william127
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We are looking to buy a 1.5 ton digger, we have a budget of about 4k, i know this is bottom end but so was all the rest of our machinery and we havnt done too bad so far.so: Does anyone in the south east have one for sale? How many hours would be considered too high? What do people think of various makes? From reading on hear jcbs are comsidered underpowered, everything else seems well regarded? We have hired jcbs, kubotas, and tachouchis(spelling?), and have a yanmar on hire at the moment, all have seemed perfectly good to me. Thanks, william.
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Thanks for the offer but we have hired a normal 1.5 tonne for a month, wont be as good for hedgeing work but we have a lot of fencing and digging to do with it as well.
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Nothing wrong with that colour:001_smile:
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Iv got a portek logmaster, it cost about a hundred quid and i think its brilliant, really speeds up cutting logs and its easier on the back, as you dont have to bend over or even hold the weight of the saw.
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I had the 16inch bar from my 390 on mine for a couple of hours as the 390 had borrrowed the 461s 18 inch, id stick with the 18 as the 16 felt no quicker.
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Adding new stuff to my pile for next year, there are about another 3 loads this size to come from that job and what i have left for this year.
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I have bacho 1/4, 3/8and half inch drive socket sets, very good stuff and can be very well priced when on offer.
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Does anyone know of anywhere we can hire a mini digger with a grab near hertford? Thanks, william
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I dont remember taking any crossmembers off my n reg hilux when i changed the front prop, and i was very un mechanical back then, so probably wouldnt have done it if you had to take anything else off.
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Thats a great bit of kit. I use a 5ft hi lift, including on concrete posts, choke a sling round the post, stand the base of the jake on a bit or sleeper to get a bit of extra hieght and crank away. The jack will tilt forward but when you have jacked it about 2rds of the way up pull on the post of the jack to bring it back vertical and the post should pop out.
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I like that snatch block, up until a few weeks ago i couldnt work out why all the tirfors seemed to have such low capacitys, then i realised they are rated as lifting devices:blushing:
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Id be interested in the log splitter, im only in waltham cross.
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Top job, my dad used to have 2 that size years ago, only paid 50 quid for the pair, we pulled over an ash tree with a 5 ft diameter poplar laying in it with one, great bits of kit. The pair of them got lost in a fire a few years ago thou.
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Iv read through quite a few of the other threads, didnt really see any references to the tu8, which i guess may answers my question! Thanks
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Does anyone use i tirfor tu8? Are they up to doing things like pulling a lightly bogged land rover or trailer out or draging 3/4 of a tonne logs up ramps onto a trailer? I have an electric winch on the land rover and have permant acess to a tu35 but would quite like a small one to keep in the tractor to avoid having to do the walk of shame and for general back garden/woodland/constrution work. thanks, william.
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I had insa special tracks Jon, no problems with them and I got 25 thousand plus miles out of them
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There's an easy way to get round it just take off the front number plate! Sorry wrong thread
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Id give a bit off on a good size job say £50 0ff £750 for the convenience of not having to wait for the cheque to clear, which is almost always the best part of a week! Do the job, knock on the door, walk round the site and leave with the money, all done until the next time they want something doing:thumbup1: I wouldnt knock off a percentage though, as that would seem very suspect!
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I love having the radio on, either headphones, makita site radio or tractor cassette radio, wouldn't have it on when we are doing a tree job tho as its hard enough talking to someone 30ft away as it is!
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390 and 461(25 inch bar) in the cupboard, 390 with 18 inch bar, 291 with a 15 inch bar on the saw bench. A couple more to add when my outstanding invoices are paid- something big and old for milling and a back handled top handle of some kind:thumbup:
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My mate spent ages debating one or two pins with the bloke in the trailer shop before buying 1 with 2 as apparently they rattle less! over thinking I think! My trucks have all had 1 pin, no problems.
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My old high flex trousers ar well and truly had it, and Im wondering what ti replace them with. Should I get the same again or something else? I where them 2 or 3 days a week in winter, for logging and hedge cutting, but not climbing, although I do climb fruit trees, over fences up and down the back of the land rover etc so they need to be nice and flexible. My hi flexes are xxl so id obviously need something similar. I was looking at sip progress trousers at a show last week and they looked quite good? Thanks, William
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When you say agricultural hitch do you mean a trailer designed for a tractor (eg hay trailer or grain trailer) or a ring on a standard trailer? I tried to tow a tractor trailer with a Dixon bate hitch last year and the ring was too deep for the hitch.
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Seems well worked out and very reasonable to me. I love buzzing 8 or ten inch timberlocks through sleepers when the customer is watching, they are usual pretty impressed, then you can explain that they are 50p or whatever each and you need 4 o6 or so per sleeper, and it starts to show them why theese 'little' jobs cost 3 or 4 hundred quid!!
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Ah, you have a 391 dont you? Sorry ive got the older 390:blushing:, hopefully someone else will have an idea or 2 for you.
