william127

Some brilliant photos of tryfan and Ogwen there! That area is one of the best. probably my personal favourite is along the top of the Roaches in the Peak District. I was passing through the area a couple of weeks ago, running late but I still had to stop and race up to this trig point- 10 minutes up, 5 minutes up there 10 minutes down but even if the rest of the day had been rubbish(it wasn't) it would have been worth the 7 hours in the truck! i also really like the big wide ridge between the studland road and Corfe castle in Dorset, but I haven't been there for a shamefully long time.

Really? I tow 3.5 tons behind my 110 all the time and am very happy doing so, all over the country. As an overall reaction to this thread, I don't think 4x4s suited to this country are heavy enough with big enough engines for towing more than 3.5 tonnes and the last think we need is more vehicle classes or regulations!

The bulk is an issue, but I'm still very interested. It does help that rsl are only 30 minutes down the road from me and very easy to deal with

2 there is a line down each side of the boom, and a lever under the matting that may well be for that, I'll have to have a look. 3 the digger has quite successfully run the log splitter for the last couple of years, it's definitely a case of something is now not right! I'll hook the splitter up to a tractor to check it's not the splitter itself but I don't think it will be. 4 I will be checking and changing the track motor oils when I next work on it. thanks for the help so far

I've seen that, it's an Rsl attachment that would work very nicely and I bet it's what I end with! Just nice to have explorered all the options.

Evening everyone, I have a few questions about my kubota kx36-3 1.5 tonner. no1, easiest first. Where is the best place to buy a complete set of pins/bushes/shims to refurbish the arm? 2, at some point in the future I'd like to buy a tilting grading bucket. If I buy one with a single cylinder do I just plug it into the hammer lines? 3. Talking of hammer lines, last time I used my log splitter there seemed to be absolutely no power when actually trying to split a log, but the splitter moved in and out as I would expect when not loaded. The tracking and digging functioned perfectly. Any ideas where I start looking? 4 towards the end of my last job the digger was on the point of stalling when I was trying turn/climb the ramp up the trailer. I had to really nurse it up the ramp. I thought it may have been overly hot but when I went to move it today from cold it was the same. My first port of call will be to check the oils and filters but they have all been done recently and look good at a glance. Any ideas? 5 On this machine the bucket stops about 6 inches short of the blade when pulling the arm towards the machine to clear up loose materials from a flat surface. I'd like to extend the blade frame to change this, and it would help with clearances when using the tow bar on the blade, and it would give me more levelling reach when working on a slope. My fabricator is more than capable of extending the frame but is there any reason not to? 6 In this months earthmover she there is a Takeuchi tb216 fitted with a helac powertilt hitch, has anyone any idea if they do one for my kubota or any experience with one? Rough idea on price? I love my little digger and want to get it working up to scratch, then improve and customise it, acquire many attachments and custom them! thanks in advance, William.

Looks ideal, do you sit the bag on a pallet to lift it off the hooks?

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.

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)!

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.

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.

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

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.

Nothing too technical today, but a good test of both the 200tdi engined hilux and its newly rebuilt(but not finished)tipper body.

A yellow hilux tonka toy? Already got one:thumbup:

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

There will be troopers around for a long time yet, bargains to be had if your not scared of the 3.0!

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

3.0 trooper(if recalls are done or dirt cheap). Tdi/td5 disco, it will break at some point but it will be repairable!

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!

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"

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!

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