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Wow that's an awesome looking machine 😉

Looking for a labourer/third man subbie in sunny east devon. Tree work and strimming. Some nights paid at better rate.

Some basic tickets and cscs would be an advantage.

Suit college lever etc.

Someone reliable with good attitude.

We will look after you well, potential of lots of work on going 🙂

Cheers simon

07909524526

We are recruiting! We are Looking for a groundsman/general operative/third man. general tree surgery ground duties, site clearance, stump grinding, general country side contracting and highways work, trees and grass and will include night works paid at stronger rate, milling and machine maintenance. (Mostly commercial work but no power lines or railways).

Someone reliable, friendly, good attitude, flexible and able to pass D and A test if necessary. Some tickets and experience would be ideal cross cutting, brush cutter, chipper, cscs etc. Will consider more or less tickets for the right person. Could suit someone new to the industry/college leaver or Possibly consider apprenticeship through the ARB academy for right person.

This is a paye full time position. What you will get from us- paid holiday, full ppe (two sets chainsaw trousers, boots, petzl helmet, sena comms, hiviz, waterproofs etc), pension, on going training, regular performance/wage reviews, We are looking for someone to invest into who will stay with us long term.

We will look after you, appreciate you, thank you for working hard and pay you well.

Quality of work and happy staff mean everything to us.

Ideally looking for someone to start in the next couple of weeks. We are based near honiton in east devon.

Cv to [email protected] or 07909524526 at a sensible time. Or message on here.

Please feel free to share this or pass it to anyone you think might be interested. Many thanks simon

Fb work page works well for us. Takes a surprising amount of time and effort to keep it interesting and to get the right people to see your posts but in my opinion it's worth it.

Great reference point to show clients recent works, has created some good enquiries and can be used well to find staff etc.

Not quite as important as website/google ranking but still useful imo

What's the smallest chipper worth feeding with a grapple?

I'm thinking 8 inch? But best consider a 12-15?

We have recently brought a small excavator and put a grab and rotator. Easy to move about and really productive. Moves a surprisingly big bit of timber. We feed 8 inch chippers. Tracked forst struggles a bit but pto tp is really productive, just need to disconnect the stop bar for best results

Bit of a revival here. What are people's thoughts on loaders fitted to alpines? I'm currently looking for a compact with a loader, but think an alpine, may be a better job.

 

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We have a loader on our alpine, been spot on. Really good tool. I think the issue is only if you put one on a artic steer alpine, makes them unstable

We've a compact alpine tractor with loader and grab. We tried a small Jensen pto chipper on it, it was useless just soooo slow. I'd be sure you are happy with performance of set up before buying one

We've got a 16ft tri axle ifor we use to move plant. Our alpine tractor puts it on its limit and combination of chipper and grinder is probably a bit over. The trailer can cope with it no bother in my opinion. If we tow it with the mog it's fine. If we tow it with 3.5t truck or 4x4 pickup I really don't recommend it, snakes easily and really isn't great as the weight is so high up. A double axle would poss be worse?

With the small grabs you get what you pay for, a mate got a cheap kelfri 1 that was bent and twisted in no time on his 2.5ton bobcat, I stumped up a bit more for a decent 1 from Rico with a bigger 4 bolt rotator as wanted it to go on both 3 ton and a hired in 8 ton and it's handled some big lumps, 100s of tons of cordwood and who knows how much brash aswell as laying miles of pipes for the company I get the 8ton off and the paint is hardly off it.

 

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Thanks gray git, I was going to look at options at Riko

There are a few on Ebay , in the process of fitting one to a 3t machine for a friend , just remember to budget for pipe work / hoses ect , has your machine got 2 way ?

Plenty of junk for sale so beware a £500 grab will not last long

Thank u, is the rsl the one u have gone for?

Hi guys, can anyone recommend a little timber grab and rotator for a little 1.7t digger please. Cheers

Just read posts properly, advise above is spot on, if we can get our big bandit onto the stumps they will disappear pretty quick :-)

We are close to exeter and happily quote for your stumps if you wish to go down that route. Please see Stump grinding Devon or Hartwood treeworks.

Or you can hire a fairly handy pedestrian grinder from c plant services, just up the a30 from exeter 01404 850357 :-)

We've had a few bcs/pesquali tractors 46hp and 56hp, generally very capable and reliable machines

Hi all, glad to say that I have joined the alpine tractor club with a Goldoni quad 20 which I am really chuffed with so far. I have been using it with a flail to mow bridleways. My question is I'd like to buy or fabricate an attachment to pick up piles of stacked brash. The only thing I can see to buy is a buckrake. I was wondering about getting my local ag engineer to make a muck grab that fits to the rear linkage and using the aux hydraulics works the jaws. I think there would need to be a tipping catch to help release the brash. Has anyone done anything like this or got any other ideas?

We build this to grab brash/timber on our alpine. It's on our loader but I've thought about building another to go on three point linkage, think it would work well with hydraulic top link to tilt/tip

Erith commercials, think they are in Kent. They have been very good for perfect condition second hand parts, mail order. New parts I think you are stuck with your local Mercedes truck dealer

In traffic management terms the absolute minimum width you can restrict a pavement to is 1m (by temp signs or barriers etc). Maybe this means min pavement winch is the same?

We have a tr8, 18 month old, close to 500 hours, couple small issues quickly sorted by redwoods, completely recommend

As above, could use a third man/labourer/groundie ideally subbie with basic nptc tickets and cscs card to work along side our employed guys as needed. Cheers

I don't think that is black poplar mate? Black is extremely gnarly looking by comparison.

 

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Defo black poplar. I agree it's not as gnarly as you might expect. They were planted in a great spot and grew exceptionally well, never reduced at all. They had to be felled as they were beginning to fail and they were next to busy road. The felling licence and dealing with the local tree lovers was quite a process as black poplar is Rare and becoming rarer. This made it even more frustrating to send 130 ton of huge straight timber for chip

We had a load of it couple of years ago. Tried hard to find a mill that would make use of it as it was big and straight but in the end 99% of it went for chip

We've got a electric warrior on our forst, as said previously it's fine but will get hot and loose performance if used for long periods of time. We've had it glowing hot and it's never let us down.

We have a big hydraulic winch on another machine and that will winch all day. The hydraulics do get glowing hot if used really hard though!

We brought a new tp recently, used tp website to find dealers, there were a few. Now just lists jaspwilson. We are in the south west uk, hope we don't get a big warrantee fault!!

We have 400 hours on tr8, never had a feed roller issue. Way Out performs the 540t that it replaced. Redwoods service has been perfect as always.