Timbermcpherson

Even if its a job on my street, its got to be the equivilent of 450GBP at LEAST, Our daily target (which seldom gets "missed") is 250GBP per man per day. I would have though UK prices would be alot higher than NZ for some reason.

Barbed wire is great when you dont have any power to electrify the fence. But having both ROCKS, that way if theres a power cut the stock dont treat your fences as a play thing. Our bulls would break fences while fighting all to often. They NEVER got badly stuck in them. If you have a better way of economically contain 120 500 - 600kg plus, angry, scrappy bulls one steep farm country in summer, Id love to see it! Our farm had 50m bluffs in places, swamps, rivers, caves, if the fences didnt contain them, they died in large numbers.

It was my only childhood friend......sniff

Its a nice place, freaking bears are a massive PITA though. The walk off the top is a long one.

My lab sleeps outside in a kennel in the back yard. if its real stormy she gets to sleep inside. She has slept outside since we got her, but its very temperate here, barely get frosts in winter.

It was probably overloaded ever hour of its life and ran to many storms. Welding was still in its infancy but it was fast, if they had used rivets, it would have taken longer to make the ships, which means the war material to england would have been slower to get there, d day might have been later, stalin would have taken more of europe. But it wasnt the welding that was the problem, the steel wasnt of the right grade and the design caused certain areas to suffer great stress which happened to be where a bunch of welds intersected.

Shoot them, shoot them all.

I keep mine for when Im sick of working on chainsaws. Nothing gives you the patience to fault find and fix a troublesome ms200 than to use the old misery whip to sweat through a 2 foot round log.

Oh thats a snap to make, Im going to stick my head in a big knot hole and carve it out with an ms200.

I feel for you mate, that really stinks. There is only so much anyone can do to prevent motivated thieves. But you can make their payoff considerably less. Get a engraver and put your name and number all over the place. Take things apart and put it on the inside of a few places. Put "reward if returned call 555-6584" or whatever. If they think they cant even trust there own kind in not going for easy cash, they wont take your stuff far, and they wont want your stuff again. Weld bits onto big bits of kit, change the colour of certain bits, customize if at all possible. Different wheels, change the chute nozzle slightly. All makes it more likely to get back, the scumbags getting caught or at least making less from it.

Im from a farming background, same thing. I look after my gear but I have 4 chippers, 3 trucks, 2 stumpers, 40 saws and alot of other gear. Its not a question of if I look after my gear, its finding the when! I know of a guy who would take the usual plastic leaf rake when the teeth are worn down, and would cut, heat and bend down new teeth. it would take him at least 30 minutes to do it, and it wouldnt last 20% of the time the teeth normally last as they broke off. The rake new cost 4$. Worse was the big company that was really tight ass over stupid things. They made it really hard to replace or purchase things. When the guys broke a rake, it could take 2 weeks to get a new one. I worked out that it was costing them 5 man hours a week in lost time in a crew of 3 guys running a $300,000 epv rig and chipper. all for the lack of a $4 rake. Its all finding the balance of insuring the gear makes you money but doesnt cost you to much time.

I love small vehicles, but once you start to grow, anything thats holding you back, you have to seriously look at. Work out what having a to small vehicle is costing you in lost time and production. Depending on your staffing size and work load, dumping availability and the associated costs you might be better off with the smaller truck. If your having to tip more than once a day and it costs you more than 30mins in time off the job or if you have to often alter the way you do work due to limited capacity, (not to mention when clients start putting you in the "hes to small for our next job" catagory, dont underestimate clients ability to pick up on areas that you struggle in. Especially if ever have to say "we dont have the room/we will have to come back/that will cost extra" to often) you probably need to look at a bigger truck. We run a couple 6t's and a 5t, and we find this is fine for 2 guys but they start getting a little small if running a 3 man crew. But its all contextual on the environment you work in and how you work. Only YOU know where your going and how your going to get there.

so if it take 20 to 30 minutes a day, thats at least an hour and a half a week, or just under 2 weeks work a year. For one guy thats 5000 dollars. I just have spare saws. Something goes wrong, grab another, put em in a pile and deal to them when you have time. We are on xmas break and I have an 66, 2x346xps, and a couple ms200ts to work on.

Oversexed, overpaid and over here....... The US may have been "slow" to step in, but what it lacked in timing it made up for in pure war machine might and japanese ass kicking power. I cant see how they could have been stopped without the USA. The allies including Britain and the USSR became incredibly reliant of US made goods, from corn to fighter bombers. Over 20,000 sherman tanks were delivered to commonwealth and soviet forces. They made well over 2 million army trucks. The war against rommels forces probably would have been lost without US equipment including the lee and sherman tanks and the tanker the SS Ohio which supplied Malta with critical supplies of fuel for its subs and aircraft. I think we as commonwealth nations are to quick to dismiss the great sacrifice the US did make, and to underestimate the great importance they had to the defeat of the axis powers.

Using biners saves time, its a quick clip to attach and unattach the bullrope from your harness when you have some moving to do, Neutralises the bullines weight so its less likely to be lost through the pulley, and is generally easier for all to use. I likes em

Keep it, lots of expensive 353 parts are interchangable with the 346xp.

The dolmar 6400 is a tough and reliable saw, US army used em, smokejumpers use them, and the one I brought my father inlaw is practically unkillable. 365 is great to.

I have 3 bg85's sitting in the shed. We only take the echo pb655 backpacks on the job now, they make cleanup MUCH faster. The extra $ is made up really quick by the time saved on the job.

Log chop would be good. Could put in a load binder or tirfor tightrope for battles or distance competitions

My lab used to come on 99% of our jobs, she dragged branches, kept an eye out for pedestrians, ran lines or strops on steep country, but most of the time she just sleeps. Clients love her and kids think shes xmas. Her weakness is water, goldfish ponds have been disaster sites 4 or 5 times. Only once did a client not find it hilarious. Now with kids she stays at home most days, but clients do request me to bring her along so she does often enough. Amazing how often when I used to walk back to my truck someone would be patting her through the window and ask about us giving them a quote.

Sold my hilux with 327,000km on it. My old mans last one took 8 years of hill country punishment, 4 teenage drivers, and took the place of the farm quad for 4 years and aside from a diff and a couple batterys, it never gave any trouble. Mates and Uncles new hilux's see more warrenty work than hard work.

Id rather to a week of ivy than half a day in a fn Phoenix rat hotel. That crap eats chainsaws!

What happened to utes being workhorses? They are all soft, image conscious town runabouts. If I wanted a car I would buy a car, but I want to drive it to stupid places, carrying stupid loads and expect it to take the knocks and abuse that I do in the job. Id rather have a 15 year old hilux than a brand new one, and thats kinda sad.

Have had 26's and now have 5 or 6 346xp's. Only problem they ever give is clutch springs and one has a tank venting problem (havent got round to it yet)

I have a couple of wings stored away, its been a long long long time since I have used em. I stupidly taught myself to fly. Brought the term "crash course" a whole new meaning.