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Silicone spray worked a treat. No more squeaky bushes. Thanks!

It's fine on two wheeled trailers / chippers, it's on double axle jobs that you need a more delicate touch. I can make it work for now. It needs to earn me some money before I spend more on it! I'm getting quite load creaking when I lift or tilt. I'm assuming it's coming from the bushes on the lifting arm pivot points, which don't have grease points on my machine. Is this normal? Anything to worrry about / fix?

A high lift to get stuff in there though if you have to do it by hand.

I've had a tracked barrow for 13 years now, mine's a Winget TD500, with a little petrol Honda engine. It's slow, but it'll go anywhere, up and down any slope. Straight down that is, try and go and sideways and you'll tip it over. I have. I bought mine second hand from an auction place in 2011. I think it was ex hire. It's still running fine; there's not much to go wrong on them. It's good for moving logs, but you still have to lift the logs into the barrow, and most likely out of the barrow, even though mine is the tipping type (not high lift), unless you have loads of space and it doesn't matter if the logs are spread all over the place. It's also good for moving all sorts of other stuff. This is why I have bought a Sherpa mini loader; to stop me having to lift stuff.

I had an Ifor 12x5 flatbed w/ dropsides before I bought the Sherpa, so it goes on that, on aluminium 8ft ramps. Plenty of space for all the extra attachments. It’s a bit more faff than a dedicated plant trailer with a drop down ramp back, but it’s what I have and it does the job. The guys I work with all run 4x4 tow trucks, as opposed to transit tipper. One of us will tow the tipper trailer, another the chipper, and me the Sherpa train hopefully quite often. Quite useful to be able to shift the trailers and chipper around on site with the Sherpa. I also have a towball mounted on the grab, but it sits on top of it, rather than on the side like yours. That means there’s less underneath the towball so i end up dragging the grab on the ground when the trailer gets nose heavy. Your arrangement is better I think.

Haven't even had the Sherpa a month now and it's been so bloody useful. It doesn't necessarily make anything significantly quicker, but definitely a lot easier. Loading/unloading chip, moving bulk bags, loading logs onto a mate's truck, presenting logs at waist height for the little splitter, splitting straight into a crate that can be moved to the store and presented to be stacked at whatever height is easy, stacking up brash next to the chipper, cutting logs at waist height instead of on the ground, moving trailers and chippers when the customer have moved their car "out of the way". Can't believe how little mess we made of a lawn yesterday. Rain was biblical and I genuinely reckon the trips we saved over manually dragging brash from a little willow pollard meant the lawn was looking better for using the Sherpa. The engine sometimes stalls when I reach a ram limit, particularly tilting up /down or opening/closing the grab. Anybody else get this? This a problem, or just a function of having the basic Sherpa?

Just picked me up a second-hand Sherpa 100 Agri with grab, bucket and rake. Anybody have a service manual / parts list / anything to help with maintenance? Any recommendations for which grease to use on the rams?

I love mine. Bought it recently, ear protection soooo much better than the Petzl I had before (with Sordin chipper spec muffs!). Wish I'd bought one years ago.

I held out for a couple of years to buy the t540ixp as I had a load of Stihl stuff and batteries already. Decided I didn't want to wait any longer this time last year and invested in Husky batteries as well. I really rate the saw, and reading your post StephenMews, makes me feel better about having both sets of batteries.

Pretty sure Pfanner Zermatt GTX are made by / actually Crispi. So, yes, have used them extensively

Pfanner Zermatt for me. I think my current pair is approaching 3 years and still waterproof.

I use the T540ixp with 300 batteries, it's fine.

This is why we run a 4x4 with a 10ft Ifor tipper trailer. 2.5t payload.

Had exactly the same experience. 23 years / 240k miles on a landcruiser before rust got it. Replaced with an 61 plate Shogun. The Shogun is quite a bit nicer to drive mind. And rustier.

I bought a set of Kebtek's about a month ago. Best thing I ever did. I use them all the time, and they save my wrists. On apple pruning they go through an inch easily, so hardly ever getting the silky out anymore. Speeds it up no end. Don't know which one you're looking at; I have these https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09963TPZY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1. Looks like you can get £50 voucher, making them £149.99