PeteB
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Those wheels and tyres will hum a bit at speed and make town driving with narrow streets and tight turns fun! A narrow boat would be more manageable!
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The Ford relationship centre were involved, but after the engine issue washed their hands basically saying that of the DPF is not regenerating then we have to buy a new one. The truck has only done 118k in three years so is beyond any warranty. Interestingly, it is sold as a commercial vehicle but limited to domestic car warranty. The Ranger that we have as a spare has always had a 'cough' when accelerating up through the lower gears, the quick clear screen is only 25% effective, the radio\phone controls are intermittent, the radio behaves like the aerial is missing and the drivers seat does not remain at the same height. I went and sat in a Rodeo Utah a day ago, that was a nice office! We will be offloading the Rangers early, I understand, and I'd like an automatic please!
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Well, the hits keep on coming! After over a dozen regen cycles I get it back, 50 miles later the warning light s come back on! So Bristol Street have it back and get their best man on the job who is really experienced in DPF issues. He finds a load of incorrect codes and does yet more regen cycles and solves the job, yet 60 miles later it comes back with DPF issues and back she goes. Ford wash their hands when we ask for subsidy and the dealer let's us have it back with a new DPF and a bill. 90 miles later the lights come back on, no power and juddering engine. After sitting around in a dealership for the best part of seven hours, our spare truck appears and I get onwards. I'll not entertain a Ford again nor recommend Bristol Street Motors in Redditch to anyone either.
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Just to straighten things.....The 190 is a good machine and will available for a while, as is the 1928. But we took the opportunity to talk to a wider audience and try a few more detailed changes. On balance they helped us to make up our minds and take another look at horizontal rollers. The infeed was redesigned to take flapped chute with bottom bar, push button controls and rear mounted throttle. Some of these changes were, in part, due to stiff changes demanded by French authorities and France is a good market for us. The different design and new livery has been well received.
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GreenMech brought 5 Rangers and one went to a close firm and we run 3x2.2 and 1X3.2 all came from Bristol Street in Redditch. We have one new engine, one new oil pump, one new slave cyclinder, three windscreens and now a dpf. The height adjustable seats sink, buttons on the steering wheel don't work and a faulty radio. Tyre wear isn't good and fuel economy varies across the range! The supplying dealer wasn't good at the sales side, with missed appointments and lack of communication, parts people who were completely unreliable and uncommunicative and the service people don't do what they say they'll do. The tell me that my dpf has broken internally and it shouldn't yet want over a grand to change it! Needless to say, we won't be bothering them for new trucks again. Rant over!
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I too think a switch has been pressed as it turns over fine but doesn't even try to fire! Will crack a hose to see if ought comes out. Will also check to see if any fuses have gone too!
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Cut and pasted from the New Member setion; Quote: Originally Posted by Jase hutch View Post Hello , my name is Jase and I tinker with 'chippers' for a living......... Just to set the record straight......Jase Hutchinson is the GreenMech Service Manager and has tinkered with woodchippers for a long time! He must have been with GreenMech for 16 or so years and worked alongside Mac and has got the top job now that Mac has retired. He has been a lurker on Arbtalk for a number of years and I would always turn to him for advice to give out should I not know the answer. He is a good bloke despite driving a RAV4! I'll cut/paste this into the Maintenance Section too.
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Just to set the record straight......Jase Hutchinson is the GreenMech Service Manager and has tinkered with woodchippers for a long time! He must have been with GreenMech for 16 or so years and worked alongside Mac and has got the top job now that Mac has retired. He has been a lurker on Arbtalk for a number of years and I would always turn to him for advice to give out should I not know the answer. He is a good bloke despite driving a RAV4! I'll cut/paste this into the Maintenance Section too.
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Think the missus might suspect me of this! Old style sprung clutch, never touched the flywheel, petrol, reconnected everything and it did start and run once! Now just turns over - the gas in the tank is a year old mind!
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Not really gone into it - trying to get something else going but this bugs me....I drove it into place back end of last summer, changed the clutch (after starting it) and now the bugger won't go! Any quick tips?
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What is your budget? I bet Godfrey's would do you a deal on a new one anyhow!
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Good luck Eggs. Pets are a hard deal at times. I had GSD's and they were brilliant, not faultless but they never meant harm to anyone. My daughter had her face bitten three times by a Lurched as a toddler and that made the decision easy, the owners should never have had that animal as a house pet!
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Pop by ours for a lid of tea!
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I've seem them hunt as the springs on the governor are a little weak, allowing the revs to go up and down as it finds a happy medium. The backfire thing is just a little unburnt vapour igniting in the exhaust, don't worry about it. The Kohler 27 which we used to out on grinders would occasionally bang off some seconds after the engine was switched off!
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An engineering company, ground care machinery, or Ag engineers should have a surface grinder to do flat blades, What machine do you have?
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Cannot help with you on the TW side but I noticed that there is a GreenMech Combi for sale in Whitby on Fleabay. They do a good job as a chipper with a separate shredder chute.
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Timber for vintage loading demonstration Shrewsbury
PeteB replied to rustcutter's topic in General chat
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On my travels around the country, I'm seeing an awful lot of trees that look distressed with leaves turning brown and withering. Sycamores, Salix family and Birch in the main. Has their season finished mega early or is there a pestilence that is the root cause?
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FiberFix? What were you searching for when you found that????
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I pass a place on the Black Isle on the north side and there is a chap with half a dozen Fordson type tractors with woofer engines in the front, i got a picture somewhere that I'll dig out. The first time I passed by, I said to a colleauge 'the bonnet on my old Fordson wasn't as long as that!'. we stopped and peered over the hedge and it was one and a half bonnets grafted together over the top of a truck engine with a huge turbo!
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Give the lads at the Doncaster office a call, they are listed on their website
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Perhaps the price is reasonable if similar to others quoted? I tend to think that, at times, things cost what they cost and smile, pay up and get on.
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We have to Pete, all trailed devises have to be built to a set of standards with no deviation allowed from our stand point. For example, if came along and specified something slightly different, like a different set of wheels, they cannot be done by the factory. We can supply them loose however and it is up to you to fit them. Even prototype units without homologation papers have to be carried and not towed!
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There is a 'manufacturers tolerance ' which does give some leeway. We got told that, ordinarily, the trailer is not separated from the truck and the gross is the bit that matters. They cannot do you if your item of plant is platedcat one weight by the manufacturer yet weighs something else! This could occur due to muck, different but standard tyres, battery, fluids etc. Some years ago, there were makes of chipper that were only sub 750 if the discharge chute was separated and no fluids fitted!
