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  1. Matthew Storrs
    sounds like your keeping busy then, well done! do you do stockfencing on your own at all?
  2. Matthew Storrs
    iv never used a wire roller. what are they like, i guess they best really for field fencing?. how do you attch the wire to the strainer once its pulled tight. do you staple it or tye it off? Those tclip gripples are brilliant for this, but they are quite costly- looks neat tho!
  3. Matthew Storrs
    Yes its all about finding the machine which suits your location isn't it? do you fence fulltime or tye it in with other work? about 50% of my work is fencing. mainly agri and post and rail. very rarely do domestic/closeboard etc. I used one of those parmiters once, it was a horrific experiance. it had a manual postclamp and manual mast adjustment. it took a few mins just to get the mast and post in the right place. It was rubbish (even worse then my digger) for strainers. I have a hydraulic auger to go on my digger if its hard ground or a big strainer I have to pilot drill the strainers with a 4inch auger. I drill all the holes then put the knocker on and they go in quite easily after that. not ideal though.
  4. Matthew Storrs
    not so good really, the concept of a digger mounted postdriver is brilliant if you have the right model, obviously the bigger the digger you can have a bigger hammer but then you start to lose the ability to go into awkward areas so you must as well just have a tractor one, IME i find the combination of a big tractor mounted one for the big strainers and hard ground and a mini digger one for awkard access/soft ground etc the perfect combination. I don't think any machine can do everything.
  5. Matthew Storrs
    heres my digger mounted one. i can get it almost anywhere but could do with a bigger weight really
  6. Matthew Storrs
    id be intersted to see pics of that on your holder. i like the idea of the p30 as youv got all the adjustments but in a smaller package. what weight did you end up getting. is it quite heavy duty build? I was hiring a big Wrag with rockspike the other day on a 120hp tractor, whacks big 10 inch strainers in no probs but its not exactly subtle or manouverable when doing awkward runs.
  7. Matthew Storrs
    I use the haynes wire strainers with 1.5meters of chain for tensioning barb and a netting clamp and haynes clamp strainers with 6meters of chain for the netting, if its a flat run i tye the netting of at one end and tension of at the other end, sometimes if its undulating i tye the netting at both ends and use two clamps in the middle of the run and join the netting using gripples or haynes crimps. I find gripples can't get the netting as tight just on their own without using the clamps to get the tension first, I can strain 400m at one go with the clamps. what post knocker do you use?
  8. Matthew Storrs
    Barb wire has to be the worst surely- I hate the stuff, you have to wear gloves yet the gloves tear to shreds and get caught on the barbs which is a regular pain when you are tying it off at a strainer. I like post and rail the best. I also hate tensioning stock netting when there is loads of ups and downs and corners as it can take ages (even with clamps) to make sure all the wires are equal tension (cheap netting is even worse)
  9. Matthew Storrs
    watch this space!! might be a day or two tho, weathers meant to be getting better on friday so il take some then.
  10. Matthew Storrs
    this is the simplest way, every other way is overcomplicating things.
  11. Matthew Storrs
    im the same, i seem to get the fencing jobs other contractors don't want to do, fencing a steep wooded hillside ATM, got a tractor and rockspike in yesterday to knock 50 strainers in, it was struggling with the ground conditions, this weathers really not helping things.
  12. Matthew Storrs
    iv got quite a lot of agri fencing booked in, will keep me going till 2nd week of june, then who knows? i don't let it bother me, it usually keeps rolling in.
  13. Matthew Storrs
    its a 1056xl. any experiance of these? quite a big tractor for my needs really. i doubt il ever need to tow more than 4.5 ton with it but would also use it to run a post rammer.
  14. Matthew Storrs
    one day mate! might just have to be an old international for now tho, a very tidy one for sale near me at the mo!
  15. Matthew Storrs
    I think Im going to leave the idea of using the landy to pull a bigger slew. today I had my takeuchi 1.6t mini with postdriver, hydraulic auger buckets etc on the back and I worked out even that with the trailer was just shy of 3 ton. had a load of fencing stakes in the pickup bed too, and I really don't think I want to subject it to much more weight then that if im being sensible. Its one thing in the dry but when its wet going up or down hills im going to have problems I think, the powers there but there just isnt the weight in a defender. I agree on the suggestion of an Amazon, but if im going to have to run a second vechicle it might as well be a tractor. travel speed is irelevant to me.
  16. Matthew Storrs
    ??? i assume you mean the landys good till they get nicked or the digger?
  17. Matthew Storrs
    yup 300tdi here too, im not worried about the engine because when its in low it doesn't really sound like its being overly stressed, what concerns me a bit is going up hill and maintaining traction without loading up the tow ball, I have a 150kg winch on the front which i believe really helps keep the front wheels gripping uphill. I too live in a rather steep area.
  18. Matthew Storrs
    well my theory is that it might me cheaper and more conveniant to use a landy and put up with a few more repairs than to run a tractor etc
  19. Matthew Storrs
    As above, just wondering if anyone regularly tows 3.5 ton with a landrover defender and how it holds up to it in the long term? I want to exchange my mini digger for a bigger one and its weight with the trailer will just scrape under 3.5 ton. seems like a lot of weight to tow but they are plated to and I probably tow it every now and again anyway but I would be doing this maybe twice a week. do you think i will be burdened with endless clutch/ general running gear repairs if i go down this route? I would be interested to hear from anyone else who does this and learn from their experiance of it! Oh yeah, i would always be in low range towing that weight anyway if that makes a difference.
  20. Matthew Storrs
    Surely thats not a good thing?
  21. Matthew Storrs
    its like anything you soon get used to a situation, i expect if a non glassses wearer had to wear them for a day in the rain they would soon through them down in a paddy.
  22. Matthew Storrs
    Glasses are a nightmare in the rain especiall when youv got dirty hands so you cant even wipe them without smearing dirt on them, I wear them and hate them, tried contacts but they were forever coming out or tearing whilst in the eye because of dirt/sawdust ingress, Love the sound of laser but im not brave enough to do it! I dont find glasses come of much though even when climbing, although the other day I was digging a 4 ft hole for a post and because of me sweating they slipped of into the hole, made me chuckle.
  23. Matthew Storrs
    did ifor make the solid sides up or did you do it yourself?
  24. Matthew Storrs
    hmm, just been thumbing through other threads on the subject, it seems they are all pretty good really I suppose it comes down to where I can get the best price and how conveniant the dealer is. On the Ifor williams does it have a grease nipple on the tipping pivots like the Atlas? Brian james trailers also look good as they sit at the same height as a normal flatbed, but they are the 5k plus for the full works (ramps/mesh sides etc) which I wouldn't mind paying if they really were the cream of the crop. they don't have leaf springs either:sneaky2:
  25. Matthew Storrs
    Im after some points on tipping trailers, i will be buying new and until recently i have been set on the atlas tipper, howerver i have read that the trailer frame is made in china?? and this has got me thinking of other makes, does anyone know if they galvanise the atlas in UK or is that done in china too and if so what is the quality of galvanising. I currently have an Ifor 2009 flatbed which i am impressed with bar a few rivets coming loose but I see Ifor are bringing out a 2012 new tipper which has a higher payload than the atlas. I am quite keen to stay with Ifor because dealers are near me and parts are pletifull but have heard that there quality control has slipped compared to their older models. Any thoughts on either models? If someone can convince me of either model would be good as i keep changing my mind! thanks, matt

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