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  1. lots and lots and lots of TD5,s have problems! they are no better or worse than any other land rover engine when it comes to problems they all have good points and they all certainly have bad uns.

     

    as far as limits are concerned I don't care as I never travel much above 55-60 as anything above that is very easy but it just cains fuel consumption!

  2. my mile marker is far from slow running offthe pto, however the build quality is poor and the winch really isn't the best to use day in day out! The man from MM will tell you anything you want to hear if he thinks you will buy one.

     

    A warn 8274 is not a winch for serious arb work.

  3. Ramsey winches are fitted to a lot of rescue tenders for the fire and rescue service so bushey hall must be doing something right. Just please please please dont buy the milemarker and thats coming from a milemarker owner!

  4. I've still got one stuffed in the brambles part finished - it got started about 12 years ago! Mine had mid mounted winch and we were having fitted a large Atlas crane on the rear. Good solid truck in their day. Mine was rated to run on Diesel, Avgas, JetA and I wouldn't be surprised if it would run on creosote as well! The gearboxes were vunerable to theft mind, I had three of the buggers nicked!

     

    As Stevie says, good truck and cheap as well for a capable truck. Hope you get want you want.

     

    Pete,

     

    if your thinging of the one I think you are you may suddenly be feeling a bit older! :lol: I left Ed's twelve years ago and your bedford was hardly touched in the time I was there, so its been up there at least 15 years:scared1: doesn't tim fly eh?

  5. I never had a video wouldn't know how too! There are swome pictures in the My 130 thread in the Large equipment forum,

     

    My 130 has got 8 securileds, 4 vigileads, 3 whelen led units, 4 pole mount beacons and a blaze bar in total!

     

    as regards winning the lottery I used to have friends in high places and was afirm beliver in a favour for a favour sadly thoose days came to an end last year when the reccession hit hard locally!

  6. this vehicle was local to me until a few weeks ago, I am fairly sure the 3050kg is a misprint it would not be the first time i have seen misleading adverts for a landy! It should be more like 4500kg GVW.

     

    The vehicle has had a full rebuild with galv chassis, bulkhead and lots of new panels henec the patchwork quilt effect. The previous owner had to sell before he completed the project he started hence no rear body.

     

    Its now in the hands of a dealer who seems good at picking out telphone number prices!

  7. When I was little I was allowed to play with proper tools and build things with wood and nails with my dad. I was probably younger than your lad Stevie when I had my first cut from a real swiss army knife but I learnt valuable lessons! I was machine mad as a kid but unfortuneatly my Dad didn't run a business or work outside so I'd have to pester my uncle to go to work with him on a saturday to get that precious ride on a tractor.

     

    I carried on like this up until exam time at school no one ever made me go with my uncle or help my dad with the DIY I choose to do it and used to have the mickey taken out of me at school cos I'd take me steelies and overalls with me to school on a friday so I could go straight off with my uncle after school but the thing is I choose to do it!!!!!!!

     

    When your lad starts school he'll soon tell you if he'd sooner be playing footy on a Saturday than driving a digger with dad. Oh and I learnt to swim at school if that helps.

  8. Im not even sure he meant hyd ones- couldve been electric or as you say off wrong pump set up.:001_smile:

     

    When I bought my Milemarker winch they only made hydraulic ones though things could have changed!

  9. Arent those milemarkers really slow- my brother is into all that off-roading stuff, and they called them 'watch-the-miles-slowly-marker':blushing::lol:

     

    not if they are run off a proper pto driven pump with the correct motor, but off a pas pump yep they are slow.

  10. forget ramsey&superwinches go for a milemarker h12 ,pto driven hydraulic pump . 2 winches on 2 l/rs 3years use no problems!

     

    I have to disagree with the above sorry. I have the milemarker with PTO pump on my own 130 and while its a good winch it is not comparable to the Superwinch H14.

     

    The H14 is a very heavy duty commercial winch not what you'd see in a landy mag. The winch is far better built and has a much larger drum capacity than that of my Milemarker H12. The H12 is good but it could never be compared to the Superwinch H14.

  11. The H14 is a superb winch, wether its driven via pto shaft or hydraulic motor off a pto pump is irrelevant provided the pump and motor are speced by Superwinch.

     

    Neither of the Ramseys can the compared to the H14 as they are 4000 & 6000lbs less pull respectively. The ramsey hydraulic winches are very very good, but they can't be compared to something from a different manufacturer with nearly a third extra pull.

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