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Just to clarify if you can uprate the tipping ram to a double acting one. Some just need a hydraulic pipe and fittings. A single acting only has a pipe at one end wheras a double has one at each end. The oil supply will not be a problem as the ram will always be full of oil and not deprive the tractors supply. As long as you commission the ram full off oil or top up the tractor after doing a few cycles. Double acting work in both directions by forcing in oil at one end which ejects equal quantity out the other of the cylinder and vice versa. I would get the spool setup. Not a pto pump. I will post a photo of a spool on a kubota tomorrow if I remember to take them.

Good to see interest in customer service. Well done to indespension for noticing this. I have been happy with my trailer and think this is quite reassuring to know you care.

Will be registering my gear when I get home. I have all my numbers on laptop. (Stuck in Italy in holiday!) Great imitative yet again Steve.

Yes that's why they buddy up and have joint sting operations. I once got pulled in a van at checkpoint. HMCE dipped tank whilst VOSA check vehicle and coppers there too to enforce. I'm sure they have each other's numbers handy if not speed dial.

I might be barking up the wrong leylandiis here. I have probably done more leylandiis than anything else. But Im not full time arb. 1. If the trees are 36inch diameter stems I would imagine interlocking not to be a big issue, If the first few at the end with most ground space are taken to pieces and cleared. Then just fell subsequent trees in that space. A large nursery should have lots of tugging power on their fleet if you need it. 2. I felled a nursery windbreak of about alders(cordata) upto 60cm dbh last autumn. On one side was nursery beds10ft away and the other about two feet away a rabbit fence then a ditch then 8ft away a country lane. Im not pro arb, whereas you say your chap is. We managed fine. branches knocked wire off in a couple of places. Which was tacked back on when done. 3.Was much cheaper than getting a firm in. Did it when able to, and wind was strong but in our favour. 4. Saws used husky 346xp and 357xp 13 and 15 inch bars.

Could you blast air into the ground to loosen it then scoop out shocked soil. If you think that's a bad idea it's a development from my original.... Dynamite! A ground decompacting tool is what I'm thinking of air spade or something they are called.

Anticlockwise rotation of pto. Normal rear pto is clockwise. I assume antilock is predictive spelling.

There fixed it for you.

In my experience thats like trying to find a 16yr old that enjoys work:001_rolleyes: The times Ive got out to gauge it for myself due to incompetence, I suppose once you have a team that does both the driving and banksman it should pick up.

In reply to Matthews pro B+E comments, which are fair enough in the present. I would be considering how to avoid any more driving red tape, currently it maybe a case of yes get it and you have it. But everything is getting more bureaucratic, certificates, resfreshers etc. When I did my chainsaw course it was "sorted for life" already many are requiring refreshers, driving is only going the same way. I have the next 2 days of my life finishing the CPC.Which as mentioned elsewhere is a load of twaddle. and paying for the privledge of it whilst not earning anything. Vehicles and movement of goods/services is essential to modern life and thoroughly plunderable with taxation and stupidity. Manufacturers of equipment respond, remember the con of getting a 4x4 pickup with 4 doors as a commercial and family vehicle which was later kicked in the nuts on other policies. Maybe I've been around too long and am paranoid. I would do firewood and chip the brash. Which not too long ago we just burnt it!

Could you even operate an auger on a digger whilst still secured on the trailer. Drive by planting. I once got domestic sewage, water and electric in one hole with a 6 inch auger! Underground services are never guranteed to be to spec. You don't say if its urban terrain or cross country. Depending on public access and what team/tools you have. I'd auger 25-50 holes. Then go with the gear and plants. The longer you leave augered soil on the surface the longer it will take to plant. I would do my survey 1st as well.

Regardless of whether someone has or employs staff with pre 97 or B+E licenses. I think it is going to be more important in the future. I currently am not in a full time arb related work. I do relief/ holiday HGV driving and the red tape and expense with that is getting more and more. This is something I would want to avoid if possible as an employer or employee. It simply increases liabilty and penalties. £1000 for not having your CPC card on you?????!!!!!!!!!! Therefore I reckon as people retire and others avoid the B+E route >750kg is going to be more or an issue. I bought an 8inch PTO chipper around 10 years ago. Its now as good as obsolete. I used to go to jobs with it on the back of the tractor on red diesel. I wouldn't honestly know exactly what I would need to do to comply with current regs to use it on domestic/commercial tree work. If however you work justifies or requires a big chipper and lifts the profit margin and improves other aspects of running the business. It may not be important. Also once VOSA recognize what towed equipment is under 750kg they may ignore them more as self funding now and will want a bigger catch if they can.

Agree with hodge. It's about circulation. You can be sweating. But you hands and feet can be tensely cold. Which becomes unbearably uncomfortable as the day goes on. I bought a 346xpg and a 357xpg to complement my existing xp's for this reason. As for the 550 and 560 I have never used one. But if most work is doable with smaller bar I'd go for 550 . When i was younger my thinking was 18 inch bar all the time was more capability. Now I have bigger saws if needed and run the 13inch most of the time.

Don't know your setup. But I do similar for a charity owned woodland. Our situation is its less than a mile away. We can access the woodland with small equipment. We use sawhorses and chainsaws. Then split it with axe.Process it in situ and bring home in builders bags. This is our most efficient way we have found. It reduces handling. No mess to sweep up or deal with and we can make a nominal £300 worth in a day between 2 of us. Its worth it for us as its work when things are quiet, low environment impact, we only fell dangerous, forked, diseased trees, windblown etc. Much of it is fiddly 6 inch diameter stuff. Previously a greedy short term person did this and felled the best timber trees and left the poorer. So bear this in mind. The woodland is around 20 acres and we harvest less than the amount needed for a felling license. Felling licences exemptions (England)

I have a 2.6T indespension plant trailer. Would it help if I measured mine tomorrow? I would of thought they would be the same front and back. Have your old ones stretched? In my experience its amazing how they do stretch. Handbrake cables on vehicles, when you take the old one off you have to wind the adjuster along way.

Yes and they also have bush telegraph! Work probably works better.

What is the long term plan. Why stump grind? It will hike the price alot and poplar will rot out relatively quick in forestry terms. Roots sucker without stumps. As said a digger of destruction will probably best for cost effectiveness.

I've got a split hydraulic cap on a bearcat chipper. The local hydraulic repair shop tried to get me a replacement, but its some daft size thread and dimension. I emailed the local dealer twice and have not had a reply in over a month. Any ideas, because if its stupid price, I will replace tank including cap instead. Its only around 10 liters.

Alder is supposed to last indefinitely under water. Assuming its Alnus glutinosa. Its above the water where it will decay. If you made an underwater structure of that with holes prefabricated to attach upper structure it will save full replacement and less disturbance next time.

Fall guy on TV. I remember getting a watch with a calculator inbuilt and not being allowed to use it at school!!!! Gliding on a washing line pulley out a tree on a boy made nylon rope zip line hanging upside down with legs over the handle bar made from elderberry branch. Playing in fields after harvest, damming a ditch. Homemade go karts. Home made bows and arrows. Which we fired at each other from about 15 mtrs. Going down a spoil heap in the back garden after the house had been built at45 degrees in a pedal car. Fatty out village cracked it in half.So my mums cousin who was a fitter riveted steel bracket to it. It worked but flexed. We honed survival and life skills. No wonder we like our predecessors moan about. Young uns. I'm only 40

But would they want to be???? if you can't do it in the real world.... Teach. I've done my 3rd day today. 21 people @ £58.95+vat. Cheapest I've found. Overheads pens and paper, biscuit. Beverages. TV cpc costs. "This time next year we'll be millionaires Rodney!" I have almost come to terms with there is doers and reluctant realisers, they talk it. But daunted by it.

I know just how you must feel. You can now do just what you did before with the added privledge of been patronised for 35hrs Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

They have to sell them eventually to someone. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

+1 I have booked In my 2nd day at the last minute for tomorrow. Frustration, anger, and more hours of my healthy life laid to futile waste, I've heard lots of stories from drivers. None with a fond smile" ou it was really good" I always lived in hope it would be junked. My next hope is that a huge shortage of drivers plagues the continent for years to come. I want my £1000+ back cost plus lost of earnings! But why should my employment providers pay? Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

Probably 13 this year down from about 22 last. All chainsawed and split with fiskars x27. Not had the opportunity nor the tree work as much in the last year. Have turned a bit if work away due to other work commitments. We enjoy firewood. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk