PeteB

Sorry, but for a grand, you'd be better off burning. Hedge clippings and leaves etc, ain't good in a chipper unless you are 100% sure that the stuff is clean, otherwise your cutters will get blunted too quick.

What is the spec/cost of a 75?

Do not listen to them! Most blokes are follicaly challenged so they have not experienced long hair! What is it with the yoof of today anyway, I see many blokes who could have a full head of hair and the have their nut shaved! The tide is on the way out on my head now, so I cannot speak knowledgeably on long hair, it go to a supplier or helmets and get their advice. Dreads. How do they grow anyhow? Do they smell? Does it hurt your bonce sleeping on them, what does your Mom think to them?

I was talking to a girl in the pub tonight,she tells me she baths in detergent every night, I always thought she was a flash ****!

I got caught having a piddle in the town baths tonight! Yeh, the lifeguard shouted so loud, I nearly fell in!

To be honest, I would yack it out and take to a local engineering company, get them to quote for a copy. Be a lot cheaper than a new from from anywhere and safer than a knacked old thing which might now have an undersized shaft! or be bent etc. Good Luck, it is only steel!

Quad chip blades are reasonably easy to change if you have any mechanical sense at all. It must be noted that, since we had a load of people asking about them using our disc blades instead of the square blades, quite a few machines are able to take either! As we have proved, round blades are less susceptible to damage and are cheaper too. The downside would appear that the chips are less regular, but who cares too much about that when the main job of a chipper is to reduce volume in a truck!

Why do you need a new rotor? I think that you be lucky to find a good one, anywhere. If the shaft is damaged, get an engineering firm to make one and press it in, or make a copy for you. If that is too dear, buy a new chipper and that will come with warranty.

I thought that Jase and Big Pete Nielson got to the bottom of it this morning!

Outdoor Power Tools in Derby or Leicester have some talented mechanics.

Try talking Mark at M&H Arb in Malvern or send him a PM, Predator Parts. I'm not sure what parts we keep anymore. I'll ask tomorrow.

Dan has a couple left!

A blowoff valve is a safety valve which opens when a certain hydraulic pressure is reached. This ensures that your hydraulic system isn't over-pressured and seals etc popped! The usual valve comprises of a ball bearing being pushed against a seal by a spring. This spring compresses under pressure allowing the oil to go through another circuit within the valve bank - straight back to tank. The pressure of the spring is set up so that moves at a certain pressure, this setting is adjustable to account for the spring tension getting weak with age and over a period of time, your blowoff setting can reduce from say 3000psi to 2000psi. Wind it back up and voila! Bloody good pull once more!

Billy is in Croyden so Ermin is a tad far for a key. Try nadgering the barrel as may be able to do it with a screw driver.

Good job of editing!

On a similar note, my Tv, broadband and phone are with Virgin. It started out at about £30 a month and ended up at £50! I rang them to ask if I still tied in and could I reduce it, the chap on the phone said that I wasn't tied in but I couldn't change the rate."fine" I said, "I'm swapping as soon as I can". A line manager was summoned and gave him the same speel, loyal customer for five years etc. He knocked 20% of it immediately! It does pay to shop and swap. I'm going to look at my energy bills next week too.

Lovely, but did you see the the bin!?!

I'm partial to a warmed up chicken and mushroom slice and have the figure to prove it! Why do they vary wildly in price, anything from a quid to 3!

Richard Court forestry engineering is further south, tother side of London, he knows his onions.

Which Club, Ben? I did the work for a new green and tee at Longcliffe many years ago and they insisted that any balls found were their property! Buggers took months to pay too.

Some interesting posts here - the point of the SAC is to realign drivers to be more responsible and recognise that speed is okay, nut in the right place. Namely a circuit, strip or track..... It was pointed out to us that a speed limit is THE LIMIT, not an advisory, not a suggestion, not an average speed and certainly not the minimum. Speed limits are not set to raise/reduce revenue, cost us time, reduce noise or other pollution and not really there to save us money in increased vehicle economy. Bu they are there to reduce the likely hood of a serious injury or death if you hit someone less well protected than yourself in a tin box with a belt on and a bag in front of you! An interesting fact is that the average "response" time from sight to action is 0.7 of a second, 30mph equates to 44 meters per second. Therefore, in reaction time alone, you have traveled well over a length of a bus and knocked that kid flying and that is before your brakes really start to bite! Another one is, if are driving at 70mph and some dumb ass is doing 100mph and you both brake at the same time. What speed is the other chap doing when you get close to zero? An adrenalin squirting 70mph! Lets hope he wasn't behind you.........

I really do think that it is high time that these large outfits have a financial reality check and price contracts so that they are financially viable. Many people knew from the outset that the Norwich and Cannock jobs (amongst many others) being run by Fountains and many similar other fixed price contracts were only viable If the schedule of rates that they won it on are ignored and everything was done as a "variation". Am I correct in thinking that it against the law to "purchase" goods or services that you know you cannot/will not pay for? This seems to be another case of "the civilised get penalized and the ne'er do wells do very well, thank-you very much. My best regards go to those who have lost on this deal and to those who have been "tucked up". Those at the top on big salaries should be bought to book.

Not only the UKPN contract, but everywhere else too. I'm aware of many companies that are owed several tens of thousands of pounds. Why such debts are allowed to accrue is beyond me.

Well, I went and was pretty humbled by a few comments and my lack of knowledge to do with speed/time/distance. I am glad I went and will try to behave myself as I would be upset if someone killed my kids due to excessive speed.

I've to attend another one this aft, the third in 10 years, the third for doing 36 in a 30 zone on a deserted road............. The last one turned into points and a fine after I was late because of an accident which blocked the motorway and it took 120 minutes to do the 40 miles to the site. (I had only allowed 75). I refused to repay the course costs so the Police decided that I was a criminal. In 10 years as a rep for GreenMech, I must have covered about 5 or 6 hundred thousand miles, so a motoring offence is more likely than, say, a peanut head in a stolen Corsa with no insurance, licence and a "Foxtrot Oscar" attitude. Do I really need realigning, re-educating, punishing for a minor infringement when said peanut head can get off with points , a ban (on a licence which doesn't exist) and a fine which he will not pay for?