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have a look on the bay, but be aware a hydraulic winch wont come with the pipework or valves to fit it, and your going to need one of around 15000lb pull to be capable of standing a chance of pulling a stuck mog......save a wee while longer and get a pto driven one, even a basic capstan style one
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Ive got a sign which goes on the front of my splitter when its on the front hydraulic lift of the mog..........it says "your car is my crumple zone"....... folk seem to give it a wide berth
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I am my own boss, I set my targets and hours, I pick what projects I work on.........do I like my job...........untill somebody hands me a winning lottery ticket, there is nothing better than doing something you enjoy doing, it isnt reall work then, is it
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no mot for trailers (yet) in the uk also the cutting of grass, isnt as simple asyes youcan/no you cant, there are a multitude of different scenarios covered by HMRC as to what fuel you can use, using a tractor on the road can be really simple IF you read, understand, and keep a copy with you, of the construction and use act defining a tractor, and a copy of HMRC's use of rebated fuels, as Ive stated in numerous posts about Mog usage, no grey areas, only stupid enforcement officers......its all down in black and white
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a bit of well seasoned ash and cut your own, easy to replace, very very cheap, and wont damage any chains if you have a little woopsie
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it could be for forestry, or horticultural use..........both free, and as long as its registred as either an agricultural machine or an agricultural tractor, then taxation class is free, irrespective of use, its the class thats taxed, not the use
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porangi, speak to rob at chainsaw bars, I run one of the GB bars on my M7 mill, GB used to make the bars for logosol direct ( if you look at an older logosol bar, the yellow and black stripey ones, they are in fact GB manufactured), rob also can now supply the genuine stihl pmx chaiin for a complete milling package
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yanmar will not suport "grey" tractors due to the numerous litigation cases in the usa, sorry but you cant stop stupid, your YM 1600 is perfectly safe, and a cracking buy, hoyles are great for information, but wont ship outside the US, there are a few uk suppliers, sparex being the most obvious(check your local agrri supplier) as for a manual, a good search on the web should tur up something, clymer, I&T, being the 2 that spring to mind. and welcome to the world of the noisy 2 cylinder yanmar........lol
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stick a pto driven hydraulic pump on it, it will run any splitter you like then, and as fast as you can load it
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most small tractors are imports, nearly all of them come from either japan or india, sub 20hp, very few have auxilary hydraulic outputs, most, if not all have conventional pto rotation, what they do have is an oddball middle pto speed designed for some bit of rice paddy kit, the rice paddy tyres although murder on hard surfaces, are unbeatable in the soft and loose of the woods. the two and three cylinder yanmar diesels are DI, so are noisy, but sip fuel, manual shutdown......no bigee, means no electronics to go wrong, have a really good spares network, and an excellent knowledge database.
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yanmar are one of the largest small engine and tractor manufacturers in the far east......nothing wrong with there kit. my little ym1300 pulls trees out places you wouldnt believe, gearing perfectly matched to the engine. they were around before kubota, and probably will be long after they go
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russ, there used to be a mog around granton on spey built proper cabins, dont know if you tried them, and a company called imperial daschus in galloway havent heard anything good about them though but these are the only two up in scotland I know that use whole logs for house building
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its called SEE, they were built for the US military, but marketed under the freightliner brand, there are more specialist parts on them than any other mog, very few std 406 bits are interchangable. they are very low geared, pitch and roll when driven at any speed at all. and have crap brakes for there weight. for what it would cost to make it usable, save your money and buy a more conventional mog.........these are musuem pieces, or miltary vehicle collectors...........built for a specific purpose for a "company" with bottomless pockets
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a lot of machined timber houses, and links, but grizz is the only real log cabin, a lot of folk have jumped on the bandwagon in the last few years but unless it actually uses the whole round log, its another simple timber build, you might as well build it with 4x2's, cos thats how much it's like a log cabin, to the best of my knowledge there are only around half a dozen true log cabin builders in the uk at the moment, and they are busy, start searching on google for others
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WOW, these training orginisations must be going to hogwarts now, they manage to compress years of skill and training into 10 weeks, churn out bodies and tell them they are tree surgeons, and that they deserve a top paying job........................no wonder the industry is fubar'ed
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the big problem up here in scotland is all the plantations that were hand planted 30-50 years ago, a man could walk, and plant up the steep incline, over the rocky outcrops, a harvester cant go there, there are literly 1000's of acres unnacessable to mechanical harvesting methods, a return to hand cutting and skylining is comming... I cant see a big investment in the big tigercat tracked machines with prices as they stand for timber
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Petrol v diesel long and short term costs...
agrimog replied to Ty Korrigan's topic in Large equipment
its the longevity of diesel engines that is the biggest factor, most plant and commercial stuff arent high reving engines which makes for long usage, also the basic simplicity of the design and maintainance, allso the way diesel produces the torque -
that end has been wet, when you cut and exposed the fresh timber,the moisture has carried enough off the metal of the chain to cause tannin staining......oak + moisture + steel = blue/black tannin stains. I've even had it when milling out and a light shower passes through, speckles all over fresh milled timber
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cross cut chain vs ripping chain.......mmmm, no contest really, depending on the type of timber your milling, anything from a 4 degree grind to a 10 degree grind will produce the finish you require (the only way to find whats right for you is experimentation, bar length, cutting speed, and style of cutting all effect the result), for optimum results Ive found stihl's pmx hard to beat (3/8 pico) seems to perform beter after its first sharpen, maybe this is just me, as for how often to sharpen.....you'll know very quickly, little and often seems to be the best option, and screw your oil pump up to the max output, you'll be amazed at how clogged chains can get when they heat up, likewise bars, you'll spend a lot of time cleaning up. welcome to the weird world of chainsaw milling
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the real hand cutters are all getting old now, and a lot wiser, let the youngsters try working in the big sitka plantations, knees that dont work, back totally shot, and shoulders and forearms like popeye........yet to meet a "faller" trained in the last 10 years that can last a week in the big stuff, where did all the wimps come from
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frontera is a rebadged isuzu mu, with an opel 2,2 diesel engine, mechanicaly not bad, but very old school these days
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grain pattern and layout look right, but like big J, need to see more boards, plus its been that long since I seen elm with bark, I've forgotten what it looks like
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get round to your nearest agricultural dealer and get a copy of the sparex catalogue, then start searching, most of the tractor tpl parts are unique, but some are interchangable. I did start looking when I got mine, but ended up re-machineing the bits myself, got the wear bushes and new pins from sparex
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if your that bothered about IVA crap...I refurbished an old trailer and am using that.......proove otherwise, they cant end of argument
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for something to be classed as a trailer, it has to fit into one of the "O" catagories, O1, O2. O3, or O4, theses are the weight carrying capacities, now as a sawmill, it cant carry any weight as its a piece of specialist plant, so how can you IVA test it when it doesnt have a recognised catagorie, it is in the same group as agricultural implements that are towed, and as long as it has suspension, brakes (if applicable), and correct tyres, it isnt restricted to 25mph. checkout the trailer section in the 1985 construction and use act, with the various ammendments as applicable..........
