william127

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.

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.

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.

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

😂can't be I haven't taken any decent pictures of it!

Celebratory pose back on the hard ground

You have no chance of getting that out of there with 2 land rovers, we need to get a wrecker truck said a know all in hi vis

Suction lorry got stuck 100 yards into its journey across a campsite:

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Not brilliant pictures of the machine!

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I have just got a Hyundai 85mm chipper from a mate of mine in the generator business, the importer sent him a general Hyundai "winter is coming" sales email with all their outdoor bits and bobs on. He forwarded it to me, I liked the look of the bigger of the 2 chippers, a week later their was one in our yardI got it at the trade price so it only cost us£1200, think they are about £1500 usually. There are a couple of bad design points like all the electric wiring is exposed and right under where all the bits that you drop when you put an armful of stuff in and the fuel cap is very awkward to fill. But for the money I don't see how you could do better, it will fill my 10x5 caged tipper in a couple of hours with the right stuff, it goes through a door way, it has a removable tow ar to go behind a quad or ride on and I can get it up the ramps onto my tipper trailer by myself(providing the ground is flat or pointing downhill). Pictures to follow!

Can't understand why all these hiluxs seem so slow, my n reg would do 90+ and cruise at 80, my mates j reg would as well. But now my mate has a t reg 2.4 turbo and it barely does 70! I love the truck in the start of this thread, would love a mark 3 or 4 single cab flatbed or tipper for log deliveries and general running about. I wish I had put mine into storage rather than selling it to a breakers, if I had known then what I know now.....

In my experience Takeuchi is the best for 1.5 ton, closely followed by Volvo, yanmar and kubota. I have a kubota but would have preferred a Takeuchi but obviously budget and availability have to be taken into account! I have used jcbs this size and found them fine, but I followed the advice I was given by everyone and didn't buy one, maybe going against the common opinion could result in getting more for less? I prefer a non cab machine for landscaping as I find I'm on and off a lot, moving wheel barrows, driving both the digger and dumper or for unusual jobs like lowering buckets of concrete over sleeper walls for footings.

My best buy could be my fiskars x21 axe, I was doing a stupidily underpriced log splitting job with the digger a few weeks ago when the digger starter motor burnt out, this little axe that I had only bought the day before tore through the rest of the pile. I can't wait to buy and use an x27 for my next load, and I currently own 3 powered splitters! The other possible best buy is the porter saw horse, so much more efficient and safe than cutting cordwood on the floor.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Presumably £100 and £150 are to supply and fit the gates onto posts you would be fitting anyway?

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!

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.

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.