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I have done, not for a while but it wasn't a problem. Don't know the specs of the ramps, they were borrowed but they were alloy and just the right spot of long enough but not too heavy. If possible work with the ground, face the truck down hill to lower the height a little makes a bit of difference I found. Found a picture or 2 of it on ramps the other day, I'll have a look for them. I mainly use trailers so others will have ramped their loaders far more than me 👍

My 1980s 90, collected in pieces as a 2.5td truck cab. In the process of converting to td5 soft top and reassembling 👍 Last picture is what I'm aiming for, right colour and everything

My collection, please don't ask for model numbers or torque specs, I don't know 😆 The makita was my first one, 18v brushless, compact and reliable but not hugely powerful. The 3 in the second picture came as a package, the 18v has far more power than the 18v makita, its a bit bulkier but not too big, makes short work of most things I've tried it on. 3/8th stubby is great for putting stuff together and gets into some very tight spaces. The powered ratchet is good for speeding things up in spaces when the alternative would be a hand tool 😆 The 90° 1/2 impact is very useful very occasionally 😆 If I was buying from scratch I'd just buy the milwaukee triple pack, the other 2 very rarely get used now.

Something very satisfying about using/having 2 of the same of something sometimes👍 one on the breaker, one on the bucket in this picture 👌

Old engineer I work with calls them shifters, did his apprenticeship in Huddersfield in the 60s. Mate in his 20s also calls them shifters, he was in the navy.

It's what's on my Giant, seem to work well enough in the mud for me. I've not had it stuck yet, including on the augering job pictured and on a regular soil pushing up job. Can see why you'd want to swap back for long hard standing jobs, or narrow access obviously👍

Haven't had the opportunity to use my mill in an age, had a local guy wanting me to do a day or so at a very expensive local place. Just couldn't make it work so he hired it without me, bit of a risk but it seems to have gone well. A quick test on a little bit of Ash before i delivered it really made me want to do more! Back safe and sound, apart from us loosing both keys between us 😆 new ones in post. Couple of pictures from Welland steam fair yesterday 👌

Nearly done, need to give it another quick coat of hammerite and then bolt the tines on properly. Realised the only bit that's my idea not shamelessly copied from here is the quick and easy way of just poking the tines through and pinching them down , and thats hardly original 🤣👍 Total cost is looking- Rsj 15 quid (bought 2 while I was there) Tines, £1 each, £10 Nuts bolts washers, sub £10. Paint and studding from stock, but let's say £10. Consumables £10 £55. Time- 1 hour running about, 2 hours to make it, an hour extra sanding and painting. If I end up liking it when I use it and I feel the need I'll add a proper headstock for the loader. Or if it works OK on the forks I suppose I could just add a digger headstock, 1 rake, 2 machines. (OBVIOUSLY the forks are upside down in the picture, I wasn't turning them over just to check my measurements! They're light but not that light 😆 )

Lifetime supply🤣 mixture of angles, sorted and boxed. Rest of the stuff can go back in an auction, probably get half the money back👍

Very smart 👍👍

You're probably right.. If there are some cheap tines in the farm sale I'm on my way to I have an idea for an ultra cheap, ultra quick one but if not I'll probably just order one 👍

I've used them for brackets before 👍 Did you get a rake or a muck fork from them?👍 Tempted to make my own rake but the next couple of weeks are manic, be nice to just have one on its way to me!

My new to me 217r, next to the 215r that influenced my choice😀👍

I'm looking for a rake and a muck fork for my Giant, takes the same attachments as a Cast, MultiOne or Avant (needs to be small enough though of course). Before I order the rake from Stag, if anyone's got one they want to sell let me know. With the muck fork I've not found a new one, so any suggestions or again a used one would be good 👍 I'd also consider a grapple bucket if anyone has one for sale👍

5ft? That tractor looks spot on👍

Giant out on Thursday, moving logs, mucking out a cow pen, moving and leveling soil. It handled full ibcs of dried chestnut ok but I doubt it would have done it with them fresh, or a decent firewood 😆 Unbelievably I've only done 5 hours and half a tank of fuel on it in 5 months! Yet I know it's been out on site work enough to earn its monthly payment every month and done all the yard work I've needed it to. Shows how efficient it is I suppose, and the hours (and sweat!)it saves are far more important than the hours it's run. 👍👍

Got my 1.5 ton digger from Harry, then a few months later sold him a micro digger. Both deals were easy, I always keep an eye on what he's got advertised 👍 Machine looks like a lot for the money, I'd be interested if I didn't have one already👍

True, it's not going to fill the back of my discovery on one set! About 6-8 inches I'd say. One of the great advantages is not having to pull start the thing, deciding whether to let it idle of turn it off. A few weeks ago I had a few bits of poplar, about 10 inches on the back of the truck, I was able to ring it all up (filled a paving crate, a decent boot full 😆) on 1 pair of batteries, while chatting to my Dad. I could throw the rings straight in the crate and move a fresh lump closer to the edge of the truck without a saw noisily idling away, walking itself off the truck 😆 👍

back handle, 12inch bar 👍 If you're cutting sensible sized stuff I can't see a boot full of logs being a problem at all.

Makita 36v, (18vx2), bought mine before Christmas and it's my most used saw now. The job I bought it for was cutting back a conifers hedge, loads of 12ft long branches, back to the fence line up to head height. Can't think of a better saw for that job. Perfect for by the chipper too. Don't think I've used anything between that and my 461 on the last dozen or so tree jobs I've done. Does help that I have 10 batteries but I don't think I've used more than 6 in a day.

Well the mower attachment didn't happen this time- didn't need it for the first job I had in mind for it and there's nothing else currently in the pipeline for it. So I sold it for a decent profit 👍 Loader has done a bit recently though, loading up Ash on one site, and then filling right up with oak to move round for logging up at the farm, as well as doing excellent work as yard dogsbody

I thought he said yesterday it had gone? Still, worth asking for that price

Well it's been raining today and as I am already a days money ahead this week after a nightshift I made the long drive from Hertfordshire to Wisbech and collected an sch fm48 👍 😃 It is bigger and heavier than the fm42 I wanted, but comes with the bonus of a 13hp gx not a 9hp. Bought at a right price so it can easily be moved on or I can use it as the manufacturer actually intended behind my quad. Got it back in the workshop, took the back axle off, the front drawbar off and tacked up a mounting plate 👍 👍. Just need full welding, some angle braces making and we are ready for testing 😬 😀 20240213_190153.heic20240213_184332.heic20240213_184332.heic20240213_184332.heic20240213_190153.heic

Any of them will work, just fit the loader bracket on the back side 👍 Currently looking at a used SCH 42inch model seems ideal - the front hitch is on pins as it's designed to be usable offset so that comes off with no mods, and the back looks simple enough to take the wheel set up off with no hacking, bit of thought and I should be able to swap between mounted and trailed in about 10 minutes when it's done. It's a gs390 engine so that's always good and it only weighs 125 kg so more than light enough. Just need the Facebook people to message me back 😕

Yes it's not particularly difficult, just wondered if anyone had actually taken the plunge and done it yet, or whether I'll be group guinea-pig 😆 🤣 Although with the amount of work that's come in this week I'm not going to be fitting in a fresh workshop project for months!