Timbermcpherson

We did have alot of Landrovers here, including a heap that the NZ army off loaded. But nobody aside from land rover hobbiests are going to pick them as a work vehicle when they have been so outclassed by the japanese vehicles. They seem to be a UK niche, part of the culture.

If you think Landcruisers are expensive, wait until you start dealing with 4wd trucks. With the manuka honey market booming, the bee keepers have been pushing up the prices of 4wd trucks. First, most of the older ones at LEAST up until 1999 dont have LSD, BUT you can get an LSD diff head for a Isuzu NPS250 for about $2500. Without LSD, they are not very helpful off road. You might find an ex spray or fert truck that has an LSD and the wheels and tires to do the work. Cost of running tends to be higher, between say an npr and nps your adding another 300-400 kgs and the resistance of that extra diff. Otherwise your costs are not much different. But, these trucks are over engineered. Knowing they were going to be abused they were made very tough. I read the nps300's rear ends are made to handle 6600kgs, way more than there legal payload. It boils down to how much you have to spend really

what they said x3

We have been getting stellar work out of our 360T's. We have 3 of them and aside from a set of clutch springs and one av mount (the easiest and cheapest I have ever changed) there have been zero issues

Go the carlton, built tougher than a bridge, big wheels that get over chip build up or up steps and are quite stable on rougher ground.

No guesses why the need more staff That suckers probably long dead. bright side, hes not worn out any ropes in his work,

Spoke to soon! we had to do a bearing change last month, but 4 years of daily use I would put down to regular consumerable cycle for that kind of part.

Unless you only have to tidy very small areas of very light material, a backpack blower doesnt cost money, it makes it while increasing safety for staff and increasing the quality of clean up. The time saved on clean up is measured in man hours per week, less raking, less picking up, over a year it works out to days saved. With light material it used to take 6 sweeps with the bg85 blower to clear a 2 lane road, with the backpack it takes 2. Thats alot less time having to dodge traffic. You can clear out from under truck, chipper and nearby parked cars alot better and faster. They fit in the chipper hoppers pretty good. we have an echo and a shindaiwa, both about 80cc's. They operate flawlessly aside from a split fuel line in the last 7 or so years, wish I had got onto them sooner

Awesome! Thanks for the info

Anyone else notice that the head for the hitachi and husky hedge trimmers look remarkably simular? Im guessing the shafts are different but it seems like the heads are very very simular (and mine is shot) Hitachi Husky

Your probably after a cheap but high quality, narrow but stable, powerful but economic, heavy duty but light weight, fast grinding with low run costs and high spec but simple. We will get right onto it, just need my sonic screwdriver and a flux capacitor I had around here somewhere

about 50% of the population are women, so if you think this is value adding, you should get them to do the same with a guy in tight pants If that doesnt seem like a good idea, your probably thinking the same way most will think about that video and not want the perv to come look at their job. Great if your trying to be funny or hope everyone your advertising to is Donald Trump, otherwise your alienating potential clients

Didnt firemen dealing with trees in the massive storm that hit london near 30 years back, end up doing more damage than the trees did? A while back I was at a party, mate of mine was there, who is a firefighter. "hows the life of an arborist?" he asked me "thats accountant" I say "what?" "Im an accountant" I reply "really? I thought I saw you the other day in your work truck" "Oh yeah, that was me but im an accountant now" "how does that work?" he asked "well since I spend more time doing accounting than you do fighting fires I figure if you can call yourself a fireman, I can say Im an accountant!" Firemen should have arborists on call, that they pay to down tools or get there asses out of bed and attend emergencies involving trees. They are never going to get the experience and/or training to do better or safer.

If your doing alot of cutting you can always richen the carb to compensate. I have a stick on RPM counter I use for tuning, you get pretty good at running engines by ear if you have something to gauge RPMS off

I should have explained I guess. if you have a 361 and 661 running the same chain and bar (lest say 22 inch) you would run the bigger saw with a bigger sprocket as its got the torque and hp to run a buried chain at faster speed. But even if they were running the same gearing, chain speed isnt everything. you could have the 361 and 66 but can bury the 66 alot harder and faster into the wood not loosing rpm or chain speed. Running a saw at 80% throttle will not shorten its lifespan, the red eye 66 was famous for outlasting its counterparts due to its max revs reducing over its lifespan due to the characteristics of its electrics, there should be no excessive carbon build up or cooling issues. In fact the move from the 066 to 660 resulted in lower life expectancy in the saws initially due to increased exhaust temps due to the exhausts being more restrictive. A few times on jobs that have run late or cutting wood at home, I have found my 3120 running lower revs will outcut the 440 running at full revs and at least seem to be alot quieter. (at least thats what my neighbours said)

Old log poaching trick was to run the exhaust through a tube into a bucket of water to help make the saws noise not travel so far. I would pick the saw I wanted to use, add a bigger muffler and try putting some sound deadening around the saw (leave room for air and operation) I wouldnt be to tempted to go small on saws as the longer your cutting the more time your making noise. Might be worth making a few noise shields you can set up where your cutting to help deflect some of the din. A bigger saw at 80% throttle will cut faster and might be quieter than a smaller saw at 100%. Pay the local hoon a fiver for driving around the block a few times a day in his loud car to make you seem more civilized.

Because human nature being what it is people dont always follow on with it, and it becomes a problem.

Can be a recipe for massive limb failures years down the track, so be mindful of it.

If you get one, make sure the tranmission is covered for a decent amount to time, they are notorious for failures, famous for them. New ones made in china are about 6k so at least they are cheap.

I was able to do a little initial testing with a scooter, a piece of sheet metal and a few test pieces of wood. Even at pretty low throttle, there is NO shortage of velocity. Of course being at the firing end of it would be bad news, but thats simular to being behind a backing truck or in the wrong place when a chipper or grinders operating. may be an issue with tire wear or if the woods wet/slippery

Throwing split wood from the splitter is annoying me, and doing my various strains and pains no good. I just need it to make a pile or maybe put into the back of the truck in manner thats reliable and not to costly and maybe try something that hasnt been tried. So as you do while splitting, I started imagining a better or at least different way (yes I know conveyors but wheres the inspiration in that?) So I thought about various methods of launching, like a claybird thrower that was loaded by the movement of the ram, a leaf spring pulled back and release like a flicked finger, captured bolt like the return on one of those golf putting units etc Tennis ball launchers use spinning wheels to launch the balls and I stared thinking about how to implement that system. Whats come to mind is having the engine and rear wheel from a scooter running a few cm off a chute that would act a little like a gun barrel for directing the projectile. The system would be hinged at the same point the power unit is mounted on a scooter, so when a piece is directed under the wheel it "ride over" the piece of wood as it is driven back by the spinning wheel. Think of it as a high speed chipper feed wheel. You would be pushing each piece under using at least one other piece due to the configuration so your mittens would be safe once appropiate guards are in place. By adding ballast, springs or adjusting the wheel to chute clearance and changing RPM, and trajectory there would be some "tuning" in the system. Nuts huh? Thoughts aside from the obvious stuff that would stop ANYTHING ever being invented?

I have a truck with singles in the back, its quite different than the other ones with duals, less stable, alot less grip and I would hate to have a blow out with it!

The brakes are terrible, but can be improved by getting new springs for the brake seperation units and giving the units a good clean. Bright side its easy to do, bad side is you have to do it!

I have a 952, the greatest thing about them is that so long as you have 3 hammers, a half bottle of vodka and a desperate need to get dirty, theres not much you cant fix yourself. You can find manuals online for them in alot of cases to. With an cordless impact driver I can have one side of brakes apart in less than 2 minutes! The brakes are aweful, hydraulics questionable, and they run as smooth as a drunk C3po doing a pole dance. But they are a good, strong machine.

Theres needle drop and you have bugs, Much like an Arborist in a room and all the beers gone Remember they MAY not be directly related