madmatt

There will allways be that scenario though I suppose. I have delt with a couple of badish accidents as a first aider, However if I have the accident and I start to bleed I'll be out cold on the floor! Can handle seeing other peoples blood just not my own LOL!

The above post wasn't a personal critiscisum to you. I was only wondering. Matt

so out of five replies regarding what first aid quals are out there only 1 poster commented on Emergency plans? is that because they are non existant in most cases or just taken for granted?

Childrens Trust got my vote.

I was waiting for your reply! LOL! you want to see the Environment Agency's! I'm just wondering how many small firms issue them to their lads? I'm not a huge paperwork fan mine are just dead basic take 3-4mins to complete but give who ever is with me a step by step guide if there is an accident on site.

So do any of you have emergency plans with your job sheet? from your employers, Or do you supply them to your employees?

If you have air actuated brakes fitted to a defender and trailer then yep you can tow a trailer grossing 4 ton. I still don't think you could tow the forestry trailer in the above post, I don't think it would meet construction and use regs. Its designed to be towed behind a tractor so tyres are unlikely to be speed rated high enough and it probably won't have suitable suspension to be towed at speed behind a land rover. Oh and a quick look at LR's spec list tells you are brakes on a defender are a 4grand optional extra!! That buy's me a fairly usefull Tractor LOL! Jonathon, Glad you like the Duratorque, don't take my comments the wrong way, there is just a lot about the 07 Defender I don't like that puts me off, every time my neighbour comes home in his, I think the bloody pikeys are coming his sounds just like a transit! I just bought the winch, PTO, Pump and valve block off Alfred Murray, I didn't have any hoses or the little tanks he offered me. I took what he supplied to my local HYD expert andluckily the valve they'd supplied was bankable, I.e you could unbolt and add a slice to give you more outputs from the valve block. This is what we did to achieve an auxilery circuit. Thats how you'd run a splitter uf that makes sense? I think you would need to check the size of tanks with an independant HYd engineer as winches tend to use fairly small tanks and splitters tend to have large ish rams. If you are after an occasional use Hyd winch thats slim line and discreet I can't fault the milemarker but I wish I'd gone for the larger drummed Superwinch now. Good Luck with your project

Ok in light of Vdubs post the other day about his mates accident I wondered, How many of you hold first aid certificates and what types? Have you attended any of the following, First aid at work 4day course Appointed person 1 day Serious injury first aid 1 day to supplement one of the above, I've done all three over the years due mainly to previous employers paying for them, It also set me thinking how many of you send your lads/lasses out with an emergency plan attached to the job sheet? I.e local hospital details, the OS grid referance of the site they are working etc? And lastly I know a lot of you are employers so how many of you insist your employees have first aid tickets? I'm afraid I won't consider anyone working for me if they haven't got a first aid ticket. If i get to employing staff full time this is the first course I'll send them on.. Just interested in how other folks see it and what they reckon.

See I wasn't kidding:) LOL! Thought about trading the rover in for an ark in june/july time! What LRO?!!! Now you really are pulling my leg! there a right bunch of muppets!! I'll stay over here thanks!

I was Working for the Environment Agency this last Summer so Every other day!! LOL

That would mean working out what its all cost and to be perfectly honest I daren't!

I've drive lots of TD5's I know they can be reliable now, but even the oldest TD5 is young in land rover terms. Its what there like at 15 years old that worry's me that and driving through very deep water with the ECU in the seat box under the drivers seat. Coupled to the fact It needs land roversvtest book software to talk to it naturally m,akes servicing/repair costs higher The TD5 also seems to have quite a turbo Lag though it can be chipped out of that little problem! I'm not knocking it just saying its not the engine for me. The 6 speed box is nice but would have been better coupked to a TDV6 but that would have ment mega engine bay re-design and poor likkle Land Rover couldn't get its head around that!

Yes sorry its been along afternoon of accounts! but you knew what I ment LOL!

You couldn't legally run that behind a Land Rover it doesn't have any brakes and the trailer running gear won't be upto the sort of speed mentioned above. If your using a landy like this for towing for business use it needs a tacho anyway (work in progeress!) When I suggested a Hiab on the Ifor it was more for shifting the odd heavy lump of timber or heavy implements than for extraction.

This all seems to be getting a little agressive for a saturday afternnon! anyway having gone back through the whole thread I don't seem to have had an oppinion! so here goes. I was at Demo day the EA had a while ago the world and his wife bought chippers to demo that day. Pete included. At the time I was very impressed by the Greenmechs. As I was also the Timberwolf. If I was going to buy one for myself, which I won't be for a long while to come I think I'd approach TW and Greenmech for prices/demo and go from their. You'll see in th thread about my truck I drag a TW occasionally the only reason for this is its avaliable to hire locally at a very reasonable rate. I've used a Jenson 10" track machine, the chipper I can not fault it would eat anything and build quality is very good but if I was spending 27k on a tracked chipper I'd want a pump for each track!

Lol!! I know what you mean! I want to put a Hiab on the ifor williams and run it off the PTO!

Drove one last week, it pulls low down better than a TD5 but I'd still sooner have a 300TDI just to avoid that bloody bulge in the bonnet! Seriously though ford had many problems with this engine in its early days so I'm not holding my breath!

Not strictly true! The Disco 3 and Range Rover are built on british production lines. The engines in these are very good to.

There's no doubt they have flaws, its a shame Land rover can't get there heads around proper tight fitting doors and sound proofing. I do like the complete lack of air con, electric windows, sunroofs etc as I just think its more to go wrong in years to come. the new defender has a 6 speed box this should have been brought in 15 years ago! In my opinion there is now't wrong with the engines up until TD5, 200/300TDI's are good reliable hard working units. Thanks for all the comments folks.

Its not that hard, you unbolt the PTO cover and bolt on the PTo unit with the pump attached. then drill a hole in the seat box to pass the PTO lever into the cab. I think when i bought it the PTO and pump cost 295+vat. I bought it from http://www.4x4winches.com/index.php?page=products.htm then of course you need a tank, valves and hoses. what you thinking of powering?

What details would you like? There is a PTO drive fitted as standard to a defender gear box, I bought a pump and fitting kit from maxi drive. I then bought the winch as a kit and bought an extra slice for the standard valve block which allowed the auxilery circuit to be fitted. all hoses etc were made up by my friend. The hydraulic tank was second hand. I forgot to mention earlier I also have a concrete breaker and hydraulic drive drill that run off the Auxilary circuit.

thanks for the comments on the motor as Kev frequested there is now a post here http://www.arbtalk.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8227#post8227 so can we stop hijacking bills thread and use the one above for LR stuff Cheers Matt

I must also point out this land rover build hasn't been no expensre spared its been a hard slog that would not have beenpossible without my friend the Agricultural engineer or my mate that works at the local auto electricians both have worked for favours, logs, small amounts of cash and just the buzz of seeing pride in their work.

Due to the lack of rear vision a reversing camera was fitted with a monitor installed in the cab and of course all the switching for the oh so many lights. Then came the greedy boards, again made by my friend who has an agricultural engineering business I'll add another post to the thread just showing general pics of the motor it will hopefully give you an idea of how its evolved over its 3 years with me. the next project is to make the rear body into a tipper so watch this space. Right I feel I need to explain why I choose a Land Rover as a lot of people are very anti LR and allways imply I'm a fan thats why I chose it! well thats not strictly true. I wanted a vehicle that grossed at 3.5 tonnes was four wheel drive and could legally tow 3.5 tonnes. I'd tried japanese pick ups not one could gross at the required weight, niether can they tow the same amount. Towing is a large part of the old girls job not just a chipper but a huge ifor loaded with logs or a mini digger. The land rover is also permanent four wheel drive allowing lowbox to be selected for reversing heavy trailers without the tyre scrub the jap pickups get when their front free wheeling hubs are engaged. The engine is a 300tdi it's easily maintained there is no engine management systems to worry about. It is more refined than the older LR models so is quieter and I can happily chat to a pasenger while hammering down the motorway at 70. I appreciate Land Rovers get a bad press for reliability and that can be true for newer models, however the key to reliablility of some thing the age of mine is maintenance! It works bloody hard so its serviced every six thousand miles by the local independant expert. Depreciation is almost non existant on a Defender of this age if its looked after and well maintained. thats hard to achieve with a japanese pick up. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask I'll do my best to answer them. right one last post with some general pics on its way!

Morning folks, Ok a lot of people have asked questions about my Landy and what its used for etc etc. Kev even asked for a dedicated thread so here goes! Steve sorry if its on the wrong board wasn't sure where to put it! Right I bought the 130 on October the 4th 2004 from G&S Drake in wakefield (Highly recommended) and it looked something like this, I knew instantly the box body was coming off the back as I hate the dam things. Cash was short so a mate offered me the pick up tub off his old 110 hi-capacity for little cash. So I bought that and ran round with a gap between the cab and pick up for many months. I should point out at this stage I've misplaced the disc with all the constructing pics on so will update post if I find it. After about 6 months the same friend started to make the tool box that fits between the pick up and cab its full width with roller shutter doors. I then ply lined the box and made the pull out draws etc. Then came the Hydraulic project. i wanted to run a Log splitter, I didn't have a tractor so decided to fit a hydraulic pump driven by the PTO on the Lnad Rovers Transfer Box. This gave me the advantage of also being able to fit a hydraulic winch, which for commercial work is much more reliable than the 12volt electric winches. The log splitter isn't huge but you'd be suprised by what it will split. There is a toolbox running the full length of one side of the pick up tub it does reduce load space but the front half houses the hydraulic tank and all the valves etc. the rear half is accesible through the tailgate and is handy for the storage of axes, felling levers and the pull out vice which is so handy for saw maintenance on site. Then of course there is all the lights! land rover head lights are known for being shocking which is why I fitted the huge spots to the A bar. I've also re-wired the headlights through relays straight off the battery through relays which is a vast improvement. I used to work for the rigts of way department and used to spend a lot of time putting out traffic management to allow roadside working, now of course I still get roadside working on tree jobs so the hazard markings and amber beacons are still used.