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If you can bash it back cold it’s the best option with these grabs. If you heat them up it’s easier to get them perfectly aligned, but you’ll have to quench them right otherwise they will bend where yo heated them with the slightest knock in the future.

Yup, I’ve run three Intermecatto for a long while. The only way I’ve bent them is by doing something stupid such as trying to grub out a massive stump because you can’t be arsed to track back for the ripper, or trying to pull out a steel gatepost. Usually happens just after you think “I’m gonna bend this if I keep abusing it!” as said, learn from the experience. A bad workman blames the tools. My Intermecatto have done thousands of hours of hard work for me, and the only damage has been due to abuse.

Ok if you like banana shaped fence posts! You might get gate posts but they would be very low quality.

Just suck the flesh off and spit them out. They are pleasant. A little treat when mowing churchyards.

Chainsaw mill on site into slabs. That butt is worthless for anything other than ‘decorative’ river table type stuff where warp and twist can be called character. id consider it a win if you found someone willing to mill it, take it away and clean up for free. Or just take it for firewood.

Interesting. Kind of like a geological root barrier? how long ago was the house built? How far away from the trees or house are they proposing this trench?

Whatever they want ill build you it for less!

Same ol same ol every time a girl asks for arb advice. I wonder how many thirsty simps have tried to 'slide into her DM's' 🤣 I seem to recall that was a bit of an issue last time a female asked advice and posted some photos of herself...

If you can find me a skilled welder/fabricator who works for £13 and hour I’ll give them a full time job tomorrow.

Depends a lot upon what kind of work you want to us it for! The 4-in-1 bucket is essential for any kind of earthmoving or groundworks. A standard bucket doesn’t even come close. Pallet forks are useful for all sorts, and I’d consider them standard fare. a post knocker or an auger is handy for field and domestic fencing respectively. What kind of grab to chose is a contentious issue- a lot depends upon how you work jobs and what you want to use it for. Really we need to know what kind of jobs you have lined up for it!

You'll need to pull the bars past straight in order to convince it to bend, even with heat. A loader or digger plus a chain has worked well for me in the past, just go easy. You can hook the chain over a section of angle iron cut to the right size in order to try to limit kinking it the other way. Basically general metalworking knowledge, which it sounds like you have. Much easier with two of you. And keep standing back and looking at it as a whole- if it looks right, it is right.

Mtronic tells you run hours and times started. My dealer used this to argue the toss with Stihl when a pro saw was a month out of warranty.

What do you normally drink? for tea, look up Ivan chai. It’s made with fireweed which is fermented first. Surprisingly pleasant, and by all account very good for the male of the species.

Can oi tarmac yer droive?

Not without throwing the other half of the country to the wolves with rampant inflation they won't. I'm not saying it won't happen, I'm just saying be careful what you wish for!

Any fool can see that with interest rates where they are (and where they will stay IMHO), houses won't/can't sell at asking prices to current first time buyers. As a very rough guide, the same monthly payment and deposit will now buy you a 200k house rather than a 300k one over a 30 year mortgage. The difference is that stark. Run a mortgage calculator if you don't believe me- 1.8% vs 6% And the developers will do anything other than lower prices. 'Mortgage contributions', kitchen upgrades, £20k cashback- anything other than lower the sticker prices. Meanwhile any idiot that falls for this is on the hook for a thirty year mortgage for a property that won't resell for 2/3rds of it's sticker price for a very long time. Government needs to force housebuilders to 'use it or loose it' when it comes to planning permisison. Drip feeding the market is only good for the big builders, not the UK. Of course new build subbies will be short of work- the whole reason the big boys use 99% subbies is that they can drop them at a moments notice, like now.

You can easily snap and crunch blackthorn up with a fixed rotator and grab. No shear needed.

Not hating on you guys with small shears, but I reckon I’d have gotten out of the cab, pulled the MS241 from the holster and sned and cut the lot to length before you’d positioned that shear for two cuts! Then bundled all the brash and stacked the timber with the fixed rotator grab. for hedgerow stuff at height, I can see the benefits to a fixed shear on a small machine.

Sounds like fuel. Pull the carb and clean it, also check for debris in the fuel tap and check for an in-line fuel filter (often at the start of the fuel line under the tank) as this will give those symptoms- not enough fuel trickling through to support the engine properly under load. were it a Honda I’d say stick a new copy carb on it, but they don’t seem so easy to find for Briggs. I haven’t looked hard though, as I try to avoid anything with a Briggs engine.

We only tend to cut for ourselves. In the woods I prefer 3m for ease of handling and speeding things up. The guy on the processor prefers 2.4m for the same reasons… As Mike says, 3m it’s perfect size for a log bullet. It’s also the perfect size when saving timber from jobs- small loads of straight timber such as young ash being run back to base in the back of a tipper. On a timber trailer or with not so straight species 2 bays of 2.4 is much more efficient. Or if small skinny timber that you may as well handball, I prefer 2.4s. Why not both? 2.4s in the pickup, 3m on the trailer!

Not been out on them much. Welded some quick connect hooks to the Iseki. Bit of chipping. And some pretty impressive bramble cut and collect for the little Kubota- you can see the height of them where I left a load over the drain cover.

6hp isn’t enough to chip anything.

She’s making herself useful around the yard, managing timber stockpiles, unloading from jobs and loading the processor and the mill.

I’d say you really want something 2.7t ish so it’s towable behind a 4x4 or large van, otherwise your digger will spend more time hauling everything to site with multiple trips than it does chipping. The other thing you need to feed a chipper is a rotating grab rather than a fixed grapple (unless by grapple you meant a grab and rotator?) You simply have to have the ability to feed the chipper with a slew and rotate of the grab, anything else will be ten times as difficult, make a mess tracking about and quickly lead to damage of the chipper. Free hanging rotators (dangle type) are safest for feeding chippers, but a fixed rotator lets you do a lot of other stuff like ripping out also, and with a good op can be used to feed a chipper. this is my bobcat e27, it’s a fixed rotator on the grab.