markieg31
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Morning sir, sorry I'm late, got carried away on the Christmas MTB ride. Got in at 1am 🥴 now to do the farm work.
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Certainly is a sweet spot of a tree that a customer seems to be massive but you know it is an easy. Getting into those bigger trees I fancy are less profit and more hassle. Easy trees easy money, and plenty of energy left for lifting pints in the boozer, or in my case to do battle with children when I get home.
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I have never spent more than £3600 on a tipper, now on my third truck in 13 years. First two tippers I just used three sheets of ply that I would fold up and tie with old rope at the start of the job. Very versatile set up as you could have you full bed back once tipped off and boards removed. Latest truck came with tool box/locker and a shonky drop side bed on the tipper chassis. I paid a local engineer to make me an aluminium high side body with barn doors had it made slightly narrower than standard body and it has definitely helped it fit in places I wouldn't have other wise. Cost £2500. Tipping gear was already present. Had three years out of it so far. Van engine is a little poorly but still limping on, aspirations of swapping body over onto a mk8 transit if I can't sort current tranny.
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Same glass here, tis just the proper thing to do.
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I'm here Couldn't get anyone to work yesterday so a day of logs in the yard, probably see If I can do a bit more today, got someone coming for some beef and then my Christmas MTB ride, ride Wednesday nights throughout the year bit got our ride Tuesday this year. Hoping not to get too wayward as I don't want to be a wreck for Christmas eve! 🥴
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Yes I have used a 230 sometime ago and agreed it was quite an improvement in the hopper and feed roller area, the 150 has quite a narrow hopper as it leads to.the rollers. The biggest gripe about a 150 is the god forsaken bearings and having to take it all apart to replace, that and my track base is pretty well past it.
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As much as I would love the idea of an 8 inch machine the 6 inch machine can get more places, certainly I wouldn't get around the foot paths and nadgery gardens with an 8 inch. Secondly the additional weight trying to drag it up the steepest A road in the UK with my decrepit transit would be dead in the water before we left the yard.
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Well after keeping a 150ftr going i am reasonably happy with timberwolf including the availability of parts.
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Well my only experience of green mech was from circa 2008, I only did a couple of railway shifts, brand new green mech and we were at it with a tw190. The other team with the GM team tried to feed a Conny in, it blocked, they spent a long time trying to sort it. It was the timber it appeared to get stuck on! Subsequently wickdamula , ken Hogan, rip, had one and was happy with it. And someone else with a arborist 130 seemingly many happy years with out fault.
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Well, having run timbercub 150s for a few years I would like to move on to something newer for a few reasons, my chipper engine is sweet but the under carriage is a little crusty, the ability for the machine to pull in material is less capable than say the 230 and the forst and Jensen's I have used. Furthermore the bearing arrangement on the flywheel I find very tedious to change and the bearings imo are to small form the application. The 150 does the job good enough but 230 or a forst will do the trick but I have seen a greenmech arbtrak for sale. I have no experience of green mechs, are they in the same league as the other machines ?
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The 'green' credentials of battery power are not good at the consumer end but you don't see all the damage done on mining the raw elements for the batteries. Bad for the planet and the individuals involved in the work. Hopefully some newer tech, battery or otherwise, will come along and save the day.
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Some advantages to it. Trimmers and pole saw, engine not at face height blasting fumes and noise straight at you! Soon as you off the throttle it's quiet. Saw by the chipper isn't sat on tick over just to cut the odd fork. Sure there are disadvantages but you pays your money you takes your choice I don't 100% believe Battery powered saws and cars are going to save the planet.
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I got there kids, 8,6 and 2. Would be helpful if they could come out and give me a hand when they are older. The 6 year old is mad keen for it! I took the track chipper out to site and we had to get down a nadgery steepish footpath. "Dad let me know if you need to use the winch to get back out!" Anyhow I like some others work a bit on my own, less so climbing on my own, tis hard work but it is all your own.
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Kids eh, eldest had found an old mobile phone and had it in his room playing games. 4:30 alarm going off on it wakes him up so he comes and wakes me up! I was rather abrupt as he knows he shouldn't have such things, Mrs then has a go at me so downstairs to get a cup of tea for me. Washing machine on, log on the fire and cup of tea in hand.
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Well I think I can agree that the problem wasn't the gun but the person behind it rattling off the shots. Why cant we all just live in peace and harmony ☮️ I feel comfortable with gun laws in the UK but as mentioned it's the law abiding citizens that follow the rules. The drug dealers and nutters don't follow the rules and have the weapons, that why I have switched from crack to paracetamol as the Mavis at Morrisons is less likely to be tooled up.
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Bandit launches new bespoke woodchipper in response to industry feedback
markieg31 commented on Steve Bullman's record in News
Does the hopper come off so I can fit it through a 4 foot gate? -
I understand you probably you may not want the down time but if you strip one side out the bearings will have the numbers on them and typically would be cheaper away from main dealers as spud has mentioned
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Well internal routing was bad but now with a lot of bikes the cables go through the headset before diving off into the frame. Looks super cool but a major head ache. You can have hydraulic hoses being either rubbed through themselves or rubbing their way through carbon and it's all out of sight. My friend showed me his Scott road bike, not a cable or hose in sight, if you need to adjust anything you done have enough slack in the hoses so you have to cut them and replace them. He is a bike mechanic and basically said any job of that nature is £300 before you even get to what actually needs doing! I got one bike with externally routes cables and hoses, what a dream that is!
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Well it's simple, if they have a gun your done for at a host of distances, if they have a knife being 10 feet away is a safe distance.
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According to a but of googling you are 40 times more likely to be shot in the US compared to the UK
