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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:57 pm
by Forestboy1978
Been using a breaker and occasionally a farming jack with some adaptions. Not good enough. I want a proper puller. Looked online and they are asking £1800 for them. It's a very handy piece of kit but it's only a hydraulic jack welded to a frame on wheels.
In the states you can get them for $800 - £600 give or take. Tempted to check out shipping and pay the import tax. Still be £800+ cheaper than over here.
Anyone know anyone selling second hand?
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:27 pm
by dig dug dan
i have one, and may well be uprgrading to the £1800 one you have seen, but not till later in the year.
The uk one, by steve hawthornthwaite, is in fact based on the american one, but beefed up and made much better. You could import one, but by the time you pay all the fees and taxes, you may be left with a machine that you cannot buy spares for at the same price as the uk one.
What i would say is, mine is one of the best purchases i have ever made. I even use it on small stumps and shrubs!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:39 pm
by Forestboy1978
Hmmmm
Yeah I balked when the guy on the phone said they were £1800. He did admit that they were "over engineered" He felt they didn't need to be as heavy duty as they had been built but that they seriously would never break in a lifetime.
I've got a few serious fence jobs in the pipeline. This machine would save me a LOT of hard work, I may have to find the cash somehow or max out the old credit card.
Out of interest, how do you go about pulling out stumps with yours? Do you screw a plate of some description into them with an eyelet or something or other?
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:49 pm
by dig dug dan
its well worth the money if you can stretch. It comes with the claw attachment for broken posts.
For stumps, i either just wrap the supplied chain round it a couple of times, or i have a smaller chain with an eye on the end, that i pull with, so i wrap one end of the chain through the eye so it pulls tight as you pull with the puller.
Next time i use it, i will get a vid for you
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:51 pm
by Forestboy1978
Nice one thanks a lot.
I'm not sure I can afford it but I'm working on a way. My bro can't so I'll have to stump up all the cash myself temporarily so it's tight as hell as I'm moving too but I'm thinking out of the box for it.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 5:59 pm
by Forestboy1978
I'm just waiting on a reply on a 50 meter fence removal and re-installation. It'll be my biggest so far if I get it and I'll be hiring a post puller. Can't afford it just yet.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:56 pm
by lutonlagerlout
50m isnt that a 2 day job for fencers?
post pullers etc handy if you have room
but most blokes i know just use a grafter and occasional kango ?
LLL
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:07 pm
by Forestboy1978
No chance. It's a day at least just to remove all the old fence and posts for 2 guys (without a post puller)
Besides it's scarfed arris rails into mortaced posts, 2 gates a 3 way fence all backed onto a connifer hedge on a ridge. 1500+ nails alone to be gunned in. 3/4 ton of post crete.
2 days....
:p
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:13 pm
by Forestboy1978
Blank canvas, every tool imaginable, def a 2 man auger, 12 ft bays straight line, no roots, no gates and messing around 50m is well doable though in 2 days! Not this one!
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:39 pm
by lutonlagerlout
I have seen our bloke do 40m conc posts ,conc gravel boards ,3 arris rails and close boarded in a day and a half including removing old
lately he did 28m (lots of trees old concrete etc ) same morticed posts etc and was done by 3 on the same day
Have to say though he is easily the fastest fencer i have seen
always uses post crete
and always hammers nails by hand ???
http://www.marknasebyfencing.co.uk/index.html
cheers
LLL
PS pulling your leg forest different jobs different sites all add up to different timescales
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:27 pm
by Forestboy1978
I know you were. Still, caused a self evaluation.
Your fencing dude sounds out of this world
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:14 pm
by lutonlagerlout
he earns good money at it but his prices are still way below anyone else
hes been at it all his life really and is on top of the game
I thought I was ok at fencing but i reckon he is 3 times quicker than me
LLL
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:33 pm
by Forestboy1978
Yeah I don't do them day in day out either. Wish I did though, they're not the hardest work in the work but they pay well. We seem to beat most other quotes and earn OK. Though I'm now thinking I've screwed this last quote up.
Also, a rethink. Perhaps a better breaker is the more versatile and economical option!
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:51 pm
by michaelthegardener
cant see how it would be worth it if you don't do fencing full time myself I did 18 5 foot panels in a day on my own once dunno how many m that is ......:p 
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:16 am
by lutonlagerlout
18 times 1.8 =32.4m
it can be done
but not on every job
if you were doing fields a post puller might be worth it but for domestic stuff i reckon a half decent breaker works
enter the titan
LLL