Running older mogs

[Stephen Blair]

The round cabs are amazing, forget all the bla bla bla about spares and costs, who cares.  I can close my eyes and take myself  right back to sitting in my little U900, the engine noise, the feel of the engine right beside me, I can do this with every machine I’ve ever owned, I’d easily have half a million quid in the bank by now if I just cut trees and didn’t have a love for machinery but where’s the passion in that.  It’s the whole story of vehicles.  It’s like watching a Top Gear adventure.  The drive to get it, the meeting of others, the excitement of paying, funding, scraping together what you need to buy it, selling of stuff you don’t need, the breaking down, the bits you hate about them when you first start driving them but by the end up, you know every quirk to start, to open a door, the gear that’s not happy changing down into but it’s all part of it.  If you love that kind of life, buy a mog and Landy and have this job of cutting trees to pay for it.  Cook bacon once on the silencer of a mog in a field or wood with your mate at work and a dog running about , that’s heaven right there guys!  

[AHPP]

@markieg31
 

I’m not sure I’ve banged on about this recently but the way to build vans is internal combustion front wheel drive and electric rear wheel drive. Low load area floor, three wheel drive with effectively any degree of diff locking/slip on the back you like, electromagnetic braking. You could even make the rears steer since they’d only need articulation and not transmission. Hybrid clean in tight quarters and shunting about on electricity and internal combustion for full days’ working. Modern vehicles are already complicated and unreliable. Might as well make them good in the intervening moments. 
 

Fair enough about the cost of a round cab mog. That is actually a reasonable way for you to get low range. 

Edited 6 hours ago by AHPP

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

@markieg31
 

I’m not sure I’ve banged on about this recently but the way to build vans is internal combustion front wheel drive and electric rear wheel drive. Low load area floor, three wheel drive with effectively any degree of diff locking/slip on the back you like, electromagnetic braking. You could even make the rears steer since they’d only need articulation and not transmission. Hybrid clean in tight quarters and shunting about on electricity and internal combustion for full days’ working. Modern vehicles are already complicated and unreliable. Might as well make them good in the intervening moments. 
 

Fair enough about the cost of a round cab mog. That is actually a reasonable way for you to get low range. 

Didn't one of the citroen vans do that, basically a c5 hybrid platform, engine driven front wheels and electrci back? He who mustn't be mentioned would know.

[AHPP]

Don’t know. Who mustn’t be mentioned? You can mention them once I’m sure. In fact you must!

[markieg31]

I always am concerned about the front wheel drive vans getting traction whilst towing up hills. 

 

Yeah I run a lot of older kit, the more regularly used saws are reasonably up to date but the van chipper and even my ms660 all date to the mid 00's. 

Van is giving me a bit of a headache as it is low power mode, not limp mode. Tractor from late 80's is in the workshop with engine trouble, need some time to investigate further.

 

Will likely be buying a replacement loader tractor as the DB1490 is a bit tired and 2wd, that's if I fix it up and get it running again, so any thoughts of a mog may be on the back burner. 

I will keep an eye out for a project that may be in my budget price bracket. In the meantime time I will soldier on with my aging set up. 

 

 

[openspaceman]

51 minutes ago, markieg31 said:

I always am concerned about the front wheel drive vans getting traction whilst towing up hills. 

Twelve years ago the firm issued a 5 year old Movano to a gang around North Birmingham to carry their gear and  pull a  safetrak on a trailer. I was amazed how they managed, especially considering the miles they did. It must have been interesting pulling away in the wet.

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

Don’t know. Who mustn’t be mentioned? You can mention them once I’m sure. In fact you must!

A big man

[AHPP]

35 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

A big man

THE big man?