PeteB

We had one as a reps express and the dealers were so helpful everytime it went bang! One dealer told me that they had had several in for new lumps, way out of warranty, no service history and absolute farm sheds but Isuzu still wanted a new engine fitted. Superb service!

The Mrs has a barn/shed/stable at her spot which is half brick and half wriggly tin with tin roof. Since the horses etc have gone and we need storage or workshop space, it will get cleaned out and become more useful. However, I wouldn't mind insulating it against some of the cold and damp. Anyone had any experience of that sprayed on foam type of stuff and the costs involved or any alternative?

I've seen a couple of engines scavenge their own oil. One in a chipper which was overful of oil ran away on our assembly line and we stopped it but blocking off the air intake manifold. But not before it filled the shed with pure white smoke! The other was recently when a traffic management 3500kg truck let go - impressive smoke from that too!

You can feed hedge cuttings etc into a chipper! Sometimes a push stick is a good thing and as long as the stuff is clean, it should go through. I certainly have chucked great handfuls of conifer shavings into a CS100, just to see if it was okay. The bloke brought it and he was a private buyer who wanted a professional piece of kit for his large garden.

No oil cooler fitted to a standard 1928. Large oil capacity mean that it wasn't necessary. The fan is on backwards - Jase and I looked at one in the factory. I would go back to basics and check the cool compartment, radiator condition, coolant levels, caps, hoses, fan and so on......

Top advice again!!!!

Top advice once more!

We have had alloy ramps for our trucks and the Sara ramps are good. Some ramps come with decent carry handles for them too. One point to remember mind.....security. Make sure that you have a decent lock and chain if the are getting left any where.

What the man said......

Tigers v Exeter tomorrow, wished I had a ticket but committed to something at home!

13th-15th October - Who is going?

What happened to Wasps at the weekend? Tigers did the job!

I agree Steve, I have been going as an exhibitor since the late 90's and as a visitor to the APF since Trentham Gardens and the wheel is still round! But it needs a collective effort from both Exhibitors and Visitors to make it worthwhile. The numbers of visitors is immaterial to me, but the number of buyers/spenders that matter. I know that the demographic of our particular buyer being a visitor is slim at a show but if there is a vibrancy about a show then we smile. If the view is it wasn't worth going to, then perhaps we won't bother next time and then the next time it comes up, the visitors moan that there was nothing to see. Our budget for shows isn't huge by any stretch but it is still a chunk of money (last year we spent £150 on pork scratchings for visitors to pick at!) but if the show enquiries are down then we look at where else we could spend that budget. That equation is the same for us, John Deere, FR Jones et al. (Stihl spent an estimated £80k on their Saltex stand last year) Perhaps the question should be asked of the visitors and spenders - what would like to see at a trade show? What would entice you to come and support us?

As a visitor to any show, particularly a 'trade' show (not a county fair, but some same rules apply), location is a factor, weather too, as are exhibitors that YOU wish/need to see. Toilets and food also come in to the equation. If all these align, then you will have a good show! But while you are there, you ain't cutting! If you aren't cutting, you aren't earning....... As an exhibitor at a trade show, I too would want the above. But, I am there to sell. I have a lot of costs to meet in being there with transport, staff, accommodation, food/drink AND, I'm not selling elsewhere because I am at the show. If no one comes to buy my wares then I doubt I'll go next year and if we all have the same opinion - you end up with an empty field! A modern show is a fund raiser for the organisers just as much as it is a sales event. They want exhibitors and potential customers to meet to have a good show and us (the exhibitor) to come next year as well as you to pay to get in. It swells their coffers. What I am eluding to is; support your industry, whether it be Arb or Forestry, Conversion or burning, planting or felling. Go to these shows, make new acquaintances/renew old ones, talk about your industry and join trade associations, go to the seminars and buy stuff (don't ask for extra discount as we paid more than you to be there!). If the shows die and we all hunker down to online trading and YouTube demonstrations, it will be a sorrier world.

Here are a couple that we have tried out. Standard, square section angled and square sectioned low. Bloody expensive to fabricate so not many take it up.

We have done stuff like reduced height chutes, different angles etc, added bits in too when needed! Johnny, you can fold down your chute using the two bolts to allow it to hinge!

I feel that anything on the road needs to pass a test every year! Might seem extreme but that dickhead who knocked over that woman on a circuit bike may have stopped in time, and vehicles can have defects which we wouldn't think happen in under a year. I regularly come across trailers that have poor brakes, many people seem to forget that a chipper is a fully loaded trailer!

Thought it was that spot west of Harrogate? Bizarre going to places like that and seeing yank motors in the on-site car sales place!

Showed a CS100 to a potential customer the other day and I have to at that a good weekend chipper is a delight to use! I forgot to turn the fuel on and it died with a load of birch half done. Took the belt cover off, turned the drum backwards by hand, replaced the cover and it started straight away and we carried on. Lovely little machine, wished they were around when I did tree work years ago, I wouldn't have back issues now from dragging etc!

Anyone been or going today? I know that GreenMech and Burden Bros are there but what else is?

Tigers did for Gloucester again!

Good Lord!!!! We'll spotted! It doesn't look right to me either now you say it. It certainly wouldn't help cooling issues on a achiness designed for a pull fan and I don't ever recall using a pusher fan for anything other test purposes. We'll done Jase, I take back every insult!!!

The spec is listed on the web site of the Safety Police! Length and height of the chute and a way of disengaging the drive I would think. Good luck with your project and post up some pictures!

Ring Global tomorrow or take out the spare and motor on down to your fixing supplier. It is likely to be an odd yank thread!

Anyone got the official link to this or indeed, other such events nationally?