zeroluke
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Haha I have done. I had 10mtr along or so of thick stems to get through on the top and it cleared them all. I'm ordering some new tank caps with seals today. I noticed it has started leaking pet and oil a bit. be about 12 quid for them as I remember.
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How many of you have gone to do a hedge that was to be lowered and found 3-4 inch thick stems growing away? The old 048 and its 25 inch bar I bought off mendip made it quicker going. Thanks john.
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Looks really good! Only nag with it is its a pain to pick them all up off the floor after with so few slats to hold them in. Unless you cut them into longer lengths. I have one and cut to around 8 inches
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fuel , or electric ( at a push ) are the future until the fuel runs out. A hand pump splitter takes the mess. Them fly wheel kindlers look the nads. Look for how to make one of them. They are fairly simple
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I klippo'd a garden one year and a boat mast rigging rope got tangled up in the blade. Never seen a mower move so fast! Also another season, a tv cable outside someones house got wrapped around the drum of a rotary conda and the house owner said the cable tv box flew across the room and into the wall. Oops. It annoys me when people leave stuff like that in long grass. Its not often seen until its too late. I think one of the daftest one was one team I sometimes worked with at the time were sent out to plant a tree and hit a water main..
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Looks bang on that! I did a topiary hedge ship trim with a hedge cutter and it did the job well. As long as it doesn't wreck your hedge cutter blades I can't see anything bad about doing that
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What about grass or hedge clippings?
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Ouch! Surely thats not the cheapest, though
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I can't see it being that effective. Stuff flie all over with a strimmer. No doubt it will be similar to that 4mix stihl strimmer - not that good.
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I didn't quote the job blind, I'm going through again to sort price in half hour. I marked up the distance based off a satalite mapping system. It is fairly accurate. I also did post the state the hedge was in just after the original post when me brother phoned me and told me, only I didn't know about any 5 minute wait rule on posting.
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Distance Calculator Thats what i used, then I went with the measuring wheel
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Hi whats the price of diesel and petrol where you all live? Diesel is between £1.35 and £1.40 Petrol is around £1.33, though I don't use much petrol so tend not to check so much. Luke
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the L.A I work for, well its about 50/50 ratio on what still growing enough to be cut and what is dying off now. Maybe you diversify into watering instead, even if its at odd hours. The few gardens I cut myself are growing less each cut.
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actually no. I measured up for it without seeing it. What would you all would charge for it is what I want to know. Last time some said in between £40 and £140 or so. As for heat sending you round the bend. I have been the same myself for the last 2 weeks from about 11AM, if not sooner.
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Yeah kind of. It is the hedge that backs onto where my brother lives. I've cut me brothers side before. It has a marker system does the webmap, and point A, B and so on it will measure the distance or area etc. It wasn't that far out either. It measured 44m and my measuring wheel measured 38m. Not brilliant, but gives a good ballpark figure. It isn't that bad growing out of the sides, the hedge. A few foot at one end. 1 at most at the other.
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Hi first hedge of the year. Its 44mtr long and there might be one on the back fence 8mtr long. Similar to the one I posted last year when I gave my hedge cutter a test run and you gave prices, but I can't find the post.. If you were wondering how I measured it without seeing it first, there is a distance / area measuring map on a website I found through work. I believe it to be accurate, too. I will be taking my measuring wheel just in case, though. Thanks Luke
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Hi is this for road use cover or insurance more as an item for theft etc? My truck insurance will cover any trailer 3rd party as standard but only when attached to my truck and in use. If it was sat there it wouldn't and thats where the trailer lock / chain / keep watch of it. Not that I use one often anyway
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It would be good to see it working! I looked on youtube, but all I found was chainsaw powered bicycles. They are equally impressive, though illegal here just like them scooters with 2stroke engines on the back wheel. There it is Any mod feel free to embed the video. I don't know how to do it now.
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You can, but I have alwys insured mine for work, including sdwp also. Its cheaper, or so I'm lead to believe.
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Italian alpina 45's have done me well in my 7 years of strimming. Never liked stihl, the fs55 that were bought for us at work are rubbish, amazingly bad at low revs when trimming boarders etc, and only really works well in its powerband range. never used husky or echo, so nothing to say about them.
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Hi. Don't know if you've got a mower yet, but I paid £150 odd for a honda 476 self propelled roller mower on the 'bay from a bloke in manchester and its great. Get a ali ramp set and the roller mower should go straight up it no trouble. Hope you get sorted
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Ty jon. Even if not for agriculture use as such? Massey look to be steep on fuel consumption from what I've seen of them. I used a late 70s medium size massey, and it used 3 gallons an hour!
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I've made a few of them. They work very well, but another alternative is to have a roller bench, with a chainsaw clamp at the end. Long straight timber will go through it quick enough. You may need to make bespoke saw clamp if using a bigger saw. Make one with a guard!
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Hi I gave the grey ferguson a miss. What do you all reckon to an 880 david brown? Its main use will be sit in the corner of the front garden ( will annoy me 'rents no end, and maybe attract thieves in the night, but sod em ) and county fairs etc. What sort of money would you pay for a decent order tractor? I am goin down the road of pre 1973, as they are tax free historic vehicle, which is just as well given the engine size and emissions. Thanks Luke
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So in the future I won't be able to buy after market/spares parts off an ebay shop etc for a 25 year old 048 I bought of mendip jon and the small 250, or a different exhaust if I want? That's me writing stihl off, then. They are becoming the Apple iplant machinery of the working world, and that is disappointing.
