Donnie
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Do you guys grease the beam that the splitting head slides up and down with? Not sure if it will get all clogged with bits of bark if I grease it.
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Aye I always thought of making my own tipping trailer or high sided trailer for carting logs about as I've done smaller ones before and whether or not they were registered to the dvla I have no clue. Be mega to make one of those tipping trailers that work off a winch. Edit, a quick look on eBay this morning for tipping trailers and it is mental how much money is in an Ifor!!
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I've made a few bike trailers with them exact ones. Quick weld up and they're perfect. Do you need to then sort out with the DVLA or whatever that it is infact towable on the road after adding this kind of suspension? I know probably not very many people would but just a thought.
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I'm a softwood cutter 5 days a week and I'm going to be selling my 562XP as it's coming out of warranty (it's 10 months old). What is the best way to get sap etc off of it? I usually just scrape it with a combi key and a bit of petrol sometimes.
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This Rock Machinery one is actually not that bad tbh but post some photos anyway. I have no other trailer that is big enough to throw it in. Maybe if things take off I will.
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It is road legal with suspension. The others aren't. I've towed it 200 miles this week mainly just out of testing it and yes, it is a bit bouncing/noisy but the work I want to gain from it, there is no reason to go more than 20-40 miles for it which is mainly back roads for me. 70mph was a test, it handled fine but that was a smooth straight road. I wouldn't do it again.
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Best of both worlds Henry Weston will fit in there perfectly.
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Well done. And it is absolutely useless by the first glance at it! It could be handy for spare bolts etc and what not, I'll see what sheers when I put it through it's places and fill it with spares. @Mark Bolam I'm not banking on this working. Weekend work would be ideal, if it doesn't work then it'll work perfect as a clothes horse in the garage
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For my backy and lighters and can hold a tin of Monster if things are getting a bit hectic. @Mark Bolam tows well behind my Kangoo. Magnetic lights and my plate cable tied on the back she's good to go... gap is too small for a 3ft lightbar thing from Halfords. And the back axle is actually the hydraulic tank. Was splitting beech yesterday big 2 foot odd rounds 10 inch thick and it didn't flinch... slowed right down when using the 4 way head though but I guess that's only for smaller stuff as it says. Limited to 45 mile per hour on the road but I did hit 70 with it to see what she was like and it was grand but wouldn't like to do that all the time as I think it'd wreck it. Will see how the day rate idea goes for weekend stuff but was thinking 220-240 per day for me, saws and splitting. Hopefully get a few wind blown trees to sort. Surely a lot cheaper than most tree surgeons around, or is it too cheap? Lemme know @Mark Bolam
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Splitter has arrived so let's see what comes of it in the next few months. Hopefully a fair bit as a lot of windblow about after sll these storms.
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She has arrived.
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I like the price of that... swivel hook. Gonna give that a google right now. edit. Used them before and they're handy as. Are you better off using dyneema rope on these machinesv? I've heard it can hold a fair amount of weight before breaking
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I've realized even reading all these comments that I know nothing of winches so this will be a learning curve for me. Any links to said winches would be grand. I'm on Google just now and there's absolutely thousands.
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Just accept softwood as well? Probably end up with a bit.
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I'm a forestry cutter and looking to take on my own small jobs taking down hung up trees and wind blow etc. Minimal equipment etc and I'm looking at getting a hand winch. Any advice with using one or what to buy will be very much appreciated. Will be used on the odd day and handy for in the van.
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Aye it's brown and slidey when you walk across it... And compact enough to hold a buried trampoline in 70mph hour winds until the legs snap... 😂 Does anyone know what trees they are on the right hand side of the photo as well? I know it's a bad photo. I'd keen to plant this wildflower stuff and let it be. Something with a bit of color to go with the purple off tree when it blossoms. Wish it'd stick around a lot longer though... RPReplay_Final1703126727.mov
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5 was very much on the cards but I don't want to ruin the cherry tree in my front garden. I think I'll till it and plant the wildflower and see how that goes. When's best to replant this? Any recommendations on a tiller would be handy. It's a small patch of grass yes, but I'd prefer not to break a sweat on my days off. 🤠
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Here's a wee photo. It was grass before. I just want something that looks decent (I don't plan on high traffic) tbh. If youve any photos of the wildflower that'd be grNd
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50/50 on the log thing. What else would you suggest if I were to? Just bark?
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I've a 6x6 ish sized front grass area which I've wrecked by filling it with logs, splitting by hand and then covering up with my daughters trampoline which has since blew away 😂 I need something low maintenance and something that looks good. I've been told about this as you don't need to cut it that often. Low Growing Wildflower Seeds 80/20 - Landlife Wildflower WWW.WILDFLOWER.CO.UK Buy Low Growing Wildflower Meadow Seeds Mix online from Landlife Wildflowers, the wildflower experts. We grow and supply... Has anyone used this before?
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Can't get a year out of them. 4 of us run them at work and they're never out the shop getting full rebuilds. Great to use though Edit. We do use them really hard in brashing, felling oversize sitka etc. Again not knocking the saw or the brand as all I use is 5 series. My 62 is in for warranty work as we speak, running badly. Won't rev high and dies in the cut but had others with the same problem and they don't really know how to sort it so they just rebuild the whole thing. Can't complain really, perfect for us as they do it all under the 2 year warranty. Major selling point for me over a Stihl. Had my 572 rebuilt after 8 months as well, fully seized but I'd put that down to me limiter bashing it all day when I'd first started and not had a clue what I was doing... (still don't) Here's a tree (been many like it) that I've done with the 62/18 inch bar.
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Bit of a cold one this week, -10 most mornings. A few photos from the harvester driver. Some not so big outside edge trees pushed in with the John Deere, away from a phone line to a house in the middle of the wood.
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Great saws but bloody hell they are weak. Easily the best out of my Huskys to use though. Light and cuts rapid when sharp. What size of bar is he using? And what kind of work is he doing?
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I'd guess in a few years the UK will have ran out of hardwood by the way things are going...
