doobin
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Lots of new 4ft euro bracket muck grabs with forged tines around on eBay for around a grand. I’ve just ordered an 8.4 with tilt hitch, 4 in 1, leveller and forks. Tempted to get a multione to euro bracket adaptor and see how it handles like that before I start cutting brackets etc- would make sourcing attachments much easier, plus I could borrow attachments from the farm.
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It’s hilarious. Just bad timing for the radio, how can it be bad taste?
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Love it.
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Going average hourly rate for felling only service
doobin replied to Philby4165's topic in General chat
If commercial cutting yes. I assumed this was for a large private garden or suchlike. -
Going average hourly rate for felling only service
doobin replied to Philby4165's topic in General chat
I’m charging £60 plus vat as we speak to do this. I’d want at least half of that if there was no digger- although I would just get staff to do it if the customer thought that it would be cheaper overall without machinery!!
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What do echo have around that size? Loving my cs501sx today.
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^He’s still here? What is he, the forum pet gerbil or something?
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Not done any felling for a while. Glad I haven’t lost my touch. 😂
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As above- those with some insoles were great for me.
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Not easily. How will you stop the pins from acting as pivot points? Any mechanism involving square or double pins will place a huge amount of stress on the original weld point via leverage. Clevis points on dippers have to be bob on when hydraulic rams are involved, to avoid 'grounding out' and potential catastrophic failure.
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Lit my yard stove today to dry things out a little.
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Best case scenario is that you can get them to accept some collateral damage. That's a skinny old pine, a good man and machine should be able to smash through them without too much damage. You need to be looking for a forestry crew, not a tree surgeon. Whereabouts are you and how many trees are we talking? If a good quantity and the timber is sellable then this may be able to offset some of the costs.
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True that. You either need to shell out for warranty (new machines) or redundancy (multiple machines), otherwise you are just on a hiding to nothing (or an early grave with the stress) Nothing compares to knowing that you are paying wages for a gang who can't do any work that day.
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Whilst I applaud your purchase of the RTech, I must say that since buying the RTech 180, the 250 is rarely wheeled out. I have .8mm in the 180 and 1.0mm in the 250. For 90% of my work, the smaller torch they supply with the 180 is far more handy to use, and there's plenty of power for most repair jobs too. Luckily, the Euro torch fitting on the 250 means that this welder will happily accept a 180 torch. I'd highly recommend using the 180 torch for .8mm wire, as it's hardly any more effort to swap the torch over when you go up to 1mm wire and it's a much more pleasant experience. As Will says, they will happily work on 13 amp supplies for lower draws, so give it a go.
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Lots of photos and get it gone. It’ll keep living and the tpo will still be valid!
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The suitability of using standing dead Elm for a garden structure.
doobin replied to Baldbloke's topic in General chat
That's hardly a fair comparison- West Country zider will pickle most things! -
I'm really lucky- got a farmer locally who sells meat under the counter. Some cracking sausages too, makes them himself. The pig is slaughtered happy in the barn it lived in. Piglets run around free range. Food miles are very low- from the farm to my house!
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Yes to all three. New diggers, old vehicles, mainly groundworks and site clearance. if it’s any consolation I sometimes scan a post by dumper and think that it’s one of mine! 😂 down in West Sussex.
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I wouldn’t mind a go- fancy showing me the ropes somewhen? (Or lines). I’m just the other side of chi.
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Ah, so you mean they have their own insurance?
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And... what's to stop the self employed guys from poaching your clients?
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Same size really as a 13hp one.
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Goodwill is worth a lot less than people think it is, especially as that goodwill is almost certainly towards you, the face of the business who is no longer there! Anything a startup would need can be bought individually secondhand. The only way that would be attractive would be as a bulk buy- ie, a discount. Let’s talk figures. How do you value it?
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The business is worth the secondhand total of the equipment, and that’s about I’m afraid.
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I need to make a decision on what loader to buy. Do I go 6.3+k or 8.4+k? The 6.3+k looks to have very generous aux flow in a compact size, but I'm worried that even with back weights it wouldn't be the boss of a ton bag, which is the most I'd need it to lift and not often, but I'd want to know it would. Do you find the extra foot of length on the 8.4 plus not being able to slim down to 1.1m limits you at all?
