treedweller
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It's way too much for a bearcat!! I sold a 5" bearcat in good nick for £1500. Put £2250 on that camon 250 and you will prob own it and will be 10 times the machine those bearcats are.
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The answer is to chip in the wood and haul to the boiler, less handling, less mess.
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I think the main thing to take away from this goes back to a earlier point i raised................DONT DRIVE TOO FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????? When fastracs where the fastest thing since sliced bread the amount that ended up over the top of hedges into feilds etc was rediculous. Tractors are getting faster every year but if you want to use your tractor for road haulage don't buy a HGV. 10-12tonne isn't unrealistic for a 130HP 40k tractor with a single circuit brake system. If it wasn't everything would be on air.
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Well things seem to be breaking as fast as i can fix them these day's, work is sporadic and when everyone else has had their chunk it's very hand to mouth in our household. I think financial security would be welcomed at the moment as little one No.2 is on the way too:001_smile: So if anyone would be recruiting in the NW i would be more than interested. I don't profess to be the best at anything but i'm a grafter and i show willing:thumbup:
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Jon your massey will pull 10-12 tonne easy but the it will be 18mph all the way and i'd have a google as to which gearbox you have as the later 18 gear speedshifts are a bit soft, like the old multipower box's. Best one was the old 12speed synchro but only came in 30k.
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The ford will stop my trailer fully loaded without trailer brakes hooked up no problems what so ever!! People have managed fine on single circuit hydraulic brake systems for the best part of 60 years!! If you need commercial axels and air brakes to stop 12-14ton then simply your going too fast!!
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Hi Mendi i'd say 10HP per tonne for road work is the rule of thumb but that also depends on how many and how big the hill's are around you
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If it's for chip then go for volume rather than plated tonnage. I have a 12t grain trailer with 18" greedy boards on and i can just about get 20m3 in it filled level with a loading shovel or telehandler get about 18ish if blown in with chipper then raked flat but anymore and you'll lose more than you blow in Will be going for a big silage trailer next as i will get same volume if not more but with a much shorter train length due to it being taller and not as long. Anyway your valmet should boss a 12t trailer easy enough!
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Had a request to see if there is a artic load of preferably birch up for grabs around Dumfrieshire. Looking to pay £45 per tonne and can arrange own haulage. PM me if anyone can help. Cheers guys Gareth
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People say that willow has a low calorific value ie dosn't produce much heat for the amount of time it burns. The fact of the matter is that if you went by those standards you'd have a hard time starting and maintaining a good fire with nothing but high calorific slow burning wood like oak and beach. The key is to have a good mix of species and to be fair there's nothing wrong with some seasoned willow or even some softwood for that matter. I tend to burn everything that i can't sell which is usually pop and conifer but nobody is ever cold in my house or workshop
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Hi Ste i'll happily put a bid in for standing timber that way there is no headache or graft for yourself just money Many thanks Gareth
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I reckon a 6" diameter piece of beach would stall it out. They where fannying around with twigs in the first vid.
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L200 single cab a nat's nut over 1200kg payload. That is bang on 3.5 m3 so somewhere between 1000-1100kg i reckon. It will def be overloaded on the rear axel but within gvw. I don't know why my l200 has such a good gvw as far as pickups go but it does My mate has a hilux twin cab that has just over 500kg payload which is gash! They usually around 750kg-1000kg i think.
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I know a lad who drives his Rayco into the back of his high top tranny. But then again he also drives his TW150vtr into the back aswell T105 ifor behind. It's a good setup!!
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[/ATTACH] Not overloaded but a good load:biggrin:
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It is a GTM rebadged as said they are pumped out on peace in china. It is what it is at the end of the day and a chipper is better than no chipper within reason. I'd be more inclined to look for a old second hand machine thats more ontop of the job but I just like work
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Marshall 802 Tractor - opinions?
treedweller replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Large equipment
Marshal = BMC ie leyland nuffield etc top tractors often cheap as overlooked parts arnt too bad to find and you can bolt in a big 6 fairly easy for an instant 100hp untouched. 2wd then swap the final drive+ tall rear tyres for a real 40mph if your brave enough!!! In the the east Lancs hill's 6cylinder nuff leylands and marshalls where the contractors weapon of choice when I was growing up!! Quite frankly showing up the modern tractors of the time. Thumbs up from me! -
Nahhh you couldn't tow the chipper cos you would already be towing that 2000ltr bunded fuel tank around just to get to the shops and back
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Very nice!!! Only prob is you won't be able to tow the chipper!!
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I was looking at Nene overlands webpage the other day. 3.2 puma engine coversions into defenders tuned to between 250hp-300hp!! If thats not enough they also do tdv6 and tdv8 conversions. They can tune the tdv6 twin turbo to over 300hp!! I think the rover v8 has had it's day
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Handy weapon that is!!
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Nooo the u1000 has the same 6cylinder as the u900 it's the u90 thats has the 5cylinder sprinter engine. From what i can gather a u1000 is a u900 with a square cab.
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CASE INTERNATIONAL 955XL 4WD | eBay Here get it bought it's your end of the world and better than my 785 (which i still havn't got around to putting the new injector pump on)
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Aye i was really dissapointed with the way it shaped! There is a cheap u1000 on the bay but it looks like it needs a fair bit of work. Gonna hold off from jumping into the skintness that is mog ownership
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Again i understand the need for specialist equipment and i understand how low impact these machines are but i just struggle to see how they can be used in a commercial setting. I look at it like this. 100 tonnes extracted @ between £5-7/tonne = £500-700 right? no matter what machine is used. Now 100 tonnes extracted @ £300/day moving an average of 20tonne a day after getting stuck breakdowns running out of fuel and everything else that happens every week in this job despite all the experience and planning = 5 days or £1500. If it was my timber i'd put the £800-£1000 extra into sorting thr rides and roads out and pocket the rest. Having said that these machines do exist and do go to work every week so there must be a market for them. I just cant find it
