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I am after someone to remove a tree in my mums garden in Allendale. I need someone to take it down and log everything on site. Everything can be left on site, I will get my brother to come and tidy up. Its only a small job, but I am after a recommendation so she doesnt get ripped off. Feel free to PM me if that is better Thanks Tim TCF Engineering

When I had my A55 engine in bits, I couldnt find any torque settings, so I just used the same settings as a fordson Dexta thinking it was a similar engine. I put it all back together a couple of years ago and it has been totally fine since. They are very robust engines and I think they will be quite forgiving.

My recommendation is Technical Arc welders. All of our Tig and Mig welders and plasma cutters are from Tec Arc. They are made in the UK with excellent service and spares backup, if you have a problem, you can speak to the bloke who actually made your welder. Get a simple transformer based model and it will last years. Just give Tec Arc a phone or email and they will advise you which model to go for

Sorry I meant to say also, I am not aware of any unanswered emails, and I just checked my Spam folder and nothing missed there either. Send it over again and I will keep an eye out Thanks Tim

Hello, we are indeed alive and well and very busy at the moment. We are still based in North Wales, but I am personally based in Sweden (Have been for 7 years now), so email is the best way of contacting me [email protected] If you drop me your number I can call you back at a time to suit you. Hope this helps Thanks Tim TCF Engineering

Get a Coast headtorch. They are expensive, but the best. I have had loads of different makes. HL27 is an excellent all rounder, I have had mine for many years. Have just bought an HL8R for this winter and it is a beast. Extremely bright and the rechargeable battery seems to last 8-9 hours on full beam. I read that LED Lenser are the same quality so I bought one of those last winter, but it was rubbish compared to the Coast.

Da Kine snowboarding rucksacks are tough as nails, comfy to carry and a good size. I have had mine for 25 years and it is still going strong. I use it for everything and it just never gives up.

Good to see the log arch working hard and being put to the test ! I personally much prefer using arches to skid timber out of the forest. If you get it right you can extract a lot of timber with just an arch and a quad bike or small tractor and damage to the ground is really minimal. If you think about the size of equipment required to pick up those pieces of oak, you would definitely know it had been there We have built several hundred log arches ranging from very small hand pull ones up to really very big ones to transport ships masts. We build a lot of custom made stuff so you are welcome to come to us with your ideas and we will turn them into real life metal things. With the standard arches and trailers, we recognize that our customers might occasionally exceed the manufacturers recommendations (Probably every time !) so we purposely make everything a little stronger than required. Feel free to contact us any time with your requirements. I think its better to do this directly so as not to derail this brilliant thread.

I think that it would be quite easy to make something like this which was manually operated. A CNC machine is a different story. I have built two from the ground up (a CNC plasma cutter and a CNC router) and there is an awful lot of different skills required such as fabrication, electronics, software, etc... If it was just a router sled, it doesnt need to be very precise on the X and Y axis, just very stable vertically. I have often looked at this kind of product and wondered if we should make one and sell it, but I have always thought that the market for them wouldnt be very big so didnt do anything with it. It would be very easy to design a set of bracketry and laser cut parts so the end user could buy their own 50x50 box section and build it to whatever size they wanted just by bolting stuff together

I agree with all of the above. I would never wear these waterproofs if I was on the saw all day, I would cook in them, but sat on a machine, repairing a machine in the woods or processing firewood, they are perfect.

I have a full set of Brenig waterproofs, I have a smock like the one in the link and some bib and brace trousers. They are really good gear, properly waterproof and up to working in the woods. They arent particularly light and they dont pack up small, but I dont care about that, would rather have something that keeps me dry all day. I have had them 2 years no and they are still great

Mine looks just like that one in the video, only a lot more oily ! I am the same as you, I just dont trust a lot of people to do a job like this right. I am not bothered if it takes a while I have got other tractors and a Unimog. I think I will have a go, first job clean everything !

Funnily enough I was expecting the handbrake to be in lots of small bits in the bottom but it looks like new. One of the main bearings in the gearbox is shot, so it is making nasty noises when you turn it. Will have to see what else is knackered, thats why it needs pulling apart. I think I am tempted to have a go and just take my time. Usually with these jobs, you dread it and then once you get on with it, you think what was all the fuss about. At least then I will learn how to do it.

Hello, I have an International 956XL with a knackered gearbox. Wondering if anyone has ever done a complete strip and rebuild on a simple tractor gearbox. I have never been inside one and I am wondering how daunting it is. Rebuilt plenty of engines and diffs, but never a gearbox. I have the workshop manual, a clean workshop and lots of tools. Any advise either way would be appreciated Cheers

We have quoted up to make one before, but it was grant dependant and it never came off. Would love to make one though, it looked like an interesting project.

Hello, just wondered if anyone knows of Nigel Covey fencing ? Was thinking about buying a digger from him and wondered if anyone knows if he is OK or not. You can PM me if you prefer Thanks for your help

It doesnt look that bad in the pictures, but make sure you dont have any burrs on your bar. I have had this before where the burr is uneven ie. more on the bottom, and it causes exactly this problem. Maybe take off the bar and give it a really good dressing and try again. I also regularly turn the bar over and I dress it every 4 or 5 chain sharpens/swaps

I have run this type of Makita saw for over 10 years, so has my friend. The one I have now I use mostly for cutting steel, but apart from the pull start breaking has not missed a beat in over 5 years. I would definitely recommend them

I skid a lot of timber out with a Holder A55 and it is absolutely fantastic. Its built like a tank, super simple, plenty of power and good on fuel. A friend of mine got stuck in the forest the other day with a Valmet and after we winched him out, I drove through the same place without spinning a wheel. My Holder is not the forestry version, just a normal agricultural type one. I have a simple frame on the 3 point linkage which I put the choke chains on, but I am going to make a grapple skidder over winter - will make the job much quicker and easier I think. I have only ever had a go on the smaller alpines, but from what I saw, the Holder will run rings round them.

Thanks for the info, I think I will crack on and build my own. I will find out about the compliance, but I am not too worried about putting it through an IVA, we do these fairly regularly anyway for the smaller trailers.

Hello, after some Unimog advice. I have a 406 and I want to build a trailer for it. How do the trailer brakes work on a mog ? Can you use an artic trailer axle and just plumb it in to the trailer brake coupling on the mog ? I have chance of a nice 9t axle on super singles and this would be ideal if it would work Any info would be greatly appreciated

My friend makes furniture in a similar style from driftwood. He is very clever, there is a huge amount of work that you never see which holds it all together. His stuff is totally solid. I can ask him for more info if anyone is interested

Just bought myself a Unimog 406 for personal use. It needs new tyres as these things usually do. It will do all sorts of jobs, but it will definitely end up in the woods from time to time. I like the look of these tyres http://www.unimogs.co.uk/our-stock/spares/tyres/new-mitas-mpt-01-40570x20-tyres-ty0015 and the price seems OK, but obviously they are only speed rated to 50kmh. Just wondered if anyone has run them and driven faster then that and what were they like (Obviously on a private airfield or racetrack or similar, not the public highway ) Any feedback appreciated

I have never actually seen a Stein trolley in the flesh so I can only guess, but looking at pictures, it looks like it wouldnt be that easy to have an interchangeable axle as it is integral to the structure. Having said that, anything is possible if you try hard enough !

We have tried to find a narrow and wide wheel which would interchange on the same axle and we cant find it. On ours we offer a bolt on axle so you have to swap the axle with the wheels - works fine only takes 4 bolts. Out of the two, if I could live with the extra width, I would take the wide wheels every time. Its surprising how much weight you can pile on these little carts/trolleys and the wide wheels just travel so much nicer over all terrains.