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What colour? 220 × 220 Bob
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That's me fecked then Chris. All sticks no matter what they are will have a job somewhere, it's just a matter of finding a home for them. The sawmills around here want everything as long as possible, I have taken timber into sawmills 45` long before now, then you get guys that only use it for fenceposts/fencing and they will take anything 3mts +. Looking at the stack you have I would say you need to trim it out a bit better and stack the curly bits to one end so the driver can throw them on the top last, nothing worse or more time-consuming than trying to load badly cut/misshaped timber. Log wood is straight forward, anything more or less than the right length and diameter including chogs go to the guys still swinging axes. Bob
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It depends whether it's an ongoing job or a one off job, ours tend to be ongoing so we hit them hard with a mulcher and make them mowable for a tractor and flail for the coming years. Nothing worse than beating up flail mowers on stumps and crap buried in brambles. Bob
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I would say milling timber in a back garden is antisociable , its quite an intense operation with a big saw. Can't really be compared with arb work where its a bit stop/start with saws and chippers. I am sure Mrs Miggins would agree, saying that a knock on the neighbours door to let them know what you are doing would go a long way. Bob
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Dan the shims are there for anvil to blade clearance, the small bearings on the blade side of the rotor normally get knobbed in very short order if the bearing on the engine side is not correctly positioned, it puts a large axial load on the smaller ones that they can't cope with. I use long studs on the bearing housing on the engine side, shim and finish fecking about shimming/tightening on the blade side, gently tap the housing on the engine side back until it just touches the rotor housing, swap studs for bolts and tighten. Hope this makes sense. Bob
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Firewood business ? Could we make it profitable in the first 2 years
aspenarb replied to Nickb123's topic in Picture Forum
I think chopping/delivering logs can lead the way to bigger and better things if you are a practical sort. A mate of mine started out in logs and would always stop to chat with his clients, the logs led to a bit of gardening/tree work which then went on to landscape and he is now absolutely flat out. Logs are good platform to get into other work without the need for advertising, chat to your clients and it will happen. Bob -
There is a fair few of those on our Rayco, if you are going to bother sharpening them at all its best to do a little and often. These diamond discs in a 115 mm grinder work well, go gentle with them and they last a long time. For off the machine sharpening you need a green wheel in a bench grinder, dont forget to get a decent mask and goggles. Loads of places doing deals on teeth. Westcon will do a deal on quantities Rayco, Rayco stump grinder, Rayco stump cutter, Rayco chippers, Westcon Equipment WWW.WESTCONUK.COM Rayco stump grinders, cutters and chippers supplied by Westcon Equipment - the UK and European distributor. Diamond disc regrind stump teeth WWW.NORTHERNARBSUPPLIES.CO.UK Browse our selection of Diamond Disc 115mm Dia M14 thread and Re-sharpen your own stump teeth with our fantastic new...
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If Mrs Miggins posted up a picture of that tree laying across the road and advertised it as free timber to anyone willing to remove it we would all be taking the piss. That said most farmers who happened across a tree like that blocking the road would have it dozed into the ditch with a telehandler in five minutes. Something is not right but who cares ? Bob
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I dont think so, may change procedure though and for the sake of a few minutes get the lads to plunge cut anything a bit iffy in a few places with an 880. Bob
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The base of an Oak we dismantled, dont think the climber would have gone up it if he knew
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Just a couple of things to add from running electric/hydraulics on trailers over the years. If its to be a permanent addition to a vehicle run some leads directly (inc the earth) from the battery via an isolator to the back of the truck and fit the Anderson couplings high and dry ,somewhere out of the way, they don't like shitngrit or road salt and the covers you can buy are not brilliant. On a tipping trailer its worth paying the extra £30 and going for a powerpack with a manual hand pump overide, anything goes wrong with the leccy its a backup.
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It’s not hard to calculate steps, step height is not critical as long as they are all the same, get an odd one in there and someone will go arse over tit. There is rising and going,pick a step height and divide that into the rising to see if it works out, adjust accordingly and the step length will be determined by the going. divide by the number of steps.If the going( step length) is getting tight you can cheat a bit with an over hang of the tread. Bob
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Mini digger flails- are they worth it.
aspenarb replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Large equipment
Size the flail on 50% of the claimed aux flow rate and you will be about right. Seppi and a few others fit variable displacement motors on their heads, these can be trimmed to suit the machine. Any flail or mulcher on 360 is a handy tool no matter what, anything has to be better than a brush cutter. Forgot to add that there are some skilled operators on here showing what can be done with these things, sticking a head on a machine is step one and it will be a while before a newbie gets the hang of it. Bob -
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No point unless you up the groundies snort rations. Bob
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If chip is not being shifted reasonably quickly it needs turning, building a mountain of the stuff and neglecting it is just asking for trouble. Three fairly big chip fires around here in recent years have caused havoc, one in particular couldn't be extinguished despite several attempts and had to be capped with soil (expensive). I won't give it yard space. Bob
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There are still some good buys out there, I have just picked up a 300hr old TW diesel tow chipper. Greenplant maintained and serviced from new, came into them as a partex so I grabbed it. They all look the same after my guys have used them for a week. Bob
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Tracked chippers engine got fried when a gurt stick worked its way underneath the track frame and tore off the bottom hose.For some reason the high limit stat never kicked in, probably because there was no water in it. Engine rebuild time
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How much do you charge as a subbie for the use of your own truck?
aspenarb replied to Brian Jones's topic in Arb-Trucks
Will I would see just the Transit @£100 + fuel. -
Ouch! hubs are probably stuffed now John, once loose wheels have rolled around on them it knobs the register, Bob
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How much do you charge as a subbie for the use of your own truck?
aspenarb replied to Brian Jones's topic in Arb-Trucks
Transit+tow chipper £150 a day + squirt , Mog+pto chipper £250+ squirt and Trucks £650 a day. Bob -
Can you imagine `z on his fiftieth
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Suits me Kevin, feck the world and the way it is at the moment . Come back when you have hatched `z
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Hanson used to make promises like that Bob
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This emissions on plant malarkey is already rearing it’s ugly head, quite a few sites now especially in town won’t allow diesel plant on site unless it’s running add blue, gas conversions on some diesels will probably act as a stop gap but long term we will all see the demise of the Older Diesel engines. Bob
