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  1. pycoed
    £595? Go & get yourself a scrapped capstan lathe around 2 Tons for say £350, take the rack & pinion out & then re - scrap it for £340. Must be lots of other industrial stuff uses rack & pinion systems? If I was making one I think I'd mount the pinion to the shaft (rather than having an integral pinion like the DR one), maybe with a shearbolt or soft woodruff key.
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    Surely much cheaper to produce? No pump, no spool valve, no ram, all of which require precision expensive machining. Then a tiddly little mower engine ( 6 hp in the DR model) instead of >11hp for hydraulic models. Flywheels could done even cheaper by using car wheels filled with concrete & balanced with wheel weights or lead in pockets cast into the concrete. Only thing to wear is a cheap linear rack - looks like a brilliant idea to me.
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    He's got Superwinch X series winches - 12000lb models but I can't remember the exact model. One on the wagon for winching on fallen stock & another in the yard for deskinning. I note that even for the Husky their parts list only shows a complete motor assembly at around £200 - this I call crap service backup. What generally goes wrong with a permanent magnet motor?: bearing s & brushes that's it. Neither are listed as service items. Might be acceptable & OK for DIY stuff but not in my view suitable for professional/industrial usage. My mate still has them in use but then again he knows now I can fix them for nowt for him, so has no incentive to buy a decent hydraulic pair!
  4. pycoed
    "I've cut it twice & it's still too short"
  5. pycoed
    Don't get a Superwinch, they don't last 5 minutes if used regularly. My mate is a knackerman & I'm always repairing his winches. Brushes go & they are not a service item: you have to buy a whole motor - £180! I use Lucas starter motor brushes (£3) & modify to fit, but they are soft & need replacing regularly.
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    Flail every time for rushes. I bought 25 acres of marsh that hadn't been cut for at least 15 years & some of it never. 4 horses on it for about 5 years. I cut 1/4 acre patch with a Mayfield 8 Dual wheeled 3 ft finger mower. I cut about an acre with the Mayfield but it's ridiculously hard work & leaves a lot of rush to clear. What a pain! - to cut close the fingers will catch the tussocks more often than not. I use it now just for cutting either side of the ditches so I know where the edges are when topping with the tractor - no more! I had a contractor in with a 130hp Lambo & an 8ft flail to top about 15 acres that was safe to do (rest too wet). The flail was great & chewed it all up to a fine mulch. Since then I've used my own UTB & a rotary slasher, but it leaves a lot of smashed rushes - what to do with them is the problem - usually too wet to bale. If I could find a 5 ft flail at the right price I'd buy it like a shot. Mob grazing with horses then cattle on tack is my current preferred solution.
  7. pycoed
    Flail every time for rushes. I bought 25 acres of marsh that hadn't been cut for at least 15 years & some of it never. 4 horses on it for about 5 years. I cut 1/4 acre patch with a Mayfield 8 Dual wheeled 3 ft finger mower. What a pain! - to cut close the fingers will catch the tussocks more often than not. I use it now for cutting either side of the ditches so I know where the edges are when topping with the tractor - no more! I had a contractor in with a 130hp Lambo & an 8ft flail to top about 15 acres that was safe to do (rest too wet). The flail was great & chewed it all up to a fine mulch. Since then I've use my own UTB & a rotary slasher, but it leaves a lot of smashed rushes - what to do with them is the problem - usually too wet to bale. If I could find a 5 ft flail at the right price I'd buy it like a shot. Mob grazing with horses then cattle on tack is my current preferred solution.
  8. pycoed
    You can make a horse jump by whispering "Tesco" in his ear! Boom! Boom!
  9. pycoed
    If he was paying YOU £500 to take it, then it would probably be OK as a deal. If you have to pay HIM £500 for a 10 year old, years laid up, non MOT'ed car widely acknowledged to be a heap of crap, then he's no mate of yours. If you do fancy a challenge then scrap price would be circa £100 in S Wales, so don't pay a penny more, even to a mate.
  10. pycoed
    Ah! I thought it was you - are your lamps still lit?
  11. pycoed
    Note who's hogging all the heat here?

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