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Do you need a ride on? You may find something like a Scag/Ferris hydrostatic ZT walk behind on a 36' deck would work well. Fit in a vehicle and a used one will be within budget.

There's no beating the Iseki SXG cut and collect system. Far superior to the Kubota G series. But the Kubota will win on price.

Bit big for the bench but today's part exchange!

I've got a Hero 3 black edition. I've got the remote and app on my phone. I've also got the LCD touch screen which is great as can see what your doing and play back etc.

Mainly assembled there, most parts are sourced I believe. I used to drive past there place nearly daily until setting up my own business. With all things though, have a demo, draw your own conclusion and make sure it's right for you. Everyone's requirements are different, asking for advice is good at getting a feel of how a machine is perceived but the business model that you run will always be different to a fellow surgeon.

Indeed, not saying it's not. Some good feedback across the country on it.

As said you can run in 1000 with lower revs but be careful and that everyone who may ever step foot in the tractor knows the score. For example... A dealer came to service a MF tractor at my dad's work years ago. Said tractor was rigged up for autumn leaf blowing and to get the forward speed slow enough it was run in 1000 and lower revs. No problem atall till the engineer serviced the tractor, engaged PTO, didn't realise it was in 1000, full 540 revs... Bang. The leaf blower was blown apart. Ash

Built or assembled? Assembled means relying on out sourcing parts and components and not having control. It's the downfall to all manufactures. In my previous job our largest franchise, the warranty and failures on machines were always the bought in products. Suppliers changing specs without manufacture knowing.

Carlton is a good stump grinder. We had one in last week for some work and it's come back in next week for some additional work. Nice and simple to operate and well made. Orange plant import them.

I know we're are not local but we've got a fantastic old boy machinist locally we use for this type of thing. If you wanted to post the shaft to us we could have it back within a few days. Or take the exact measurements and we'll get one spun up and sent down Ash

I'm in Devizes, so I'll keep my ears out. Is it Aster?

When delivering more than 1 chipper at a time I used to put one on backwards and one on forwards so the A frames would sit past each other. Get away with one trip then. You'll need 3 ramps though, one for the jockey.

Yeah still take your arm in, atleast with a 6' it'll start the stress control at your armpit so it's not all bad.

Nice, I had to take a Case 105 demonstrator about an hour down the road the other week. Was a nice drive But then collected a New Holland T5.105 and realised there's nothing in them whatsoever! That Fiat crawler is wicked.

I cringed when the guy on the right lent in at the start to put the stumpy bits through. Just use the next piece of wood! Throughput looks good, I was having a look over the 230 at a couple of shows this year. I think the black section around the feed rollers is a cheeky little gimmick to give a bigger capacity illusion! Much improved over the older 150/190 models though.

Any pics of what you've got to work with? Depends how much your wanting to lift in kg too really

You see a lot of agricultural spares companies having them for dropping off 205L oil barrels. I know Palfinger make one and are intended for transit flat beds

Exactly. I can look after my D2. Whereas D3 and D4 it's vehicle off the chassis for half the jobs and special service tools. If I go for for a new disco in a few years it'll be a lease through the business. I won't fund one personally!

I think a lot of it boils down to maintenance and how well it's been looked after. If you buy a new one or ex demo and look after it, service on the schedules, any warranty recalls done etc like the above post it'll do you well and be reliable. But with these type of vehicles and the type of buyer they attract normally the maintenance isn't high on the owners priority. Looking like your doing well on the school run is more so! I knew someone that purchased a Touareg, realised it was going to cost the earth and sold it on sharpish! Unless you really require 3.5T towing cap a Honda CRV will be a great car. I recently was looking at buying a 4x4 for myself with 3.5T capacity. I knew I wanted a Discovery commercial and I was buying it outright when starting up my business. I could of stretched myself to a Disco 3 commercial but settled on an older 2003 TD5 disco 2 commercial. Why? Because I know it won't cost me the earth to keep on the road, don't have to pay main dealer prices for servicing and it still does everything I want it to do.

Pics, hours etc etc

Trouble is for your budget, especially if that's inc vat you'll be hard pushed to find something that looks smart enough for a good company image and is reliable. Are you just looking at a 6' fixed track machine? Or something a little larger and vari tracks?

Great picture!

We are just getting a Entec/TW150 ready for sale. New flywheel bearings, recent anvil, new blades, new idler bearings, new belts, Kubota 1305 engine. Finished in yellow, fully serviced, brakes stripped and rebuild, new brake damper, jockey wheel, new lights, sharp feed rollers, 30 days warranty. Will be ready for sale next week. If your interested give me a call. We are based in Wiltshire. Ash

My Disco TD5 commercial special vehicles...

Hi Garyjp I have a Entec TW150 which will be available for hire soon. I took it in part exchange, replaced the Kubota engine, blades, bearings, anvil, belts etc etc. will be back running by the weekend after it's refurb then be available to hire. When do you require a machine and how long for? I've been on here for quite a while under my personal account when working for a main dealer franchise in this area. I've now setup my own commercial machinery business hence my new account.