william127

Can't say I've had that with my Hyundai, could well be the blade gap. Where did the last couple of posters buy there Hyundai's from and where do you plan on buying spares from? I have had to buy some parts for my Hyundai's recently and its been a pain in the backside!! Its taken several phone calls, and the throttle cable, pull cords and handbrake cables are still not here! Not trying to be a gloom and doom merchant, just a heads up- when you think you'll need something, get your order in asap!

Great set of attachments? What's the little 3 tined thing? A ripper for before using the grader?

I hired one in with an operator last week, did a good job getting 13 tons of material 100 yards from a road and over a wall. I did have to do a lot of shoveling as the height of the wall meant it needed to use its extension jib so could only lift about 600kg. Was a tricky location and worked well, although the circumstances where it is the right machine is very particular so it will probably be a long time before I have it again. A telehandler, avant, rough terrain forklift, dumper or Hiab would generally be far easier. On this job a very big Hiab would have done it but I wasn't 100℅ it would have weaved its way in. So the hooka was the right machine?

I will happily admit that the guard was taken off mine within a few cuts! Its only me that uses it and I'm quite happy without it. Its a very productive system, especially when you arrange your logging area to make the most of it. A second saw is very useful for preparing the logs if they are not straight, but with chainsaws- the more the merrier!

Have you seen the Portek ones, where the chainsaw is clamped on you slide the log along? I have one, its a great bit of kit. You can put surprisingly large logs through it. You do have to watch out for the smaller logs as they can get flung out but once you get used to it you know what to expect.

To be fair a single cab tipper would be pretty close- that's what my hilux is, but that will never be a main work truck as it is too old and can't tow much. The other problems with that would be: Lack of tool/storage space. Modern pick ups are very big and have car quality and style panels, which makes them highly vulnerable to expensive damage. Gearing/inability to use low box on tarmac to shunt heavy trailers. I don't know if that's the case with the latest generation of pick ups but it was certainly an issue for both the people I know who've had DMaxs for towing. And this is the big one: Cost/Depreciation. I've had my defender nearly 4 years, done 65k hard miles in it, and its basically worth what I paid for it. You're not going to get that with anything else! Having said all that, if they brought out a van version, a proper van, with a access from between the seats and a rear door, not a pick up with a canopy, and it had a proper 7 ton train weight, id be very interested. After someone else had taken the hit on the depreciation, obviously!????

I have a hilux as well so I'm certainly not anti Toyota. I'm not anti new pick ups as such, but there just literarily isn't a direct replacement for my 110 available anywhere. Ive tried to like the new ranger as they are great vehicles, but its not for me. My current vehicle plan is to keep my 110, which has been doing 20k+ a year, keep my td5 disco as car/back up/tow car and add a 3.0 single cab iveco tipper, That should keep the miles on the defender down to 10k or so a year, so it should last a few more years??

I can completely understand where you are coming from, the problem comes in the looking elsewhere department... Im certainly a land rover enthusiast but I have tried/looked at other makes and can't see any alternative for my defender/disco, other than a hugely expensive land cruiser or something

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I'd give the 251 a miss, nothing really wrong with it but a heavy not very powerful homeowner/gardeners saw. I think. I've no experience what so ever of the 260. Have a look at husky 350/357, can be had for a good price, powerful(for size), well balanced and sturdy. These are my 2 most used saws these days.

I agree with you there, my Hyundai can fire conifer chip over the headboard of my big ifor, that's 7 feet off the ground and 14feet away!! I'm not saying it can't jam, of course it can, but it tears through normal conifer. Dead yew on the other hand...

Takes all sorts as they say,,! I'd rather be on a domestic fence than anything else- I make sure I'm charging as much as there plumber/sparkie/roofer, and if its taken me all day to walk all the panels from the end of the road I get paid for it.... And I'd rather carry logs for someone else than do stock fencing!! I make a killing doing domestic fencing, I should do it 6 days a week but I might go slightly loopy and I do love my machines...

That could be me, although I'd say I'm making slightly more than beer money. I did 80 bulk bags last year, do 20% more each year and make a profit. But no way do I make more than I would doing other things! The main thing is for me, if I have a quiet day in summer, I can turn waste from jobs into £3 -500 worth of winter income, which is useful! Plus a couple of dozen happy customers who often use me for other things. I can also see how you can make on a tiny profit, huge turnover operation, but as said above, its the middle ground that's hard!

Saying what saw for forestry is like saying what car is best for a road?? My go to saw for basically everything now is a Spudded husky 350, but if I could only have 1 saw it would probably be my Spudded 461 as it can cut big logs. But it would be a tough call to give up the 350!

Sounds good to me, better too many machines than not enough! Im also only a one man band but I'm currently seriously considering a 3rd truck or a 4th trailer....?

2 of us quite happily carried my Hyundai mini chipper through an old house with tiny doorways and a very tight 90 degree turn. Wheels off, hoppers off, fuel drained and it wasn't too bad. I would probably get it up a flight or 2 of indoor stairs if I had to, but it would have to be with the right person helping! And its a fair bit of spannering so not ideal with a hired machine...

Some good sense being talked there with those numbers? And £260-280 assumes you are just being on a day rate- a decent days price work that all goes well and you could probably add £150 on that , so it only needs 2 days every 3 months(but obviously more the better!)?? Then theres every time you do a little job round the yard, or 10 minutes on site where you'd "manage' for a morning if you had to hire something. Although you haven't mentioned the deposit for the finance.

I love that tractor!?and GDHs of course?

That head type,? but for the combi system, that's for the multi tool- the cultivator out front wheeled kind of thing. I think?

I've been trying to find one of the stihl rubber paddle kombi system sweepers but everywhere seems to list them as out of stock? Are they still available? Any chance someone has a used one they want to part with? Cheers

Any size digger is worth having! I have a 1.5 ton and what it can do is amazing, handle ridiculous sized lumps of timber, dig out 50 tons a day no problem, take the canopy off and drive it through garages, the list goes on.... My Dad on the other hand has an old takeuchi micro, and that's also brilliant! Strip off turf far quicker than labourers, perfect size for loading wheelbarrows, get in really tight gateway's, dig right up against a house, the list goes on....

Good point, handy truck for the money but a truck will never have the payload of a trailer. Still very useful though. I've had tipper, flat bed and plant trailers and the one I wouldn't be without is the 14x6 flatbed. Can do more things more easily than anything else. Its not ridiculously big, especially when used with my 110/ td5 discovery, but its long enough to get 2 pallets of 6ft fencing on, can safely put 6m long stuff on it, cars, timber, soil, whatever. I have the standard sides and plywood high sides. I could get mesh high sides if I wanted.

It was a trip in a 3.0 cabstar that got me thinking about tippers? it belongs to the company my mate works for and he said it could tow 3.5 ton but I wasn't sure. I might borrow it and give it a test! I wondered about Ivecos as well ?

Are there any models of older tipper that can(legally) tow 3.5 ton, ideally with a 7 ton train weight? Apart from Defenders, I know all I need to about them. I'm thinking that a tipper would be a good fit with my work and machinery but I don't think they are generally weight rated for heavy towing? My 110 is 3.5 ton gvw and 7ton train, but its a hardtop so in reality its virtually impossible to put any weight in it! Chances are I will end up with a discovery commercial as they have much bigger back door than the defender and a flat floor (and I have a good condition low mileage td5 that needs putting back together and using!) But now is a good time to be looking. And by older I mean under £7000! Cheers!

They are the 1.5toner you want to have, if you're looking used? In fact I'd rather have 2 of them than 1 new machine, far more useful! I would have rather had 1 than my Kubota, but prices were a little higher 4 years ago, the price you're looking at seems good/OK to me. Good luck with it?