william127

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.

I've not used anything smaller than my 13hp, not sure I'd want to just to make transport easier! I'd use one happily if that was all that the access allowed, but then I would be charging accordingly!

I think an easy solution is..... A cheap second tow vehicle! A good usable Discovery, trooper, ranger etc can be had for under 2k. It can do loads of different jobs, no one trick pony. Its not very often that tree jobs creating tipper trailer loads of chip get done by one person, and if you get a sub 750kg chipper anyone can tow it? When you get to site the chipper can be used connected to its tow vehicle, loose or bolt a tow bar on the back of the trailer to keep the chipper secure. A truck mounted chipper sounds like a great idea in theory but would cost a ton of money for a very specialised bit of kit. Unless you have a job that needs exactly that. One good setup I suppose could be the biggest chipper you could get mounted on a 3.5t truck, towing a digger with a grab to feed it, chipping into other vehicles or piles. That could produce some serious volumes??

Ernest does(tractor dealers). It was on offer last January. I should have bought 2 really.

UStarting from the biggest: Husky 2100 ( non runner, bought from a mate, maybe milling saw one day) 461, Spud ported, lovely beast?? 461 365 converted to 372 and Spud ported, great saw and I bought it as a genuine barely used £250 bargin Still 390, longest owned, bought it when I was 17, not very good but drilling out the exhaust and running on Aspen seems to have woken it up a bit. Currently has a fuel leak so not been used for a long time. 357, latest purchase from another arbtalker, very nice and a handy size. 350, Spud ported, from the same arbtalker as 357. My go to saw, can't decide whether I prefer this or the ported 461. Husky 435, handy saw, bought on offer for £160 new. Currently waiting on an oil pump, I think. 200t. I shouldn't have it as I'm not a climber but it comes in handy and cuts very nicely. Echo cs280. Not used it yet as it needs a tune up but nice little thing by the feel of it. My Dads saws that I use regularly: 2x 210s, ok little plodders. 2x 170s bought very cheap on offers, ridiculously light, very handy, last and last. Most used would be the 350, 461,365 and 435, but I expect the 357 will make its way up the list rapidly! I have too many saws that's certain, but I tend to buy them when I come across what I hope is a good buy, and I like to have back ups!

Well today got off to a bad start but finished better! Went into the log shed to find that the loaders left brake cylinder had dumped its fluid all over the floor? Had a look to confirm it was the cylinder, it was, bit of luck- the machine came with a spare one of them.? Then I got a message saying that a diesel pipe I ordered for the digger had arrived, 5 days earlier than expected! So my mechanical mate did the diesel pipe while I did the brake cylinder,

Well today got off to a bad start but finished better! Went into the log shed to find that the loaders left brake cylinder had dumped its fluid all over the floor? Had a look to confirm it was the cylinder, it was, bit of luck- the machine came with a spare one of them.? Then I got a message saying that a diesel pipe I ordered for the digger had arrived, 5 days earlier than expected! So my mechanical mate did the diesel pipe while I did the brake cylinder, about an hour and a half each? But we also confirmed that the glow plugs and alternator have had it on the digger so its not all good news??

Nice? impressive log lifting!

That looks great, and 2.5k doesn't seem too bad for what looks like a lot of sturdy metal? The big question is though, will I make that saving up in time saved over using the thumb? I'd say that if you were doing tree work day in day out with your digger then absolutely, but for me who uses it for trees, landscaping and normal digger work, even then probably only averages out at 1 day a week? I suspect not, unfortunately! All purchases are currently on hold however, for the positive reason that we are looking into buying the barn and field we currently rent?? so new toys are on hold!

Where is a good place to buy a timber grab from? Probably free hanging but maybe with a rotator. RSL is an obvious option but where else would be? What sort of price is good? for a 1.5 ton kubota. I'm also thinking about upgrading the Kubota to the legendary tb016 in the next couple of months so how do these grabs generally mount, would I be able to just have the pin hole mounts changed? And the same question goes for my RSL tooth and rake. Im guessing that as both machines are technically 1.5 tonners then the attachemts them selves will be pretty much the same, just need the mounts modifying. Thanks for any advice