william127
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Looks ideal, do you sit the bag on a pallet to lift it off the hooks?
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I have recently bought an old diesel tank stand to turn into a bagging frame. I'd like to see pictures of your bagging frames and how you use them to help me get some ideas of how best to make and use mine. Thanks.
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130 all the way for a tipper. Get a td5 or a puma engined one, whichever you prefer, as both of these engines are perfectly capable on long drives/motorways! unfortunatley it will need more maintenance and use a bit more fuel than a regular tipper. They are of course less comfortable than all the other vans and pick ups, unless you are like me and find the seating position in most other things uncomfortable, but they are perfectly adequate. I have towed 800 miles in a day in my current 110, drove my tipper to Scotland twice, last summer I did 320 miles without stopping at all and did 2000 miles in a week. Oh yes, I'm 6foot 5 and large, so that's another myth(provided you fit a smaller steering wheel)!
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Make a low offer, if they don't take it you've lost nothing. i recently bought 10 tons of hornbeam for just £15/ton because it needed extracting up a steep hill and along a bridleway with a quad bike and trailer. As it happens I came up with a very good system for getting the wood out so it ended up being very cheap wood. Had it been harder/slower I would still have been ok because the wood was cheap.
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I moved my 1.5 ton digger on my tipper loads, it's a bit less stable than a flatbed and obviously nowhere near as good as a wheels on the outside plant trailer but perfectly usable for moving machines.
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I had a 10x5 ifor tipper with the cage sides, a great sized multi purpose trailer. I'd love to deliver a bulk load to the tops of the cages in one but I don't think anyone round here would be prepared to pay for it! i will be buying another when funds allow
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The bloke doing the baling said 200-250kg a bale. I had no trouble standing them up so sounds a fair estimate to me. They were very dry.
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Nothing too technical today, but a good test of both the 200tdi engined hilux and its newly rebuilt(but not finished)tipper body.
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A yellow hilux tonka toy? Already got one:thumbup:
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My 2 main saws at the moment, Stihl 461 I've had from new I and a husqvarna 365 that I got used this week for a a bargain price. I think I have used it more this weekend than it has been used In its life(thanks to Andrew Mcewan for the tip off!). I also have a Stihl 390, which was rubbish for the first 8 years I had it, then I drilled some holes in the exhaust pipe and it's much better now, has done a ton of work in the last year. I also have a Stihl 210 which has been impressive for its size and a Stihl 170, which is always dependable. And there is a husqvarna 350 on its way in the post ready for some tuning
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There will be troopers around for a long time yet, bargains to be had if your not scared of the 3.0!
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I couldn't see the point of buying a 441 when a 461 was only a few quid more and barely weighs any more? Very happy with my 461
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3.0 trooper(if recalls are done or dirt cheap). Tdi/td5 disco, it will break at some point but it will be repairable!
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I have had a pair of bahco tings for years and they are very well made tools. I have recently bought a still log pick and it is brilliant, so efficient, saves bending and speeds things up. It's too soon to comment on its longevity but I wish I'd got one years ago!
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Ochsenkopf vs Gransfors vs Fiskars Splitting Axe/Maul?
william127 replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
I have a fiskars x21 that I bought as a general purpose axe because it was on offer. It's the best axe I have ever had, small enough for one hand but plenty big enough for 2. I have split so much wood with it, I keep thinking about getting an x27 but I'm not sure it's worth it as the x21 can do so much. Personally I think the fiskars has plenty of "character" -
what logs have you been chopping today!
william127 replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Just a splitter, home made by the bloke I bought it from (done very well, but I will be making a couples of changes). I also have a portek chainsaw bench which works well, and a fiskars x21 axe which flys through the straight stuff. I have a sheet of steel in the workshop that I want to make a chute out of so that the splitter shuffles the split logs up onto the pile rather than me catching them and throwing them. The splitter is sat on an old single axle ifor trailer, which is hitched to a ball on the blade of the digger and it runs off the hammer lines of the digger. It all works ok when I keep on top of the pile but when I had about 12ton of round wood in a pile last week it certainly felt slow! -
what logs have you been chopping today!
william127 replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Loads of hornbeam at the moment, need to add a chute to the splitter to get the split stuff onto the pile, then it should be very efficient in time and fuel costs. -
I was working indoors today, fitting duct work on a domestic swimming pool. When we came to leave, the van just sat there spinning its wheels! Luckily there was a 1.5 ton kubota on site I could borrow We used to do these jobs out of a trooper or a defender, now we have the right vehicle this happens
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I have a makita corded 4.5 inch, makita corded 9 inch, brushed 18v cordless and brushless 18v cordless! They all work fine, the brushless is a genuine alternative to a mains one, as long as you have a couple of 5 amp batteries! The brushed one is a great tool but mainly suited to odds and ends, trimming bolts, cutting over long screws, etc.
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Just bumping this up, I'm after some more hardwood to buy! I can collect a couple of tons a time with my trailer, either from your stockpile or direct off site if it suits the job you have on. And if anyone would like to give me a price for supplying and delivering a small-medium Lorry load I would be interested! Pm me or comment if you think you have something, thanks, William.
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The engineers I work with use dormer drills by the box load, work very nicely and take a sharpen well. I once had a couple of the makita multi purpose bits as I needed to drill through some steel sheet with a concrete lintel tight behind it and they worked fine, but I wouldn't bother to buy them again unless I had a similar job to do.
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Makita 18v brushless grinder, 18 v makita radio, 18v makita USB adapter that lets you use your drill battery as a phone charger, 18v makita brushless Impact wrench, fiskars x21 axe- brilliant for everything except the heavie splitting-, led lender p3 tiny torch on a belt pouch and a mora clipper sheath knife(fits perfectly in the ruler pocket of my work trousers and ok in my wedge pocket of my chainsaw trousers). I use most of this lot every day, working or not! Oh and bahco adjustables, obviously
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😂can't be I haven't taken any decent pictures of it!
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Celebratory pose back on the hard ground
