william127

I sell by the bulk bag, a couple of years ago I made a wooden box sized to fit round a new bulk bag. When I fill my bags now put them in the box, the box is the measure, the bag is just for transport. So stretched or different sized bags don't mean I'm giving away logs👌👌 Its saved me a surprising amount !

Great job👍👍 Please carry on hijacking, pictures of my mill under a tarp in the shed are of no interest to anyone 😄😄👍 A date has been booked to put it together though 👍👍

I'd definitely put one in a 750kg trailer, especially as it could be a handy site barrow pulled by the sherpa, but that one in the picture does look a bit 'hammered together kitkat wrapper'😅😅 But if it works, it works👍

Good plan, I think I'll build the mill, no extension, no base frame, saw some timber and decide from there😅 Might still order the rsjs now though, price of them will only go one way😱😱😅😕

It's because you've got the sherpa, it's saved you so much time you're now weeks ahead 😅😅👍 Top job though, looks great👍👍 Have you got an extension on yours? I've got one but I'm debating putting it on as I think it'll mainly be logs like your yew for boards and fence Posts /sleepers I'll be doing 🤔🤔 obviously it can be bolted on and off, but if I build an rsj frame for it I don't want to bolt that on and off as an extension. 🤔👍

Nice one, I was going to look for something like that, thanks for the suggestion👍

That'll burn lovely 👍👍👍 Picked up a couple of trailer loads of hawthorn and sycamore, ringed up and into the drying trailer for summer. I diverted a few bits onto a pallet for milling. Might not be worth it but good for practice logs👍👍

Bit of a tense one yesterday morning! The ifor ramps really weren't long enough but it made it👍 I went and got the ramps I should have had in the first place to get down, then tracked 10 ton of ballast in and up with no trouble. And no, there's no decent reason at all why the arm is up high, bloody silly😱😅😅

Nice modification work. I didn't realise it would be quite so easy to put the head on and off to be honest, so that's something to think about with set ups🤔 I'm thinking that I could have the mill on the trailer, with a sherpa(next machine purchase, I swear😅😅) next to it. Obviously nowhere near the lifting power of a full size loader, but a lot better than using cant hooks etc! And very manoeuvrable if a customer asks for the timber in a shed or something 👍If the job needed it I'd just make 2 trips and take my loader on a plant trailer, it's too big for anything else.

Bloody hell you've not wasted any time setting that up!!👍👍😅 Looks good on that trailer, is there room to get the sherpa on next to the mill?

Looking at there other items for sale seems OK to me- no diggers for sale that say they're in Birmingham but are clearly in Turkey!- but you can never say for sure obviously.

Very Nice, I'm looking to buy one of those or a posch equivalent later this year, I saw that ad a week or so ago👍 There's another one on market place for 5grand if you haven't seen it. But there's no way I'd send 7k without going to see it. Sort out a time, arrange a mutually agreed payment method before (there's these great little pieces of folding paper for just this sort of thing😅👍), take a trailer and away you go👍👍 By actually being there and ready to take it away you might manage to knock 500 quid off, that's the collection paid for, lovely jubbly. Good luck with it.

We've got a forklift, slings, pull winches etc so no problems there👍 Between me and my mate that ill build it with we have 10 impact wrenches, which is possibly a sign of some kind of illness😅😅😅 but means lots of bolts doesn't worry us👍 I'm looking forward to it, saved a pallets worth of sycamore about 1.5meters long from the log pile this afternoon for practicing on. At best they'll make some nice little boards, at worst I won't have messed up some decent wood learning the very basics👍👍

I've got a 21 plate ranger and all I can say is I'm very glad it's only leased!! It'll either be a discovery 4, 2.4 h/d utility 110 or a 316sprinter when the ranger goes back. Better the devil you know I reckon now... Unless one of the manufacturers brings out something that's really different to the current crop of pick ups of course, but I can't see that happening!

A mate of mine has had the kohler ch740 engine go bang big time on his predator 460 hybrid. The kohler engine is a 455 day lead time from our normal supplier (unipower dunmow), if anyone has any suggestions for suppliers please let me know! Or has one lying around 😅 Alternatively, has anyone fitted a different engine to one of these machines? Thanks.

It's arrived! Going to be 3 or 4 weeks before we get it into the workshop to build it, but it's not something that can be rushed/fitted in to an evening. I've got to resist the temptation to open bits just for a look... Luckily the manual came separately so I can look through that at least. 👌👌

No no, just your idea😅😅😅

Quiet Sunday putting in an arbtalk inspired shed organisation system 😅😅👍👍

I was talking to my mate on a job today, turns out the area that needs welding in picture 4 wasn't caused by age but by him catching the corner on a post 10 years ago😅😅😅🤦🤦 Luckily he's now my 'Cheif Engineer '...👍

I didn't yesterday as I forgot to put any in the truck, but I plan to put a cable tie or bit of string on mine, just incase they come loose. To be fair, the trailer was pretty bouncy and they hadn't moved at all 👍

The other thing I have is a couple of breakaway cables taped up in the door pockets of each tow vehicle.....😅 I tend to buy a handful from a tool stall at a Land Rover show every year!

These are the ones I have, I paid 65 for them at a machinery show. Today was actually the first time I've used them, very simple to use- turn them on, stick them on and plug in the transmitter to the trailer socket. I often tow long distances very early in the morning or late at night with a variety of trailers, so they seemed like a sensible thing to have in the truck!

Cant belive I haven't mentioned this before! My 80 quid aldi petrol pressure washer! I've had it about 6 years now and apart from having to put some decent oil in it it's untouched and trouble free👍 I had a slightly longer, better quality hose put on it which has made it nicer to use. I wish I'd bought 2 to be honest..

Well as I have posted on another thread,I have ordered the fronteir OS31, spares, extension and winch/ramps. I still plan to mount it on an rsj frame but now I want to store it/transport it on its own trailer. I'll them park that sat level so that so if I want to just mill the odd log I can. Or I can obviously tow it to the wood pile or jobs. I got very lucky and was able to collect this today- its my old triple axle, 14x6 that I sold to a local scout group for a couple of hundred quid a few years ago. I asked their leader if I could buy it back as its just been sat for 5 years in their field. They said I could just take it👌👌 I've stripped the all the rotten wood off and given the chassis a good pressure wash. It's remarkably solid given that it's at least 30 years old, needs 1 bracket welding in in the back left corner and that's it. It really is quite impressive and there's a hell of a lot of steel in the frame! Obviously it's going to need some money spending on it, tyres, brakes etc but even if it costs me £750ish I'm still well ahead of if I'd bought a complete unknown at auction etc. I measured where the mill will stick out to and screwed a piece of timber out that far to see if I can make the turn into my field- I can, but it's tight! As to be expected it needs rewiring so I was able to test my wireless trailer lights, they seem OK for the cost👍 I plan to rewire it and fit new lights. I'll also put a female 7 pin socket on the back so I can put wireless lights/a light board on the back of the mill itself(although legally as its under 3 meters of overhang- 2.1m- I only need a 'marker', I'd rather give the back of my mill proper road lights). A good piece of the puzzle to have in place👌👌

Brilliant, will do!