Conor Wright
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Nasty business. Overworked muscles can exacerbate trapped nerves. A good physio can work wonders. My old man suffered for years with a trapped nerve in his leg. Finally went to physio, think he had about 5 sessions and it eased immensely, then followed up with one or two a year if he felt it coming back. Hope you get it sorted. Its crippling. Remember seeing the old man buckling up with it. Literally brought tears to his eyes.. he was the rock hard no fuss type too. Took a lot to bring him down. May be worth checking posture and work position too..
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You'll know after untangling it! That aside I would imagine it could do the job. We used to use it for roping over movable poly tunnels.. even in short lengths it can be a pain. It's as if it remembers every twist or turn it ever took!
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Loma make decent hammer mill, I had the baby one for a while. The k50 is a good machine. They don't fetch huge money. Saelen seem popular second hand in France especially.
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Sweet arb train! Looks the part. What is the capacity of the trailer? ie. will it take a whole days chipping?!
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Yeah. Obviously! It's written on the plate in the picture. Clearly my humour is lost on you. No worries. .. and before I get a lecture on weight limits and licences I'm in a different jurisdiction so you wont get any driving lessons out of me!
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As an owner of said older type hilux I can confirm that they are well capable of a train weight of 7000kg, now what's all this stuff about uprating?! But as I am not considering parting with it for some time yet, this is of interest to me. Thanks for posting it mr git!
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You break it, you buy it. List price for new. If you wrote off his digger would he be happy if you paid for a set of buckets and a track for his new one? If you're teaching someone a lesson teach it once and teach it well.
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I started out with a push mower at thirteen but had a splitter and saw from about 22..It bought me nearly everything I have today (plus a lot of graft and keeping overheads as low as possible) got myself a processor last year. Paid for it up front, mostly log sales, hiring it alone brings in a decent few quid, it's basically free when it's there in the yard for my own use. The bought in softwood has a low margin but the free timber brought back off site is all profit really! Still need the splitter for the awkward lumps though. I wouldn't be going into firewood as a standalone business unless I had some access to timber either below market value (own wood or arb arisings) or in large volumes (own big wood or 1000 ton plus buying ability)
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Been milling with a 660 on a 42 inch bar for a good few years now. It does the job but its stressful on the saw. I'd go 880 if the option presented itself.
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Small bit of beech for a friend, gone a bit soft around the edges but some good bits left. The 660 ate it. 9 planks. 1 tank of motion lotion. 40 mins from screwing on the ladder for the first cut to back inside with my feet up! It's a hard life.
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Neatest looking building site I've seen in a while.
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Stunning.
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Theres a dealer not too far from me, I had a look at one before but decided to keep my money in my pocket. Couldn't find any fault with the machine as such.. was just wary of a new brand. From what I say they are well made.
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Sounds like my 125. When its parked up it looks like it's been vandalised.
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I think newer kubota and wacker neusons have good flow. Lgp Eddie is your man for such questions! He has the experience. If you're never going to use it on roads or paved areas I'd say steel.. If you're going for an older machine check it has two way flow for a grab, not just single flow and return for a breaker.
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As Matthew says, something around the 5 ton mark, capability to handle heavy logs but tidy enough to not damage surrounding trees and cause unnecessary compaction. A 3 ton will do a lot on level ground but slopes will challenge it, as will uneven ground. Tb145 is a good machine, but I'm biased towards takeuchi. Whatever you get, if you're in forestry the whole time do seriously consider marguard or some sort of guarding over the glass.
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My hydraulic thumb on a tb125. Narrower than a proper hydraulic grapple. it's easy to cut the log between the tines once you are careful not to cut right through and hit the bucket. Drop the last two logs three quarters cut and finish on the ground.. its welded to mine but cant see why it couldn't be clamped on with bolts. might work for you. It's all about matching the geometry of the bucket/hitch to the grab. That same grab possibly wouldn't work so well on another machine.
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Only because I have some nuggets in my pocket! He regularly disappears off into the woods and bogland at ours but he usually returns half an hour later covered in muck with an expectation of being fed immediately. I would never have chosen a beagle myself, my better half got him. I couldn't be without him now though! Great dogs.
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Standard farmer spec saw there!
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Branch manager made a site visit. Meanwhile, the beagle did beagle stuff.
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I think most valtras have a legendary ability to clock up huge hours, a local contractor to me has a t130 with 22k on it, always has young lads trashing it with slurry tankers and silage trailers and it's still got all it's original running gear! I would agree with Stephen that visual appearance bears no resemblance to mechanical performance. I would much rather see an "honest" machine than a freshly painted one. Don't be fooled by small hours either, most clocks can be turned back easily and cheaply. I would look under the bonnet though! (Says the guy who buys most of his gear off pictures on the internet, no horror stories yet either!) If you keep holding out for a perfect machine you may never get it. Every machine has its quirks and flaws once it reaches a certain age! I would trust Wilson's too. Decent folk.
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Used to have them come into the porch of a rental house, line of salt across the inside of the back door soon slowed them down.
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Have a look for a second hand branson. Korean made and uncomplicated, no kubota but well up to the job for occasional users. Iseki are good too.. there are some gems or older compacts out there if you can find them.
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Eggs. The adult brandling is a very prolific egg producer, each egg cluster can have up to 20 worms hatch and with 3 to 4 clusters a week and a very short period between hatchlings emerging and being able to reproduce (4 to 6 weeks if memory serves me correctly, slower in winter) it's not a surprise they are so widespread. Your logs hit the ground, an egg cluster sticks to the log, or a bit of chip, or your shoe, you bring that back to your yard and given the right conditions you will have a colony of worms in a matter of a few weeks. Their eggs can survive low temperatures and dry spells (to an extent) and hatch when conditions are more suitable.
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It's obvious, they worm their way in.. I'm sorry. I cant help myself. Might seem a tight squeeze to us, but ridges in the concrete and bark, sawchip etc on the logs leaves gaps enough for them to fit, I guess.
