Conor Wright

Avoid those briggs vanguards. They're barely capable of making it to 1k hours without major work. Wanks of things to work on. There's more of them lying in skips behind dealerships than out working on sites. Possibly the worst engine fitted to any piece of plant since the tecumseh "formula" anyone remember them?! Terrible things. Briggs has lost their way badly. They have a lot to do to regain consumer confidence. Its Honda or loncin now, for me at least. There may well be people out there with good experiences of newer briggs engines. They're just very quiet about it!

Similar machine to the older hinowa goldlift series. I should have kept my old 1470. It's still on the go. 3 years after I thought it was on its last legs!

Thanks guys, ive made up my mind. The lack of expanding tracks has put me off this particular machine. I can just see it going wrong and doing a home workshop widening is off the cards as it would need ce marking again after the mods. I'll keep looking. Any machines people would recommend or avoid from personal experience? Anyone used a leguan?

I think he washed up there a few days ago and is about to burst

There's a button on the remote console that if the gradient of the machine becomes too much eg when driving up a slope, it activates an override that allows you reduced speed movements for 10 or so seconds to help you overcome the slope, or turn it over. There is also an option on newer models for a push button descent. The boom must be in line with the undercarriage for this to work. It's more a gimmick than anything else. Not sure which is being referred to above.

It's a return to home function but the newer hinowas are horrible to use. Had an older 1470 goldlift and it was way more comfortable and faster than the newer 1570. The o and s one is hydraulic to the basket too, which makes fault finding much easier, for me at least

Thank you. yes, I did notice the tracks are not expandable. It does look top heavy. How poor are they on minor slopes?

Well,I'm hoping the arbtalk hive mind can help me out here. I'm thinking of getting myself one of the above mewps. Has anyone on here ever owned or operated one of these machines? I'd like to know all you think is good or bad about them please. What it's like to use, irritating quirks, are they to be avoided completely or are they the bees knees? The reason I'm drawn to this particular machine is that even though it's only a few years old it has hydraulics to the basket. Hydraulics I can fix, remotes not so much. There seems to be very little about this particular machine online. It's not exactly cheap but it's the right size and weight for my current needs. Opinions on other similar sized machines are welcome too. Thanks guys.

Didn't know you were born there!

Great to see he's bounced back!

Believe it or not I've ended up with a private island as a direct result of my tree work. Kinda... Sadly I couldn't afford to go exotic so I went looking around localish. There were no actual islands for sale within budget but youve got to be smart... in the end, one found me. Well, I mean I bought a wet field in summertime and now there's only a bit of it visible... but you'd need a boat to get there, so it counts.

Ah man, he wanys to save it, not destroy it. There's hardly any meat on a layer anyway. 45 mins be plenty!

We take in ex battery hens now and then,just a dozen or so at a time. there's always one or two like this. We give them a night indoors, near the stove with a blanket and water, some cooked rice mixed 50 50 with a sachet of wet kitten food. If there isn't a noticeable improvement in 24 hours I either wring their necks or drown them to ease their suffering. The dogs get the meat and the innards get dug in near a young tree. No point getting too sentimental about them. I've been around caged hens in their hundreds of thousands. Death is a release to them.

This is where I'm at right now. Trying to get multiple freelancers lined up for jobs can be tricky. I've spent the afternoon looking at jobs I can't do alone. They're still worth it, but if I had the right guys full time it would be much less complicated. You can still be on the tools 3 or 4 days a week but you're right, trying to stay on the tools full time plus managing a company isn't viable long term. I struggle with this as I like being onsite.

The patchy one thinks he is, the yellow one tries to be but it's the big black thing that's the boss.