PeteB
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Such a very hard question to answer and a minefield all round! I haven't heard of any warranty covering consequential loss of any kind and as far as i can recall, as long as the supplier is trying to sort your problems, there is no time limit to the responding. I was asked at a show about this and if the supplier has a full workshop, packed diary and awaiting the part and agreement to come from his supplier, he is stuck in a hole! Warranty is usually paid at a much lower hourly rate than he gets from service work and he may be pegged on mileage too. Quite often, parts are charged for and he has to retrospectively claim that cost back, and if it is turned down then the customer has be charged!
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I got two minds on this, one is to spend and get a quality make from local supplier of ground care machines who will be able to support you, or go and buy cheap Chinese rubbish from internet/supermarket and chuck it when it don't work!
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Stop the unintelligent, non working, over weight and those with a criminal record from voting! Sorry, i followed a large woman in the local Asda, whose family are 3rd generation benefit claimants whose chap has been done for theft and fraud, saying that she was going to vote for Corbyn as he was going to take the money off of the "thieving" rich and give it to the likes of her who deserve more help!
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I rate those things with the twin disc/rotors! They have stopped making them apparently, and a Rep from one of our dealers suggested that if GreenMech wanted to go back to making stuff like that, he would order 30 straight off!
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I got a Toro mower and the trans oil is £50 a litre and it needs changing! Close to five litre us needed!
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Interesting point here. I have always said 2/3 pumps on a standard gun every week if used regularly, with high temperature grease. Our bearing supplier recommended that we go to one pump every 40 hours of use! Stay with the amount/frequency recommended in the manual. But do use high temp grease!
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Tony Turner, the chairman of GreenMech once towed a special built trailer which carried a woodchippers and could tow another woodchippers to Spain behind his Range Rover!
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I got a box full of 'odd' tools like cut off sockets and bent spanners for the Hot Rod and having had a few Land rovers!
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Stuart, is your nickname Lucky? A burst grease pipe isn't found because people cannot 'feel' properly and the reason why this was deleted on the Mark 2. But for it to happen twice shows that the maintenance regime needs reconsidering. A faulty bearing is so rare, I would think that poor practice in fitting and maintenance regime is the culprit. Shaft loose on a bearing is something I've seen before and should have been identified during fitting and is linked to the previous failures which were due, ultimately, to improper maintanence regime. GreenMech has been known to bend over backwards to help people but they must help us too!
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We have, in the past, sent them the solicitors letter advising them that they are in breach and advise people that we do not sanction the use of these blades. If anything was to go wrong and copy blades were at fault, all warranty would be void and no liability would be coming our way. As said, Patent and Copyright is murderously expensive to enforce. Jensen copied the SafeTrac and many years later and many tens of thousands of pounds later we won and have got a "cease and desist", but we were able to prove that the design was ours which proved that we weren't lying or dishonest in the marketplace.
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[ame] [/ame] This is the video we did with the blade grinder. The finish they get is a little rough compared with those blades that get done in the factory but it is perfectly adequate to chip wood! We sell machines to all kinds of destinations and markets and some people buy blades, use the full rotation and then throw them, others prefer to resharpen them a few times with an appropriate supplier and some do them this way! The grinder is available from your local GreenMech Dealer as a spare part and could be set up with a frame on the other stone to do flat blades too or maybe dress out chainsaw blades even?
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That is a good observation, the patent relates to the fact that it is a blade, does the same as every other blade, yet when it looses its edge, it can be rotated to reveal another edge. Whereas, a flat edged blade has to be removed and resharpened once the edge goes off it. If we put a full width flat blade in an AT200, it would have to be over 11" long to cover to opening. Each Disc blade is about 9" round so in effect, you have 18" cutting surface available to use per bank.
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Tony Turner developed the disc blade and put a patent on it and each batch is made under copyright. Blades that appear from other sources are in breach of this and we monitor that situation. Copyright and Patent laws are very expensive to maintain and police and murderously expensive in trying to win a battle! Each chipper manufacturer has its "USP", and one of ours is the disc blades. Some people love them and some don't, some people can understand them while others prefer the conventional blade. Choice is a personal privilege. For me, I chose to run GreenMech machines in my business in the early/mid 1990's, had a road tow and one on a Unimog and I didn't have any problems, and never had to buy any blades in five years of total usage! They chipped material up and blew it out the spout!
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Congrats on the new addition! My missus' family have decided to get another dog as their Rotty had to be put down recently - they are looking for a GSD to do the pet/guard job. I been booked to do the road trip going to see a few litters with 75 miles of Tuxford, anyone know of a recent litter?
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The Wasps match was a belter! Twickers was good but not the result wasn't right for me being a Tigers fan. Plus the London traffic was simple awful! Much worse than I remembered from doing GreenMech sales there some years ago. I asked the Bath mob why the Rec wasn't the venue - they didn't laugh when I asked if the kids wanted their swing park back!
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Heard about the Asian burglar and his mate? Amin Yashed and Amir Aswell!
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Amazingly similar to a CS100 cutting unit, and made by our old dealer for Italy, Peruzzo. What a coincidence!
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I'd love to hear the Rover V8 in my 1948 Austin 16 but the pesky thing won't work at the mo!
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He he he! Was it an 0800 number for your local tree specialist, conifers a specialty, ask driver for details type of outfit?
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How about the Asian Karaoke star? Gerrupta Singh
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Help needed sourcing a couple 20ftish cupressus macrocarpa
PeteB replied to Tree Man Tom's topic in General chat
Could be them! Very selective client list, no ordinary garden centre. -
Help needed sourcing a couple 20ftish cupressus macrocarpa
PeteB replied to Tree Man Tom's topic in General chat
Cole's in Leicester give a clue? Once went to see an outfit in Kent who as buckets of things like that and they never advertise but I'll try and remember their name. -
I'd say it was a generic Mediterranean Cypress - some may call it a Macrocarpa. Not to sure whether to give it the cold/hot/cold/plant treatment in damp compost and vermiculite or just the one cycle. Might try a few things as their are plenty to play with.
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Spotted in Crete today!
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My Aebi is 18hp!
