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That's hugely interesting. Have you tried it?
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Tacographs? Hygiene? Prostitutes with GPS trackers?
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On that particular job the wood was going out of a domestic garden 50m onto a smallholding log pile, hence why I stopped the skinny kids cutting it up there. I could probably get that chunk into the back of a Transit tipper though. Even if I couldn’t, I could definitely get half of it in and that would still be less manual handling than sliding/rolling chunks into a grapple bucket. The bucket clamps aren’t wide/strong enough to pinch stuff like that from above and you can’t get under stuff as easily as you think, especially without ground damage. A pincer can pinch pretty big rings in any orientation. They’re better for brash inline or across too. They’re just better for trees. Much better. Promise.
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That lump would be a bastard to get settled in a grapple bucket in one. You’d do it in rings, needing at least double the cutting and then you’d have to hand ball. One of those skinny kids could be replaced with the 90kg weight plate that wasn’t on the machine that day. I also suspect my grab is bigger (heavier) than the Sherpa one. It doesn't feel undersized...
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Grapple buckets must do something well but I don't know what that is. Sawdust, grindings, rakings all go fine in a plain bucket, which also does the building work, isn't Heath Robinson, hasn't got hoses to damage and hasn't got the extra weight of the rams and clamps. Also larger volume in the narrow sizes. Also cheaper. For trees, grapple buckets are crap compared to a pincer. Have both by all means but if you're starting with one, you'd be mad to not make it a pincer. Pincers move chippers by grabbing the drawbar if you don't care about damaging it or by grabbing something you weld to the drawbar if you do. Or screw a towball to a pincer. Just as easy as modifying a grapple bucket. Mine goes in the side of a panel van, low floor height. I load like doobin, forwards, standing behind the machine. Keep a foot on each ramp and they don't clatter when you break over.
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Missed this earlier. It isn't. Carrying things 1/10 Wheelbarrow 2/10 Powered barrow 3/10 Grapple bucket 4/10 Pincer 9/10 That's only chunks of butt. I'd rate a grapple even lower for brash. Honestly, pincers are where it's at for trees.
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Just the Sherpa pincer grabs that I’ve seen have all been blue.
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Mark, Describe your use in case I’ve assumed it wrongly. Have you got a blue pincer grab, doobin.
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That isn’t.
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That’s what you want for domestic arb (assuming it swivels).
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Did they show you any other grabs, Mark?
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Can you post a picture of the log grab please.
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Is that not a bit hasty? Premium (E5) might be 20p/litre more than standard (E10). If you burn 10 litres a day, your costs are £2 higher. Can you not charge £2/day extra rather than scrapping hundreds or thousands of pounds of machines?
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Gangsta.
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Wood grenades (or indeed any splitting wedge) are like a large displacement, high torque engine that only works at 20 rpm. Munts through anything but what’s the point. Constant resetting it. Very little work achieved. Doing straight stuff on a block gets you up to 1000 rpm in a misfiring 2002 Ford Fiesta, nearly a useful amount of work but still very inefficient doing all the block loading. Manual splitting nirvana is achieved by wading into a pile on the floor and flicking and golf swinging through it at 13,000 revs, the Formula 1 of axe work. Don’t waste effort on tricky bits; saw them or discard them. I use them as axle stands.
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Danny Green. Not a recommendation, just a bloke I know has done carving work around there.
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Started typing. Can’t be arsed. Happy shedding.
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I didn’t make a note of it and I can’t be arsed to find it again to prove a point to you. Or I’m talking shite. One of those. You do realise I was trying to do you a favour pointing out something you maybe hadn’t realised? No need to be rude.
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You gave it away when you posted about your shared driveway. I’m often tracking down people, bits of land etc and yours was a doddle (like a Haynes one or two spanner job). You’re probably fine though. Enjoy your shed.
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Not necessarily. Plenty of people on here don’t like you, know where you live and might stir up trouble remotely. Wranglerstar on YouTube has said a couple of times that he has to be squeaky clean on everything because video watchers have dobbed him in on planning/building regs matters.
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It's a shame Dakar, AER etc are so expensive. Ed March would do it on a C90 if it was cheaper.
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Back on Lyndon Poskitt, a friend was telling a motorcycling acquaintance about him (LP) going round the world on a (heavily modified) KTM 690. "Bloody good luck to him." In fairness, it actually gave him next to no problems but he has built it and rebuilt it with pretty trick parts and is fastidious on maintenance. Like how Land Rovers are fine if you replace things like gearboxes every 5000 miles.
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I watched it when Lyndon Poskitt covered it (way more interesting than his travelogues). Otherwise prefer the Africa Eco. Where was Dakar this year?
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Go on, Alec. Kick us off.
