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I can get some pictures of it next week. I guess it could equally be easily converted back to petrol if that interested anyone. It was used mounted inside a van on a mobile catering outfit that was one of my good ladies business. I’m currently doing the most important piece of Arb work in the annual calendar - skiing in France. [emoji106]

I have a large Honda generator on lpg. Thinks something like the eu3000 in the current Honda range. Very powerful. Very reliable. Cost about 3 or 4 k mind. No longer in use so possibly for sale if any interest

Are TGB quads any good ? It’s occasional machine for me

Thanks. If anyone is selling a quad in the south east get in touch. Cheers guys

I’m in the market for a used quad bike. Around 350 cc with 4x4 etc. I know very little about them , other than the usual Honda Yamaha’s Suzuki Kawasaki etc are any other brands worth considering. All the Polaris and can am seem to be more than I’m wanting to spend. I just need a machine for moving mostly animal feed around my field and woods. It’s pretty wet in the winter so as long as it’s a capable mud plugger and reliable I’m not fussy about it. Any advice on used machines appreciated

Need lots of kit to stabilise it. I don’t have a vacuum so just buy the handle scales/blanks. There is some variation in quality with the mail orders and ideally I would like to hand pick the stuff but on the whole it’s the age old you get what you pay for ...

The forge is currently buried in storage boxes during our self build. I’ve got a fraction of my usual workshop space. When it’s uncovered I’ll see what I can come up with. [emoji106]

If you are buying a forge take a look at swan gas forges. Nice kit.

Yes mate. Any good quality file could be used. Farriers rasps tend to be high quality and have enough size to make knife blanks without forging. Readily available too. A local farrier will have bucket loads. Car boot sales are good for materials. Usually boxes of old tools that can be re purposed and the quality of steel is high on the older stuff. You can give a rough test of carbon by sticking the tang in a vice and snapping it off. See how it breaks compared to lower carbon steel. I’ve got some leaf springs set aside for making some timber framing tools with. I fancy making a slick and a draw knife. The hardest part is finding the time to tinker. !

Cherry red is a little hot. Your looking for Something like and orange red then simply switch the heat source off. Leave it in the switched off forge which will allow it to cool slowly. I usually switch mine off and just leave it there to the following day. [emoji106]

Oh and don’t forget to either drill out the handle for pins before you heat treat or don’t heat treat the handle. You will have all sorts of fun trying to drill that if it’s treated. [emoji23]

Yes it would. It’s a hardened tool in its original form so you need to anneal it first. Once annealed you can work with it with grinders , belt sanders , disc cutters etc etc. Once you have the shape and most of the angles you want to create whatever working edge you are after you can heat treat and quench it. Test the heat treat with a file and if it’s good give it a couple of tempering cycles in an oven. Do that before it cools completely. You will then be able to set the edge and polish the blade and get into the final sharpening and honing. For final sharpening I use Japanese wet stones and a leather block with a paste. Farriers rasps are generally high carbon so they can be made extremely sharp but the edge will be less durable than a steel with lower carbon.

Thanks. I’m mainly self taught. Every now and then I pester some blacksmiths I know to go and use their forges and pick up some tips but mostly it’s me messing around on a small propane forge and anvil in the workshop.

Last bit of Damascus I forged I made a ring and joined the band diagonally with solid 18ct gold all the way through. Started life as an oblong lump of Damascus and square bar of gold. Was fiddly business using a noble metal with steels. Tested my patience for sure.

here’s the last farriers rasp i used. Stabilised maple burr for the handle. Brass pins made from and old door handle. Have it to a mate of mine when I was done making it. He seemed to like it.

I end up giving most of mine away. I really enjoy the making process mostly. They would clutter my workshop if I didn’t give them away.

There are lots of good materials readily available for learning to make your own readily available. Old leaf springs tend to be good. I’ve made some nice stuff from old farriers rasps which have a high carbon content. Just remember to anneal them first.

Anyone on here able to nudge squaredy for me ? I’ve messaged him about the vented bags but no response Tia

I went for a few rides with Dave Hemming Serious skills.

Drop me a pm with a price chap. Cheers

Dear all. Recommendations for a supplier of net / vented cubic metre log bags please Thanks.

None taken , it’s not my credit card we were talking about [emoji23] I know he considered all the various machines. Julian has a log of business with some large property developers , A lot of their developments are in the 10 to 20 million price range on estates like Wentworth and St George’s Hills. Etc so a machine like this will absolutely smash that work and the budgets are there to use it. He’s also hoping for a slice of the road side ash pie with it. The saw head can be replaced with a winch to turn it into a very good crane. He said to me he was hoping to be able to hire it out to builders etc to increase its potential for earning and keep it productive between trees. Hope it works out for him. It’s a big spend for guy like him and I’d hate to see it not work out. But he’s a sharp guy and if you want to get into the big boys game there’s going to be an element of risk for sure. He still won’t put his harness down so now doubt he will be out climbing just as much to keep the bread and butter jobs ticking business over.

There is a large drawbar trailer going on the back of it for wood chip or whatever really. Would that influence the axle configuration? I don’t know , biggest thing I’ve driven is unimogs so nothing this sort of size.

The day rate he offered me was quite palatable and given how much more quickly it will dismantle a tree and given most of the tree will get loaded onto the lorry directly I thought it was pretty good. Given that the only credit card he’s flexed to buy it is his own company one I guess the other toys will have to wait a while. [emoji23] The was a sennboggen doing road side ash die back felling locally recently. Awesome machine too but no where near the reach of the lorry so that probably what’s made him Choose that.

True it’s not aimed at domestic work. It’s aimed at road side and clearance work. It will handle 900kg at full stretch which is impressive. Close in it will lift a huge amount.