PeteB

All bits for the 180 can be had from GreenMech. If it is a 180 with 4 cylinder engine then it may be common with the 220 range which is still in production - therefore parts may be on the shelf! Filter housing is from the suction side and if it isn't leaking, hold it up with a couple of ties for now.

[quote name=prolinep;1193145 also wheres best place to purchase at the mo' date=' like best price? cheers[/quote] That comment is one that has some weight behind it. Why not buy it off of your local dealer? No matter the make, stay faithful to your local supplier and he will stay faithful to you. Buy it elsewhere then take it back to him and you may find that he is less amenable. Why would he help you when you haven't helped him? Let's change this around, a local personage always gets you to sort his trees when in a rush. One day, you pass by and there is another outfit in doing a spicy takedown. Next week he needs another rush job doing and you're kind of busy. Do you tell him to join the queue or shift things about as he is an honest and faithful customer? In all things, support local businesses, when they are gone because everyone went out of the county, don't wings and moan about HAVING to go out the county!

I had the chance to look into a Schieslings innards and was singularly unimpressed! A big machine by any standards but village blacksmith engineering. Massive flywheel with the "whisper cut" or "Z" blade system which was in for some preparation..... Massive "plumbers block" style bearings, one of which had had the one mounting lug removed and they used the cap bolt to assist in holding it down! Wrong thing to do....Two blades bust and a pillow bent. The no stress device was busted too. Very, very simply made and poorly contrived but at over twice the price of anything else!!! Not worth the dosh imo. Sorry, but where does all that money go, not into design, parts, fabrication or finish.....

Kev, try Keith Mills, he has the ear of the Bathurst Estate and has a lot of local knowledge, he may be able to assist. 01793 771742

Don't cut the red wire!

Call in at Browns hire department in Leighton Buzzard and see if you can beg one off of Andy Lathwell or Nigel Corkett would be my bet. Go to George Browns Implements web site for the numbers. They even be able to sell one from one of their depots. If not, try Matt Textor at Whites in Reading.

What he said.....

I was in the pub with my girlfriend last night when she said, "Can I ask you a question?" "Sure, babe," I replied, stroking her hair. "What is it?" She said, "Why are you with me?" I said, "Because I love you." She said, "I know, but this is the ladies toilets and I'm trying to have a ****."

The dash says, as low as 24mpg (per tank) towing heavy and hard and 33 light and easy on the peddle. I would have liked more but that may improve as it isn't bedded in yet.

Good on her and welcome to the club! What will you call yours?

Fit another engine if you can!

Ask at the Castle, it is owned\run by DCC and does have footpaths and public areas where they could find it useful.

I'll look for the pictures I took later....

Don't bother to bid! The safety bar is so wrong! As is the infeed! It doesn't comply with H&SE regs.....

Ironically, when Pistorious woke up this morning, there was a burglar in his bathroom!

Sorry Scrags, they did the 20k service. Oil for the engine is nearly 9 litres and that would have cost some.....must ask what their £ per hour is really too.... Happy enough to just chuck it at them too, local people and all that.

Collected the car, they charged £277 inc vat which is good value. Tyres appear to have lost some 3mm in 20k miles which could mean that they should get to 60-70k. See how we go on!

Just going to bump this back with a question or two. GreenMech have gone onto these for the reps tow tugs etc. Mine was an ex demo as we needed one short notice. '63 plate with 20k on it and while I find it comfortable and capable, I have a slight cough/hesitancy when using light throttle in 1st or 2nd, the "sooty oil" warning light came on about 2k ago and I feel the clutch action awful! The clutch is the most concerning as it is a dual mass jobby in there which will fail....The clutch action almost feels like something is going over center and bang the clutch is in! Another quirk seems to be that to use the bluetooth system, I have to have the radio on, what if I don't want to listen to the radio? Anyone got anything to add or comment about?

Damn! Thought you meant Quad as in QuadChip!.....

In a way, sad. End of an era, etc. But like Mr Bolam says, a money thing....free market economy and all that.

I asked the girlfriend to smuggle some coke through the airport by stuffing it up her bum. How was I to know that I could buy another can once through check in!?!

Gibsons Garden Machinery (Lancs) look like they may be the current Tunnisen dealers.

You wouldn't be saying that if it were a 6R4! They went like stink which I suppose does come off of crap but this was for a 1st timer Ian, it would have done the lad for a bit but had too much rust on it and I had too little time! Chips next Friday? Sure it is your go too....

From underneath? Is that a crack in the corner to the right of that roller bush?

Go on! Post their contact details......that is a bargain!