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madmatt

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  1. I've just settled one of mine today. It was with one of my regular customers the guys I deal with are great and try and put a large amount of work my way, however their finance office is useless and are forever losing invoices I lost my temper big style on monday sent them a copy of the invoice with a snotty letter to manager of accounts office by recorded delivery, signed for at 10.30am yesterday cheque arrived at 11.00 this am!!
  2. I don't have a favourite chipper. I hire in what suits the task best as does my employer it works for us as we are not chippin every day. I've just read 14 pages of this thread, Steve I get ya point about dealers input but I can honestly say I'll listen to what the likes, of Mike, Mr Ed and Pete B have to say far more than alot of the other rubbish in this thread!
  3. By the sounds of it Lee, the Ranger will be fine for what your expecting it to do. I know of 3 locally one farm raves praise all over theirs. The other two are owned by a council country parks service, they are not so keen but in all honesty they never picked it an accountant did telling them a Landy was too dear. I'm not saying that as an enthusiast but they are asking two much of the ranger and they know it. They struggle to get much more than 17mpg when towing with them too. Probably not relevant in Lee's case but I think these Jap pickups would be much better if the had a centre diff so you can use low box for shunting trailers without the tyre scrub/transmission wind up. If your venturing on to the sticky stuff I'd shod it in some BFG AT tyres. but for towing a sprayer and gentle off roading at 12.5k you can't go wrong and it is pretty much a jap truck.
  4. I agree with you on your situation, I was only commenting on the price differance reflecting the tyres quality/life expectancy.
  5. There is a good reason the Generals are cheaper they don't last as long, never heard of anyone getting more than 55k out of a set. BFG's will return 90-100k
  6. BFG MT! 100,000miles per set and they are only noisy if you don't have a stereo in ya motor!
  7. A split charge system just to charge the battery can be the same as a caravan split charge system and only cost about 40 quid BUT it must have the white plug disconnected when tipping. If not the pump will try and draw current through the circuit as dean says and blow the fuse. i wouldn't bother messing with jump leads they lead to sparks and accidents when people get lazy. if you want to use them spend an extra 20 quid and get anderson sockets on the ends, much better than croc clips.
  8. I favour the HGV method of powering 12/24 volt hydraulic packs. Run a + & - battery cable to the rear of the vehicle to a "Anderson" socket making sure the Positive goes via a master kill switch and a Mega fuse. (thats the name Mega Fuse not just slang!) Then take the battery off your trailer and put a set of longer cables from tipping power pack to meet up with socket on back of vehicle. We've done this and with the appropriate glands and dust covers for when the sockets are not in use we have had years of good service. A lot of the Large plant companys use the same system for running the powerpack for the electric powerpack for ramps on low loaders. Of course when I can afford my own tipper I'll have no power pack and just tip it off PTO Hydraulics on the Ol Landy!:001_smile:
  9. Personally, I'll be sticking with the Hiflex. No other reason than I'm happy with the product, and see no reason to change. :001_smile:
  10. Here we go again!! Mewp Vs No Mewp round 5 ding ding:001_smile:
  11. I thought thats what you'd say Dean. the local big arb contractors for the local CC have a mewp like that but after a "mishap" on an Ifor similar to your trailer they swapped to using a mini digger trailer with out board wheels and a much lower centre of gravity.
  12. Tracked kit like mewps and chippers are fun on side slopes if you don't know what your doing. to be fair unless the chipper is specifically designed to be worked on a side slope they should be avoided. oh and if your driving a chipper up or down a slope you want to be on the top side of the machine its amazing how many numpties stand on the lower side! Dean how does the mewp tow on your trailer?
  13. I'd go along with that if it was one trades man in the last 5 years we have had a new, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and now the living room redesigned and all have been done by different tradesman and they are all as bad as each other!
  14. what narks me more than anything 3 of these people have come from recommendations from other people I can only assume they like living in a tip and find 7-8 weeks acceptable for a new fire place. dean if the money is that important to them you'd think they'd hurry up and finnish so they get paid? I just fail to see their logic!
  15. What is it with other tradesman?! My folks have had a lot of work carried out in the last year or so to our house and no matter how hard they try or who recommends the tradesman we seem to end up with some right muppets. The last one is they decided to have a new fire place to accept the new stove, this project was started on the 1st of july and numpty builder has just informed me it might be finnished by tuesday if we are lucky???!!!!!! my parents have a habit of disapearing on holiday while these projects take place and I'm getting sick of people only turning up to do half hour here half hour there. Why can't people turn up start the job finnish it and leave all in a sensible time. Theyd soon moan if we took seven weeks to take down their little silver birch in the back garden. The construction trade seems to have a high number of muppets in our area at the moment. Rant over!
  16. Turn up in a respectable vehicle one that won't leak all over their nice drive.
  17. wheres that ben? Ashby Folville by any chance?
  18. woops all to easy to do when tracked up hill that way around.
  19. my HD landy is 10 years old and has discs on the rear salisbury axle. Salisbury axles haven't been fitted to land rovers since the TD5 make over. even the Heavy duty ones have rover axles with discs. Discs all round came onto defenders when 300tdi was launched,
  20. how the hell do any of us top that?
  21. A crane wasn't an option due to only being allowed to close one traffic lane. Crane company would have needed complete road clousure not possible 100yds up form main fire station. Reason for MEWP was the guy doing the work wanted it. It was a good decision in Hindsight as it was 28 degrees last sunday and was very hot to be climbing in and I doubt he would have had it all down climbing in the 8hrs we had. Waste of a tree may be but the customer wanted it down, the Local authority were happy with that it had some significant storm damage, so i went. At the end of the day if we hadn't done it some one else would have done. oh and as for it creating a gap come Janyary there will be one huge gap when the whole bit to the left is a new construction site! Yep most of the timber has stayed on site.
  22. sums up most bedfords quite well ED!
  23. We'll be in site at 05.30 in the am fencing mind the nearest neighbour is 150yds away! its a job and knock day to should be home by dinner!
  24. Yep its a bedford TM 15k from here http://www.witham-sv.com/infopage.php?ID=667&Overide=1
  25. Sorry what i should have said was all my tickets are ground based I just don't do take downs thats why I personally didn't do it!

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