william127

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?

Bit of chicken wire will soon sort that!?

I've been meaning to do it for a while, but on Friday I picked up my first load of IBCs and they are already making life easier! I've got 12 at the moment, but will definitely need more next time I have a quiet week. Filled up 3¹/2 with ringed logs in no time this afternoon, ones for a scrap metal bin and ones for plastic, nice and tidy. Eventually I will be using them for split logs as well, with a couple set aside for oversized stuff, and some for undersized stuff hopefully for charcoal making? Just need to encourage my customers to take larger, loose loads now, unfortunately that doesn't seem to happen much.

That was the best splitting set up I've had to date, horizontal splitter on a trailer for a bit of height, powered by the digger and towed by it. Shouldn't have sold it but after I bought my x27 I stopped using it and got what I paid for it, plus I'm not sure it was doing the digger much good. The splitter was home built by the man I bought it from and had some great features: Big old digger ram One handed operation, as it should be? A slope leading up to the wedge, so the logs never got jammed so badly that a quick tap didn't get them off. And possibly the best bit was that it was made of an I beam, with the pusher traveling inside it, so you could rest logs on it and let go of them! If I ever make my own it will be very similar but ideally it will have: A large steal table behind the wedge, so you don't have to try and 'catch' the logs that need resplitting. A 4ft ram, obviously with loads of power, and an I beam to match. An auto return ram, but with adjustable return- so if you're doing billets it goes the full 4ft, if youre doing single rings, just a foot. If such a thing even exists! And 1 handed operation of course! My current splitter is a standard, vertical, JSilk model, absolutly nothing wrong with it but I'm just not that bowled over by it. I'm going to build my own massive table for it and if that doesn't make me really like it I'll build the one I've described above. Still not sure why I sold it!

How are the plans coming along? I'd love to buy a set! Although god knows why I want to make charcoal? no, I do know why- planning on moving to IBCs for logs and I could quite easily toss small stuff into specific crates set aside for charcoal. And it should be fun..

No problem, cheers.

Don't suppose you still have some?

Thanks, think I'll give one a go?

How have you found the 9amps in the grinder? Do they last OK, in use and overall lifespan? Thanks

If I ever bust my mini mattock, I know what to do with the remains!?

Thats the same machine as mine that I mentioned earlier. its about 13hp so a bit bigger than first mentioned but if that's the sort of size you're after then I'd recommend it. Being cheep and cheerful you do have to do a bit of tightening up and adjusting but its worth it.