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I’ve got a practically new spider jack 3 in the barn. Climbed on it about 4/5 times. Still got the box and conformity note. Couldn’t stand it. Put the zigzag back on Sensible offer if anyone wants it. If not it’ll probs stay in the barn til I try it again in a year or so to remind myself I hate it [emoji23]

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Another for R tech here. I was set on the 250 after seeing Doobins welder. Spoke to R tech who discussed my power supply over the phone and they said I’d not ever use the full potential of the 250 as my supply wouldn’t support it. They down sold me to the cheaper 180 as I could fully utilise the machine. Chucked in £50 worth of wire free. It’s a super welder , not much you can’t weld with it on a couple of passes too. Super family run business who actually care and they have a fantastic product. I’ll be brand loyal for welding kit from here on.

Hi Josh Först were very decent in their handling of my issue. They took my TR8 55 back, gave me a loan TR8 45 old version for 3/4 months until my new machine was ready. Then delivered my new machine with the revisions on the teething issues. They have made several revisions / improvements to the TR8 55 with a further torque enhancement too. It’s night and day even to the outgoing 45 hp kubota version. Blows it away on chipping performance. You can squeeze near on 9 inch timber through it no bother. So far the new machine is great. You do need to keep an eye on the soot levels on the dpf if you are doing lots of stop start chipping for say 20mjns. It needs to be chipping for about 40 minutes to initiate a regen if needed. It’s designed to cope with forced regens but if the soot level exceeds 120 percent it requires resetting by laptop. That’s just modern engines I guess. Just means you need to keep a weekly check on soot levels on the display to avoid a call out for the laptop to be plugged in. So far I’m happy. I’ll keep it for 3 years of warranty and flip it for a new one. Fantastic chipping performance but I want my warranty comfort blanket. That said if want that on any new chipper or machine that’s the core of my business.

That’s the Active brand from Italy. Yes the same as the Eder winch engine. I’ve had an Active 5.5 brush cutter 50 odd cc I think. Probably had it 13 years. It’s just brilliant. Never skips a beat and has been way tougher than my stihl FS460 that’s currently in for engine work. Fraction of the price. I need to find someone who is importing Active as my anti vibe on the handlebar mount now has lots of play in it. Not bad for the only part I’ve needed in all that time ! A local shop tried selling them years ago. Either they weren’t popular or the backup wasn’t great so they dropped the brand. I seem to recall they were up for around £400 and they dropped them to about £250 to get rid which is when I bought it in a whim. Wish I’d bought the lot ! Even at £400 they were a steal.

Been around a long time those. Very effective. Put one up for a customer once.

The blades are excellent quality. I used to change the blades on my Timberwolf every 5-10 days depending on volume of chipping. The bigger blades on the TR8 have been way better. Check weekly but have had the blades in 4-6 weeks before they needed a tickle up. Depending on what it’s been chipping. Stick with the manufacturer blades and also change the little grip washers each time. Forst will post you a bunch out.

It’s the brand. GB pro top. The lopro bars sold by rob are GB pro top. The orange coloured bars.

42” lo pro for milling. Chain wants to be spot on. I use 36” bar with skip , any bigger than that and for me it wants porting or up to the 880 Great saw the 660. Prefer it to the 661 although 661 probably edges it performance wise I’d guess.

Not enough people willing to pay for it in the UK or overseas clients are more profitable? No idea the cloggies came over here just to shoot deer.

Not the only culprits though. Every plantation around here has high chairs in it for culling the deer that strip up recently planted stuff. Out of interest so the FC have organised squirrel culls to protect plantations. I’ve no doubt they strip up young fresh trees. ?

Maybe you’re only climbing the small trees with thin soft bark they like to chew on and not up the big trees they generally don’t like. Who knows. Honestly if you’re saying you fell or remove more trees / branches etc to squirrel damage than other fungi etc I’ll take your word for it but I’ll be surprised.

No it’s not... honestly don’t see why people get so bent out of shape about it. Sad that they have pushed out the red squirrels. But plenty is being done to re introduce them around the country. As for damaging trees. You see very little damage from squirrels. The odd chewed branch that is no worse than some rubbing branches. I fell a lot more trees due to honey fungus than grey squirrels that’s for sure.

They might of caught fletch but they didn’t catch me [emoji23]

Dawn redwood has opposite buds. The pictures show alternate

Can’t be dawn redwood. Swamp cypress more than likely. [emoji106]

They are great little characters. I raised 4 that came out of tree being reduced. For a while I used to be able to call them down with food after being released. Still see them occasionally in my woods.

Hard to say as it’s the only one I’ve used but the tigergrip is very very good.

Me either And probably because it does just the same as a zz2 [emoji38]

Who lives here ? Appeared on a woodland path over the last few weeks where I walk the dogs each day. Hole goes pretty much straight down.

They’ll be hardly any greener than the softwood ones pumped out at most fencing suppliers.

I know where to find some nice rails [emoji6]

Nice moat to push the grindings into. No excess grindings to take away for that stump I bet [emoji106]

Ah yes. They look very different in that picture. Nice unusual ripples.

Are they milling marks at 90 degrees to the grain ?