jmac

A car will be fine and get you up most proper forest roads unless the forwarder has been running on the road 🤦‍♂️. Stick a set of higher profile winter tyres on and make a sump guard for it if you find it's too low 👍

4 hours ago, Johnsond said:

100% correct 

SNP hate field sports or the countryside for that matter, they’d rather see wholesale slaughter than let sensible experienced people manage things. As always the press will give them a free ride. I’ve already seen the results of cheap night vision and thermal aids etc, head, gut and even one carcass literally shot straight in the backside 😡😡😡absolutely disgraceful and criminal behaviour sanctioned by those supposedly paid to look after our countryside. Also no deer equals no good reason to possess a firearm 🤷‍♂️something the snp would love to fetch in. 

Is it not still illegal to shoot deer using thermal or night vision scopes. None of the contractors about here use them, only spotting scopes then switch to spotlight for the actual shot.

Standing dead spruce from within a mature spruce crop, will burn straight away with no seasoning but with seasoning makes great kindling.

On 22/12/2021 at 17:09, aspenarb said:

On domestics our small grinder gets thrown in the back of the transit whether there are chips/chogs in there or not, chipper is up the back of the transit and that's it. If our four wheeled rayco or a hired in tracked mid sized grinder are taken to a job its another truck/trailer involved, true costs of that grinder/grinding start to rack up. 

The big rayco up the chuff of the mog eats nothing other than a bit of maintenance and that's still doing battle 30 years on.

 

 

 

 

 

What hp is in that big rayco bob? I have a slightly smaller grinder with v4 Wisconsin on it, think its 35hp.

My mate has a Suzuki jimny with mud tyres on which is a great wee truck off road but he says the fuel economy is poor.

Berlingo style van with winter tyres and a sump guard will get you up most forest tracks. If the wood is being harvested the road will need to be decent enough to have timber wagons running on it.

8 minutes ago, Spruce Pirate said:

I think there are two types of people when it comes to PPE.

 

1.  People who believe PPE is there to protect them and that it is important to keep it in good condition to ensure that it does it's job.

 

2.  People who believe that PPE is a bit of an inconvenience but put up with it because it keeps other people, who have clipboards and checklists, happy and enables them to keep working.

 

If you are a type 1 person you will retire the helmet, if you are a type 2 person you'll keep using the helmet and hope that nobody with a clipboard and shiny shoes notices that it is damaged.

I'm type 2 what are you ? 🤣🤣

On 14/04/2014 at 21:21, bobh said:

Hi Justin

Wow that's an old thread! Had to re read it just to remind myself what I did.

Unfortunately if you've read the thread then you've read my whole expertise with these systems so I can't really help you I'm afraid, don't even know if the TW25 shares the same system as the county. If it does all I can suggest is get the top off the back end (on the county it was just a case of remove the seat and then unbolt the cover) and then just see what you can see, that's pretty much what we did.

 

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Was this an ex duffy county? I'm sure I've seen it before when working on mull.

Skip tooth chain is a good option for long bars on smaller cc saws, plus less teeth to sharpen 👍

I'm pretty sure the 130 uses the isuzu engine, parts for these engines are surprisingly expensive. When I did the head gasket on my chipper that uses the smaller 4le2 isuzu engine the gasket set and new head bolts were close to 500 quid. 5k does seem a bit steep right enough but if he has been using the digger for any length of time with the gasket blowing it could have damaged the block or liners which would soon bring the cost of repair up.

56 minutes ago, harvey b davison said:

3 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

Correct about sparks and gas engineers but most of the other trades I know learnt on the job, Brickie's, joiners, plasterers. Very few of them saw uni or college.

Have you seen the state of so called workmanship on building sites these days, its diabolical. There are very few actual craftsmen around these days.

Same with chainsaw operators! Plenty with tickets but when you get them into the wood you soon find out most of them are fecking useless 🤦‍♂️ 

Another case of pointless insurance policy and taking money off you for nothing! 🤬

I've used rotatech blades for years and never had any problems at all. Worked for a big company years ago that had timberwolf chippers and used oem blades and one of the blades shattered! Turns out the guys had changed the blades without using a torque wrench.

23 hours ago, Mr. Squirrel said:

That’s the crack. They’re also omitting reversing from the hgv test. Sounds like a lot of haulage companies and insurance companies understandably want nothing to do with people who’ve been fast tracked in this manner though. You can’t have a 17 year old rushed through a test like that and now driving a 45 tonne lorry. 
 

Sounds like it’s similar with trailers, though it might be legal to tow, when/if these new laws come into force, insurance companies will likely still insist on professional training. 
 

Our government couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. While it sounds great, it’s clearly a panicked decision and I’ll be amazed if any good actually comes from this. 

That sounds mental! No reversing what a joke 🤦‍♂️

Was talking to a guy who has a couple of lorries yesterday, he said the hgv test is going to be shorter and easier to pass. Anyone heard similar?

My brother has a 2010 crafter van and has had bother with its electrics, sometimes it just decides it doesn't want to start! He has had it on diagnostics a few times and no one can find the fault. My mate had a 59 plate tipper with a similar fault. 

I was thinking of getting a heavy duty canvas made for the top of the silage  trailer so its removable for log loading and cutting out a bit at the top of the rear door for chipping through so it can be loaded right up to the top with no mess. Has anyone done similar ? 

11 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

All of those saying running a business from home is ok, would you want to see that lot plus a JCB Loadall parked over the road from your place, and the coming and going of lads each end of the day? I very much doubt it.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest! You lot down there are easily annoyed 🤣🤣 

34 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Don’t think I’d fancy that plus two vans parked next door down my street.

Dont know about the legality, but why not leave the loadall (that is a telehandler right?) and a van at the yard?

Then there’s no issue.

Why would that bother you? Nothing to do with you what someone parks on their drive! 

6 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

In France shredders are very popular.

I've used several with over 300 hrs on the same hammers.

No-one I've met actually believes they need changing.

The machines tend to produce long shreds, alot of dust and noise.

Stuart

 

This was not a shredder it was a tp 200 🤣🤣

Think the contractor that done this chipping for the council needs to have a look at his blades and anvils! 🤣🤣

20 hours ago, PeteB said:

No more engines left! On to the Evo205 now! Had independent folk say that it out chips other makes and is likely toget to the same spots as the SureTrak19288!

Such a shame I love the safetrak 1928 but dont love dpf and electronics 😢

Oh aye head gasket too. None of this has put me off the safetrack and I enquired about buying a new one this week but was disappointed to hear they have none left to sell 😢

Wish I'd read this before I bought mine 🙈🤣🤣. So far I've had to replace tracks, rollers, idler wheels, bottom feed roller and bearings, starter motor, electric clutch, head gasket, various wires, throttle cable, stop bar cable and 3 or 4 of the top roller long bolts. She had a very hard life on the railway before I bought her but she has chipped a helluva stuff and made me plenty.

On 23/03/2021 at 18:48, Stubby said:

Did you notice the burger van that follows him around ?  He is , how can I put it , " well covered " .  He sits by a lake in the middle of nowhere and manages to catch a fish about3 inches long and says that will sustain him until morning .  Ok ...😁

When he was filming in the west coast of scotland he was seen buying fire lighters in the wee village shop 🤣🤣🤣. I do like watching his programmes tho.