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Its worth typing in black poplar in the search box on this site I remember it being wanted a while back. But cannot remember what for.

Burn myself. In a stove. I quite like it. Its lively.

Here is the one Rover posted in the other thread. R?bak walcowy GR-110 Pieni??no ? OLX.pl (dawniej Tablica.pl) £841

It the other thread on this. I think there was a link to a foreign webpage with £900 or euros. I would be interested in pursuing this as well with my own design. I would want to refine the finished product in the design. No crud and leaves, that could be composted seperately.

As Doobin says for double acting you need a proper valve block. I fitted one to an iseki compact and another on a case full size tractor. its DIY able as long as you are competent at such. A proper spool valve always has a hydraulic flow running to it, whereas the picture type above is open valve manually then pull lever. Probably around £200

Took a photo of an older B6100 kubota, the others looked a similar setup. I have outlined the simple banjo union for the spool pipe. This is only a single acting. I believe you turn the vale to the right of it. Then hold the 3 pt linkage lever up to pump fluid through it. View is looking under the seat from gear level which is partly visible in bottom right corner, towards the rear. Sorry about picture quality.

Yes double spool required. But worth it. Singles often just need an extra pipe plumbing in. Oil in small compact transmissions is usually 10-20litres

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.

I enquiries. It's thought it's the season. Phythopra is the big suspect. That adds the question when do they become resistant or do the weak simply fail in juvenile years?I will get my coat!

Redwoods are prone to damping off. Usually damping off occurs in early seedling stage. But these can do it at a foot or so high. If I am right it's fungal. I will ask a nurseryman when I next see him. Maybe the old copper solution works?

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.