Mark lanark

Thanks for the replies, the machines capacity for oil is 65ltr and I’ve put in just over that, still a couple of inches or so from top of tank. I didn’t change filters (I know it sounds mad) but I was under pressure to have machine back on the road and I couldn’t get a filter for a few days, thought I’d just change oil and get it back working and do a full service later when machines not needed as much. if it is an air lock what’s the best bet to clear? Remove hose at each ram and run through? the fact that I’m getting no noise change when using joy sticks I was wondering if it was something more serious like pressure relief valve jot sending fluid to the rams and just circulating it . Again.. I don’t know much so might be talking rubbish. Cheers

Hi folks, I have owned an old kubota kh66 2.8t digger for past couple of months, I had the dipper ram fail and I replaced and had the machine working for a couple of hours, I then replaced the hydraulic oil as the tank was very low, drained it out the tank, cleaned out tank then re filled the tank and now when I start up I have no hydraulics working. I took the hose off to dipper ram and then I operate that, the fluid does come though but next to no pressure, also when I go to work the joysticks there’s no dip in revs or noise like it normally does like under load as it would be when normally operating. I’ve cracked the 3 nuts (bleed valves I assume) on top of the pump an there is fluid running out when engine switched off. Any ideas of anything I’ve missed or should be doing. first time owner of plant so learning as I go. Many thanks, mark

Exactly, planted plenty to offset any removals over the last year so won’t feel too bad. Any idea how old your reckon at a glance? Thanks again!

We jut bought the place last year and have checked through most of the other trees and all look fairly safe this being the only overly rotten one, it actually stood up through all the recent storms, Sod’s law it will keel over any time now.

I assumed so with the depth of the hollow internally. Best to get down asap then before kids are out and bout under any potential drop zone.. cheers

Hi there, posted a couple of times before and always been really grateful for advice, own about 3 acres of old farm land with a few trees dotted around here and there. Mainly old beach and a few other species. I have this (ash I think) and it’s very hollow rotten looking, our kids play in this area and don’t want to have a particularly dangerous tree overhead. To me it looks like it needs to go but just looking for confirmation. Many thanks, mark

Thanks, yes multiple stems, quite hollow and more fragile than a normal tree stem. Thanks for your help

Can anyone give me a heads up on what this is? It seems quite hollow stemmed? Wasn’t sure if it was more a weed than a tree? Sorry if it’s a basic one. New land owner and Still learning . thanks a lot. Mark

Thanks Paul, “unfortunately” I’m in central Scotland in wet ground and it’s not been that dry recently, we had snow 2 nights ago, this time last year at the start of lockdown we had 7 weeks of almost completely dry scorching weather, not this year unfortunately.

Thanks for your reply. We did have a few night of minus temps, I take it they will recover with new growth?

Looking to see if anyone can help id the problem with these Lylandii I planted back in feb. All doing well (approx 200) apart from a few starting to go like this photo? Anything I can do to stop it progressing etc. Many thanks. Mark

Thanks for all the advice, I totally agree I’m best off having a lot more then I think il need, I stopped building the crates after the 4th and went and bought a roll of stock fencing mesh and made some cages on top of pallets. Filled one this eve. Should be a lot more airflow through these than the pallet sides!! Il put a roof over top of each stack to keep the worst of the rain off. We get really strong winds here so shouldn’t have a problem with airflow now.

Very neat! Agree about chalking stacking date, great idea ! Cheers

Cheers, I’d happily stack if they were more regularised sizes, but it’s arb waste I’ve acquired and the rings I got are all different thicknesses etc and don’t stack very well, very unstable. Trying to reduce the handling too but don’t want to take double the time to season just to benefit one less handling process. Happy to try different options.

Made these up to get started, il keep adding as I get pallets and cover the tops, as I mentioned, it’s an exposed area so hopefully won’t face any issue with airflow. Hopefully season quicker then the way I had them piled in before!