Thesnarlingbadger

Looks like a bloody nightmare and sounds like a PITA customer. It it were me (not that I’ve seen it). I would get a rope over the top of the split steam and winch it back away from the shed with a little cut on the back of it. And let it tear down under the winch. You would need a 3.2 tonne winch at the least. I would also say that you will do your best to avoid dame game to the shed but either you take it down in a controlled manner ;as controlled as can be or you let the bloody thing flatten their shed. As above a new shed is possible the cheapest option without machinery.

Great stuff thanks for the replies people. To be honest I make enough from the stump grinding to pay for the teeth and soon upped my hourly rate when I realised it was going to be costly. I will try and get round to sharpening them but I never seem to get them as sharp as I would get a chain on a saw sharp and instead of them going through a few stumps when new the resharpens ones seem to dull off a lot quicker, more then likely my half-assed sharpening. Stump grinding has always been a pet hate of mine but is a necessary evil for running a business and I am aware of the fact that I have won more jobs because of it. I just need to remember to keep some headphones in the truck when I go out doing it to listen to a podcast or some music helping the day along a little. I've only got a 360 as I never wanted to get anything too big as I know I would end out doing it more and non of the lads want to go out with the grinder so its plonker here who does it all. I may have to start sending others out once in a while to save my sanity. Thanks for the tips and advise I think I'll stick to the multitip teeth as they do chew through stumps really well when new and maybe set aside a bit of time to sharpen the ones I can and see if I can get a bit of drink money for the ones that have to be scrapped. Maybelateron that is a lovely looking bit of kit you have knocked up

They are around £15 a tooth (just under I think) but you save a bit with a bulk buy still around £550 pls vat for 50 teeth [emoji22]. Just looking for ways to make a bit of money back so it’s not so damaging on the old wallet.

Hi all, I have pretty much come to an end of 100 odd multitip teeth. Now I have got a diamond disk attachment that I used to sharpen a few when the last batch ran out but to be honest I have enough on my plate with out spending days sharpening 100 tears up and not getting them as sharp as new. I just wondered if anyone on hear sells their old teeth on or is it worth sharpening them? I’ve just ordered another 50 from multitip as I have a few grinding jobs on over the next few weeks and at down to my last 4. Any suggestions or advice welcome. Cheers people

Hi Mate, Sorry I missed this post of yours. Mine is still playing funny buggers but I've pinned it down to something in the electrical box. As I switched over the solenoids so it would start in forwards as opposed to reverse the system through it was in reverse and didn't have the anti-stress on hence the cutting out. But I have since swapped them back and the anti-stress is fine, chews through big stuff no issue. I have had solenoids off and checked the pins, which are fine. Replaced a cable but still had the issue sometimes. now if it happens I'm opened up the electrical box while the machine is running wiggling everything about for a bit until it works. Not ideal but it'll get me by for now. I don't really have time to get it in to redwood as I'm flat out but might look in to the cost of a new electrical box (but I'm assuming I will not like the price of one of those (They look like a sparkys wet dream)). Have you managed to find the issue on yours? Fingers crossed for you mate.

Hi Matty, thanks for this. To be honest it’s mainly going to be used for getting in to sites which we have cleared with a timber trailer. A little bit of woodland work although this may change if I start looking in to this side of work a bit more. I would look at getting a grain trailer for the larger chipping jobs and look into using it for a larger PTO chipper at some point. This is because I’ve thought about a tracked chipper and to be honest a tracked chipper isn’t as useful to me as a tractor would be. The business is starting to head into site clearance type work and I just feel a tractor, timber trailer, grain trailer and a PTO chipper are going to be a lot more useful for this type of work. I’m slightly swayed because I’d love a tractor but have given it plenty of thought and think it’s a good way forward. It’s not going to happen just yet but within the next year I’d say. Thanks again

She’s a beaut.

Nice one thank you. Doubt I’ll be buying new as my pockets aren’t that deep. Looking for something in the 2012-2016 range and with 100-150 HP good ground clearance and a couple of spools for different attachments. Hoping I can find something for around or below 30k. It’s not going to be an immediate buy just something in the next year and only if I have the work come in for it. Looking at some other kit that I need for the time being.

Cheers Gary. It’s kinda what I was hoping to hear. I don’t want anything incredible. Just something to fit a timber trailer to with good ground clearance will do me just fine. I would rather a machine will as little computer based electrics as possible as if something goes wrong in the middle of a job I would like a half decent chance of fixing it myself. Thanks again [emoji106]

Being a nice person helps also. I would happily pay a good wage for someone who is nice, easy to get on with and mucks in as opposed to a shit hot climber who acts like he knows better than everyone else. I have absolutely no time for ‘know it alls’ no matter how good a climber they are.

Hi Gary, How do you get on with the Valtra? Been looking at either a fendit or a Valtra but fendits tend to be a little over budget. Any issues to look out for?

That’s great thank you. I know there is good fuel getting through because I checked that. The belts we alright as well. I’m thinking the issue might be more due to the fact the forward and reverse electrics have been switched so the system thinks the rollers are in reverse so it’s not activating the sensor for the flywheel and and the anti-stress. I’m based in Bristol. Appreciate the input. I’m going to get to the yard tomorrow and set the multi-metre up and go through the electrics. Cheers

Hi all. Had a bit of a arse of a week with the chipper. On Tuesday the rollers on the ST6 stopped going forwards (only reverse), then if I pressed the stop button they wouldn't go at all. Now I've switched the solenoids over and then the electrics and have the issue down to a faulty wire (or at least I believe so). So for now I've switched the forward and reverse wires over for now and ordered a new wire. Let's not get in to the health and safety side of things here It's to get by for now and the lads using the chipper aren't idiots. Anyway, the anti-stress has started playing up and if you put anything bigger than 4" in to the machine it just bogs down and cuts out. I'm just wondering if this might be linked to the solenoids/wiring or if this is a different issue all together. Does anyone know exactly the process behind the anti-stress system on an ST6 I', assuming there is a sensor next to the flywheel but I can't seem to find anything. I'm hoping its not another problem on top of another one but guessing it might be. Also just to add to this does anyone sharpen there on chipper blades? I've got a decent wet stone but wouldn't be able to do the full length of the blade without setting up some sort of jig or I was thinking maybe of using a belt sander as I'd get more of a straight edge as opposed to the curve you would get with a wheel (leaving it with a weaker tip). Any input on any of these questions would be great. Thanks in advance people.

Thanks for all the advice people I’m taking it all in. I’m sorry for the delay getting back to you I’ve been running around like a mad man trying to get too many jobs done before the announcement earlier. Once we are out of this crap situation we are in I’ll look in to it further. Just out of curiosity how long are people getting out of there Goodrich tyres if they are run on the road. I generally have a couple of us in the cab saws and kit in the back and a chipper or trailer being towed if we are working though generally the chipper will be on the back of the tipper. And the trailer will be on the hilux. If I can get a year or 2 out of decent off road tyres I may just switch. Thanks again people your wisdom is always appreciated.

Hi guys, I’ve been looking at getting a set of off road tyres on the wheels so I can just swap them over if needs be but I was just wondering what people’s recommendations were. I’ve got a 69 plate Hilux and when I asked at Toyota they started asking if I wanted bigger wheels and to be honest I hadn’t even thought about it, what difference does it make? I use it mainly for towing the chipper in to fields and through woodland. It’s coped relatively well with road tyres on so far but I have been a little reserved as I don’t want to be to plonker getting stuck in a field with road tyres on. I’m just look for advice as to what would be the best tyres/wheel combination to get that covers most off road situations in the uk. I’m not to bothered about spending money on them as I have made a decision to get another towed chipper as opposed to a track one so I’ll be saving a few grand here and figured I could spend the savings on some off road tyres to get me in to some of those places that I would have struggled getting to before. Let me know your thoughts and thanks in advance. Cheers

The neighbours are not a fan of the tree but then what neighbours are. Think they like it even les now. I’ve reduced the limb with the split on it right back to the fist few growth points and have proposed a 20% reduction for the rest of the crown. Should keep the tree relatively safe.

Hi all. Had a call out yesterday for this Medium sized Atlas cedar that had shed a limb. Going to go out and do the clear up and remove the limb on the shed later on today. I’ve been asked by my client to make the tree ‘safe’ and although I have said there is no 100% grantee I can make it completely safe I would like to know what you guys think may be the best course of action. My client would like to retain the tree and felling is a last resort. I have looked at a few options and spoke to him about them which are... A full reduction 20% Cutting the split limb back to the next growth point Felling (ideally not) Cable bracing with a 2 ton brace The issue I have is that if we remove the damaged limb that all the weight is going to be on the left hand side of the tree as it has already lost a good 300kg from the limb that dropped Saturday night and if we loose the rest of the limb we at looking at almost half a ton off one side of the tree. I can counter balance this with a full reduction but not sure if this will have a decent enough impact. I’ll get up the tree later and get some images of the tear in the tree. Pictures below. Thanks in advance people

I’d stay well away from knotweed if I were you. Specialist companies charge thousands to grantee it won’t come back and they do it by digging it out. We did a clearance job last year and the firm that had us in got a separate company to come in and get rig of the knotweed issue. The prices they charged were eye watering £10,000 plus and they still had to come back 3 times as until it was gone completely. They dug down about 3 meters and took all the contaminated soil away, must have been 50 odd tones of the stuff.

Wicket thanks guys. I’ll take a look at it tomorrow on the job. Arbtalk to the rescue once again [emoji106]

YeH it turns over just doesn’t kick in. Yeah we tend to get white smoke from the exhaust when it starts up.

Hi all, I’ve have an issue with my ST6 for the past few months and can’t seem to find the route of the cause. The chipper starts from cold fine and generally works fine except on big jobs when it’s running flat out. The problem is if it’s been going 10 to the dozen and then we turn it off for a minute to let brash build up again then try and start it it won’t start. We leave in for half an hour or so and away she goes. We have been getting by with the issue but I’m just a little worried as the commercial side of things is getting more and more and the old girl is doing harder days and a half hour stop on a big job a couple of times a day can be a right pain in the backside. I have checked the coolant levels which are all fine. The fuel seems to be getting through the filters to the engine alright. The earth cable seem alright but every now and then I file the metal down to make sure it has a good connection. The starter motor is engaging but the machine isn’t not taking off. I’m leaning towards it being and electrical issue somewhere but it’s annoying because it only does it when it’s been running for a while. Any ideas guys? Thanks in advance [emoji106]

Nice I will give them a call if I can get it sorted this weekend. I have managed to get it working just by emptying, cleaning and resetting the fuel tank. But it doesn’t work if the machine is leaning even slightly to the left which make me think the fuel isn’t getting to the carb or the oil sensor is a little dodgy. Either way I managed to get a job done today with it so not the end of the world.

Thanks guys. I did check the oil which is fine (if anything a little high). The lines have been checked and the tank has been taken off and flushed out. I’m assuming that all the filters were done 2 months back when it was serviced. But they may have thought sod the fuel filter as it’s a pain in the arse to get to. I brought mine from Ben Burgess 2/3 years ago. Do they have service engineers working for them? I may be able to pick brains. It does act even worse if it’s on an angle (which is all the time). If you start it on flat ground it will run ok bus as soon as you tilt it of cuts out.I’m wondering weather it may be the oil sensor? Thanks again

Hi all. I have a 360 stump grinder with a GX 390 Honda engine. I’ve been having issues with it for the past year on and off. Lister wilder did a service on it about 2 months ago and it’s had a lack of power which wasn’t fully resolved in the service. Now it is playing proper funny buggers and starts up but as soon as it starts cutting it cuts out. It still doesn’t have full power like it used to but that’s not the end of the world but I need it to do the job it’s designed for. I can’t seem to find a service department number for them anymore and the old number I had for them just goes to an in recognised number (probably my fault that). Any help on what might be causing this issue would be appreciated. Thanks guys