Matthew Storrs
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Yes with stock netting I’d agree- but I was meaning strands of plain hi tensile wire- I use it a lot for horsey folk and they’ve never had problems- certainly saves them chewing up £Ks of timber rails!
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It’s not the vibrating that’s a problem with 5x3 they will twist as soon as they hit a rock- you can make a tool (like a 2 prong fork) to try and twist them back a bit- but if your knocking into shillet its will be near impossible- some full spec post knockers have a hydraulic post twister which would be the best bet. If customer insists on 5x3s to me I really only auger them in- as it’s the only way I can guarantee a tidy job of it, I’ve tried too many times to knock them and been frustrated with battling against them twisting. I’m on very hard ground though most of the time...
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Most original objection to tree felling/work?
Matthew Storrs replied to Big J's topic in General chat
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Fenceline uk Nr Holsworthy would do all that, or nearest mole valley. Your looking at approx £7500 just for the materials for the spec you’ve described, and if you plan on getting more ponies they like to chew! Also you want to be on exceptionally good ground if you want to have any luck vibrating 5x3s into the ground square and straight without them twisting out of line. How about using round posts 6ft 4-5” will be stronger, quicker and considerably cheaper- and as suggested above using plain wire will do the same job at considerable savings- even if you substitute only 2 of the rails for wire... I’m on Dartmoor but if I was nearer I could have done the post ramming for you.
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conventional tail swing, comfortably towable, good ground clearance, twin set of aux lines, what’s not to like!? Yanmar are good kit. i think tracks may be a bit more expensive as they have offset design which is supposed to aid stability. How do you compare it to your CAT out of interest on first impression?
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Nice old girl- I have Had 2 TB125s- reckon they’re my favourite all time mini ex of all the ones I’ve used. tippingbucket on the blade- would probably not get enough height to really tip much- how about a small trailer on the blade. even one of those mini dump trailers.http://www.exac-one.co.uk/products/diga_bara.html you could probably make/convert something that suited your needs? I’ve done it with an ifor flatbed before and it was great- load timber on with the grab- and then use to unload at the other end.
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Indeed I think we’re all desperately bobbin for puns, but basically run out of material.
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Nah- sounds like he’s a dyed-in-the-wool arborist to me.
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Reckon he’ll tell us all to sit and spin.
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To my simple mind- whether the plate is up or down the load placed on the M16s is the same? I get what you mean in that the M16s are very strong when being pulled directly but obvious shearing is a factor if vertical pressure is applied (whether from below or above)
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Yeah I agree. I only do it for necessary business equipment- personal life, if I can’t afford it outright I don’t buy it!
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Or perhaps it gives you the means in which to live?!
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Personally, I only try and use finance on items I intend to keep long term. Or rather kit I intend to keep long term I buy new as with low depreciation in plant I often think it costs the same to buy new over the long term. My method is to put down as a deposit the amount I think the kit will be valued(sell for) after the term I I intend to keep it for- I then spread the finance over half that term. so for example if I buy a digger new which I intend to keep for 10 years and I think I’d get £10k for it then, I’d put £10k down as the deposit and finance the rest over 5 years, feels like I get 5 after that where the machine is then working for me knowing il get enough in resale to deposit the next machine.
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Ah right- fair enough. As you say I think they’re establishing a pretty good dealer network now. I have one local to me who seems to be doing good business with yanmar. Incidentally you could have got it in baby blue Kobelco. Their sv26 is made by yanmar, identical except the colour.
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Why would you not have no after sales from yanmar- dealer not near? must say if I was buying a sub 3 ton towable machine new it’d be the yanmar sv26. It just ticks all the boxes for me. Conventional tail swing and a wide track base at that, Good ground clearance, comfortably towable plus nice proportional auxiliary controls/option for a 2nd of aux lines. Just think it’s a really well thought out machine.
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Unless your working between tight buildings, I’ve rarely found an issue with conventional tail swing in this size bracket. 45cm overhang, if you can’t work with that you must as well just get a smaller machine in. unfortunaly most manufactures seem to be doing mostly zeros now, think takeuchi, Kubota and yanmar are the main 3 still offering conventional tails in 3 ton size.
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Yeah, I’ve found the same. Zero far more jumpy on the back track. Can’t beat a nice big ass! i might be wrong but think that Bobcat is basically the same as your doosan- made by the same company anyway I believe.
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I quite like using finance even if I don’t necessarily need it- I’d prefer to have the money in my account and just treat finance as another monthly business expense.
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Ah right, probably not far off then. I paid 800 for just over £5k borrowed over 24 months. The longer the period the worse it is.
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Got to say that seems dear to me. Over what period?
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First time I used Finance they wanted to see my business bank account statements going back 6 months. Since then because I’ve stuck with the same company each time they don’t want to see any further documents- I’ve never missed a payment or anything so guess they know the score.
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The whole thing is surprisingly efficient once you’ve go a system. Il do about 20-30 posts an hour on my own. Me and a mate will knock 550 meters in a day at 3m intervals
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Could do that, or hang a chain from the knocker- sometime I use a bit of tree spray paint- once all the posts are stabbed in wall along with a measure and put a mark on each post- takes a minute or 3 for hundred meters so not the end of the world.
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I hang a plumb line off each stake, basically a small weight hanging off a string- reckon I get them just as straight as my conventional contractor model on tractor and spirit level I used to have . I just have a wire at ground level- stab all the stakes in then go along- hang the plumb line on, knock it in, get out and move the line to the next post whilst checking to make sure the post you’ve just done is straight. Sounds a faff but it’s only out the cab once per stake and you get into a rhythm. Few pics, all done on my own with digger and knocker.
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If it’s a zero swinger then it’ll be less stable though. ideally you’d use it sideways over the tracks so it’s quick to go from post to post using blade to level machine- on very steep ground you’d have to have the blade down in front of you. Recently I had it on very steep ground that they’d had flailed- it was far too steep for a tractor but by having the knocker extended full reach up hill I was able to manoeuvre about and get to all of the posts. A heavy handed /jerky operator would have had the machine on its side pretty quickly because you have to lift the knocker on to the post if you start to tilt its too late to stop yourself like you’d do with a bucket.
