LeeGray

I’ll come and collect them both for the right price ?

I’d be interested in the tank if it doesn’t go with the stove cheers

Has it got other inlets? Or just for the 1 stove? And any immersion fitting? Looking for something to add to solar

Had one lately Friday night 8pm call saying ‘when can you deliver cos we work everyday’ I say well its no problem we work everyday too so pick an evening that suits you. ‘Oh do it Sunday lunchtime’ I say oh I thought you’d be out at work if you work everyday and get told Monday to Friday is working everyday!

Is that for sale Andy?

+1 for Adrian flux, got all other insurances with Nfu but they wanted £600 for my old 90. Given my other three vehicles with them including a van, a much newer jag and Range Rover is only about £1200 all in, I couldn’t believe it. Adrian did tpft for £117! Limited mileage (think 5000) but I knew it was going to be off the road for a bit so asked if it could be knocked down for less money. Think it was £200 ish before on probably 10,000. Commercial/farm use included. think so many are nicked these days less want to cover them.

Always do nothing outside (other than livestock) Christmas Eve and day and Boxing Day. Like the fact the phone and email goes quiet for a fortnight though and enjoy a bit of tinkering, tidying up and doing the jobs I choose to do rather than the ones that shout loudest/pay most. i don’t feel guilty about having the fire on, feet up and beer in hand by about 3pm most days from Christmas Eve right through to first proper week of the new year. Prefer doing a good bit especially with no customer pressure then relaxing, as is common with other threads on here if I don’t I get bored quickly and don’t enjoy it.

Definitely sounds like a grey area, not many cows milked, fields sown and harvested or sheep clipped by a digger I imagine yet everyone seams to move them round here with tractors. What about the hedge cutting lads? Do they run on o license and white? Same for Gritters when it’s the tractor towing the spreading. Not trying to be funny, just interested to know what the crack is on this.

I assumed if it was working on a farm, for a farmer, with something that was produced on the farm it would covered as farming or forestry. Is this the case? What would be the case when contractors move diggers between farms on tractors..is that covered the same way?

I was thinking the wheels would be about the same width as mill head or wider as it’s a very small mill but once I figure where the weight is balanced I could set up some brackets to turn the head through 90 degrees. Good suggestion. Are other mills set to travel like this?

I assume locking off the mill in the right position to get the load balanced should be ok.

I could take on a bale trailer or just build it as a tractor tow trailer if need be, it’s not something I do masses of so wouldn’t be looking to get new vehicle and operators license.

Good thread, interesting to see how people got here! Grew up on a council estate. Left school at 16 and worked at the local sofa bed factory until my apprenticeship started. Served my time as a welder at Cleveland Bridge, got laid off just when come out of apprenticeship when factory went from thousands to tens of staff. Worked in a little fab shop and realised how shit life would be if I spent the rest of my life watching a little blue light through a bucket on a my head! Set up self employed mobile welding, little unit etc till lost my license drunk driving like a complete knob. No license meant had to get a local job, worked as a cnc profile cutter and miller. got sick of being covered in dust and shit, set up a gym as was really into fitness at the time did that for 18 months, great fun but no money in it. Buggered off for a bit of travelling ended up working on farms in Australia for a bit and really enjoyed it so decided to give it a go back in the UK. Moved to Northumberland, bought a little fiesta van and started as a handy man/fencer etc on farms. Ended up buying a little farm, selling all of our produce direct to customers and doing a bit of logging, milling, digger work, welding, building, fencing, everything else on the side. Always messed about with cars, bikes, houses on the side for fun and £.

It’ll be mounted on a fully welded steel frame/chassis which I’ll either make as the bed and track for the mill or permanently attach the mill tracks to. Want the full length ready to go permanently really without messing about, otherwise I could just put the thing on my 16’ trailer and overhang.

Assume I’ll need brakes for over 750kg, even if it’s a fixed load and effectively not just a trailer?

Cheers for the info lads

Cheers J, was that single axle? Assume that had trailer brakes too?

Planning on building a trailer for my little woodland mill over Christmas time. I want to keep the full capacity length wise (22’)but imagine the trailers going to be about 8-9m long in total. Anyone towed something like that before and was it manageable? I’ve seen a few drilling rigs around that must be that length and they look stable enough. Is there a restriction on how long you can go? Weight shouldn’t be a problem and I can lock the mill off at any point on the rails to get nose weight/balance correct. Was hoping single axle if I can keep the weight down enough. It won’t do many miles, mainly for use in the yard rather loading and unloading one side only in the shed as I do now. But I want to keep mobility at the full length if possible.

They mustn’t be included in the ‘full bell end pack’. I think its a Ford test to see just how much depreciation was possible

Great. Just let me know when your ready for some and we can sort something out, the oak will be heavy work if you want a big chunk but it’ll roll off the trailer easy enough.

Oh dear! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2013-Ford-Ranger-2-2-TDCi-XL-Double-Cab-Pickup-4x4-4dr-EU5/283260025147?_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140328180637%26meid%3D709e3b681a38461399289361a851654e%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D372512219543%26itm%3D283260025147&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982

I’ve got a recently felled beech approx 14-20” dia and oak is well seasoned upto 30” dia. Also got Seasoned birch, larch and poplar upto 20”, fresh ash and birch upto 14” if any use. Can cut whatever length you want, I can load with machine my end if you can get off your end? Failing that size depends on how much you lift and roll off your end. Full load would be £150-£200 depending what you wanted, delivered. Cheers, Lee

Hi Alan I could do you a trailer load of oak and beech. Delivered to you

Daft for sure. I always right my top bid down in the catalogue so I don’t carried away and stick to it. The whole ‘well I’ve come all this way’ doesn’t stack up to me, there’s always someone who doesn’t need to make money at it ? Buying new can often work out the cheapest over the service life of stuff, if you buy right anyway. Had a few bargains that turned into money pits like everyone else I imagine.

Be a hell of a tool that, but what’s it going to retail at? £40k I’d imagine