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There’s some good exploded diagrams on Specrum or Greenplants site (and others?) which will show you the parts.

Pick it up, rub it between your fingers as if your Chris Packham and smell it, as someone as said - if it stinks it’s Fox scat or possibly Packhams personality🤔. A hedgehog passing something the same size as a middle finger would be equal to a human crapping an oxy or acetylene bottle😳

Glad you and your family are ok Steve. Those things and cars aren’t a great mix. One young woman in one of those rickshaw taxi things was killed last weekend in Southwark when a drunk uninsured driver crashed into them. They had stopped for her friend to get out and go to a cash point when it was struck. Her friend was unhurt. Luis Fernando Balcazar-Soto as been charged with death by driving a vehicle whilst uninsured and in breach of a restraining order. Sounds like a good old Cockney name.

Industry takes enough stick as it is without making things worse. Some top handles make more noise than some chippers.

That’s the problem with all new machines now - circuit boards, electronics, sensor’s, etc,. Once hired in a Teupen which triggered a sensor on one of the legs and couldn’t be collapsed due to the fact I was above a branch! Ended up roping from basket and waiting 3 hours for engineer/ rocket scientist🤔. The only platform without electronics now is a tower scaffold🙄

And paying Sick, Holiday and Maternity pay😳

Grinding wheels and stone don’t really go together, you’ll ruin the teeth, the stone or both🤔. Surely your better off removing the bulk of the tree with a saw and exposing the stonework, remove the stonework( if it’s being repaired anyway)to expose the stump/ roots and remove that with an old axe or adge.

If your quoting between 2-5 jobs a day and getting 70% of them your doing pretty good. That’s 7 - 17 jobs won a week. Are you running several teams? You’ve obviously got someone spending a lot of time quoting and doing something right 👍. I’ve found individual enquires have dropped off and so not so busy but have picked up some bigger jobs. Looking for a bit of time off this time of year anyway🤔

Is Mr Angry from Purley on this forum? Can’t wait to hear what he thinks about it🤔

“Doobin, you have passed on 8 questions and have scored no points”

Thanks for adding this video, much more enlightened as to what can be achieved with this type of machine and of course a capable operator.

Thanks Ferguson. Makes sense now👍

What’s the point 🤔as opposed to tracks?

I tried to negotiate an experience in Amsterdam once but she told me to go away cos I didn’t have enough money. I think she said “go away” - it was all double Dutch to me🤔

You’d be loafing about drinking coffee as well if you drank all that wine throughout the day🥳

Just don’t tell immigration/ border control your looking for work because you’ll be on the next plane out😳.

You’ve removed the rotor nose shaft nut. Under that is the washer which should be loose(ish?) butting up against the 1st bearing. That should ease off the thread. There’s a good chance the bearings are goosed and should be replaced anyway and probably the rotor shaft( they’re all relatively cheap to replace so a light tap around the washer/ spacer and it should lift off. Apply some WD 40 or similar to help with any rust or binding. The bearing housing complete with bearings can very often be removed before taking off the cover plate, around the edge of the housing next to the cover plate there are 4 small indents which can be used to pry out the housing. The bearing housing complete with bearings can also come away from the nose shaft as you withdraw the front plate. If your having problems the bearings may be shot and the inner race of the bearings can ware a step on the shaft of the Rotor nose shaft. I’ve said it’s probably all want replacing so a gentle persuasion with a small gummy or an old wood chisel and hammer may be required. The Spectrum Plant site will show you a exploded parts diagram. Be careful on how much leverage you put on the centre area of the cover plate because there’s not a large amount metal because of the cutouts and it’s easy to distort🤔. The second phot shows the bearing cup and bearing put back on the nose shaft after removing Rotor.

That’s funny because before the widespread use of forwarders and forwarding trailers and we extracting large timber with a winch on a county or a matador the rest of the wood was loaded by hand and extracted using a trailer behind a tractor on what was known as a cordwood trailer🤔- Southwest?

Would of thought you’d need to give a bit more notice. Not seen a very big queue of any tree workers looking for work at the local job centre🤔

Why would you want to flush the system of red if your swopping to white diesel anyway? As Mick basically said - it’s the same stuff only different colour. The only thing with some red diesel is it’s been known to contain more bio diesel which can “jell up” the filter system especially sediment bowls.

Can’t blame you for not wanting to pay £100 a bag but if you offer to contribute a little to cover fuel some arbs may be tempted to detour to be able to tip Arb wast. Just a thought?

Not entirely true. Cords for measuring wood is still used and very often the fairest method. As you know there’s such a wide variation in types and length of time from falling. If someone wants small amounts the supplier isn’t going to get it weighed( not that many weigh bridges about these days either). If someone want to save a small amount of money by logging it up themselves crack on - probably kicks the woodsure scheme into touch as well🤔

All the best for the future Will👍

Have you been back to UK recently Mick? We’ve got a lot of shit roads as well🤔

What do you mean overseas? IOM? Jersey? Northern Ireland - good luck to anyone who wants to enforce Woodsure rules in some of the areas over there🤔. North Korea?