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Sounds like it's worth a go then! Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Any husqvarna 385 users out there? Obviously they're discontinued now/superseded by the 390 by the looks of it. Anything to watch out for? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I've actually had a reply off Greg today and he sent the postage label so ill get them in the post tomorrow! Much more like it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Id rather swap it for a bigger saw plus a bit of cash if necessary. Think I'll be waiting a while to find the right one to swap for though. Unless anyone knows of one about? Only really interested in a 395. Definitely staying clear of eBay. Fees are utterly ridiculous these days. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Can't say a bad word about the cutting performance of it on our Tajfun400 (fast, even chips, excellent stay sharpability) but on the old Stihl 034 it's very rough in comparison to stihl chain. However I've had one chain come apart at the original joint link on the processor and another was sent with a knot in it that can't be undone. After speaking to them they were to send a postage label for me to return to them but that has yet to arrive. Customer Service is very much lacking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Thanks for your honesty, I felt that half price is low considering it's usage. The dealer we bought it off suggested £300-350 privately but as a trade back to them would be even less than half! He suggested a 2012 395xp with similar low usage I was considering would only be worth £300 also. Unsurprisingly the seller was not interested. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Near Middlesbrough (Elton) north east. It's on it's second chain and that's only had a handful of sharpens. I'd estimate maybe 2 days work total and even then only for clearing up occasional fallen trees and logging up softwood prior to splitting to fit through our chipper for biomass. Nothing particularly strenuous for it! It was bought new in 2015 (I think) as a replacement for a stolen 550xp which has subsequently been returned by the police so now it's sitting gathering dust. Don't do enough work to justify having two! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Could you PM me a price please? Even if it's just so I have a general idea of the price? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Oh right, excellent, that's nice and easy! Where would one source an iggesund forest bar from? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Is it possible to fit any other make of bar on a Tajfun 400? Currently using the standard 17" pro-lite bars and I'm finding that I have to dress the bar before I sharpen the chain! Would like to put a solid Sugi-hara on it but there is no 17" available. I've heard talk that there is a mod to allow you to fit an 18" bar on instead? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Could anybody enlighten me as to what price I could maybe value my spare, low hours, 2014 550xp on its second chain at in order to trade up for a 395xp so I can have a bash at milling and have an easier job ringing up oversize firewood? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Retirement plans, perhaps to include planting a "forest"
SbTVF replied to difflock's topic in General chat
If you want to be able to get grants you need to be planting 3 hectares minimum to take advantage. As far as I'm aware anyway. Might be others available I've not seen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk -
Mine handle being tipped over by the skid steer and then I pick them up through the side so the fork tines are supporting the upturned base. No use if you want to tip into a trailer but you can tip a bunch out and then bucket them into whatever container you need. Plastic bottomed or cornered IBC's are the easiest but steel cornered ones are fine if you're a capable operator. Occasionally have to weld the odd bottom ring back to the spacer feet but a few tacks with the mig on a low setting and they're as good as new. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Don't know where you are but metcalfe farms travel all over the place with theirs. Think the driver said all the way from the midlands to Scotland if the crops there they'll cut it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Iggesund at seascale and metcalfe farms are doing a lot of it. There is a 'willow energy' page on Facebook, I think that's the same people. We bought a field with 10acres in but it was all planted badly including some trail plots of the wrong species. Metcalfe farms harvested it and iggesund bought it for £32 a ton in the end I think. By the time we'd had it mulched out, paid for harvesting and haulage it didn't cost us anything but we didn't make anything either. Would've needed replanting if we'd continued with it to make it viable. It's now a grass field. Well worth doing if it's done properly I'd say but we bought it for grazing land anyway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Ah, well you might still struggle in that case! It would need to be well compacted and pretty smooth to avoid spinning the wheels resulting in holes! Skid steers can take just about any attachment you can think of! Go on whites material handling for a selection of the possibilities. It's getting increasingly hard to find good second hand examples of any size skid steer though. We were reluctantly forced into buying new but the finance was a great deal. We can't be without ours though. It does everything. Fantastic machine. We've a mustang 1650r. Only rated to 850kg lift but it'll lift a 1400kg pallet of cement bags without much complaint. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Standard forklift would be stuck in seconds on the first picture if you tried to get to those cages. Second picture would probably have no trouble at all travelling on that yard. And looking at it, as long as you didn't screw round on the spot too much a skid steer wouldn't do too much damage to that surface. It's certainly well trodden in! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Skid steers are amazing at what they do but if you've only got a loose surface it'll be as rough as ploughed field in no time at all. Of course you can however, then level it back out with a bucket once you've finished very easily. Imho mustangs are a better build of skidsteers that bobcat. Older models like the 2054, if you can find one, have fantastic balance and very little electronics. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Bear Valley do that sort of thing I believe. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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One or two with buds starting to open up here in the north east. Most barely showing even a bud. Still a few sycamore not fully out either actually! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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That amount of kindling would last most of my domestic customers a whole season. Probably 10-12 nets worth in there I'd guess? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Can't beat some straight sycamore poles from old coppice that have been sat a few month. Most of the pieces launch onto the conveyor like they've been catapulted! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Do you mean Teesport? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Go for it then! Worth a try! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Absolutely, was just referencing costs to us 'log men' so we know what to charge/what we need to be paying to get the right percentage of profit. £50 cube delivered, in the round is perfectly reasonable therefore. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
