Peter
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Only 72 hours? Imagine what you could do full time.
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Armillaria tabescens?
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The wheel isn't square, it's a parallelogram. Therefore one opposite pair of teeth protrudes further from the centre of rotation than the other pair. Those are the leading teeth. Measure the clearance between the teeth and the wheel housing to work out which are which.
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Not like they are on the equivalent petrol models. The battery ones have a motor at the business end, rather than a gearbox and driveshaft.
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Maybe for the ultimate in back garden machines, the cutting head should detach from the rest of the machine so you can wheel it in on its own. Just need some really long hoses to power it.
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Similar to this. http://m.hydraulicspneumatics.com/200/TechZone/FittingsCouplin/Article/False/86392/TechZone-FittingsCouplin Some newer tractors have them as standard.
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The all in one type fittings with the big lever should be better for this, anyone used one?
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Apta Gatling gun?
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The more rain you get the quicker it drives the water out.
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I just leave mine uncovered and let the rain drive the moisture out naturally.
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That's what my new cranes got. You'd need a few more levers to run the grab and rotator though.
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Nice one John, cheers for that.
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Aspen should be able to tell you which standard it conforms to?
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What is the spec on the frt oil then? Aspen website just says fully synthetic.
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Thanks.
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That's what I've been using, however I understand the oil used in aspen 2 is not as good as the top spec synthetic husqvarna or redline oil.
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There are other options, have you looked at terex/woodsman, morbark (dealer in Holland), or importing a conehead from the states?
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As much as I like the idea of aspen 4 plus redline, I buy aspen in 200l drums. I'd need 8.5 of those little bottles which would cost £110 just for the oil. Does anyone in the U.K. Stock the gallon bottles of oil? In the us those are $85 which is on a par with Husqvarna fully synthetic.
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Looks smart, did it take long to fill that Ranger?
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It's getter harder to do, especially on high end cars. The ecu is sometimes filled with glue, ostensibly to weatherproof it. One model was so hard to split there was a 90% failure rate. The hack is to heat the whole unit on a hot plate to melt the glue, not something I fancy doing tbh. Even once you're in there's no easy way of connecting the ecu to a laptop, you have to connect directly into the pcb. I've only done one but it was a really interesting process. It's just like tree work, you're not paying for time so much as experience and knowledge. If it was that easy everyone would be doing it.
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Yeah it's a bit like cutting trees, money for nothing and your chips for free. Investment in hardware probably around £1500. It takes at least an hour to split the ecu, download the map, upload it, have the new map written, download that to your laptop and then upload it to the ecu, and put it back together. Significantly longer if the ecu needs heating to split. Plus you still have to pay for the rewritten map, the investment required to write your own maps is on another level altogether. I would say £200 is a bit too cheap, and wonder what exactly you get. I certainly couldn't afford to send my ecu away by post. I use Quantum Tuning, think they say £350 plus, although my mechanic does me a very good deal. The results are very good on Diesel engines, although bear in mind you only get more power by burning more fuel.
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As above, towing a bigger trailer means you lose weight off the gvw. The max towing weight is just a manufacturer recommendation, theoretically you could tow a 3.5 tonne trailer as long as you kept the vehicle weight at 2250kg, but I wouldn't recommend it and neither do Ford.
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If you get pulled and weighed roadside you're going to be stuck for hours while you argue that one. Much simpler if you can just stick to what the plate says.
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It is, but your are still limited by the MAM of the vehicle and trailer. Ideally you want a truck plated at 7 tonnes. My Navara is plated at 3200 and 6200 kg, so if I tow a 3500kg trailer I lose 500kg from my vehicle MAM, which might be the difference between being able to carry passengers and tools.
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A grinder on an 8T machine is only going to be productive if you have a separate power pack to run the grinder. Easiest way is dig them out and burn or tub grind.
