- Location
- Hockley Essex
Price per hour for Excavator
- Thread starter powerontheland
- Start date
There's no point! Your better off at home earning nothing, than working hard earning the same, I can see the attraction pay a fortune for the latest Mc Connell spend 2/3 weeks cutting yours, then to help pay for the dam thing go out and undercut everyone ! Brilliant! Or probably go and buy a good second-hand one just cut your own, or get the other man with the cheap latest mc Connell,that's even better.
Back in the early seventies we had 2 mid mounted Turner Hydramowers and we were hedgecutting from the first crops off end of July to early March I loved the job a lot of farms then didn't have hedgecutters work was plentiful and there wasn't much competition,rates were favourable corn was worth more than it is today! And if your tractor broke down you could fix it yourself!! I know what your thinking the good old days!! But they weren't I guess it just seems that way looking back.
- Location
- Hockley Essex
- Location
- N.Yorkshire
Early seventies... Turner Hydramower 15... Hydraulic valves in cab... Noisy cab... No heater... No air con... Maybe no power steering... I agree not so good old days, but it could have been worse, it could have been a rear mounted hydramower with a view through a scratched plastic side window of a flexi cabbed 165...
You said it Ray!! We loved the mid mounted aspect of the Turner good on the neck!! But as these were fitted to a Ford 5000/and 7000 with ballasted rear wheels that were turned out!! You had to have the figure of twiggy to squeeze by the oil tank and door, as the other doorway was out of bounds as the controls would occupy that side coming through the removed lower window, I had several visits to hospital with various injuries caused by wire and cab glass that was shattered on several occasions also showered with oil once,but the worse I remember was a private job one Saturday morning the flail head snatched several meters of chain link fence all wrapped around tight, as I was near home I returned to cut it off choosing to use the gas axe! I remember starting to cut the stuff off but the next I remember was a fellow worker knelt down over me slapping me and shouting that me overhauls were on fire! Apparently this fence was plastic coated and the fumes that were unleashed as the gas axe cut through it caused me to collapse! Luckily the gas axe fell away from me The paths we all tread to where we are are seldom without risk or danger I guess.Early seventies... Turner Hydramower 15... Hydraulic valves in cab... Noisy cab... No heater... No air con... Maybe no power steering... I agree not so good old days, but it could have been worse, it could have been a rear mounted hydramower with a view through a scratched plastic side window of a flexi cabbed 165...
Incidentally we changed the shackle type flails on our Turners to a Fisher Humphries flail we had to have the rotors balanced but these flails were more reliable and tackled several years growth and more importantly they were cheaper to buy!!, for sure things have improved today but we made the best of what was available at that time and its to easy to look back and be critical of the failings for this and that, but I for one am glad to have experienced those times despite the perils??
What crap.
smcapstick
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- Location
- Kirkby Lonsdale
Dog eaten your sandwiches? Ditching's a doddle. You could train an onion to do it.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
+1 nick ditching is a very skilled job to do it right.
Do many on flat land that's when the skilled man comes in.
Ripping it out anyhow is a recipe for a balls up.
Same as levelling a site without a laser level.
And I dare say you've seen builders digging footings nick?