PeteB
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Sorry, I wished I had put a picture up. The choke flaps and mechanism have been removed yet you can see where the once worked!
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The ignition advance is sorted with a tube of much smaller diameter, this is for power brakes I would assume and I get that from the edelbrock manifold with a non return valve. Blowers ordinarily sit under the carb as pushing that much air into a carb would give you a weak point. (Would love to fit one mind!). The choke is a bit fiddly to fit/remove and is usually trouble free working so I'm confused. There is another Holley on Fleabay right now off of a LandRover with no choke!
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I know this an Arb based forum but just in case there is a car nut in our membership! I am swapping 4 barrel carbs on my hot rod. The original was badly worn and leaked and had the floats stick open which filled the sump up! A replacement was sourced through evil bay some months ago, which came off a running engine of the same type/size (apparently). Gone to fit it today to find that it is fitted with a vacuum hose where the other hasn't and the choke mechanism is removed. My questions are; would it work okay if I blanked off the vacuum and why would you remove a choke set up? For the record, it is a Rover 3.5 and Holley 390cfm.
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I get okay with mine! But he has awful taste in wine and believes that everyone likes very sweet wine! My own came for a weekend and we watched the rugby at Tigers and drank more than enough! Sweet!!! My ex's were odd in that they just wanted to eat and drink all through the holiday and the TV never got switched off!!
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If you have two hydraulic motors powering them then a gap is needed, just incase on turns slightly faster than the others. Jensen spout on about intermeshing rollers, that is because they have one motor driving a gearbox which in turn drives the two rollers!
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Build quality is usually good, it ain't under 750kg, and it chips! Spares off of the shelf at PSD in Colne or participating dealers.
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Any belt driven machine, be it a mower, chipper, tractor etc, will need belt maintenance, especially when new belts are fitted. In days gone by, a belt tension metre could be had but most people can judge belt tension by touch!
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35hp Avant is around the £20k mark!
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Measure the hole centres and walk in to indespension. They would make one to suit.
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Someone was recently fined a fair chunk for selling or trying to sell an imported machine that did not have a valid certificate of conformity! I would look for an alternative that does meet all the compliance regs. Shame though, I thought that the Boxer was a good tool when were the importer for a while and Cliff Perks is a good chap!
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Petrol v diesel long and short term costs...
PeteB replied to Ty Korrigan's topic in Large equipment
My recollection on high ethanol fuel burners or E85 units is that the are woefully underpowered for their size! I read an article about one in a car and it was truly awful! -
And GreenMech....we do the 1623 which isn't 750kg....
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Arbsafe and the National Plant Register. The trouble is, people will buy cheap stuff and not get the serial number checked prior to sale!
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Petrol v diesel long and short term costs...
PeteB replied to Ty Korrigan's topic in Large equipment
I don't think anyone will have a sub 750 woodchippers with 35hp diesel soon enough. Diesel engines will get more complicated, very expensive and a load heavier with the new tier regs! We may all have to accept the smaller diesel units like the 26hp we already use or a petrol! We have already looked at 80hp Kubota petrol engines in chippers, gas conversions and hydrogen generators fitted to engines! -
It could,of course, be that the OP doesn't want Forst, Jensen, Bandit, Vermeer etc, but favours Timberwolf and GreenMech. Many do........
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We got a CS100 into a standard height Transit. I think we too the short chute off mind. Why is height critical? What are you trying? I could have one measured if you want!
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Tigers beat Saints this evening! Good Derby match.....
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The Chipmaster range was and is a good performing unit and solidly built. The 180 with a 45hp unit was a tidy unit and the 220 with its 55hp went very well. They did weigh around 1300kgs and towed very well. They are quite easy to look after and spares are still freely available. I put on one a tractor for a local authority recently and with around 75hp at the shaft was very impressive. I had the forerunner of the 220TMP on the back of my Unimog before I worked for GreenMech and it was a joy to use. We still have the 220 available in trailed and TMP versions and there are some going to the Antipodes in the near future.
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Someone who says "I done that...." and it isn't done properly and you end up doing it yourself! People who put straps, ropes away in a bundle rather than properly. People who after being given an instruction or best advice, do it their way and look amazed when it goes wrong!
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I was going to say put it in an old grey fergie as TVO substitute or paraffin heater in a glass house but put diesel in it! I put a similar mix in my fergie, it smokes, is down on power but runs the saw bench okay!
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There was the start of a plan with Global Sales to lob a V8 with open headers into a GreenMech just for fits and giggles! Cannot beat the sound of V8 'on cam'.
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We had a look at hydrogen generators on machines but the engine people weren't impressed. So we removed them.
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Sorry, I'm way behind the curve with this but, a good customer informs me that, as of April next year, all vehicles involved in working on, or parked/stopped on the highway while the occupants work close to the highway must have full beacons and appropriate chevron HiViz on the rear of their truck and a HiViz stripe down the side waistline! Anyone got concrete evidence or recommendations?
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Plenty of good tips on using a Wee Chipper if you care to read the thread from end to end......but you will a bit of time! We took pictures of ours in a standard height Transit van years ago!
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It is a Honda powered standard 130 with a bracket and tank filched off if a forklift! Goes well apparently!
