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    Advice please! Haulotte 5533a (Should I buy?)

    Curiosity won out for me, borrowed an ATV and tried to move my pontoon boat, right around 4000 lbs on the trailer. Great way to tear up the lawn. Would not move up a little hump, not a chance on a "real hill".
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    How to secure your jobsite

    Anyone else considered(dreaming, I know) a portable electric fence? One of my friends that does show horses has a unit she sets up for temporary paddocks. Just asked, Gallagher Smart Fence. Holder and crank, 320 feet of line, can add extra posts as needed. No counting for peoples...
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    Advice please! Haulotte 5533a (Should I buy?)

    Didn't even look at the location, yep, quoting American $$. I did a quick search under the model # and quoted the first dealer price found. Ebay store, of course, lol. Real dealership, or at least appears so...
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    Advice please! Haulotte 5533a (Should I buy?)

    ATV isn't a bad idea, esp if you already have one. Does add in some other questions, such as how will you move everything? You're going to need to bring the atv with, meaning another truck and/or trailer. ATV isn't that useful on the job for anything else, better off buying a moving trailer...
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    Advice please! Haulotte 5533a (Should I buy?)

    How old is the unit and how many hours are on it? I've rented the exact model before. Not bad from a property management perspective, I would not like to try and maneuver one for a tree job. 30k seems expensive unless it's lightly used; brand new from a dealer the 5533 is running in the 40-45...
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    .05 bar for Milwaukee M18?

    I've never dealt with strawberry guava, but I do deal with buckthorn. Springy crap, makes great old timey switches. We usually wound up switching to sawzalls in the dense thickets. How big of a pile do you have? Land clearing job I did a couple years ago, 25 acres cleared, our slash pile was...
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    Milwaukee have plans for top-handle battery saw?

    Ever seen the teardown videos of the Milwaukee saw? It would be amazingly easy for them to make a top handled version. All the insides could be the same. Found the video I was looking for. 15:44 in the video shows a great cross section of the saw housing. Attached the screen grab. Move...
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    Another aerial friction rigging device?

    I've always wanted to see a smaller version of something like this, perhaps with a smaller hydraulic flywheel rather than the fan cage. https://www.aerialadventuretech.com/collections/powerfan-free-fall-devices/products/dropzone-powerfan-free-fall-device-pf13
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    Subcontracting Spider Lift Rate

    Nice looking setup. Kinda curious, what's the weight of trailer with the lift? Been looking at lifts for a while, haven't bit the bullet yet. Intrigued by the flatbed/lift combo, but will probably still go normal truck with trailer et al.
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    New Line setter tool

    If you're going to attach magnets, I would definitely suggest casting or drilling the cavity and epoxying in the magnet. You might run into some issues with the magnets if you try and cast them in the aluminium. Science experiment in HS, most common magnets will demagnetize after prolonged...
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    Glued splices

    I'm sure a glued splice is within reach currently. A few years back I was given a sample of a 2 part adhesive that was being developed to hang scaffolding in high corrosion environments. Wound up using it to fix a retaining wall, in the process accidentally gluing a sledgehammer to the...
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    Driving auger bits?

    I can't really provide concrete numbers, but there's quite the difference between sustained torque and impact torque. Let's use my winch analogy again, adding that the axle be prevented from moving in reverse. An impact would be equivalent to tapping on the winch handle with a hammer, up to...
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    Driving auger bits?

    The super Hawg mechanical clutch is only on the low speed setting. I speak from experience. 2 1/2" hole saw bound up when I left it on high and bruised my shin. Curious as to how the SHH works with the Auger bits compared to the linesmans impact. Might have to run some comparisons in May...
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    Driving auger bits?

    If you're going to be doing a lot of cabling, I have 3 different directions I might suggest as far as cutting. First off, Felco and some of the other companies do make cutters capable of shearing nearly an inch thick wire rope. Crescent HK Porter has a ratcheting version of the 8690 that'll...
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    Driving auger bits?

    I'll put in my vote for Milwaukee tools. The aforementioned Hole Hawg and Super Hole Hawg would both be good choices. Super has an integrated mechanical clutch at low speed. Not sure it's worth it for an auger bit, feature always gets brought up when talking about giant hole saws, like...
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    First responders dropping trees

    Wonder if he was still using the same chain they use for venting the roof? Carbide cutters, look more like the ISC concrete chains than what we're used to for wood.
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    OMG, strange climbing contraption. Tree bike?

    Ditch the pedals and hook in a hole hawg instead. From how he's pedaling, the gear ratio must be pretty high, I think it would take well to power.
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    PTO chippers

    I love the Mercedes Benz Unimog. If only they'd sell the new ones here in the US. All we can get are the old refurbished ones that are old enough to pass the import age restrictions(wanna say 20 years +). Fully mechanical PTO, rather than hydraulic. The 'mog has a lot in common with a farm...
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    Lithium powered saws?

    I watched the teardown video someone posted on here regarding the Milwaukee vs DeWalt chainsaws recently, it would be a simple matter for Milwaukee to change the case molding and make a top handle version of the M18 chainsaw. move the battery compartment down to the bottom, rather than the...
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    Lithium powered saws?

    I've thought about this before as well. I have a set of the B&D Alligator lopper chainsaw(takes 2 hands on the paddles to start, great "saw" to pass my 10 year old when reducing the brush pile). I've envisioned a beefed up version of this with a gauntlet style grip. Possibly keeping the jaw...

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