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I would not be that bothered about the size of the wheels as they are quite tough and capable, we have had a trailer that we built and the only thing wrong was it should of been a ladder frame and not a single spine as in your photo, and you know what life is like, it can be very cruel at times as about a month after we built ours a ladder framed one croped up for sale for a bit less than what ours cost to build, We have had ours about ten years now and it has had some abuse in that time, the crane on ours is not fantastic by a long way but it does the job, and from some later reserch and viewing and use of other smaller cranes the country cranes supplied by Riko and the Farma cranes seem to be miles ahead of the other manufactures of small cranes but you get what you pay for and that goes for the timber grab as well, If you could find some one who owns one of the trailers in your photo or better still if they have a demo one you could have for a few days do it ,

And the council who you pay your council tax and business rates to still sent you a letter !! arse and elbow come to mind here, mind you i think most people in these organisations cant be arsed to do much and if it dont jump up and hit them in the face they cant find it,,

I will get you a doggie bag if you want !!

Going for my Jelly n custard now 😂

I work all times of day, so the post earlier but had people to ring and emails to send, just been and made a brew and now about to start 3-4hrs of homework for a DEFRA project, then got a big birthday bash tomorrow with Jelly n custard cant wait,,,

You got Ting Tong round again ??😂😂

Used to get up there on to loch Awe and Etive a fair bit but never after mid May, simply for the reason you describe ,Midges, it was not nice at all, once went to Awe in mid June and went home after 36hrs,

As for cost it should not really matter as the crane needs to be right, next thing the extension will be stuck in and be a right ba-tard to get out, I bought a hydraulic pump for a Kubota L3250 compact tractor not long since and nearly had a heart attack when he told me was over £700 + VAT as its only the size of half a house brick and not much good for our job with out it,

BRM Brian Robinson Machinery Northallerton north Yorkshire, i think either do or did deal and import Junkari trailers and chippers, if they have a relationship with Junkari and given the times we are in i would think it would be far quicker and easier to buy through a established dealer, from what you say after removing grab and disconnecting the ram the slide should just pull out with little effort and then replace new one sounds easy and it could be but i bet that part costs you some ???,

Get the word out there that your looking for some one else to work with you as a 3 man team, if the guy you have working with you hears about it he just may buck his ideas up, i once was in a very simulare situation and i told the lad working with us that we where not working friday as i had 5 lads to interview, but un be known to him i had a subby lad lined up for monday onwards for several wk, but when monday came there seemed to be a bit more go about the lad and that week he never moaned or asked what time we where going home, after this he never missed a day or asked to go home early or start late for near on a month, you can not run a business with unreliable staff it just dont work, you need things to mend up and have good reliable staff its a pain in the arse and finding good reliable lads today is getting harder as not many want to get there hands dirty, Good luck,,

Yes the guy who owns it now has done for 30 yrs or more but he is now in his 70s and only uses it part time, and it will last a lot longer yet but Its like every thing from that era it was vastly over engineered and built to last, i have a Mcconell towable saw bench with twin cylinder Petter diesel on it and according to engine number it was built in April 1953, some say its a dangerous looking thing but its only as dangerous as the oparator using it, it gets bearings greased up now n then along with a oil change, and i cut a hell of a lot of firewood on that saw and i expect it to out last me, we can not compare any thing that is built today to any thing from that engineering era of the 2 decades that followed WW2,

If it is the seals ? But sorry i agree with others, just go and buy a new saw and you will have a few years use out of it then, replacing crank seals in a saw of that size n cost its not a done thing i would say and far better buying new saw,

That saw at the time when new would be the smallest mill available from Stenner, it is what i would say how it was supplied all them years ago from the factory, ours was a different set up but a much bigger saw and driven bed, the drive set up would be by PTO shaft possibly from a gear box with dog clutch, these saws where very common in the UK back in the 50s/60s/70s/80s as every estate had there own sawmill for cutting timber for there own use, but as time has gone on sawmills have become automated and are so productive today with zero waste as a result, a sawmill we send sawlogs to put about 100-120 tonne a day through there,s, But can i just remind some of you the stenner saw in question has a bit of age about it and when we look back engineering at this time was at the top of its game and most items from this era where vastly over engineered and thats why its still here, the saw i worked with is still milling timber today ok not every day but it will be cutting 20 tonne a week on a part time basis,

I agree with you on this 5-10 k to move it ? these machines are very very capable machines of cutting good volumes of timber in a short time, i worked on one for 3 years, and look at the speed of a wood mizer compared to that saw ? race horse and donkey come to mind here, cost of blades well just look at them one is very industrial and the other a more hobby /homeowner blade, A mate of mine has just installed a Laimet 120, he put the concrete slab down on the friday, went with 2 lads on the monday to start the dismantle all back in his yard and installed and cutting wood by friday, and thats a lot more complicated machine than the Stenner but his was a long way from £1500, If that was not far from me i would be thinking about that as it aint expensive and i am 100% sure i could make good money with that at the moment given the sawn timber shortage in the UK at present,

Looking at it i would say its a 60s 70s machine and the bed is push through manually but i think with a bit of thought it could be converted to hydraulic drive, i used to work on one in late 70s early 80s but it was a much bigger machine than this one, but that was driven bed from new, it looks a handy sized mill to me and if my memory serves me right the only thing that went wrong with ours was a electric motor burnt out ,but this one is diesel powered so i would think its ok, the seller says up n running and can demo, at £1500 i dont think its dear and if you could get the logs to put through it you would get your money back in little time, the last job i was involved in when i worked on the mill was cutting about 8500 6ft 6x3 posts and about 25.000 12ft rails for the fencing along the M55 from Preston to Blackpool,

There will be belts on the bay for that as there is a company that i use for odd ball belts, just measure the outside length of the belt, drop down box on add with length and v width n depth, just select and will be generally be there 2 days later,

FFS If he takes notice of all the above, poor lad will end up as a Monk, 😂😂

If what he says he has ticket wise is right he is worth 120 + as there aint that many guys about with 34&35 and if he has plenty of expieriance in wind blown and does it with out his arse going worth more than the 120 every day,

The hot air is coming out of the vents on the floor at 86 degrees and it is fairly being blown out, hence i dont think or i would not like to work on that floor when its running. i have spent a bit of time on it and it is only a bit, your feet are piss wet with sweat in no time and you can feel the heat being blown up your trouser legs, Last back end they was combining in the rain and tipping wheat on to the floor and spreading it out at about 12" deep and drying it from 28% down to 10% in 12 hrs, they dry a lot of sawdust for other farms in the area and when that comes off the floor that is down to approx 3-5% after 48 hrs and thats sawdust direct from a sawmill so will start at 40% ish, What these floors are designed for they do very well but they are not for designed for drying logs, but they will do it, it just takes a lot longer than other products,

Hi are you having to pay for this service or is it for free ? we have access to same sort of floor, a price is sorted out but we havent used it yet as its not as good as i thought it would be, for drying logs, some one else has used it and i have been and robbed a few logs out of a crate and i was very dissapointed at the result, we tested several logs out of several crates and from different positions in the crate, ok not covered up just the heat n draft going through, The results after 10 days on the floor where, logs from the outside of the crate where down to 8% on the outside but when split 32% on the inside, logs from the centre of the crate 18% on the outside and still at 42% when split, but this guy who the logs belong to is addvertising and selling them as super dry kiln dried logs, i think he might just get 1 or 2 complaints, so if you cover yours the results might be slightly better but i know i need to come up with a different plan for getting my logs dried, i have an idea and i think it will work and i think i could get logs dried down to 15% from fresh cut in 5 days but time will tell,,,,

Gabe Rygard died in a car crash while on his way to filming, Craig Rygard retired, Jimmy Smith passed away, They did film a new short serises but it was not the same with several of the main characters missing and Shelby was not in this one, and then towards the end of filming Dwayn Deffless passed away, i think that could be the end of Axe men but we nether know as there will all ways be some one else ,

You have been watching to many episodes of the old Axe men series, shelby allways gibered on about board feet,,,,Les will know,😂😂

Hi you might just have to do this the old fashion way, and work this out for your self, the £10 a cube seems very cheap to me, but that depends on how much work you have to do plus your running costs ? are the logs loose or crated ? how big is the kiln ? Do you have to load the kiln ? what will you load it with ? kiln running costs ? supplier should know this it all adds up and before long you find out your doing it for nowt, been there and done that a few times over the years and now i sit down and work it all out before commiting to any thing,

Take it thats a Hi lift one ? if so your 2k was a good investment, I bought a Lifton loadstar 750 high lift about 4 years ago for breaking, then thought it was far to good to break and kept it, its been used day in day out on some jobs and it makes my life so much easier, it will go to a new home one day but i dont when, paid 1.5k for it running and all working and today i would think 3k +

Just hire one, the guy your mate gets the tracked dumpers off will have several and if he aint got one no one has, a mate of mine has one and i think its made out of a ripper of something like a D6 and its something he has had for many years it was used on a 6 tonne kubota, i can enquire about that for you if you want ? or the other guy is Mick Wilkinson or commonly known as Wurzell both good guys to deal with,