Marsh Monkey

Does anybody know if someone in Norfolk has a crane fed pro chipper to hire, I've just realised how much I hate dragging brash

i've got a load of thinning work coming up in a load of areas that have been sand pits and quarrys is it worth getting the carbide tipped clearing saw blades or do i just stick to the old method of having 4 or 5 blades i rotate thru the day and sharpen them all when i get home? intrested to hear if anyone has an opinion

Wow we ran 3 555s into the ground in a year on marsh work and I know of at least 3 more doing similar work where the engines have just fallen off I'd stick with Stihl my 410 lasted 5 years on the same job it died trimming someone's lawn tho 😂

Sent you a message with a couple of phone numbers in Steven is an agricultural development engineer who has made most things work that I've broken and always has something interesting In his workshop

try Steven Eyles over in methwold, guessing by your user name your based in norfolk...

Cheers for the help gonna have fun stripping my rubber tomorrow had a quote from Holland for 450 euro I'll try the potato boys Monday, it's on my reedcutting machine it's a converted snow groomer like a pisten bully but old...

Does anyone know where I can get a cog rerubbered if that's even a word... Mine looks like the first image and should look like the second, I think it's aluminium just to make life difficult I can get it done in Holland but would rather not have the hassle

Finally had a chance to start looking at this leaky annoyance just a thought could I use a tank sealant? Saves splitting the saw and of the seal has gone once it'll go again no doubt...

Thanks all my oily balls are thankful

Balls that'll be something fun to play with on a rainy Saturday then...

I've got a 560 that is absolutely peeing chain oil when running, I've changed the oil pump and the pipe into the tank, as far as I can tell they're in properly are there any other obvious things it could be. I've kinda ruled out a hole In the tank as it only leaks when running 

I have a Stihl 460 brush cutter that wont deliver full revs when it's fuel drops below a half a tank it's just cuts out. It's got a new fuel filter I can't see and holes in the pipe air filter is clean any ideas?

Can't believe I've only just watched this one wondered who'd done the car park, looks too easy with all the toys...can you make them float? Dreaming of that to feed my scrub fires in the fen..

Hi Lewis 

I supply reed for thatchers probably your best bet is to speak to a couple of local thatchers and get them to tell you the specs they work to, I know that some of them around me have despaired of getting any good quality local ones and have started using softwood from Travis Perkins. I'm in Norfolk the only Thatcher I know vaguely near you is kit Davis if you want his details pm me

Mine is used for reed cutting and fen clearance in the broads it's got a rice cutting head attached I'm intending to get one made with a band rake for clearing work. I know there is a company In Holland making a machine with front and rear pto but it's then soft track money... And yes a child can operate it...

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I keep looking at this machine and thinking I need it...but I've run out of room in the barn if memory serves correct these come in at just over 2t but if you loose a bunch of the extra metal work they suddenly weigh a whole lot less

If you're interested in one I got mine from Henk de Haan in the Netherlands he's an all round good egg

Oh also I have an iron horse too wouldn't have the guts to run a large flail, they only have 13hp

21 hours ago, drinksloe said:

 

 

A similar option is a Scot track, similar to Argos but metal body and hydraulic driven, have to admit not seen 1 in flesh yet. Thinking I"LL possibly upgrade to 1 in future. Because hydraulics don't have the steering/brake issue and can power other stuff of them.

I had a Scot track, was useless tracks fell off all the time, it's still has drive chains like an argo, but that are really difficult to get to. I'd get yourself a small snow groomer and adapt it. It's what everyone in Europe does...when it comes to working on wet land I trust the Dutch....

You want one of these lower ground pressure than a soft track and you can tow it behind an iveco daily it's a heavily modified prinorth look on mascus there's usually a few floating about for sub 10k

Get some DAB ones... I got a set from clas Olson they are great have Bluetooth in do can answer your phone but they are only 28dB noise reduction so not quite loud enough to be used while brush cutting but plenty loud enough while brash dragging. But I think 3M do a set that are 32dB

awesome thats why i ask these questions, just bolt thru the cross piece straight down into the new support i presume to keep it in place, i'll have a rumage around felled a bunch of alder recently so must have something that'll do the job and not rot under water...

I know you lot love a machine to look at

I got a new toy recently for the Reed harvest, and i have to get over a 8-9m wide ditch, i've previously crossed it on 2 telegraph poles with a bunch of deals laid between them, it'll take the weight of an mf35 and a trailer of about 1 tonne, the new machine is 2400kg unladen do i risk taking it over or should i chuck another couple of poles in if i can get them?

sounds really kinky but i got a latex sprung mattress a few years ago, it did help with the achey lower back, but i fell off a chair just before christmas and it's all gone to sh*te now...

You should try cutting reed this winter... Reckon I've spent more time flooded off than I have working this year. just imported new gear from the Netherlands, I should of got their water management too I reckon.

Over in the dry east we're dredging the rivers regularly but it's having little or no effect. Normally we get tidal flooding on the marshes I work for a couple of days a month but this winter from October it's been at a flood level constantly. It was the first time in 12 years my scrub fires in 18inch high trays got put out.

Think the sea is just angry with us this year