Matthew Storrs
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I think the bucket crowd ram is plumbed with a T junction so that the control to curl the bucket then rotates the grab
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Iv hired one before and thought it was appaling, if it hits the slightest rock or root it tryes to either spin around or slap into your leg to engage the safthy brake, We gave up on it and dug the rest of the holes by hand. Never hired one since and wouldn't reccomend unless very easy going ground, a good spade and shuvholers/clapper spades is pretty much as quick in soft ground.
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Replacement engines for mini diggers.
Matthew Storrs replied to Le Sanglier's topic in Large equipment
That's quite low hours. I know of these engines doing 6000 hours without many issues. I'd be interested to know the cause. Or did you say a pipe had burst? -
Depends on your method of erecting ut to make use of the machine whilst its on hire if you line up and mark all the holes you,all fly along. I did a job for a fencing contractor the other day to bore out 25meters worth of post and rail at 1.8meter centers. It was compacted shillet and I had unloaded the machine drilled all the holes and loaded the machine back up in less then an hour. I reckon in those conditions it would have taken more like 5 hours to dig by hand.
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I have one on a mini. It is a most excellant piece of kit and will speed up the job no end and take the sweat out of it, With tree roots it does tend to do one of 3 things, break small roots up fine, deflect off the root and take the path of least resistance or it its a root of 3-4 inches it,all just screw past it but it won,t break it up. Large rocks or rubble can be a bit of a pain if they are too large for the auger to carry it out of the hole, one bloke operating the digger and the other stand by the hole and make sure your drilling straight and also remove any large stones.
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Replacement engines for mini diggers.
Matthew Storrs replied to Le Sanglier's topic in Large equipment
Yes, I too would be keen to hear the outcome of this as I have a taktb016 and wondered what I would do in your situation. I agree, the engine bay is a swine to get to. -
For the money I doubt u,all get much better then an oxdale, they're not perfect I think they could have made the splitting table bigger and I'm not totally convinced by the small splitting wedge but they seem a well built thing and made in England too. I run one of a mini digger, but any machine with good enough auxillary hydraulics will run it OK.
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I do mine pretty much as tight as the adjuster will go within reason, if the belts squeaks when you turn the machine of its probably a bit slack.
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Depends on your post rammer a bit, my one is mounted on a mini digger and it flys along knocking the stakes in. Also depends how many turns of direction there is as you'll need to have a strutted strainer at all acute turns of direction in the fence.
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Yes, I forgot about hiring, I use my digger and auger everyday so I found the investent easily paid off. You can get augers mounted on a trolley type thing, never used one but could be a good bit of kit and only a grand or two I think
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Factors to bear in mind, ground conditions, and how many strands of barb. With a post rammer, two of us can do up to 300 meters a day, 2 strands of barb all strained up nice and tight with decent strainers.
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And in my experiance hand held augers are only any use in very good soils, digger ones are much more up to it but can be a pricey investment.
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I have a borer on a digger, on rocky ground you do have to remove the odd rock by hand if the auger flight doesn't carry it out the hole. On shillet ie flint and compacted ground they are very quick, mine will drill an 8" hole 1.2 meters deep in around 1-2 minutes in hard ground,. As for setting strainers by hand I tend to put a foot at the bottom to stop it twisting when the wires pull tight then pack rocks, soil whatever comes out. I personally would never concrete a strainer post in, it will rot quicker for a start, more expensive and just no need, if you can,t get a strainer solid by using foots and compacting soil and rock then you are doing something wrong.
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Been using a saw professionally for 9 years, I still put the brake on if I walk any kind of distance using it, it only takes a trip and a blip of the throttle to make a mess of you.
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I take it it mentioned this in the Terms and conditions? Surely they make their money on the interest you pay by doing finance. I didn't,t realise they would take yearly sums too. This is just the sort of sorry that puts me right of finance.
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I think when it comes to machinery, you either buy used and then run that machine into the ground or if you buy new keep updating so that the new machine never loses too much value. I get quite sentimental with machinery they become old friends so unless its a complete non runner or as good as Id prefer to just keep repairing it to keep the show on the road.
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Yep I was thinking that.
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My local garden machinery hires out a 6" tinberwolf for £70. I can pick it up in the morning (a bit of a nuisance) and drop it back the next morning this means you don't have to pay finance,insurance, sharpen the blades and maintenance and all the rest of it. To be honest the sort of work I'm getting at the moment rarely needs a chipper and as such I'm considering selling mine freeing up some money to spend on more needed machinery and just hire as and when I need to, the job should pay for the hire costs.
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I dunno iv worked with some tools which didn't make me money:001_rolleyes:
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If got a 576xp pre auto tune, I have found it to be a very nice saw works well with a 24" could at a push run a 28". I also have a 395xp but its a whole new ball game, sure its great on big timber but its a lumpy old thing in the tree whereas the 576xp feels much lighter and more manageable.
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I'm with Daveindales on this one, if you know what you are looking for I would prefer to by used out right. Sure new would be nice but its always on the back burner that if got to pay the finance. If I were you I would keep hiring your mates and save a few more grand, when you have 5-6k you should be able to get yourself a decent used one. IMO 3k is not enough, I'd sooner keep hiring then buy an old crank.
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Took the words out of my mouth. If you think about it any war could be prevented shame it doesn,'t happen tho
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Why do they bother making 50kmp boxes then? Or is it allowed to do that if it has sprung axles?
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My zetor does 15mph, bloody slow on long straight roads but its funny how you seem to still get to the job reletivly quickly all the same, I guess it doesn't slow on hills or anything. Pound for pound it doesn't,t get much better then zetor, they make great basic woodland tractors. Mines a 7045 70hp which would run an 8 inch although would probably need a no stress control.
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Well yesterday certainly felt like the first day of spring down here, but today is cold wind and cloudy with the forecast saying cold rain for most of the week, I'd soonner cold frozen but clear conditions as opposed to rain.
