounts of brash- the 'beak' really reaches out and pulls a massive amount of brash into a bundle. Obviously as with all loader brash grabs, presenting the brash correctly is important. No loader grab will make a good job of a random pile. the bucket grab has its uses but not really for brash. Brambles etc in rough piles, then yes.

Good point. With my Ranger, if I know I'm going somewhere with a particularly nasty hill start, I'll often pop the bonnet before I set off and pull the relay for the front axle dog clutch. Then you can use low box on the road without winding the diff up. Useful tip right there. 👆 With the Iveco, the first gear is so low that you tend to ignore it unloaded. But a godsend for towing. Reverse is also low enough to make tricky trailer reversing a pleasure.

The Ranger makes a decent tow vehicle. I fitted a power chip to mine which helped a fair bit. But what really made the difference was fitting some airbag assisters to the springs. It's totally transformed it for towing- no bob or sway, much more solid. With a 2t trailer and a ton bag in the back, it's a much more pleasant towing experience than a more modern pickup without the airbags. The 300 Defender will be a total plodder in comparison. Common rail engines, for all the talk of 'unreliable electrics', piss all over their predecessors of the same or even greater cubic capacity. Things move on. If you don't need 4x4 however (and it sounds like you don't), the an Iveco Daily 2.3 is an incredible tow vehicle. Totally planted, great low gearing where it counts and the full 7t train weight. Easily found s/h as a tipper (just need the arb sides). You'd get a very very good one for the price of a knackered 300tdi tipper. Power on par with the 2007-2013 Ranger before chipping, possible a bit more. Going to chip mine at some point- there's plenty of torque but a slight flat spot towards the end of the turbo range. I can't recommend them enough. Just avoid any on an SN plate- they are popular for gritting work in Scotland.

Saw one in the flesh last week at my local dealers. Gorgeous. However, can’t see the point personally? 40 mins to heat up via electric enough to cook a roast, and in the height of summer you’re heating all that thermal mass just to cook dinner! The last thing we need in summer is more heat, our cottage insulation is rubbish. luckily it was 10cm too wide for our space anyhow, so I just told the other half it wouldn’t fit 🤣

🤮 would most likely just get stuck on top too. I agree with you, automower lawns always look absoloutely rubbish. You might as well put a couple of sheep in instead, would give a better finish and a few good meals to boot. Although to be fair, its done a very reasonable job of the banks compared to an unwilling lad on the strimmer tasked with strimming banks all day. I can see the attraction.