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Mountain man

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  1. I'll take a photo tomorrow and see what people think. Maybe I'm wrong.
  2. Glad to hear the 230 is working out, whets the appetite. Re 150 rollers, my 2003 model has 1300 hrs and the rollers have only a couple of nicks, basically as good as new. How longs have other people's lasted?
  3. Having followed the thread and read the experience of those army guys, I wouldn't touch one with a barge pole.
  4. I've always thought that dentistry would be horrible, spending all day looking in people's filthy mouths. I'd rather be a proctologist, at least you can't see their faces, and it probably smells better.
  5. Rotten luck! Sorry can't help with the parts info.
  6. Good post, plus I don't think there's any discounting to be had on these machines. Supply and demand.
  7. I've got one, I just can't get on with it. Every time i use it the sharpness is indifferent to say the least. Probably doing it wrong. I'll do it by hand, if a chain is really mullered I won't even bother, it's not worth my time, I'll chuck it away.
  8. I agree, I have a 2003 tw, chips as good today as the first day I bought it. Been a few issues over the years, mostly due to badly replaced main bearings. Bits have broken off cos they're built light. I enquired about a 230, they said January earliest. After the new year I'll order one. If it lasts as long as my 150 I'll be happy.
  9. Yeah right.......
  10. I believe you're right. Unless it is clearly shown that people are dying (rather than getting a few headaches) this will be a low priority. People have been using chainsaws a long time, I've yet to see evidence of industrial illness resulting from fumes.
  11. I reckon a lot of people say they won't haggle but will "negotiate"
  12. Re. The first two sentences. Isn't that haggling?
  13. Ha ha, spot on. I'll haggle occasionally. Some you win, some you don't.
  14. Thing is with rhodie is that getting it to the rollers is pretty difficult even with a big chipper. How about mulching it with a flail?
  15. Years ago I got some thorn in my toe, can't remember how, bloody painful it was, My old man said to use a bread poultice, I laughed but later that evening I tried it. Worked a treat. I knew a bloke was off tree climbing for months cos of blackthorn in a hand joint.
  16. Not trees, tree surgery, machines, techniques etc. Don't get me wrong, I like it, but I'm not doing it for love.
  17. Speak for yourself, I'm in it for the money.
  18. Thing is with climbers/ex climbers is they can understand the problems you have up a tree better than pure groundies. Specifically how to let stuff drop and slow it rather than snatching it. It's a hard, gutty, thankless, poorly paid job though, dangerous as well.
  19. Sandwiches and tea, and a bottle of water if it's hot.
  20. Disconnect it, put the chipper sideways with the shute nearly in the chipbox. What truck and chipbox combo?
  21. More methodically = slower Anyway I've said my piece, the question was asked, I've given my opinion, it's turned into the "wee chipper club" so.....enjoy.
  22. I have little against the machine, in the right circumstances sure, when Davescay said it chipped quicker a tracked 6" TW I doubted the veracity. In a thread where the question was "would a micro chipper cut the mustard for day to day tree work" an inaccuracy like that was worth pointing out. As was your weird assertion that a tracked chipper has "an end"
  23. I perused it for as long as I could bear. It reminded why I love tree work. You can get on with it without all these guidelines, assessments codes of practice etc. I dread the day that the hi viz brigade get their claws into it and take all the fun away. the AA can sit round a table and draft all the documents they please, they might as well play sudoko for all the difference it will make for the huge majority of tree workers.
  24. How is moving a tracked machine slower? Presumably these little machines don't grow legs and run into the work site. Secondly I take your point, as long as your not actually chipping wood, it's a fast woodchipper.

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