Matthew Storrs

no don't think so, Russians aren't my type:biggrin:

Latest one iv just seen on the right- Eastern European Dating, 24000 Russian girls available. Plenty to go round id say:thumbup1:

Is anyone else getting the option to 'date pretty girls' and 'top Russian girls' on the right of your screen next to the adverts. Is this a new direction for arbtalk Steve?

that's far too much, I was thinking more along the lines of £199:001_rolleyes:

Easy, only you know what you want from a days work doing that sort of job. You'll just get answers from £200-£800 if you ask on here!

ooh im sure you can find a reason somewhere:laugh1: Do you know how much one of these machines weigh?

Same trailer I had with mine, built like a tank:laugh1: why have you cut the runners (that stop the machine tipping off the trailer) down?

You can do pretty much anything with a tracked machine that you can do with a wheeled machine but not vice versa, But if you spend most of your working days on driveways and roads why bother forking out an additional 10k... I really think that most tree companies working in cities mainly will benefit little from a tracked machine compared with folk who work out in rural areas.

True, but perhaps you really need the kind of work for a trackie to make it work for you, if 80% of your jobs is based on being on a roadside or on someones driveway, then you,d probably be better off with wheeled. Large rural gardens/countryside work/woodlands- tracked machine all the way. Im unsure of the latest prices but I think a tracked machine is near enough 10k more than equvilent wheeled, you,ve got to quite a bit of above works to actually pay for itself. Just being devils advocate...

I used to have a tracked timberwolf, and on many jobs we wouldn,t have been without it- tracking along woodland paths, pulling the landy out of the mud, pulling trees over, into back gardens, most customers were happy to keep the chip (we mainly work in rural areas anyway) Happily filled up my landrover and towed the chipper too, plus the trailer is good for carrying additional tools once landrover was full with chip. In short if all I did was tree work, id definiatly have one all over again, Am going to purchase a new wheeled machine tho now just for the convenience of being able to take on more domestic tree work, the only draw back to the tracked machine (aside from the cost) was logistical problems on small driveways and if you were only doing a small job it was a bit off a faff having to tow the machine all that way/unload find somewhere to put trailer, do job and then repeat. But this is a very minor problem compared to the benefits.

Bateson make trailers that can carry a shade over 2.9t, I use a ifor flatbed to move my 2.8t digger, trailer is 620kg stripped down plus about 50kg for the ramps. Just about legal!!

Crawler Tractor 90hp, 3pl, pto. with plant trailer | eBay Could think of many uses for this. Might suit someone very nicely:thumbup1:

Neighbour had Christmas carols blaring out earlier- what is the world coming too:laugh1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLJTvkS3uo This would have been a better advert- what a couple of plonkers!

As we all know buying anything used is a gamble- sometimes you can hit the jackpot and pick up a really sound vehicle which gives minimal bother, keep it a few years and probably sell it on for not much less than you paid for it. Buying new is less of a gamble, you are more guaranteed that you will get trouble free motoring for a few years with good dealer backup, however the moment you drive that shiny truck away from the showroom you are losing money quickly. I guess it comes down to how much value you put on downtime, loss of earnings due to breakdowns will almost certainly cost you more than regular planned finance, but I think this is more suited to an established/busy business where you can support the finance better than the downtime. For new starters I think you would be mad to buy a financed/new truck (unless you come into money and you can buy outright). if work doesn't pick up enough how will you support the payments- and you will certainly loseout big time when you have to sell it, chances are if you are just starting out you will have time on your hands, if the truck breaks down you just have to push the job on a few days- helps if your handy with mechanics. Me and a mate both purchased landrover hicaps when we started out,(4-5k trucks) mine has been excellent and had very little spent on it other than general wear and tear costs, and its worked HARD. His on the other hand has been a nightmare and cost him £kkks in repairs of one sort or another, its all a gamble which most businesses take at one point or another.

Belarus are supposedly the largest tractor manufacturer in the world.... Do Fiat even make tractors anymore? good tractors

Yet to try a zetor which had good ones-if any, and iv tried a fair few now.

Got to be the operator I reckon where machinery is concerned- its only dangerous in the wrong hands. I should add with modern machinery- some old school machines were hideously dangerous no matter who was using it!

Haha would you want to go any faster with those brakes:001_tongue:

Bit of a grey area really as they don't need an mot/test. Who,s to blame for an un road worthy agg vehicle? the farmer ? he,s not a mechanic/mot tester. Sure, but MOT is meaningless anyway really- its valid for about the day of the test, if your brakes fail 8 months down the line you can hardly turn around and say "it passed its MOT though" accidents happen- but bady secured loads- speeding- lack of lights etc all come down to operator error and should be fined/banned IMO

But aren't the subsidies helping prices in the supermarket? how is it possible to produce 4pints of milk for not much more than a £1 otherwise. Not that this has anything to do with unroadworthy vehicles- they should be heavily fined/ banned farmer or not.

I'l second that, we had a demo for the GM130 ARB the other day, we were very, very impressed with it and it pulled in armfuls of oak branches like you wouldn't believe, its amazing what they,ve managed to do considering its a fairly small engine powering it- shows you how good the design is, those vertical rollers just make sense. Ive never tried the timberwolf 125 but this GM 130 pulled brash in better than the timberwolf 150 I had. No stress kicked in a bit more - but that's to be expected with the smaller engine and it kept up with 2 of us feeding it ok.

certainly a massive project, its starting to look like spaghetti junction round penn inn now!

Iv used a 3 ton jcb803- awful awful awful digger, totally gutless, slow and at times nearly stalled itself during heavy digging- id sooner have been in a 1.6t takeuchi any day.

Many many threads on Arbtalk now on this subject- may be worth searching out a few threads as there is some good info out there. As Eddie says, an idea of budget and what size chipper your planning on feeding and what you have to transport the machine will help.