LeeGray
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Ok thanks for the info, but as I said I’ll be building it with brakes as it’ll be over 750kgs and as stated by Bob it would be a handful without them regardless of weight. It’s the need for testing for a trailed implement that seems to be an issue.
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I ended up buying a husky after trying it. The 9ah batteries make it an amazing piece of kit. Just did a load of oak firewood for myself with it only limbs up to 10” but knocked out a 2-3t trailer full on less than a battery. Ended up getting blower strimmer and mower for home as well. The batteries are the biggest investment for sure.
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To be exempt from what?
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No I’m building a trailed implement. Woodland mills sell these in the uk and people are running them legally as has been said on here. They have no type approval.
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I think best thing for most would be buy the manufacturers trailer. I’ll be building one, longer and with brakes so it’ll be over 750kg but I’ll be running it as trailed implement unable to be broken down any smaller. I wont be going for type approval and I’ll let you know how I get on with that in the future.
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Should be alright if you’re ok in the evening? Can you pm me your address and mobile number and a list of sizes you’d like dia and length. I’d hate to cut as I thought and them be 2” too short for what you need. Cheers.
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That’s great to hear, finally someone who has some actual experience...much better than us all guessing what the crack is! How long is yours including the drawbar? Do you tow with your mog or truck and is it quick to set up? Did it need type approving somewhere or have any issues insuring it? Cheers, Lee
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Not much, bought it for home use but word gets round. Could do more but I’m nowhere near good enough and it’s not heavy enough to use full time. No way could you compete with a sawmill but I see turning the odd bit of good stuff into slabs, mantle pieces, blanks etc for people to use or sell themselves as worthwhile and lucrative. £300/day is fine for someone who sees a value in there tree turned into something they can use. Can’t see many paying that if it’s bulk softwood, better to sell it and buy what they need. If it does 5 jobs a year it pays insurance, wear and tear, fuel etc for all my own use too.
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Cheap and cheerful would be to buy a caravan chassis, cut the width down and weld/bolt upto track. Plenty of trailer part places online but new wheels, tyres, brakes, braked hitch, lights and 8 box jacks will add up if decent quality. 800kg Sidewinder jacks are about £50 each to start.
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I imagine a base plate the same level as the track base with two bars drilled for Lynch pins to lock it in position once I know where it needs to be set. I’ll have a digger or loader either end to lift, turn and load back onto track.
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Not hard to build at all, good spec much better than woodlands I imagine it will cost me £1500-2000 to build using new parts with brakes, suspended axle, proper hitch etc
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Yep, that why I think it’ll be cheap rubbish pressed steel sheet. Trailer weight must be about 250kg.
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No issue, I was just asking what length I could go to. Got a sensible answer pretty much straight away and a good suggestion about turning the mill through 90 degrees which I think I’ll go for.
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Move it on flat trailer but it’s a complete faff hence the reason for the original post. I don’t use it much off site but will do more if I can just turn up, mill and go! It just not professional or profitable to set up site off a seperate trailer and start building it up in my opinion.
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It’s on the website in tech specs
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Never known a mobile miller remove the mill from the trailer, add bits to it and set up on the floor.
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The website says 770kg for standard length, no fuel or cutting fluid so would possibly be ok if you didn’t mind removing something more than 20kg and carried fuel and water in the truck. I’d want it over a weigh bridge though to be sure. Mines 22’ track so definitely over.
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Or imagine if those ships could be powered by wind ?
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There over weight for non braked, so illegal to tow on road in uk as far as I can see. Not type approved either but reading up on this I’m not sure they need to be.
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Not really, it looks like cheap shite pressed sheet steel bolted together to build a frame. I don’t know what brakes etc it has and I’m not sure it has type approval either. Might be alright for the odd 10’ log but I’d want to keep the full length of my milk capacity. It would be more agro to build a kit of parts than a proper welded steel chassis for me. The easiest way would just be loaded on my 16’ flat trailer but I’d rather something purpose built.
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as much as I love my v8 and other combustion engines toys anything who thinks electric vehicles won’t catch on has got there head in the clouds! It’s already happened, new combustion engines will be gone within the next 10 years easily.
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Electric motors are surely better at towing, and pretty much everything else that I can think of. It’s the cost and lack of demand putting manufacturers off. We need to get our heads around range..how many people tow, off road, heavy loads for hundreds of miles every day in a non hgv? Electric would probably suit 75% of road users in the uk. Can’t remember the stats but I’m sure you find them online about average journey travelled. It’ll be a while before folk are willing to move though, when most already have something that does all the things the next generation trucks will do at a lower cost to owner albeit a higher cost to emissions, health, noise pollution etc
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You’d think it would be better when kids pay so much too, for my eldest at uni I say how much an hour are you paying to be there..paying about £15/hr doesn’t represent good value to me. But obviously it has other benefits and is a great experience.
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One kid doing a levels one at uni both do about 16hrs per week in lessons! Both in full time education.
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My definition of working everyday would be you work every day maybe not including bank holidays. But if someone says they have a full time job I would assume 40hrs per week.
