william127
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Did much better with what I salvaged from my mates bins on Saturday- couple of hundred imperial spanners of various shapes and sizes, (I've boxed up what I wanted, mainly all Britool and King Dick, the rest will be picked through by mates then auto jumbled/scraped) a Ransmes double ended heavy spanner, go nicely with my crawler, a nice digging bar and a pair of decent circlip pliers 👍
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This place have never given a monkeys about anything, but I only ever really take in light iron so it's the lowest rate anyway. Its a waste product really, I normally run it in when I've nothing to do and fancy a cafe breakfast 😆
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Unlike the truck load of stock fencing, wheel barrows and paint tins I ran in yesterday, a whopping 38 quid 😆 🤣
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Took a load of my mates from his work in on Saturday, £115 a ton for light iron. Truck load of that and a handful of batteries and cable Took it to just over 200 quid, can't really grumble at that as he'll have sorted it all out in work time 😀 😆
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Nice Sunday morning job, pushing up a big pile of grass and leaves for a customer. So much quicker than the digger! Quite impressed that it lifted this crate of hard-core It makes life so much easier being able to keep the excess material from jobs on pallets/in bulk bags ready for the next job. 20230702_092801.heic 20230702_092759.heic 20230702_092803.heic 20230702_095901.heic 20230702_092813.heic 20230702_095917.heic 20230702_100702.heic 20230701_142327.heic 20230701_151726.heic
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Just went for a wander, it was last Saturday when it was stupid hot so a sea breeze was bloody lovely. No fish and chips, had a lovely smoked salmon roll and an ice cream 😋
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Bought myself a new toy- slightly modified ransomes mg5 - during the week. No practical reason for it at all, I just wanted it! Fitted with 2 6.5hp Chineseium engines, came with the original engine as well which should work with a bit of attention. At £700 I shouldn't be able to loose on it... Last Saturday I picked up a used 5ft flail for the tractors, went on a little further to the coast for a wander, some lovely old crawlers seeing out their days launching boats 20230627_194721.mp4
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Auger torque x1500 on my Giant, runs it very nicely. Ive not used any others to compare to but I'm very happy with it so far. The great thing is what else you can do with the same machine- lift monster oak posts, run debris away in the bucket and fork the materials around. Brilliant 👍
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So do I, local farmer/contractor near me had 10 or more 1056s in various states of repair for years, only started replacing them with Fendts a couple of years ago. None of them looked like this one though, it was bloody lovely. 👍
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Forgot this one- my mate on a 35 his grandad drove back from the dealers when it was brand new 60 years ago, then used on the farm he worked at till he retired! My mates dad who was there showing a stationary engine saw it by pure chance and recognised it, then found an old photo of it! They were over the moon
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Had a great weekend at a local steam fair, I took my Dexta on the trailer and then we went off and got my dads 35 which I drove there. Baking hot all weekend, loads to see, eat and drink and I think I genuinely forgot about work for all of Saturday! Couple of auto jumble ammo boxes bought, always useful, and a new roll of AF spanners. My mate is now eyeing up a very nice mf Industrial, same spec as mine but much better condition, and I've got my eye on a 30E like I had a few years ago. I must behave😆 🤣
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Yes, it would certainly do it good. I've got plenty of nettles that need a flailing, just no flail 😆 Got a nice big cultivator that would make it growl...
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Dexta getting some attention- cleaning debris out the fuel tank and replacing filter, and replacing oil/bearings in steering column. Industrial just plodding away splitting logs as always. It's basically a mobile log splitter now, hasn't been off since I got it.
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I paid 1500 quid for this 3 years ago, you probably don't even need to spend 1000 unless you're after something particularly. It's missing many bits you don't need, but starts if you even look at the key and runs like a watch all day on bugger all diesel. Pto powered splitter hasn't been off since I bought it over a year ago 🙃
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I need the 'crappy no access fence repair attachment' if you know anyone that's selling one l 😆 😂
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Awkward but successful bit of topping done this afternoon, customers ride on broke a few weeks ago and their lawns gone wild! Knocked it down ready for their new mower
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Nice steady job this morning, posts for a new pen in a sheep field. Hard gravelly soil, ideal for augering, horrible to hand dig! Auger, forks for moving the posts and bucket to take the soil away, lovely stuff👍👍
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what logs have you been chopping today!
william127 replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Got stuck in on Friday evening while waiting for someone to come and collect something, nearly all split now, probably 10 rings left👌👌
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Dexta fired up for the first time in a long while for some attention, and the MF Industrial doing some more splitting 👍👍
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Obviously not my photo but what a beast👌👌👌
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what logs have you been chopping today!
william127 replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Big pile of Sycamore logs ringed up yesterday ready to split👌👌
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Mine comes out fairly regularly (as in every couple of months) as it sometimes means we can get the tracked dumper out on a hire without me having to use a wheelbarrow 👍👍 I take both that and the tracked dumper sometimes, means I can still be loading something while the dumper is being emptied, or if I'm on my own it cuts down the amount of times I have to get off the digger 😆😆
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Anyone else see this winch setup, on Facebook i think? Looks very cool, I wonder how they're getting on with it. My Giant has an Anderson plug on top, a Quadbike winch plugged into that will probably be the only winch mine will ever see 😆😆
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Had to get all the mini Fleet out earlier, looking good in the sun. Hardly ever all together- dumper has just come back from 3 weeks hire, going out again tomorrow, micro digger has been in and out loads recently and the muck truck has been busy with my Dad. The Giant has been keeping things tidy round the yard, helping me out with things like taking the chip box on and off, testing the auger and making light work of a big Ash fell- 4 ibcs worth of split logs came out of that tree👌👌 Got a job coming up with some hefty oak gate posts, going to be so much easier to auger the holes, fork the posts close to the holes and slide them in👍👍
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Muck truck was my first machine apart from the digger really, still very useful, been out lots the last month👍👍
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