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Can it freely rotate infinitely (some clever hose junction inside the grab mount) or can you only rotate a certain amount before you wind the hoses up? The heel (if that’s what it’s called?) looks excellent on the Klou. It looks like you can grab stuff in the pincer only and drag and snake freely but grab it a bit further along so it’s jammed against the heel and hold it pretty rigidly (longitudinally) without having to get off the machine and put the pin in.

Is that a powered rotate?

60% sure maple. @agg221 ?

Tangy.

If it’s a Go Ape venue and felling the tree causes them to move the course for £5k, retention makes sense. Just guessing of course. I actually found myself initially agreeing with you, which didn’t seem right so I’m looking for explanations.

Frying cabbage is the way. Same with sprouts. Par boil then fry in butter and garlic.

That’s the literal rule. The golden rule is about diverging from the literal rule if following it slavishly would result in absurdity.

It’s generally accepted there are three (sort of four but ignore that for now) rules of statutory interpretation in English law. John completely missed one (the golden rule) in the same breath as appraising the legal understanding to be, “100% correct.” I found his input on the council thing interesting too but I’m afraid I trust it less now. Don’t take this as unduly harsh, John but this is the peril of sounding super certain about something complicated. It’s OK to not be. The law isn’t easy. Back to Dan (and anyone else with too much mental energy to burn on a Friday night). If you want an evening of interesting and probably relevant reading, start with statutory interpretation, have a flick through the Interpretation Acts (probably the 1974 one) and the Sale of Goods Act 198whenever and then look at the Boots Cash Chemist line of caselaw (Boots itself, the flick knife in the window and the rare birds for the basis) for hints about how judges can be persuaded. Have fun. EDIT: I hasten to add that looking up the above will certainly give you a flavour for what the law is or might be but the only way to know or get epistemologically close is to pay Reuters a lot of money for a database and learn how to use it. It changes constantly.

Oh, John. Don’t say things like “100%” and then straight away drop a bollock (the golden rule and a load of other stuff). You come off like Vespasian, a former member and pretty serious know it all.

A mate's dad has a Cessna. I'll see if he can get me a can to try. Very much obliged to you for the suggestion.

That's hugely interesting. Have you tried it?

Tacographs? Hygiene? Prostitutes with GPS trackers?

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.

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...

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.

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.

Just the Sherpa pincer grabs that I’ve seen have all been blue.

Mark, Describe your use in case I’ve assumed it wrongly. Have you got a blue pincer grab, doobin.

That isn’t.

That’s what you want for domestic arb (assuming it swivels).

Did they show you any other grabs, Mark?

Can you post a picture of the log grab please.

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?

Gangsta.

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.