PeteB
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My old Rodeo did 264k in 5 to 6 years and and the current Ranger has 64k in 20 months.
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Probably more than an Audi estate should tow maybe?
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Will agree with, good show and if you want to go it is quicker to pre book online! Also, remember to look at where you left your wheels as I saw a couple of folk looking for theirs and we were parked in rows on a runway! Confusing for some! Good to see this show gaining in size after what happened at SED. Didn't see one chipper though!
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Hi Martin, you are correct in that you can over grease bearings and do more harm than good. The gallery that carries the grease from the nipple to the bearing races can get blocked and then it is hard to get grease to where it is needed and pumping in too much grease can pop the seals out too. Sometimes it is advisable to rotate the part will introducing the grease, this could get it in fairly equally. Ine something a grinder, there is the school of thought that purge/cleaning is best but on a chipper, I would've said 2/3 pumps once a week would be ideal.
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The current people for TS woodchippers which are Quick Chip are a company called PSD or Gibsons Machinery in Colne, Lancashire. You could your old roller into a engineering company and ask them to re cut tge keyway or copy the complete thing.
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For private use, I run a circular saw on a grey Ferguson dual fuel. Works a treat! I would imagine a splitter, either cone or blade should go okay but a hydraulic woodchopper maybe a hit much in terms of cost/benefit ratio.
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Got a box of MAC and a set of Halfords, plus odds of other makes and have to say that the Halfords feel better!
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Add the cost of getting HSE compliant makes this a very dear PTO machine - chuck the rest in at a metal merchants.
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Work is work. Do it.....
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Any good groundcare place should do them, failing that, a good engineering firm will have a surface grinder!
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Acacia Ground care Machines is in southern Sussex and they would be a good call.
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The Laimet is a good call but I don't see them second hand at all often, and I would have thought that 50hp was too little? How much is one new? If they do want to use the chips as fuel then surely the fresh cut thinking's etc is too wet and, same as that Welmac polish made logger, storing piles of brash once cut until they are dry enough is a pain and waste of energy doing the job twice. A Greenmech PTO machine would be about using finance to get a suitable, useable unit rather than "this isn't suitable but it fits the pocket now" type of deal.
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Not over impressed with mpg but otherwise, it is a truck and does what it was brought to do. The one I'm in has just turned over 60k in less than two years and I fitted a TDI Tuning chip to try and get half decent mpg.
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Only £3k plus premium so far! Shame about the Bedford body, but does have a winch.
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Strikes me that is a "modern" body! Still tidy though....wished I had kept mine and stuffed it in the brambles along with the Bedford MK project....
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Those figures are not up to date by a long way and they are the figures supplied for taxation purposes and have very little bearing to real life and here and now! Good luck to all the creditors, both big and small. Debtors, whoever you are, pay your bill so that there may be a couple of pence in the pound left for the employees and subbies.
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Try a few golf courses, garden centres, allotment societies even the odd farm will have small amounts for gates and so on. Try and contact you local council as they might stockpile before bulk collection. Try also talking to a few other tree firms to see if you can add to theirs if they stockpile prior to bulk collection for biomass etc. Oh, and welcome to the forum and to this industry. Very best wishes for the future.
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Sorry, just seen this....As stated, they have been known to sieze both on and off. Lack of grease, incorrect adjustment are the main reasons for it. You did right to slacken off the brakes to get her home and I would recommend that you repack the bearings with fresh grease too. As the chipper is in the sub 750kg class, it isn't unreasonable to run about without the brakes and the constant working of the towset may help to free it off to be honest.
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Or I should say, "Other stuff to come out of the factory that is currently making GreenMech woodchippers!". After all - it has been churning out metal for over 50 years. This is an Elswick Hopper. It is an invalid carriage that was designed to let a wheel chair in through the back door and was made at the GreenMech factory with whatever hand controls suited the buyer. Mac Taylor, our Service Manager, was the Stig who did the test drives etc. The bodies were made by Reliant at there spot in Tamworth and eventually, the moulds, jigs, parts etc including the intellectual property rights were sold to a company from Israel I believe.
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Boat yards are a good source of red, or try getting in touch with a local Ag Contractor or farm as they will have a bunded tank. Or touch base with aan oil supplier and take your own 205liter tank.
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Terrible event - my sincere condolences to those he left behind.
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This thread has been dormant for a while so I decided to bump it with recent pictures.
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Work lights?
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Always check the level in the rad! That is where coolant is most important. I would have thought a 50/50 water and anti freeze would do.
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20 sobs!?! What currency is that. I always broke days down to .25 only as nowt else was worth it unless you can get at least 6 per day within a very small radius.
