william127

18 months ago we were talking about modifying an ATV petrol flail mower to go on the front of a mini loader, has anyone actually done it yet? I'm giving it serious consideration as I've got some brushcutter work coming up and no one wants to be doing that 😅 😆

I've got a 0.8 clone, bought to live under the seat of my crafter van- getting my first 2wd after years of landrovers set off certain paranoias... bloody handy little thing, paid for itself several times over and has dragged a 3.5 ton van backwards with the handbrake on. I'd buy the same again. At the other end of the scale we have a 3.5 tirfor in the workshop, has only only been out to sit in the truck for emergencies, bloody heavy lump

And I thought I did well bidding unseen on a 3 ton farm trailer, mine for 150 quid. Towed it the 2 miles home, turned out to be full of 'scrap' out of which I have so far made a yard scraper, trailer cage sides, chip box frame, with lid, auger mount and other bits. Still got some of it left. And then I sold the trailer for 200 quid 👍 👍

I could take that , plenty of room for transit sized trucks 👍 When are you looking at doing the job?

What sort of logs and what kind of volume of chip? I'm in little Berkhampstead, not far outside Hertford. 👍

Would have been just about right for my old lamborghini tractor then, might have actually done some profitable work with it then 😆 Agreed about older stuff with metal in the right place 👌

No I saw that, its actually 1800! Looks OK and genuine. Down in Sussex i think. I struggled to find specs for it online. If I still had my bigger tractor I'd be seriously tempted, looks a bit big for an MF35 though! TP make a nice sturdy chipper. There's also a TP860 in Bexleyheath for 3k

I've done it with a couple of fellow scout leader friends for a few years, 3 vehicles out for collection, we pick up 200 ish trees on a Saturday, then chip them on a Sunday. Gets my details seen by 200 households and thousands of views on Facebook as people share it like mad. Normally raise about a grand a time minimum, less a couple of Chinese takeaways for us volunteers- one while route planning, one while counting up the money 💰

I still love my aldi petrol pressure washer, it's had an oil top up and an upgraded hose (bit less twisty and 3 meters longer so I could get all the way round my van) in 7 years. I belive it can run out of a barrel but ive never tried. Paid 70ish quid for it, seems identical to my Dad's £400ish Draper. Still worth what I paid for it- put a bid by proxy on one in an auction a couple of weeks ago, £30. Sold for £90!

Sounds good to me, that's exactly what I want to do. I did 2 more board glue ups this evening, just because I enjoy doing it but it's all adding to the Christmas stock. Next Christmas that is 😆 🤣

I know someone who had to do the leaf blower ticket, along with a couple of his guys- they were doing course set ups for water events at the 2012 Olympics and they use blowers to inflate the marker bouys! I don't know if he's done a refresher course since, I may ask, I'd hate to think he was being reckless and irresponsible 😆 😂 😅

I'm spending a bit of my free time at the moment making chopping boards, serving boards, tea light holders, the normal stuff. To be honest it's mainly nice pieces of timber given a good sand and bit of an oil to show it at its best. My plan is to get a good load of stuff together then do some local craft fairs, with plenty of advertising for my actual money making job 😆 price labels on the back of business cards, pile of leaflets, back drop banner etc. If the sales on the day pay the entry, pay for some more timber, consumables and a decent lunch from another stall then I'll be happy enough. As for how to actually sell quality wooden items for sensible money day to day, I haven't a clue. Apart from knowing that Facebook marketplace is almost certainly not the answer! But then it is free, so where's the harm in trying, just put the prices where you want them, not where others do. The right person may just see it...

I need to renew mine next year, thought it was going to be a right faff as I lost my whole wallet a couple of years ago. Had a look into it when my mum renewed hers a few months ago, there's an option for if you've lost the current one so no problem.

Christ I wouldn't say no to all those grants/cheap loans/lack of traffic(50mph along the Embankment in a Discovery 3 on the way home from a job, yes please)/massive busyness, I could do with a new digger please! 😆 🤣 😂 (Tongue firmly in cheek (kind of) before anyone who lost someone or genuinely had a hard time of it gets their knickers in a twist or gets upset)

My thoughts exactly 👍 I'm thinking about a Chinese diesel heater, set up so it's mobile so I can take it camping/down the other yard/in my defender on cold mornings etc

Customer I'm at now does tea and toast on arrival, regular tea and biscuits, homemade cake and flapjack. Once got hot flapjack straight out the oven, so crumbley i needed a spoon 👍 Shame its alway poxy little repair jobs here, and it's 5 miles inside the m25 hellhole

Nice one today, old family friend, acceptable cup of coffee, 2 hot sausage rolls and he put a new plug on my extension lead, gave me a spare plug and tested it 😆 👍

My go to hot drink in the workshop is 3 in 1 instant coffee 😆 When customers offer me the choice of instant or 'proper' coffee I always say instant, it would appear I have no standards lol 😅 🙂 😆

Are they?? The only ones I ever see are parked behind broken down cars, blinding everyone with their bloody lights, doing nothing. The other day it took me 20 minutes to get 500 yards up to a roundabout, get there and there's 4 coppers with a volvo and an l200, causing chaos by parking behind a middle aged BMW 1 series, with its towing eye screwed in, ready to use (not that it would have been hard to push), 30 yards from a bloody kwick fit car park!!! As I went past I couldn't help yelling 'you useless ******* morons' to myself. Then I remembered my window was open, and I was doing about 3 miles an hour... 😆 🤣 😂

On a job down in Dorset a couple of years ago, doing some acoustic paneling on a mobile drilling rig (lorry based with a 2 stroke v8 detroit diesel, you could here it coming a mile away!!), boss says 'anyone for coffe, I'm off to the tea hut?' One of the drilling company fitters, huge burely Geordie, accent as thick as plaster says 'I'll have a gingerbread latte please' 😆 🤣 😂 Had to ask 3 times before we worked out what he wanted, then we really didn't know what to say lol 😅 😆

So easy to sell by the builders bag, new customers you just say 'like a builders merchant would deliver sand in' if they're struggling to grasp it, and repeat customers either liked the amount they got for their money, or they don't buy again. I put my bulk bags inside a box that I made, fill them, fork them out the box. The box does the measuring, the bag is just for transport. Means I can use any bulk bags I get off jobs, reuse them without worrying about giving away free logs- I always get 2 bulk bags out of an ibc- and the customers get a consistent amount. I've done a few deliveries of ibcs this year, fork it on, at the customers hand ball logs out the back until I can tip it over on the truck bed, stand it upside down, roll it back over, drag logs off the back. Easy, and no double handling bagging up 👍

What colour leak? If its atf it should be red- always hard to tell with leaks though

Low fluid level, possibly due to blown oil cooler lines? Any sign of a leak? Do you have a difflock, just to rule out the possibility of a blown diff/shaft/cv?

No because it's got proper, thick, dull paint on it, not poncy metallic 😆 Need it on there to cover up the CHAS registration or whatever it is sticker anyway 😆 🤣 😂

Made that mistake with my old crafter van, tiny swarf partials on the sign, rusty bonnet within days 😔 😟 I won't ever stick them on the disco or the ranger for that reason, not that they'd fit in anywhere anyway. Fine on the ifor dropsides or the chipper though