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  1. Matthew Storrs
    Good price on that too for something with such low hours, Iv seen these machines converted with post drivers on the back, will go anywhere and carries all the materials along with you. could be a one stop tree clear fencing machine!
  2. Matthew Storrs
    I don't know whats the problem, i'd happily pay £8000 for a load of poplar, i'd even be prepared to collect it myself:thumbup:
  3. Matthew Storrs
    thats a very good point... I suppose the roots must be reaching down to the water table?
  4. Matthew Storrs
    really depends on what the woodland is for commercial or amenity, Iv just finished thinning a mixed amenity/conservation woodland 15 years old, I didn't go too crazy with crown lifting although i did remove co dominant stems on larger species such as beech and ash, but left rowans and hawthorns etc as they were, coppiced the hazel, whether it was the right thing to do, time will tel,l but I just aimed on giving each tree a ring of sky around it.
  5. Matthew Storrs
    Well that seems to make sense, i did not realize tarmac was porous. I still think it should be a regulation not to tarmac the trunk though:thumbdown:
  6. Matthew Storrs
    Timberwolf 125 5 inch on ebay the other for about £2500, just needed a few small things doing to it. Could think of a worse setup for that money.
  7. Matthew Storrs
    just a question really, yesterday i was walking through a carpark and saw a large mature oak tree in apparent good heatlth etc but it was tarmaced right up to the base, anyway i was asked by present company how it got enough water, then realised i didn,t really have a good reply, any answers? oh yes and the tarmac stretched far beyond the extent of the roots if you know what i mean!
  8. Matthew Storrs
    Nice setup, can you reverse them in to tight corners etc and still get a decent cut out of it?
  9. Matthew Storrs
    forthed! other hands out the way and hes reaching out, cant see the problem myself.
  10. Matthew Storrs
    probably a bit out the way for you but farmer where i tip in princetown cant get enough of the stuff, roadside drop, but it would have to be woodchip obviously, no hedgetrimmings etc, although feel free to throw any timber myway!
  11. Matthew Storrs
    not a problem with the advice, but it does annoy me when the customer thinks they know about pricing tree work just cause they read up somewhere on line or a mate of theirs has taken a guess at how much he thinks it should cost, how longs a piece of string and day rates differ depending on kit/ overheads.
  12. Matthew Storrs
    woodchip im guessing?
  13. Matthew Storrs
    but stink, they don't half hold there value, just seen a 8 year old one going for £7000 +vat. Andy is yours a walk behind at 5 ft?
  14. Matthew Storrs
    hmm decisions decisions. too many choices! Yes i have looked at the quad x ones, impressive as far as i can tell. but the selling point for me is the fact i can stick the walk behinds in the back of the landy, but don't know whether i will be a bit limited on what size areas i can undertake, quad ones have a larger deck? cheers for the help, certainly need to get one together before nxt season.
  15. Matthew Storrs
    im guessing the bearings went?
  16. Matthew Storrs
    iv got to ask, how the hell do you tip a manitou on the flat?
  17. Matthew Storrs
    id like to see them try doing a dog tooth fell with that saw!
  18. Matthew Storrs
    thanks for that, they look just the jobbie, i suppose the towed one is quicker but the walk behind is far mor manouverable, any ideas of a price? also how would you rate these compared to a flail machine, id be doing mostly rough grass but also id like to do bracken and rushes. could these ones do bracken?
  19. Matthew Storrs
    thats quite cool, i like the fact you can control it inside and not get cold!
  20. Matthew Storrs
    Not strictly arb but recently iv been turning quite a bit of work down as i don't have the ability to mow rough grass ie paddocks/ pasture land, does anybody have any recomendations for an outfit to do such work, not interested in tractor mounted ones as too big to warrant for most jobs, keener on a small manouverable one to do up to say an acres worth and rough ground quad and tow behind flail is the current option but would be keen to hear other opinions. Cheers
  21. Matthew Storrs
    i dont doubt the power, more the traction, can you adjust the height of the blade and do it in several passes for deeper snow?
  22. Matthew Storrs
    wouldn,t have thought a 4x4 had the weight in it to push much snow around?
  23. Matthew Storrs
    a bloke up the road used to clear the roads with a jcb 3cx then got told by the council that he'd be liable if someone slid of after he'd been a long, have you ever heard such cr*p .
  24. Matthew Storrs
    theres a thought, i always put the ears just below the gob, just the way iv always done it, but is there a difference in doing them above?
  25. Matthew Storrs
    itl grow back!

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