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My new fordson major, came with a hycrack log splitter, shame I already have one!so if anyone wants to buy one.. It needs a few bits, including new rear tyres but it seems fairly solid.
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Do you mean a bar on the top of the high mesh kit? If so, my meshkit I bought brand new 3 months ago doesn't have one, so no, you don't need one. I would like to get one though as I quite often put fence posts up on top of it.
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I know a few of you have built your own shepards huts and I'm now quite keen to build one myself, so I'd be grateful for any pictures you would like to share, thanks.
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Another vote here for the simple way, I spli all mine with a second hand eBay log splitter that runs off my digger(which I would have anyway), or an axe, the hoses to power the splitter cost more that the splitter did! I can split all day on 5 litres of 2 stroke and the same in diesel, if that and can comfortably split £500 a days worth on my own, I just wish I had the customer to let me do logs full time!
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I backed my tipping trailer into a space at my yard, took me three shunts which had me moaning at myself when a woman ridding Her horse past the gate said 'I wish I could reverse as well as that', which made me laugh.
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Reading all this is making me glad that I hate stock/wire fencing and avoid it where ever I can and stick to garden fences and mucked in post and rail! Although I currently have a quote out for 200 meters of bashed in post and rail that I priced as I would a domestic fence and when I convereted the price to a price in meters it came out to £3 a meter less than the NAAA average price.
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Presumably £100 and £150 are to supply and fit the gates onto posts you would be fitting anyway?
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I have this bahco one, it's brilliant as an an all in one with metric and imperial, normal and deep 1/4 inch sockets, 4 impact sockets and spanners. Before I got this one I had the separate 1/2 inch set and have never broken any of it, even when I deserved to, like when I have swung off a bar on the end of the ratchet, or shocked it with a rubber mallet, or hammered sockets onto nuts. Before I got the first one i once treated myself to a beta 1/2 inch ratchet which cost as much as my first bahco socket set, since I got the set I have only used the beta ratchet about 3 times:lol: I also have a 1/4,3/8 and impact socket bahco sets and 7 of their adjustable spanners, so I think I'm a bit of a fan!
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I went for the bog standard rsl manual thumb and ripper tooth, I plan on getting a grapple and rake combo at some point but always wanted the thumb to avoid any "I wish I had the grab with me" scenarios on general digging jobs where I might not have had the room to take a special grab with me.
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I think I will try £30 an hour all in and see how it goes. All the kit has been bought for my own use and is paid for outright so it doesn't have to be used for the sake of using it, wearing it out for less profit than I get for using a load of hand tools fencing! Thanks for the responses.
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Will pm you now, thanks a lot
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Roughly how much per hour would be a good price for a man and 4x4 quad for things like rolling, harrowing and trailer work? Thanks, William.
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Id make excellent use of them if they are still available please! Thanks and no worries if they are taken.
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Tipper trailer charging and work lights on trailers
william127 replied to william127's topic in Arb-Trucks
I suppose I cou put an Anderson plug to the rear and that could charge the tipper battery while I'm driving and provide power from the truck when I'm tipping. They are always useful to have anyway. -
Amazing what you can move with a 130 when you haven't got to go on the road, I dumped an 8wheelers worth of type 1 in 8 loads with mine last year and regularly used to have 2 bulk bags hiabed onto it to get them round the back of jobs
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I went into fr Jones with an open mind between the 461 and 661, completely prepared to buy either and came away with the 461. I have had no reason to regret it as with an 18inch bar it is fine for day to day use and it pulls the 25 inch bar lovely, I have cut up more than 1 4ft trunk with it.
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Tipper trailer charging and work lights on trailers
william127 replied to william127's topic in Arb-Trucks
I have thought about that, they work ok then? Thanks -
How do people charge the battery on their tipping trailers, apart from the obvious mains charger overnight? And does anyone have extras like work lights, flashers or 12v sockets on their trailers? And if you do how are they powered and controlled? thanks, William.
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That's a shame, I had an older yanmar 1.5 on hire for a month a couple of years ago and it was very powerful, recovered my Land Rover tipper from a big rut, loaded 2 half ton logs onto the Land Rover and towed a big trailer out the mud. I thought it was better than my kubota and on a par with a Volvo or Takeuchi, a shame if the current model isn't up to scratch.
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Day in day out it would destroy it, but it can take it occasionally. I would not plan on putting that much weight on it but sometimes it happens. We had 1 pair of wheel bearings and 1 set of hubs in 12 years and after a bit of body repairs it is still going strong and does still get used despite having a newer p6 and the other bigger trailers.
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I still stand by my original post that they are a very useful tool and if you only ever want to cut grass or deliver logs it will do you fine but if you want to do tree work, fencing, building, collect timber for logging or not dependent on others to deliver for you you need bigger as well. And when you do go bigger 1 is not enough- I traded my 14 by 6 flatbed for a 10 by 5 tipper last year and love the tipper, but you cannot get a car or tractor on it and when the digger is on it there is a 1000kg of capacity left but no room. So I am in the process of buying another(much newer) 14 by 6. And when that is paid for I will probably start looking for a dedicated digger trailer with a low(2000)kg gross weight so it can be pulled by an older pick up or my mates van. It's all good fun though:)
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Had one weigh bridge ticket for my p6 once at 1300kg oops! To be fair we genuinely had no idea it was that high as it was only 4 large pieces of rock which 2 of us levered and man handled on with ease and it was still not noticeable behind our ford ranger.
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Get yourself an ifor williams p6e with mesh sides, you should have no trouble what so ever pulling or stopping it with your pick up, it will take the mower, 2 bulk bags of logs or big piles of brash. They are very well made and can handle a lot of abuse so would last even longer if you don't. I never thought I would use it after I passed my trailer test but I ended up buying a second one a few months ago. But: Get your trailer test done as soon as you can, it will make life much easier. Happy shopping!
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what logs have you been chopping today!
william127 replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Billeted about 3 tons of London plane today, not a wood I have had before but it split and sawed very nicely, what tis it like to burn once properly seasoned? -
It says on the website that they are now £900(presumably plus vat?)? I will be very interested to here how you get on with it as It might well be a good machine for me.
