Matthew Storrs
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Most cases hi tensile plain will be fine. But barb wire is best for cattle IMO and as long as its piano string tight It shouldn't be too dangerous.
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Im moving to your parts, Im lucky If I get £5.00 per meter usually £4.50 and I don't compromise on materials or the quality of erection!
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I know this may seem backwards to some, but why do we have to keep progressing? what good is it really doing any of us?
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we just don't have the space for all this rubbish over here.
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progress in to the 21st century is what is ruining England and what precious countryside we have left. just so a bunch of penpushers can get to work half an hour quicker to their pointless jobs most of which consist of thinking up equally pointless schemes such as the HS2.
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This has left my local community shocked and sickened.
Matthew Storrs replied to tommer9's topic in The Lounge
I hope they catch them, but i hope the owners catch them first. No punishment delivered by the penal system could ever be enough for these disgusting, may they die a slow painfull death one day. -
Watched that on DVD 2 nights ago, cracking film. Never quite sure how to interpret the ending tho...
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I found the Stihl cleaving axe to be brilliant, its the biggest one they do, cant find a new handle for it tho!
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oh yes and the real bonus is you can drive posts from the comfort of a warm cab.
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Digger ones are brilliant for reaching over walls, streams, banks down embankments etc. I tried a protech but didn't get on with it, the Vector digger postdrivers are brilliant as the weight of the postdriver and digger arm is transfered on to the post when your driving it, makes it much more stable and stops the booms bouncing around as the weight goes up. I have a choice of using a big tractor mounted one or mini digger, I nearly always use my mini digger as it tows behind my landy and can do grading/ digging holes/ post driving, moving brash all in one machine. If your doing straightforward field fencing a tractor one is brilliant but on awkward/ tight sites a digger postdriver is the way to go IMO:thumbup1:
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the ones vector/ protech make weigh under three ton so could tow behind a 4x4 350kg hammers BUT you would have to do seperate trip for the materials. Im always thinking of machines I could turn into a versatile fencing machine.
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that sounds awesome, mog and front mounted driver has to be one of the most efficient/versatile setups for general agri fencing, we use mini digger mounted ones for awakard areas, tractor and wrag with rock spike for straightforward runs, both have their pros and cons but i like the look of those tracked postdrivers that vector make. I tried one of those hand held augers once, didn't get on with it to be honest, every time i hit a rock or root in would procceed to smash in tomy leg with the brake thing. handy on very easy going ground tho
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what have y'all been doing today?
Matthew Storrs replied to [email protected]'s topic in General chat
reducing 60 meters of holly hedge which is about 20 years overgrown, what a mess tangled up with 3 different phone lines ahhhh, got a nice heap of cordwood out of it tho... -
Do you use your post knocker on 5x3 post and rail too? I know some folk doing it cover many meterage per day, modern post drivers are so much more accurate at driving than old parmiters etc. much quicker than digging/backfilling.
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I agree, on the whole fencing only makes decent money if you have decent machinery (just like tree work really) I used to do loads of post and rail digging holes by hand, barely made a living, brought a digger and hydraulic auger and can now make fairly decent dough.
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Potential Startup - Northamptonshire
Matthew Storrs replied to steve918's topic in Business Management
Or, What about a mini digger if you want a machine to hire out with or without operator, you'd get alot more work of this, plus you get various attachments as you go along to enable you to offer more services. You won't get huge money but probably alot more regular. Easy work. pretty indestrucable machines too unlike chippers -
Potential Startup - Northamptonshire
Matthew Storrs replied to steve918's topic in Business Management
Steve- don't want to be negetive but I don't think you'll find it viable full time or even anywhere near full time to be honest. I too have a tracked 150 and very rarely get hired out with it to local tree surgeons (they know about me) and my rates are cheaper then the ones you have quoted and im fully certified. Fortunately I get my own work for it where only a tracked machine will do. But the local garden machinery place hires one out without operator for cheaper and most companies in need for a tracked machine take that option. Also If i were you I would be VERY reluctant to hire it out without operator, it WILL get abused. If you have the money to spend I agree with others that a stump grinder will probably get you far more work just of the back of the machine. Good luck. -
Trangias are brilliant designs with the windshield all in one setup etc but I brought a gas burner to fit in where the meths burner used to go, so much better as you have more control over the flame, its quicker, and doesn't run out after 20 mins like meths.
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Do most of you do free quotes? I do but, probably waste a lot of time/fuel in the process, ideally I would charge say £25 to quote to cover cost which is refundable if i get the job. But i imagine a lot of chances to quote may be missed out using this approach.
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Hi mate, Iv just seen in a previous thread about Boxers, and you posted one up with a Protech postdriver P10, In hindsite would you say they are very compatable with the Boxer or do you find it makes the machine rather unstable when the weight is in action.
Many thanks, Matt
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ha, but by the time they had rigged all that up you'd think a picker would be easier.
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Looks good, Not sure about that particular model but my dad has always had zetors on his farm and they seem fairly bulletproof albeit quite basic (which is probably a good thing). You seem to be able to get quite a lot of Zetor for your money in general and they are usually low houred too.
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yes that looks handy, exactly the same as i would have got for mine but obviously different fittings to go on a digger. I believe the boxers actually have a bigger auxillary capacity then mini diggers. I would love a boxer but they dont seem to come up much second hand.
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ah, i was worried about hydraulic supply as i know small diggers have that very problem with flail heads. I too have a augertorque post borer which is absolutly fantastic, and as they require the same flow as the hedgecutter I thought it would be Ok, but with augering you dont have to slew or move much so thats where the difference is. shame, ruin my dreams why don't you!
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So once you've laid a hedge, how do you maintain it?
Matthew Storrs replied to agg221's topic in Hedgelaying
we tend to trim them annually after being laid, when it starts to get thin at the bottom of the hedge which it will over time, let it grow up untill the pleachers are at least 8ft high and around 3-4 inches in diameter at the base, then re-lay, although the style up your way is quite different from the Devon style hedgelaying which we do which is ontop of a five foot bank, so the hedge isn't the main barrier. some hedges get laid every ten years others could be more like 40 years if they are trimmed properly, don't go in too hard with the trimming back to the same cuts as it will just end up like birdnests on sticks over time.
