Timbermcpherson
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thats alot of wasted bar! great pics
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I have 3 daughters
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I climb with a 3120 or 88 every couple months at least, once he woods bigger than 42inches in diameter, the 66 just takes to much time. Now climbing with the 090 with a 5 foot bar, now that was less fun. i doubt I could do it now.
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People introduced cats, so its people who are responsible for removing them. I love wildlife, I love most animals, but in this life you have to make sacrifices, take responsibility and take action I was part of a cat eradication program 20 years ago with our department of conservation. Saw what a positive effect it had on all forms of wildlife. Didnt matter if they were pets or feral, they were all observed killing mostly for the fun of it We have a cat, it doesnt hunt, if it did I would end it. They are a selfish, harmful and cruel animal which need to be controlled if our wildlife is going to have any chance.
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I saw this one up close for a week
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We have all sorts of hedge trimmers and trimmer heads but when it gets to heavy theres only one tool we reach for, The brushcutter with a circ saw head. its fast, does great clean cuts and you get a good reach with one. Not so easy on the tops though but still doable. chainsaws just make a mess of hedges, terrible ragged cuts which are not good arb practice IMHO. We also use a little circular saw blade attachment on our echo power pruner. heres part of one we are doing next week http://i.imgur.com/uRkxA.jpg
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As I have mentioned, I have 6 x 6 and 6 x 12 chippers with the same motors and weight. With petrol engines theres little difference between the 25 and 30hp kohler for weight or cost. Is not a differcult thing to do engineering wise and requires little additional weight in metal. Other companies such as Hansa, Bandit, Salsco etc have been doing it for over 10 years. I get where your coming from. But I think its pure "you can have it in any colour as long as its black" in this industry. it just annoys me greatly to see sub standard, outdated gear being sold for top dollar.
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I have a 6x6, and a couple 6x12 chippers, all of similar power range I find it a little depressing that ANY company in 2014 would still be selling 6x6 chippers for good money as they are less than half the chipper that a 6x12 is. Whats worse is people are willing to pay good money for a machine thats going to cost more in cutting up, wages, sweat, run time and fuel. It costs very little for them to make the bigger capacity chipper, they just have to get off their lazy and complacent asses and build the machine there clients need, not what they want to flick off.
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Cool, let us know how it does in battle, echos are way under rated IMHO
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Whats a 6 x 6 inch chipper and kate moss got in common? They were peaked in attractiveness last century and neither has ever been capable of eating much.
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The 7 inch that rotates has a 27hp petrol kohler (the non rotating version has a 29hp diesel), and the 10 inch has a 65hp diesel. Now both diesels are branded kohler but I think they are made by lobardini as kohler now owns them. I have an old diesel 6 inch made by hansa and its got a lombardini engine.
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We are paying 22,000 gbp plus tax for the 10 x 18 C60 Brush Chipper and the 7 x 13 on a rotating bed is under 13,000 gbp plus tax. C27 Brush Chipper I wonder how many stamps it would take to send em to the uk..... Whats the price like compared to what you can already get there?
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Nice set up mate! Looks great We should send you some kiwi made 10 x 18 inch 1400kgs chippers. Im sure with 600kgs to play with they could get em to rotate as they do with there 7 x 13 inch 750kg models C60 Brush Chipper
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How are people finding their new Ford Ranger?
Timbermcpherson replied to Andrew Barrett's topic in Arb-Trucks
We dont abuse them, we just actively seek out manufactured engineering shortcomings through overenthusiastic exploration of performance potential. You should thank us for culling out the weak (probably why they dont send us many landrovers) -
Reminded myself why i went from landys to japanese...
Timbermcpherson replied to wisecobandit's topic in General chat
And yet the number of japanese made 4wd trucks working in the roughest environments in the world would outnumber LD 1000 to one. (no offence but how often in the UK would your average LD be more than 50 miles from water, gas or a mechanic) Its understandable that people from the UK would be so loyal to them and the access to cheap parts (hey just as well, right?), and be willing to look past there many faults and put more time into keeping them working, but the rest of the world has moved on to better made, reliable, practical, economical, lower maintenance, cheaper vehicles. If the LD were good they would sell greatly worldwide If the japanese were not good they wouldnt sell world wide The numbers have it. The world wide market for landrovers was theres to loose from the 60's onwards, and they did, and continue to do so to superior machines made by many other companies. The sad story of the british motor industry continued. -
Yeah seems that way but if you think about it, it could have got very stuck like that. Wet steel and wet sleepers and loose stone offers NO traction like that Was a very wet day, if you look at the chippers track length and balance of the chipper if the tracks were nosed into the side of one rail iron (with the weight of chipper balanced towards the front) it would not be able to climb that track. And with the weight that far forward their wouldnt be the weight on the rear rail for it to reverse. The hopper being open might be from them jumping up and down on it trying to get better traction. I know I would have tried anything! A few bits of wood put down beforehand would have helped. Ah sweet sweet armchair general hindsight
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One of the guys who were involved I Trained years ago to
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line between carterton and wellington, was closed for a good few hours so they had to put on buses to move all the people. The train shunted it a ways.
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Gotta say those jensens are made tough! Treescape guys got it stuck crossing the track, you can guess the rest! I wonder if the rental firm will keep the bond?
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My thought to!
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All equipment is contextual to the environment you work in and the operation you run. Everyone has different access to jobs, nature of work, levels of staff, capacity of trucks, size of chippers, client expectations etc etc etc The bit of gear that might build up one company might drag another down The thing is your the best judge of whether it will work or not for you and the arbtrolley is very much dependent on individual situations (unlike most chainsaws, ropes or other universally used gear in our industry) We have sometime similar, gets used maybe once every month or couple of months but even then, for us, its worth it. Why work harder?
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I know some chiansaw pants had the armour all on the LHS as thats the side your likely to be operating the saw from
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I can get some stainless cable 8mm pretty cheap, korean made stuff 6 strand but not sure about the number of stands within the 6. its half a reel left over and sitting in a shed for years. Im trying to find out more about it. Im looking at Running it on a igland 3000/2 Is stainless alright or should I stick to the usual wire rope. I know theres some loss of strength but not a huge amount. Anyone else out there use it? what do I need to know? thanks guys.
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For those more budget conscious http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_18374.jpg
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Macrocarpa milling - timber properties and uses
Timbermcpherson replied to Liam88's topic in Milling Forum
was less than 100. Found a ducks egg in an old crux about 1.5m into the wood!
