PeteB
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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.
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Fitted a TDI Tuning chip recently and noticed an immediate difference in throttle position. On a mid range setting, the chip appears to give 5 mpg better but will do a lot more testing and even swap the settings to test power and economy. The 2.2 is now close to the 3.2 I would think.
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Do we think that it was left there to see if it had a tracker fitted? If it was there still after a couple of days then they knew that o devices were fitted......glad you got it back still.
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GreenMech built a test rig or rolling road to try out an axle. The unit recommendation for that weight machine did show signs of sag so we replaced it with an axle with a heavier rating for production. But, again, an implied warranty is given by that supplier and we (and the end user) are governed by that. I have seen many machines of all makes that have been under maintained and used too hard by uncaring people. The OP should have had his agreement explained to him at the outset and while I feel sorry for him, there is a process to follow which Redwood have to adhere to as laid down by their supplier.
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Brian, Rowan Bell at Thorne Engineers could help you as he has rebuilt a few over the years.
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To be fair, the axle is a brought in component which is only supplied with a limited warranty at best, from the original makers. It is quite common for the owner to be asked to buy the replacement and retrospectively try to get the costs back through warranty. If the axle manufacturer cannot find a manufacturing fault, they would deem that it has failed through bad driving practice and therefore not their problem. A warranty policy document and a good sales practice should make sure that what is covered, for how long and what the warranty procedures is, are an open subject with nothing hidden. No company would offer any kind of consequential losses either.
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I would think that standard 32 VAE hydraulic oil and EP90 gear oil would do. However, ring Gibsons in Lancashire as their spin off, PSD, are the current importers of the TS range.
