Matthew Storrs

I hired a chipper of Doug no more then 14 days ago- has he really sold up???? He made no mention of it....

Yes, I agree if I was one of those idiots who drive around with a 5" lift and one life live it stickers:001_rolleyes: but I like my land rover for the good basic workhorse it has turned out to be. It is a very economical (in terms of downtime) truck and does absolutely every thing I ask of it- who could ask for more:thumbup:

my two. zetor has been used for postdriving over the last year, Just brought the Same (the one with the loader), to take over the zetor as its quicker getting to jobs and uses considerably less diesel.

a few picture of my digger- scrapping around in the yard having a burn up, nice Saturday afternoon job:thumbup1:

I must have missed you by minutes, I was aiming for 1 but by the time I got sidetracked by the new timber wolf chipper it was more like 20 past:laugh1:

Pretty gutsy for a corn snake:thumbup1:

Sweden I reckon:biggrin:

I went yesterday,did many people arrive for the 1pm rendezvous?

Ah that explains why I didn't t see them then:laugh1:

Hmm, not convinced. I wriggled under it and had a good look under neath, looked pretty similar in construction to defender, apart from some fairly beefy looking rear leaf springs. Bigger and better engine definiately, but in general couldn't see it being 20+k better. If that's the price of the truck imagine what the parts would cost. Very basic looking on the inside (not a bad thing). Now the 6x6 Sprinter tipper was very sexy.

I was well impressed with the Timber wolf, loved the 4 big roller springs and the wide hopper. I think it willbe a big hit. Well done TW!

No, unfortunately could only really spare the one day. Shame really as I found myself skimping past some of it through lack of time.

We went up in the car, its good grass and as losing as it doesn't rain I can't see there being a problem.

Oops, forgive me, for some reason I thought treeshirtz was a seperate company in its own right.

Call me blind, but I was at the timber wolf stand at 20 past 1 and could see no sign of an arbtalk stand? I saw the timber wolf cabin and the treeshirtz one on the otherside... Also anyone else get invited into the Biber tent- get given a free beer and nibbles and then left to go on your way without the slightest attempt at a sales pitch from them? I woukd buy one of their chippers just for that:lol: Good beer it was too.

Yes, I agree, sure it was a lovely truck but really 46k +vat? I don't care how good they may be you could buy 2 new landies and still have change or it would buy a lot of unimog too. Crazy price.

Lovely digger Steve, just like my old one, really hankering after another one. No doubt Doobin is right, some wheels would probably be a sensible option- even one wheel under neath like a giant castor wheel would relieve the digger of some weight, but when I used to think what my digger was put through it never seemed to die. Great machines! I really like the trailer that Eddie posted a while back, the blue Swedish one with a hardox body- great combo for a three toner I reckon!

I wonder what sort of undue strain you put on a mini diggers track motors by towing, anyone know? I probably tow up to 1.5-2t with my 3 tonner, used to tow about a ton with the TB016, you could hear the hydraulic pump groaning a bit more than just doing regular operations, so I do try to minimize the strain when towing.

Yes, I'm ashamed to admit, in my haste to bolt my tow ball on, I knackered a 16mm drillbit in the process, it started off quite quick (it was a brand new bit) by the second hole it was painfully slow- in fact I drained a battery on one hole! I think keeping it cool is probably the trick?

Well my ball is mounted high up on the doze blade, if I need to pull a truck I choke a sling/strop round the trunk then put it on the ball and lift the blade, does OK, but I only use it for that ocassionly, I use it far more for shunting trailers around, mainly setting out fencing stakes around a field, I lift a bundle of 80 fencing stakes on to the trailer and just shuttle around the field knocking n the stakes with the post rammer on the digger as I pull the trailer behind, works well!

Iv got a ball bolted straight on to the dozer blade, 16mm holes took some drilling with a cordless drill! I thought about having a ball and pin type too but just went for ball as I can't see the pin doing much that you can't do with a ball, takes up less space on the blade and was quite a bit cheaper to buy.

Iv used car filler (the type you mix with hardener) to fix gate hangings into a granite gatepost, Mega strong and a 12ft wooden gate is still hanging of it a few years later, hole was drilled about 2-3 inches deep, filled it with filler, put in the hanger and pack round with more filler, leave 20 mins to harden- job done. It works out much cheeper than these other branded chemical anchors I have found and is much the same thing.

The thing with track chippers is they totally change the way you work a lot of the time, so many jobs I used to do with mine would nvolve taking the hopper of, go through a 3ft gate, getting the machine next to the tree and chip on site- worked out considerably cheaper for the customer and far less ball ache for us. When it came to taking chip away, well, you just work with it, landy would happily tow the loaded chipper on a trailer with a full load of chip, if it was a big job, tow the chipper to the job in a trailer, chip into trailer go and empty and come back for the machine later. I also got plenty of jobs in woodlands- clearing scrub etc where you just couldn't get a tow behind, or at least not without a lot of hassle. Definiatly not suggesting its the perfect machine for everyone but for my kind of work it was spot on, I'm currently hiring a tow behind chipper s and when I need it and truth be told I find it a little irritating having been used to a tracked machine for the last 3 years. Hope that helps Swinny!

I do my tractor (insured at 20k) through trust, very helpful and costs me £630 3rd party fire and theft, it would be a lot cheaper if it was just 3rd party, I tried lycetts but they weren't at all helpful and said they couldn't insure it.

Ha ha so true, I always find someone trying to assist in reversing procedures a bit chuckle brothers.