PeteB

A tough situation to deal with by any account. I would have thought that the first stage to any healing is the need to be healed and the "want" to get better. Maybe some "tough love" is going to be needed in the form of mental help assistance like a spell being sectioned.... Good luck for the future for you and your friend.

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There are pros and cons to whichever day of the week to have a show. But the organiser's view must be that the visitor numbers over a weekend make it a viable event, maybe because they feel that families may pay to be there along with the crucial element of any show, which of course is the buyer of the products being exhibited.

You had a bout of insomnia or Ian's cure all?

Good luck to you! Ambition and proactive start to 2015. Very best wishes to you.

Nice one John! Very good recycling project there.

I had heard that that works for you Ian...... :-P

I'll try and come and see my old mate Barry on Thursday. Ripon to a right raft of stuff, never mind that other make of woodchipper!

You mean, could do this on TV without any backlash and without their "art" having to go straight to video!?! Mind you, he did get threats from religiously minded groups like the IRA apparently. Very strange to see someone smoking and drinking proper style on TV in this day and age.... Top man and class act too.....

I got one I would like to have a go at loving!

Tim, if you have lost the knob, replace it with an M8 bolt for now. 13mm spanner until you source a new knob.

These are the pictures of the clothing from our supplier - as they will be ordered in your size - I can only provide their photographs in samply colours only. Slant Rigg, based in Bideford in Avon, Warwickshire have commited to adding thei own contribution which would be to add your name to the embroidery on the left breast. Thanks Alan at Slant Rigg for your contribution. The hoody is in Forest Green, The coat and Gillet would be in black. Good Luck to you all - Thanks to Steve for doing this and you for buying the tickets....

There is adjustment - for the initial set up in assembly. As the distance between the blade and the shear bar changes so little over the blade live - no further adjustment is therefore necessary. If the rotor is removed for some reason then adjustment is advisable. The rotor is moved back and forth in the bearings and the pulley side bearing has a carrier that makes it easier for the assembly crews and future service engineers to do it accurately and with minimum fuss. Each bank of blades is passed past the shear bar until the optimum distance is reached then the carrier is locked off followed by the eccentric collars on the bearings. Job done.... Our paddles are put that way around as we believe from testing that they are more efficient at moving air and pumping it up the discharge chute. As they rotate close to the chute opening, they are trying to shear or scoop air away from the opening - this helps with both flow and noise.

A chap in Grantham fixed a small winch to the front of his trailer and hooked onto his CS. Then he could guide the CS while operating the remote.

On our tools, the gap is set in production and is fixed. If it increases, either a locking collar or shim is faulty or there is bearing wear. Or worse still, fabrication damage from an RTA or some such or it has been used as a high speed winch with a climbers rope! Shear bars and blades are a sacrificial item in that they do loose their edge and the efficiency of the machine drops. Blades can be rotated or changed, but the shear bars are designed to be efficient for a longer period. They loose their supportive profile over many hours depending on the material being chipped so some will last for a long time while others being fed dirty brash etc won't. I would have said that checking things like anvil wear and bearing condition would be part of the "Good Housekeeper's Guide" for chipper owners. Same as adjusting the brakes and ensuring that the lights work.

Give us the serial number and when they office is open, I should be able to tell you a few more details. Get some new blades and fit new vertical and horizontal shear bars and check for end float in the bearings as the gasp does seem excessive. I could be persuaded to pop by and give it a once over for you if needed.

The teacher is giving class a lesson in English and she asks for a sentence containing the word fascinate. Sarah bobs her hand up, "At the weekend, Mum took us to a farm and the animals were fascinating". " Very good", says the teacher, "but I asked for fascinate and you used fascinating" Rebecca pipes up, "In the holidays, Dad took us all to a working museum and we were all fascinated". " Good, but again, incorrect. You said fascinated when I asked for fascinate. Who will give me a sentence with the correct word?" Johnny sticks his hand up and the teacher quails, she has been burnt by him before. How can he ruin this she thinks..... "My big sister has a shirt with ten buttons on it, but her tits are so big she can only fasten eight!"

Quite simply Ian, Laski wanted us to take all their products which we didn't need and we had a factory full off blokes making chippers which focused our marketing. Then we found that Predator were bringing them in painted yellow. So we dropped it..... We sold plenty of them in fits and starts, but, generally speaking, people stuck with Vermeer or Rayco. The screen and joystick controls were good, as was the drive and general stability. The screens were originally glass and should have been plastic as they did bust easy! Our first one had a detachable screen which blew off when I was driving down the motorway and I watched it disappear under an Artic! The next demo saw me covered in dust and scrapings and peppered with shot!

The F500 is into the States via Terex? Wow!!! Mr Zepletal from Laski is going up in the world! GreenMech was the original importer for the UK some years ago and it wasn't a bad grinder tbh. Maybe not as strongly built as some US built stuff but it was a joy to use being able to look down at the head rather than around the engine at the head. The original cutters were expensive but it is only black smithery to change the pockets to your favourite! Diesel was stronger than petrol to grind with but both did the job - we sold more diesel than petrol but UK fuel prices are wild compared to US pump prices. A machine is only as good as the backup and Laski were okay at that too, at times....I don't recall any major issues that you didn't get with any other destructive tool if I'm honest. What are you being asked to pay?

Do bear in mind that Black Friday caused meltdown with delivery people. Unprecedented online sales broke all records and frustrated many traders. I recently brought a door card from a scrap/breakers in Essex and it turned up a week later! Communication from the seller was on the line of "please bear with, don't do my feedback!" Etc and it did turn up eventually. Not always within the sellers control.

Are you taking time tyre off to re-shape that bent rim Dean?

1928 Turntable, but fit your own winch as ours are underslung on the SafeTrac. (Which may work for brash drag I suppose).

Get some pictures up of the event!!!

I've always done my stint in the kitchen, I'm not a pudding person but have done a few on them, but I do enjoy being creative for an appreciative audience. Although I tend to do more routine meals than fancy cordon blue stuff that looks good but is a small portion! Me and Aunt Bessy to a very palatable Sunday roast too.....