PeteB

Having said that, we used some 4 x 2.2 engines and a couple of 3.2 units! Both the newer 3.2 have dodgy gearbox faults too. We go to Isuzu soon..... Now. Is their a worthy tune for these to pull them up to 200hp?

Yet when had a Mazda, the drive shaft fell off on the Edinburgh bypass!

All but chopped thumb off in circular saw. No straightening tendon and no main knuckle now. I didn't climb much after that but paid decent money to climbers in my employ and did ground based stuff more. Still hurts now if banged and that was in the early 80's!!!!

No expert but in these hot days, has anyone experienced something like a fuel evaporation symptoms? EFI should start pretty well straight away sois fuel evaporation in the system causing this? Unlikely as the high pressure fuel pump should be squirting at 32psi which should instantly bleed any dry sections....

In a Liquidation, HMG ensures the Liquidators get paid. Then, any moneys left get first dibs by the bank with everyone else joining a queue. As the email says, apply to them first as it gives a realistic picture to any future buyer, puts the true debt on the balance sheet and then they will advise your best plan going forwards. They need to have a full picture to decide whether the job is salvaged and sold or palletised for auction. I ought to say that the customers seeking that cheap saw in a box or hank of rope drive prices down and the spiral starts. I remember sitting with a dealer as a customer asked for his best price on a 'topper'. The saw was fetched off the shelf, the good points on the design pointed out and the value of buying locally from a fully equipped workshop discussed. The customer asked him to price match. The dealer calmly put it back on the shelf, declined and told the chap he was going to loose money at that price. Inviting the customer to leave to drive off to get his cheap saw and not to bring it there when it needed to be set up. Don't begrudge other folk wanting to make a profit - they want to eat meat at the weekend too!

To be a good capitalist, you have to make money. That also takes into account other factors like, folk paying you on time and your supply chain getting you the goods. These recent times have meant that some suppliers are unable to deliver, their costs have risen exponentially and it seems that tree work is a tad scare now that furlough schemes, interest rates and competition is tough! Sad to hear of their plight and good luck to those in the food chain who are looking at a personal loss.

Ranger, front sway bar drop link. How the hell did I do this?

I could never see that mixed rotor idea being one or tother! I can remember the old A Plant depot in Abergavenny having them in another make. If the customer had dirty stuff, the blades would be removed. If the user had timber then the flails just absorbed horse power.

How many houses have the need for a pin nowadays?

Opened the news page and the gimp is there again! "My carreer is over sob so sob". Just who gives a flying one? Can Press please give the lying turd no air time at all, there are far more engaging news items around!

Nice try, but like me, if early/miss 70's music was your enlightenment, maybe tech is difficult! Nowt there....

Forgotten Saxon! Wasn't them though....was defo Free or Bad Co.

Trying to remember a Free or Bad Company tune. Starts with a slightly off mic voice singing "oh, oh, oh - and the band played on!" Followed a funky intro with bass. May have been a 70's pirate recording even!?! Any of you older members of the parish recall this?

Pretty sure a Torquay (or near by) Contractor did the the M5/A30/A38 with a bin lorry as a chip truck. All I could think of was that there was a tax advantage or the truck was cheap!

I wonder if his brothers cell mates are now feeling sorry for him on account of being a brother to a low life liar with no morals, scruples or backbone!?! I truly feel for his ex wife and so forth for having anything to do with him! But again, is this truly newsworthy?

Mid June, anyone doing it or watching? Friday is last entry date. Touch and go whether I muster the drive to enter!

I hear he has gone from his partnership on morning tv. Damn! I never got to see one episode in 20 years, in fact, I've never managed to catch him do anything on TV! Just who does watch that mindless, dumb down TV anyhow?

All news to me! I used to ask about you but there was never any news. I would say that I had a sit down with their Parts folk and the MD and they confirmed that, routinely, they did not add to any parts prices - the price you got from GreenMech was the same you got from them! As an OEM manufacturer, we don't get any special deals on filters and neither do they. As previously stated, sorry for the grief you say you experienced, I can assure you that no malice was intended.

Perhaps if you talked me, like I suggested when you swapped that old TW for the Ez demo QuadChip, things would have been different. Seems that living a few villages away didn't help. Sorry that you seem to have had a rough time - wouldn't have happened on my watch or with my dealer either. Good luck with the Vermeer. Out of interest, I'll ask what the issues were.

Why didn't you talk to me about this at the time? The supplier didn't say anything either. We cannot do something if we don't know about it!

Nice response. Things happen unfortunately, and it never happens where it doesn't matter! Good luck going forwards and never panic!

There were many Perkins conversions over the years, even saw a tidy conversion using the diesel lump out of a Montego! I have seen a chipper driven by a Transit engine and gearbox in my time too! By and large, water cooled automotive engines had a very different cooling pack mated to their needs and air flow passing through them etc.

I learnt at the weekend that Lucy passed last September after a long battle against cancer. Lucy's Dad, Michael, was an early innovator and tree surgeon from Esher who pioneered wood chippers with the Arboreator brand , my own first chipper sometime in the early 90's. Lucy went on to run Arboreater and carried on representing the brand along with Carravgio and teamed up latterly with Richard Court Forestry Engineering to keep his paperwork in order. Lucy was always a fun competitor yet was always had a cheerful disposition and liked a laugh. I have very fond memories of her making bacon sandwiches for other exhibitors at an AA Show at Highclere and cussing out the management for trying to stop her due to the lack of Food Hygiene Certificate when she was only cooking for a few exhibitors who missed breakfast at their hotels. Richard took her to the Crematorium on a Matador painted in her fathers tree surgery colours. RIP Lucy, you are sadly missed. God speed and thanks.

Don't go the automotive engine route! Stay Industrial. Air cooled is easier than water too. Check it out to see if you need output shaft to take up warp and weft and check engine speeds to get correct pulley diameter etc. Other than that, it is an industrial internal combustion engine!

Must admit that I've never watched it and this last week has made me switch radio stations because of the sheer hype that the BBC are filling R1 and R2 with. Everything seems to revolve around the event! I hope we don't win and have to host it again next year! Utter tosh and nonsense!