aspenarb
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What about the milemarker winch that takes the hydraulics from the power steering pump. Big weight saving and less complicated hydraulics. Bob
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Our guy that runs about doing the estimating must have a 99% success rate on his applications. I think its more to do with being realistic in the first place, he always contacts the tree officer before putting in the application and normally meets them on site. Clients wanting massive crown reductions just have to be patient and accept they will only be allowed a tickle at best but do it in two hits, no one is running about with a tape measure so the boundary of a crown reduction is down to the climber on the day, 10% could easily end up 15/20% providing he is sensible and doesnt butcher the tree. Bob
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This gadget on the front of our sambron will pick up 4`+ diameter sticks and go down to stuff 6". It will also grab up brash and doubles up as a forklift. This thing goes on virtually every job we do.
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We had a grounds maintenance contract that included cutting wild flower areas and we had to use an amazon 2.5mtr top and collect mower behind our tractor. They also insisted it was cut at 100mm, the mower box held about two cubic meters of grass cuttings and would fill in about 15 minutes of cutting ,the compost dump was miles away from the areas being cut so more time was spent emptying the mower than cutting. A right royal pain in the @rse. Bob Picture of a small one , cant find one of ours. http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQLvB7fFPheLLO_0114DFyWAHKKN-B4ALxUqdinbjaJ0QJ5Znqu7A
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Leccy motors are the future. I think thats a great little truck, I know a guy thats running one of those twizy renault cars, 50 mile round trip every day and no problems. Bob http://static-q.blogo.it/eurocarblog/r/ren/renault-twizy-03-01/RenaultTwizy_01.jpg
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The machine`s that are on hire ie chipper,truck and other hand tools dont have to be separately itemised just list them with a total . We just write it down as a total for labour and a separate total for equipment/machine hire. if your accounts package wont allow a split total just send in two separate invoices. Bob
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If you do work for the taxable construction industry you need to break down the invoice for labour , materials and machine hire. They can only tax the labour content of the invoice. bob Edit. if you dont they will stop tax on the whole of the invoice.
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Unimog with reversing gearbox users feedback
aspenarb replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Large equipment
We have had most permutations of mog pto driven kit and always reverted to going on the back. Our TP is rear mounted with a three way tipping box. We have got the reversing box kicking about somewhere that we dont use any more. Bob -
I fitted a 3cylinder perkins p3 out of a road sweeper to a Stenner 48". The motor came with a hydraulic pump built into the timing cover which was a good match for the tractor hydraulics which it replaced for the bed motors. The 1500 rpm 20hp electric motor that came off was no match for the p3 in terms of grunt. This one little power pack supplied the power,hydraulics and a decent 12volt supply for night/worklights, it also did it all for a fraction of the running costs of the tractor running a monster pto driven genny and left the tractor free for other jobs. Bob
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A friend of mine had the ultimate set up. He fitted r/r air bags instead of springs on the back of his hicap. Nice soft ride when empty with a simple rocker switch on the dash to correct ride height when loaded. He used to dump the air when hooking up trailers rather than mess with the jockey wheels. It really was a neat set up and cheap. Bob
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+ 1 on the ms180 . We had a heathland clearance contract and needed some lightweight saws so I bought 8 of these. Most have broken the choke fulcrum point which is part of the case, oiling issues and temper-mental running . POS IMHO. Bob
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We have got a twin beak on our Fdi telehandler that also has four conventional forklift tines. Its the best of both worlds because it will still grab up 4` diameter sticks and can still be used as a forklift. we have a 3yard bin that slides onto the forks to load rings and chogs over the side of the bulker trailer. I will take some snaps of it. Bob
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Kin awesome. I am going to say congratulations for finishing the course let alone getting placed:thumbup1: Bob
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You could always hang a dead rabbit off the tailboard and use exemption 19:lol: They wrote the rules. Bob
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Read exclusion 17 of the below.If you are forestry based and within 100km this exclusion may fit. Bob https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/211905/hgv-tachograph-exemption-application-form.pdf
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You lot worry me:biggrin:. The bit I dont understand is considering the amount of dosh everyone throws at kit why the reluctance to just sit the test hgv or whatever and get a truck the right size???? The lads I know that have got themselves 7.5 ton trucks and bigger would never go back to smaller vehicles. Transits and the like are filled in minutes, you must spend more time driving about emptying the things than working. Bob
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Butt ugly pointless copy of a UMM Bob http://worldcarslist.com/images/umm/umm-alter/umm-alter-01.jpg
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Hydraulics are pto driven off the transfer box, there is a hydraulic switch over valve to divert from the mewp and a two way spool valve just for the winch. Its 6ton pull or twelve with the snatch block. With all the weight of the thing sat on the spades it really is a good anchor and pulls like hell. Being hydraulic it never gets tired or hot. Bob
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When our old land rover had lost its newness we shoved it in the workshop and got our fitter to fit a mewp + hydraulic winch+spades +pullout tow bar. The poor old girl now weighs a few kilos under the three ton. We fitted the fd35 nissan engine in it and it now pulls the whole thing with ease even with a chipper up its arse. This lot must have a train weight of 4 tons , HP is not everything its torque that turns wheels. Bob
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It seems very strange that on the monday morning nothing ever happens even when all the locals have called just about every authority that owns a phone . Yes the tree officer normally turns up, yes we sometimes get a visit from the FC . They always shrug their shoulders walk away saying the same thing " we have to be seen to follow up on complaints" . If there was the remotest chance of being prosecuted I would not be there. Going back to my first post, just get a written work order detailing the work and it clearly stated that the site is free from restrictions. Bob
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I dont want to get into a whats best stump grinder fest but we recently had to grind hundreds of stumps on a bank so hired in a couple of toytown tracked grinders. One was the big predator and the other came from Green plant and was the tracked Rayco. http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRdvKHsLi7FLYUSsXvOcllFALEa3O_Ah2Fa38rYP1SomYf_uGAClA The Rayco easily out performed the predator all day despite being half the power ( probably twice the amount of work)Those pumping losses on the hydraulics are still an issue. The only thing about the Rayco was its on a very short track and is not as stable on the banks. One other thing is the Rayco is petrol engined which I hate but if they lengthened the track and put a diesel lump in it it would be the nuts. Bob
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So we want a tracked chipper no more than 26" wide with a stump grinder on the other end and a winch underneath. How about a blade to doze the hole back in ?? Bob
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And by the time everyone has finished messing about another contractor would have been in there done the job and sent the invoice in. The developers we work for want every site flattened period, they wont have a tree dictate the layout of any site they own. On one site in particular it was checked for tpo`s and restrictions late on a friday afternoon , we were in on the saturday and dropped 300 trees. Its a crap way of working trying to clear up a bomb site but the stakes are high with development land.. I have seen one developer spend upwards of £180,000 to re stock a garden with trees and shrubs, in fact he planted more than we took out. Bob
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Yes ask them why no one has made a small tracked chipper with a hydraulically driven stump grinder on the other end and a small hydraulic winch under it. Its about time an all in one tool was made. Bob
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If anyone wants wood pm me your details and I will put you in the book .If you are near anything I am doing you can have first shout, the last thing I want to do is haul this stuff back to the yard. We are clearing a monster of a job near Jct 25 of the M25 at the end of the month. There is a lot of Ash and Oak in there so the same applies let me know. Bob
