MattyF
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They are still high money for old trucks I think bill , the ones I’ve looked at have been ,the is lwb gs are plated at 3.5 t not sure of the land cruiser? .
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Pm me a price please.. how old and condition.
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I really would like to get my hands on a tatty lwb and cut it up for a tipper pick up.. fetching silly money though!
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Discovered the hilarity of watching a lurcher run on ice ! big bounding goon! She still won’t sit in a tractor cab.
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Pete’s your man josh ! Personally I would never buy ex hire again unless it was at a really good price or I could check the internals properly ... if it was a good price making sure maybe for peace of mind getting a proper bearing shaft/rotor rebuild, anyway... I had a 40hr TW150 ex hire that needed a full rebuild at 150hrs, you can only imagine the shite that gets chucked through a hire machine... then again maybe it was down to the dealer I brought it from who I would certainly avoid if possible in the future. Keep an eye on Greenlays In Cramlingtons website for TW Chipper’s ,that’s if your looking to go Timberwolf, they have the best and most thorough chipper mechanic in there workshop I’ve encountered so far... he has our 2002 150 running like a Swiss watch!
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Can you not drive one back from the U.K. josh ? Like a decent low hour second hand machine.
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Looks more mauve than pink Steve ....
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Confused mate , done about what???
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Soft wood is fetching good prices , there is a massive shortage of saw logs too so don’t right it off as chipwood ... saying that even chip woods making good prices
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Haha ! right there!! Our defender is knackered after two weeks off.... I drove the g wagon from Cambridgeshire to Northumberland a week after it had been in the hedge and it was like a Swiss watch.
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You own two ? I dragged mine out from under a hedge as the fuel pump had gone and the owner never bothered replacing it, fitted a old xr3i pump , Un seized the brakes and it sailed through the mot.
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I do really regret getting rid of mine, pissed all over a defender ... problem was I had to rewire the thing after a wiper fuse blew and the rain getting worse on the motorway, a stop at the service station and they definitely didn’t have the old style fuses a two pence made do ... then it caught fire a few miles down the road , luckily it was raining still [emoji23]
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Not for me ... not saying it doesn’t but I’ve never noticed..once a chain especially on a bigger saw is at this point I’ll bin it and make another any way. Not that I’m the oracle of chain sharpening or out but last time I ran a 560 in timed cuts against ported 357’s and a few other saws that was what in my opinion made the 560 quicker... there was 4-5 other Arb talkers there to witness that and prove I’m not taking bollocks !
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I’ve been sharpening 3/8 chain with 7/32 files since I was a kid and never used a 13-64 that I can remember, I was taught to go down a file size At college but it never worked for me , the old boys in the Feild take the rakers down and clean the gullet right out is what I’ve sort of stuck with and has worked... as long as all the angles and depths are the same it’s never been an issue.
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May have the odd log here and there as we mill or process most of our timber.. I do have some sequoia coming up that I don’t really want in the yard if your interested.
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Whey ... not as shite as I thought it would be ! Time will tell but it seems pretty sturdy and it opens all right when the weights are in , the fact it’s a brighter colour and now my climbing gear fits nicely in too one bag is a plus.
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I brought a kelfri beak and it bent first time on the job! Still works but the steels soft like.
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Spalting is the black lines ... or so I’m led to believe?
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Change of subject but try SRT it will put years on your climbing, I find any work other than climbing hard now!
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I did have one of the Jameson’s poles flex and brake on me ... fixed it with broomstick up the middle... not ideal.
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Thing is if that rubber comes off under force on some Heath Robinson contraption it has the potential to really ruin your day or as above the pole shatters ... personally I’d buy ready made ... not that I’m calling Darrins badly made or out but for the money it’s not worth skimping on.
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Haha you know I would try and not deal with them if possible , mr orange though is sound but I’m sure him and Micheal only deal I’m Raycos or Carlton’s I forget which one I’ve hired off him. Mark has sold me the yellow jackets !
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Cheers John.
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Just changed the bearings so will have to wait a while for that but it was a good set up. I thought for some reason you could just change the standard finger type teeth for a different type ie yellow jackets.
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Thanks josh , do you know if you can keep the standard Vermeer head on and use multi tips? I have used one when I worked at mat bells and was impressed but it’s been a long while. Was thinking maybe you could just change the teeth instead of the whole set up? I seem to remember his ate bearings.
