Matthew Storrs
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Is it the kubota u20 you are looking at by any chance?
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But what do you say when the customer asks how long it will take, they may just want to know how long you are going to be there for as they may have plans or something, and in any case if you charge £450 for a dismantle and then drop it and be gone in an hour they are going to think they have been ripped off anyway. Personally I'm pretty up straight with my customers with regards timings but only if they ask:thumbup1:
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I keep toying with the idea of a new truck, but threads like this make me realise why i always end up sticking with the 110 pickup. I get that a new truck is going to cost me 20k or so, but if i'm spending that kind of money I want to tow 3.5 ton daily and for it to be able to do so for 170,000 miles and still be doing it in 18 years time like my Landrover still is all whilst costing me b*gger all in repairs. AT the moment I just can't be convinced that any of the current offerings will do so, so I think i will just hold on till neccessity forces change.
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Why use Hydraulic oil then? is that just manufacturers reccomendation? I think i would just use bio chainsaw oil/veg oil, got to be better for you than hydraulic oil if your breathing it in...
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Hydraulic oil is nasty stuff to have on your skin let alone breath- Its pretty carcinogenic by all accounts (on internet!) Seems odd that it uses hydraulic oil to lube the chain- are you constantly topping up with the stuff? You'd think it would have a small tank for solely this purpose so its easy to top up with chaisaw oil etc leaving the hydraulic tank solely for hydraulic operations- or am i missing something.
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Porridge for me most mornings, got to be jumbo oats, soaked over night prior to cooking (NOT IN A MICROWAVE) and then lashings of either honey or maple syrup. keeps me going till Lunch no probs. Sometimes i make an egg fried rice dish in the mornings too.
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Building can potentially be mighty hard graft. The last few weeks I have taken 'time off' to do a landscaping job at home- involving mixing tons of concrete and laying 9" blocks and granite etc. working as a team of 3 this would be quite straightforward but on my own (and i do rather go hell for leather) keeping up with a constant mixer and pouring concreting laying blocks etc etc- proper knackard when I finish at 9pm! I worked in a quarry once in the sawing shed- trying to keep up with dumper loads of stone being poured into the shed all day and whilst being sprayed with freezing cold water was pretty hard work:thumbdown:
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When you say plant insurance do you mean to cover you for public liability doing digger work/ groundworks etc or to cover you for the actual machines. Trust insurance recently sorted me out a plan to cover all digger work up to 3 meters depth- it doesn't include any tree work or anything just groundworks and fencing etc. Hope that helps.
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Whilst this makes total sense, i find its a catch 22 situation. Our dog is 'funny' with other dogs particularly in the situation you descibe. I beleive left down to chance he would be far better off the lead. However I'd rather not take the risk of him damaging another dog so keep him on the lead when other dogs are around. The problem of course is that often the oncoming dog who isn't on a lead comes rushing up to him albeit playfully leaving our dog to take the fight path. What do you do really?
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Fair enough sentiment, but even the most docile labrador will have a snapping point, the times our collie has growled at our daughter has been soley due to us not being quick enough to prevent her pulling his fur, a dog has no other means of communication and likewise a 1 year old child can't be told. Its a situation that falls eniterly in our hands to prevent. We never leave them alone for a moment but any act of aggresion other than a provocated growl would be acted upon immediately.
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Eggs, sorry to hear this, Had he ever attacked anyone before this?. I only mention it as from the face of your post- if I ever stepped between 2 fighting dogs I would expect (in their momement of excitedness) to get bitten by one of them, I probably wouldn't have the dog put down for this reason alone, but perhaps in your case there is more to the story? We have a collie who has growled at our 1 year old daughter on a few occasions (always provoked when she might pull his fur or something). Its something that needs to be kept an eye on but hope it is not ever something that will ever manifest further than a growl.
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I don't think this is entirely accurate. I believe (and google confirms it!) that JK can spread through Rhizomes, stems and the leaves. They are all capable of spreading it.
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superb pictures, the one from the road shows just how tight and tidy it is- lovely. I do a certain amount of Devon style every year- but I'm not going to post pictures now:laugh1:
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Thanks for that, yes I realise there are many factors at play determining the price but interesting to know never the less, I can't help feeling if i was going to fork out 10k for it I'd want it on a bit bigger machine than a 3 tonner- simply so that it can handle a wider range of attachments to get maximum benefit out of it,. All depends on your type of work though i guess. I recently had a holiday to Sweden, didn't see a machine without it and spent quite some time (much to my wifes disgust) watching rubber ducks with them on large scale construction site. Another thing i noticed in Sweden they always seemed to over spec machine size for the job, for example using a 5 tonner to pull out shrubs growing around street trees! A 1.5t would have been ample.
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Christ Id be scared to death using an auger in London!! must be a maze of utilities underneath. Sounds a good set up you have though for your kind or work.
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watching that video makes me quite green with envy, what sort of money are we talking about for an engcon for a 3 tonner. I have no idea 2k, 5 k?
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I can only imagine:laugh1: You can get a new protech p10 for £1500, whilst I don't think the are the best design, for just smaller scale stuff on levelish ground they would be a good tool to have in the arsenal, or get a vibrating one on a breaker....
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You have the digger anyway, why not just get a small knocker for this, going to be way better than anything handheld particularly if we are talking 8ft stakes!
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I suspect that it would be overweight (but only just) on even the lightest plant trailer, which may explain why they are not as common as the zx27? I did a little job on a newish ZX27 the other day, powerfull machine and nice features but more 'snappy' than my Takeuchi. Id feel alot more confident that i could roll an egg along under the bucket of my Tak than the Hitachi but the owner of the hitachi who was doing the groundworks had shifted some massive rocks (pretty much bedrock lumps of granite) with it- was well impressed with the power.
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Yes, as said its a reduced swinger, but it weighs 2.6ton anyway, Personally Id prefer to carry an extra 200kg around and get the TB125, will be alot better with your post knocker, and the arm/tracks are beefier. You can get a TB125 on a trailer and keep it under 3.5t if you get the right trailer... Post knocker will have to be a seperate trip though!
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How would you compare a zero tail swing compared to standard on a 2.8 ton machine. I've never used one but was watching one on site the other day and I thought it looked a bit jumpy on the back track compared to my standard one. Isn't the track base wider on zero swingers?
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you could always have a bracket made up so you accept additional counterweights on the rear of a 1.5t?, an extra 150kg of counterweights would make quite a difference on a TB016
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The pictures i posted above are on a 2.8 tonner, that postdriver has a 180 kg weight and i would not want more on it! A 1.5t would barely lift the machine as it weighs 350kg all in. When i had my TB016 i had a lighter built postdriver with a 100kg hammer weight. You could work with it on pretty steep ground.
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Yes a few grand gets a consierably better machine, my first TB016 I got for £8k with 1400 hours in near enough perfect condition, I put a thousand hours on it over 3 years and sold it on losing only a £2k, it cost me £2 an hour! fuel and servicing was about £1.50 an hour and it cost me nothing in repairs over 3 years, proper money earner. I think if i was buying a used 1.5tonner now i would set my budget at £10k, IMO this will get you a really decent machine. if you spend anymore than this than you'd probably be better of buying brand new with the benefits of warranty etc. I,d sooner finance a good machine than buy a banger out right.
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Thats bad luck, made worse by the distance you travelled. Would you mind me asking roughly what price range you are looking at?
