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  1. GA Groundcare
    I’ll send this out to a couple of our customer contractors. We are based in the middle of Wiltshire. What are your company details?
  2. GA Groundcare
    There is some well priced used ArbTrak 150 units about. Think maybe on eBay.
  3. GA Groundcare
    Thought it would be worth popping this on here, we are selling L90 AXE which has just been put on a retention certificate this morning... £500
  4. GA Groundcare
    Sold... Thanks for any interest.
  5. GA Groundcare
    The “bargain” SafeTrak is now being stripped, parts sent to GM for re powder coating and we will do a mechanical refurb....
  6. GA Groundcare
    Thanks for the kind words, it is much appreciated. Ashley.
  7. GA Groundcare
    We could chop that in still.... Give me a message if you are interested. 07881 027599. Thanks Ash
  8. GA Groundcare
    Get on and buy it! ? To be honest, if it doesn't sell in the next couple of weeks I think we will probably take it down from sale, service it, pull the tracks off and go through the whole tracking system, new flywheel bearings as a matter of course, new blades, belts etc and some visual prep then re advertise in September / October when the tracked chipper market bounces back. Tracked chipper sales in June are a little like soft top sports car sales in December!
  9. GA Groundcare
    No, he bought another one we had in stock which we carried a fair amount of prep & service work out. Still got the black bonnet one.
  10. GA Groundcare
    It has crossed our minds. Hang it off the ceiling in our showroom!
  11. GA Groundcare
    Gloria, the main reason for this thread is up for sale!
  12. GA Groundcare
    After a trip to Scotland to deliver a SafeTrak 19-28 to Stephen Blair we took Gloria in part exchange! This specific chipper is the reason why “the wee chipper club” thread exists! £2,000 inc vat for the legend ? 14hp manual start.
  13. GA Groundcare
    Hello all, We hope this is okay to post here, along side being a GreenMech dealership we are now a main dealer for Husqvarna and we'd like to show off our new upstairs Husqvarna shop to you designed with the arborist in mind... Next Friday 28th all morning we will be doing free bacon rolls, tea/coffee and cake plus extra discount on all Husqvarna stock to help kick start our new shop. We are based near Devizes and if you would like to poke your head in the door for some grub and "more than usual" discount please do! You can register your interest by messaging us on here or Ashley on 07881 027599. Thanks!
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  14. GA Groundcare
    If you are fairly competent with the spanners you can adjust the boom adjusters yourself, get the thing up on some axle stands to take the weight off and if you can undo the adjuster bolts, its pretty straight forward. The bearings in the idler rollers will always go on any machine, the nature of where they spent half their life. Although time consuming and not a nice job to do x8 but cheap enough if matching the bearings from a local supplier.
  15. GA Groundcare
    In that case, JLR Plant & Machinery advertised a 2011 TW125 for £4,300 ex vat a few days ago. Serviced and new flywheel bearings.
  16. GA Groundcare
    A bit different on tracked machines as they have run for that long but not necessarily chipped for that long as can spend a fair amount of time just getting themselves to site, downside is a worn trackbase can become very expensive very quickly if your unlucky! Indeed, the track base looks pretty good on this one, tracks are nearly new and the extension booms feel pretty tight! The usual tell-tale sign on a SafeTrak of worn or out of adjusted leg extensions is they sit in a nose nose dive position towards the operators platform.
  17. GA Groundcare
    We part exchanged a CM220 road tow chipper earlier this year with 3400 hours, we carried out a light service and it was sold to another tree surgeon. It was still in pretty good shape. For a road tow 2,000 hours would be fairly high, most 6-10 year old tracked machines we see in have 1250-2500 hours on and if maintained well, they are completely fine still. They are built for it in my opinion. If we hire a road tow chipper to a domestic tree surgeon, they may have a full hard days work but the chipper will often only come back with 1 or 2 hours on the clock. However, tracked machines in a commercial environment usually get turned on first thing and then run for 7-8 hours in a day.
  18. GA Groundcare
    I have a 2017 GreenMech Arborist 130 for sale if that's any good...
  19. GA Groundcare
    We have a 2009 used GreenMech Safe Trak 19-28 Mk1 on ebay at the moment. Its a px and we have run it up and all seems to work fine. I would let it go for 8k inc vat for a quick sale. I shall email you now... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2009-GreenMech-SafeTrak-19-28-Wood-Chipper-PLUS-VAT/264360856573?hash=item3d8d228bfd:g:pM0AAOSw3JNdAlpZ
  20. GA Groundcare
    Not worth the risk. Genuine TW150 blades are cheap anyways. As said above if you have a failure and fitted genuine items to factory specification then the chipper manufacture will take it seriously.
  21. GA Groundcare
    Local customer to us has a newish 215. Seems happy with it and from what I have seen good performance / throughput. We sharpen his blades but they are mega expensive to replace...
  22. GA Groundcare
    We have found that once the spring has "settled in" it can often do with a tweak up. Usually at about your hours. If you can put your hand on the spring and rattle it then its definitely to slack. As Jase says, tension just so it starts to stretch.
  23. GA Groundcare
    Definitely price up and demo some other brands too. with the euro how it is it makes the Jensen an expensive buy... For example a new GreenMech Arborist 150 or TimberWolf TW230 would be around 15k net plus vat brand new.
  24. GA Groundcare
    Devizes. You can buy it for 2.5k plus vat if you fancy!
  25. GA Groundcare
    We have a cs 100 you could hire but would need to collect from Wiltshire.

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