Show us yer tractor....

That looks a lot more stable than mine! Nothing scarier that tipping a full load and finding you only have one wheel on the ground..

mini digger to get into the spots the big digger can't...

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one wheel on the ground

Very pro.

Yep yours is bigger than mine! Mine would have been stuck in the middle of the concrete...

That wasn’t what I was saying... there was a lot of swearing. Thank god for the boom to push me back onto stable ground...

Personal fave.

If only because you know that when you tell them what it is, you know what's running through their head: "Spider crane, spider crane. Does whatever a spider can."

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the boom to push me back onto stable ground...

Again, very pro.

I’ll post some pics of our awesome tracked stumpgrinder next week.
35hp, fits through a standard garden gate. Eats through pretty much anything except rebar. Also has a sweet dozer blade on the back.
Yard also boasts telehandler, a few chippers, smaller stumpgrinders and other toys.
Grab truck and spider mewp are next on the shopping list..

"Hello. Acme Plant Hire?

I'd like one of everything please."

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spider mewp

One of these? Nifty!

‘The Colonel’

Lesson #432 - don’t forget the ramps

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So far my favourites are the Ford and the Sanderson lucky @Sam_w has.

Love the Sanderson, so 80s, much boxy, wow. You should look after that. Nice bit on history of the company here:
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/the-digger-blog/view/sanderson-forklifts-gone-but-not-forgotten

I didn't realise they were basically Ford tractors with the seat turned round and the forklift attached.

I had a Britain's Sanderson Loadall when I was young which is probably why they make me feel all warm and fuzzy. In fact I had quite a few Britain's tractors which were essential for any self-respecting tractorhead in the '80s...

By look after it do you mean drive it into trees and things like that?

Currently being used to riddle a load of earth with the digger

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Well it would be a shame not to use it. Did you buy it for the house restoration?

Yeah, well it’s used for both the house build, landscaping the garden and also gets used on the farm, surprising how much use it gets

If a regular punter like me was to phone up Aspen, or Ardent, or someone like that, and ask to hire that green JCB thing, would they actually check I was qualified to operate it?

(I'm just asking for a friend).

Oh one other fact: the telehandler and ford have the same engine in...

No, there's no legally required qualification similar to a driving licence.

Modern plant is very easy to operate, although the scope for getting yourself into significant bother is considerable...

Half a day in a mini-digger will get you up to speed; a telehandler is a bit more challenging due to the size and restricted visibility. "Your friend" would be advised to cut their teeth in an open environment: 4-wheel steering and a boom can get messy fast!

Lesson #432 - don’t forget the ramps

Currently being used to riddle a load of earth with the digger

A* for improvisation, you two!

Just a couple of hundred tonne to go, but slowly filling the first row of gabion baskets

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Invite enjoy watching tractor pulling when in the US, it’s one of the sillier endeavours I’ve seen people engage in.

New Zealand Police has tractor. Unfortunately it is just for promotion events, not epic chases across fields.

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We got a really nice IHC 323 with a mower in the barn.

Claas Columbus combine sound munching through a patch of storm flattened still slightly wet barley.

Pig farmers