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Hell, I paid £28k for a multione 8.4sk and that didn’t come with a cup holder! So you’d be one up on me already!

My bad. I meant the combination of all posts, including the one about looking for rope/suitable tree. Do I have the details as regards changes to car tests correct?

So you're saying you'll have the option to do a car test towing a trailer straight off, rather than car test first then trailer? Have I got that right? The first post reads like OP is reeling from the death of a close relative, all over the shop and incoherent. Bring it on. If you can handle both for your first test then you are a much better driver than the average horsey bint with grandmother rights. Who got their license in a ceral packet again? As for OP- stop whinging. At least you didn't run a nightclub or suchlike during the p]andemic, haemorrhaging cash and not knowing if you'll ever trade again. It's about time we had some 'can do' attitude in this country, rather than the endless training, testing and refreshing gravy train. Next stop- CSCS!

Generally yes from my research, but the point is if you have a set of those wheels you have the option! The best one I found was the Giant SK252D- they manage to squeeze their larger diesel model down to 76cm with the right tyres. This baby is on my wish list! Products WWW.TOBROCO-GIANT.UK Is this small Avant the one at CFM? If so then you can't be far from me and you're welcome to come have a play with my larger machine before you make the call.

1m wide for access is a bit of a naff size really. Not many garden gates are that wide, and you can get much more lift capacity with a larger loader and still not sacrifice many jobs due to access considerations. My loader is 1.3m wide but will lift 1.2 ton. If I was going 'small' mini loader route, I'd be looking at something that with the right wheels could slim down to 750mm- micro digger access widths. I agree that any loader is better than no loader. I don't neccesarily agree that finance is the devil's work. I've put 40 hours on my Multione 8.4 in the first month! It's paying it's way. I would have regretted going any smaller (even 6.3 size), so I'd say consider carefully whether you will be buying the right machine for your type of work. Now is an OK time to buy in my book- finance rates are stupidly cheap, whilst asset prices are shooting up. The 2.5% flat rate I pay is more than covered by inflation. There's apparently not been a price rise for two/three years on MultiOne or Avant, and any second hand ones sell for nearly new price.

I've just had a quick and nostalgic skim through the thread (not all of it mind!), and it's amazing just how far we've all come!

Good, cause it’ll be useless on such a small machine. They’re not much use on a 2.7t, never mind a 1.5

Have you bought the flail yet?

What I tend to do at the moment is to have the splitter and powerpack on the deck of the tipper, and load the rounds with the micro and grab. There's a lot to be said for working at a comfortable height! For breaking down BIG rounds (that won't fit onto the splitter deck without falling off), I think I might try locking the spool on the splitter on, and a headstock plate on the back to pick it up with the digger and place it over the round. Or I might chance a JB equipment cone splitter. Not a lot of money compared to the black splitter, and the pecker and wacker I had off them have been OK so far. Hydraulic Excavator Cone Splitters – JB Equipment Ltd WWW.JBEQUIPMENT.CO.UK An ideal, compact solution for splitting timber, roots and firewood quickly and effectively. Available to fit excavators...

Good idea, but the problem will be trying to get the round into the splitter so close to the blade. Geometry will be all to cock.

Where did you get your Ifor strap box from? Looks tidy.

If I know I'm going somewhere where I might need to shunt a lot on tarmac, I sometimes pop the bonnet and pull the RFW solenoid wires on the Ranger. This prevents it from engaging the front diff when you select Low. One day I might make an in cab relay for it.

I have the same ifor plant trailer as you and take our e27 around with it behind a 2007 ranger with tuning chip and airbags or an Iveco daily tipper. got an ifor beaver tail too which also goes beautifully but the ramps and props are such a pain compared to the dedicated plant trailer.

I have automatics ones. Not connected to the battery so a lot harder for scum to locate and easier for you to hide. They also can be located via radio signals as well as gps once put into alarm mode.

Watching this thread. A lot must depend upon the flow rate of your particular loader.

4 vehicles and staff yet only one chipper? What's the story there? If a business makes consitently 90k profit before tax, then a manager at 30k per year with perfomance related bonuses leaves around 50k cream each year. You'd be lucky to get 25k for the 'goodwill'. If it's really that profitable then a manager is the only real option, incentivise them, and if it all falls apart two years later then you've still ended up with more than you would have selling the 'goodwill'

You’d need some serious psi to do that. It’s folk being careless with the nozzle end that bends fins.

Norway maple is such a crappy excuse for a tree. Hateful things.

Um… how about every single Barret, Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey customer ever? 🙄

I hear you, but it would take more than that to eliminate you. From Woodsure website: Enforcement A common question we have been getting relates to enforcement. This is covered under Part 6 of the new Regulations and identifies local authorities as the body responsible for enforcement of the Regulations. For the purposes of the regulation, “local authority” means— the Common Council for the City of London; London Borough Council; the Council of the Isles of Scilly; a county council; a district council for an area in which there is no county council. There are a number of measures available for the local authority to assist in enforcing the regulations, such as: enter a supplier’s premises at any reasonable time; inspect a supplier’s goods; make test purchases of a supplier’s goods; require a supplier to produce documents or to provide information; question a supplier or officers or employees of a supplier. Additionally, compliance checks can be undertaken. An enforcement officer may check: small bags of wood are sold with the Ready to Burn logo, certification number and supplier or manufacturer details displayed correctly certification details against the certification list correct information on drying is provided to customers for wood fuel volumes of 2 cubic metres or more sales records (including sales to third-party retailers) how you’re storing wood (so that you aren’t selling it to customers damaged or wet) delivery records to households within smoke control areas Fines You could be fined if: you sell unauthorised fuel you’ve stored fuel so it has a moisture content of more than 20% the fuel does not have the ‘Ready to Burn’ logo or is not labelled correctly You could get a: £300 fixed penalty fine issued by your local authority fine of more than £300 depending on the severity of the offence issued by the courts Councils are understaffed enough as it is. I can't see much enforcement if any happening anytime soon. I'll chance the £300 fine!

A really good tip too- if it’s only a small stream, just chuck a decent piece of twin wall pipe into the stream and then fill in around it with logs. Quick and easy and all you will need is the pipe!

Yeah, you end up wishing the horse would kick them off!

I had similar two days ago. Car coming the other way, she stops, I stop. All she had to do was back back three metres and we could both have passed. I'm only in the Corsa van, but I've just come round a blind bend. Anyway, she starts waving her hand at me like she's the queen, telling me to go back. The only back she gets is mine, up. One finger. She looks furious, and waves harder. This time she gets one finger on each hand. Then, she gets out to shout at me. Only problem is, she's not put the handbrake on! She scrambles to get back in.🤣 I was in tears of laughter. At this point, I though '**************** it' and reversed back, crossing over the blind corner into a farm track the other side of the road. She pulls across in front of me, still furious. Luckily, she's such a poor judge of space that she's left enough room for me to get down the side of her. I say luckily, because I would quite happily have shunted her car out of the way when she tried to block me in. On the same blind corner, last week, this happened. Woman driver (fact, not opinion 🙄) came round the corner too fast bit fast, and then pannicked. Instead of the brakes, she stomps on the accelerator. Kickdown did it's thing, the traction control performed superbly, and she almost managed to get past my old man coming the other way (who'd stopped dead as he saw her coming round the corner. I always wondered why all these dozy bints who can't drive needed a 4x4. She almost made it past!

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