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These are great! Move also tried other couplings (spared etc) but these work best.

I’d be going for the Hinowa , firstly for the reach ( especially the outreach) and that Hinowa would be more popular ( over here anyway, not sure about UK) with more technical back-up within a reasonable distance.

We’ve ran T540s since the mk1, i prefer 14 inch and some prefer the 12 inch bar. husky bars aren’t great and of late , Oregon not any better.. Sugahari very good. I recently got a mk3 , really like it , lots of torque. only negative is it doesn’t go long on a tank of fuel. anybody else noticed same ? thanks.

When I started at production cutting in the late 80s ,there were all manner of contraptions extracting timber. One guy built a little forwarder based on a Zetor with front axle removed, the trailer section had a Zetor rear axle driven by the pto ground drive. the final drives in those old Zetors (and David Browns) could be rotated to give super ground clearance. It weighed very little and could travel on very soft ground. He had a little hiiab crane on it that had a fair few leaks ,so he would run it on burnt oil. Seems hard to believe now that you could not get in trouble for spewing burnt oil all over a forest !

Is one of the levers for the spool valves engaged?

Happy new year everybody. As per title , we are hoping to finally tackle the brakes in my 6400 with Botex roof mounted crane. It looks (to me anyway) like a lot of stripping and mullocking , I’m wondering if anyone on here has done similar and if there’s anything in particular to watch out for. we have a forklift to lift the crane/mounting structure off the axle and it looks as if the cab needs to be raised slightly also. Also, how far do the trumpet housings need to be pulled out before they are clear to be lowered? I’m guessing this will dictate how high we will need to raise the crane etc. Thanks.

Seen a TP 760 on fb a few days ago (array or treebay)£2800 , looks good in photos. good chipper for the price if genuine.

A friend of mine takes Christmas trees in aid of local hospice. Its usually April or so by the time I get to chip them, I think this year it was later . they do take up a lot of space and take a long time to wilt (in west of Ireland climate anyway) if you stack them the bottom ones will stay wet. Chipped about 350 in an hour and a half this year with 12 inch pto chipper. Anything smaller than 8 inch chipper will struggle to pull them in. you need to watch out for screws in the butts.

We’ve had this happen a few times . Once it was water in the connection in the wiring loom going back to the stop bar and forward/reverse. Another time it was the bi-directional solenoid valve. Try swooping the plugs and see if rollers will work forward but not reverse. IIRC there are little lights in plugs to show if they are getting power when you press button.

Very interesting! was planning to check out if there was anything out there to make doing quotes easier/quicker. do you have to upload your own current rams to this system?

Not sure a shear will be any more effective in that kind of stuff than a sawman with digger and grab keeping the stuff cleared away.

Not sure a shear will be any more effective in that kind of stuff than a sawman with digger and grab keeping the stuff cleared away.

My old oil&steel rocked that much even when I bought it 6 years ago. I think that configuration where there’s no fly jib and the mounting is in the centre of the basket is pretty prone to rocking as you move around in the basket, also even the slightest play in the extensions is amplified. Looks like the rotation turret has a bit of backlash in it too. I recently changed to a CTE which has lightweight hardox booms. it flexes quite a bit, found it a bit scary the first few days but don’t really notice now.