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Hi Wonky, thanks for the reply unfortunately the cscs is a must.

After a climber / mewp operator for this week in Kent. Must hold relevant tickets with cscs card. Good rates of pay, 2-4 days work. Tel 07702036977

I have been using a valiant 95 reverse drive with a 1.5m Dragone flail, both supplied by Kilworths in Leicestershire. This replaced a vanguard 85 with a dragone flail. These flails seem to be very good, in the past I have attacked large grass land areas with long grass up to a metre high and buddleia plants up to 2.5m high with stems at 75mm. Its also good in bramble upto 1.2m high. The scraper bar dosent seem to last five minutes and bearings not much longer. The hammer heads seem to last forever the bolts seem to fail first. In all honestly we use the flail more like a mulcher at times which annoys me as every machine has its place, but the flail is thousands cheaper than the mulcher. The Dragone gets a thumbs up from me.

I have been using a Farmi 360 with a valtra 190 with a back axle mounted crane to power and feed it. The farmi has its own hydraulic pump, belt driven from the pto and it also has an oil cooler fitted to the chipper. As others have mentioned a roof mounted crane would improve visability, I just raise the height of the seat. The farmi copes really well with straight timber however struggles a bit with hawthorn in my experience. But as mentioned in an earlier post the blades being in good condition helps with feeding. I was struggling the other day and surprise surprise the outer blades were badly damaged. I find it takes some turning over with the pto set in 1000rpm so I engage it in 540 and then shut down switch over to 1000 and engage again whilst the blades are spinning. I have fed the chipper by hand (three lengths of timber) and it worried me so much I would not entertain it again. I certainly wouldn't ask anyone too either. Not sure if the pedals for direction of the rollers come with the machine but are worth while investing in.

As above, help required to assist small team planting trees at sutton bridge near kings lynn. Required from tuesday 2/4/2013 for 4 days. Cscs green card required with ppe also. pm me or text or call 07702036977 Regards Deano