mowingjamie

Hi, looking to surface my yard, currently just crusher run. Either scalpings or road plainings I was thinking. Both £20 a ton. Would road plainings be more hard wearing and if on a very gentle slope allow water to run off not soak through? Really struggling to get road plainings hence why there £20 a ton now. Would need at least 100t.

Hi all, I've got my class 1, cpc and tacho card. I'd love some like a 12t hookloader to help with the building works. Sell my ifor 12ft tipper that I tow behind my sprinter. Only be moving my kit and materials around. But what realistically would a lorry of this size cost to keep on the road? I've got a large yard to park it in. Looking at ones with about 200km on 12to15k purchase cost, 2010 sort of age.

After some advice on a log splitter, I've got a 3.5t kobelco excavator and a yard with 3 phase. Looking for a vertical log splitter, what would be best 3 phase or hydraulic off the digger? 3 phase I persume will be quieter and won't put hours on my machine, but will it be up to the work?

Hi All, Need something to surface my yard and road in the spring next year. At the moment it's made up of 8 inch of crusher run from the quarry. Does the job, but I want something really neat. We will be putting in tons of drainage next year so hopefully that will resolve the water sitting about. What's best surface wise? Ment to use the lorry grid system with grass to keep Suds happy, but in leaning towards 20mm clean stone? Suppose concrete would be the answer! Open to options, would road plannings help?

Cheers, will they be far lighter being type a I guess? I persume enough protection than a type c for just my use?

Hi all, looking for recommendations for chainsaw trousers to protect when chopping up firewood with a chainsaw. After some thing really flexible and light. Tried the stihl advance x flex, fine for winter but found them really heavy and hard going most of the time. Any recommendations would be most welcome!

Looking for some advice if anyone has come across such a machine? It's a forklift based on a massey 135. Desperately looking for a timing guard/gear cover, correct name??, as pictured. Having constant fuel problems with it blocking up the fuel gauze, will take the tank off and wash out. Any advice most welcome!

Hi, looking to buy a Takeuchi tb23r 2006 with 2500 hrs for about 12k. Sound ok hours and age for the money? Would this model be able to lift at all? What's the chances I could put a tow bar on the blade and tow my ifor tipper across fields? Or would that do more damage than good? Any advice most welcomed from you!

Looking for some advice on the isuzu grafter n35 trucks. I know there really good and tow like a train. But I've had serious issues with my sprinter van and short journeys causing issues with the dpf. The grafter I'm looking at is a 2008, I guess this will also have a dpf fitted but will I have issues again? Can you manually regenerate these dpfs without doing a 20mile detour? Any advice would be much welcomed. Cheers Jamie

Just trying to find a machine that will cover most of my needs. Jcb 3cxs good powerful digger, front loader, forklift.... be nice to be able to have one machine. Ie if it could run a pan mixer for me it would be ideal. The other option is to run a tractor and trailer and a 360 excavator. PTO the pan mixer and front loader on the tractor but this all comes in at cost. The jcb cx is a bit of a compromise but for what I do it's fine.

Looking into a 1999 project 12 jcb 3cx. What's the chances I could run a pan mixer off the hydraulics? Maybe on the front forks and plumbed into the 4 in 1? Would love to be able to rig some sort of flail mower too? On the back arm or front bucket/forks? Any ideas much welcomed! Cheers Jamie.

Where you based? I'm Brecon, Mid Wales? Just realised that you only do upto C1, if I'm going to do it I might as well do the full C class 2 then it covers me for the future if I want to go bigger.

Hi, cheers for all the help everyone. So I'll do the full course at my local place inc cpc now then. Been quoted £1800 for everything from medical to cpc. Inc vat. So once I pass it would be less hassle to get a 7.5t even though i would have the licence to drive larger. What about having a suitable yard? Can I just park it on the road outside on a restricted/ personal operators licence? What about 6/10 weekly check? I'll only be doing about 6000miles a year. How much road tax would a 2007 tipper be per year? Insurance? I'm 29 so would the insurance be sky high? Cheers Jamie

So it would be worth while to get a 7.5t rather than a 10t to keep things simple? What if I moved my ride on mower to a job with the lorry, would this no longer be private use and now need a cpc?

Hi, I mainly do my own property development stuff now and moved away from doing ground care, but I trust your opinions on vehicles as most are in a similar situation to me. I have my b and e so can tow a trailer legally. But dont enjoy towing heavy trailers much, is it just me? So, doing this development work I move large quantities of soil, rubble etc and my materials I've purchased. I haven't set up a formal business doing this as I've needed to live in the property while doing the work. I own a 12ft ifor tipper but looking at the options of selling this and going for a 7.5t ot 10t tipper lorry and doing my class 2, which at some point I'll end up doing no doubt. Could I run a 7.5t easily as I'm moving my own materials and it's not technically for hire or reward. Would/should I do my CPC? Any other advice is most welcome! Cheers! Jamie.