PeteB
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Blimey John, she looks in fair fettle. I have a thing for old rides - a tad older than this tho. Mines a 1948 Austin 16 with a Jag IRS out back, Rover V8 int front, with a narrowed MK1 Transit I beam front axle. Still not running again as it lost oil pressure on Saturday morning!
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Tracks have an internal brake which needs hydraulic oil pressure to release. GreenMech put a small pump on a 5hp Honda petrol engine so we could move dead tracked machines. Pirtek would so an on-site repair but it would cost! Lift on one side then the other to get it on sheets of timber and drag with a winch if you have to. If you mate has gone on holiday and abandoned you, I bet you are well happy!
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Years ago I used TFR on a Radiant Red coloured GreenMech that I owned - sprayed it on an then went to make a 'phone call. Came out to find that it had eaten into the powder coat and turned it orange!
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Good truck Ben, stands out from the crowd.
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ey Charlie, we put bio hydraulic oil in chippers that go to the EA. It costs about 6 times the rate for ordinary stuff and lasts no time at all. One EA depot said when I delivered the last lot, "Useless stuff, we will have that out next week, it degrades too fast and completely screws the whole system and you then have to replace every component from the pump, hoses, filter housing and motors!" One mechanic said that there was no point in having bio hydraulic oil if you are using chemical anti-freeze, ordinary engine oil and ordinary diesel as they have every chance of being spilled too. He actually went on to say that if the machine is left idle for too long, the oil degrades faster!
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I confess to a sense of wonderment at the amount of effort and risk they took to pinch an old machine too!
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Les Butters from Chandlers Farm Equipment in Belton phoned this morning to tell me that a determined person broke (via a neighbouring property) into their compound and stole an 11 year old GreenMech 202 woodchipper. This was not fit to tow as the brakes needed work and the chipper had peculiar electronic controls. The machine was a trade in machine with a broken jockey wheel and the rotor needed new bearings too. Anyone see this at a sale or advertised, please contact me or Les on 07885 327477. Thanks.
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I'm sure Nick Hilton would manage that, he is the fellar that does the "Wood Wise" articles in FMJ. A quick Google would turn up his number. If you do call him, say "Hi" from me, I haven't spoke to him in ages.
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Oh come on John! Common sense says that chippping and tracking is not right. Plus, (to me anyway) The 430 that I had in stock was painfully slow across the ground, painful to track on a hard surface,painfully expensive to buy, had no local dealers, was a pita to look after and was heavier to drag about too. I thought that some of the engineering did not represent value for the money paid, in fact, I thought that someone was having a laugh when I looked closely at the infeed chute, roller controls and discharge chute. Just my thoughts tho.
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The GreenMech dealer in Essex is Chelmsford Garden Machinery. Give them a ring and ask for Richard or Dave and join the the Wee Chipper Club.
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Ahem... Why has the Cs100 out sold they other makes?
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Ship building. Think of the shape of the prow stem and stern. Hundreds of years ago, curved timbers like these where highly valued for their shape.
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I'll ring Paul later!
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Wasn't there a chap who jumped from a balloon from the edge of.space and free falled for several minutes, at one point getting upto 250mph due to the lack of wind resistance. I admire people who have the cojones to do this kind of thing, they can have my share!
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Paul Abbott at SAS did it for the APF show. One of the biggest drawbacks is the height of the infeed chute or the angle upto the infeed rollers and the fact that you have a "One Usage" Landrover. If you power it by the transfer case then you are putting plenty of hours on and engine that is not really rated for "industrial" use rather than one set up for automotive usage ie high revs and minimal air flow through the rad. Landrover did an "Agri-Rover" which had rear pto and lift arms but they where hellish expensive!
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Birmingham (castle vale) Chip Tip Site required will pay beer tokens!
PeteB replied to David Riding's topic in General chat
You could also try Moodys at Wolverhampton or even try Gristwood and Toms at the Birmingham Wheels site. -
Birmingham (castle vale) Chip Tip Site required will pay beer tokens!
PeteB replied to David Riding's topic in General chat
Dave, try Andy Hall at Blyth Valley Landscapes on Houndsfield Lane, Wythall. He runs a biomass centre that takes timber, brash, chips etc amongst other things - I don't know how much he charges tho.07811 339733 -
Buy my Isuzu Rodeo - it is advertised in the classified section. The Rodeo has proven to be reliable over a few miles!
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Hey Ian, I went upto the ruined sawmill near to me armed with a camera and I cannot see it - it might be elsewhere on the estate. If I see the chap who owned it, I'll ask him what happened to it. Sorry but don't hold your breath.
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I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure that the troop carrier chassis is different from the Ag spec. That having been said they could make someone happy. I found a load of Ag spec machines on an auction site that had been sitting in in a disposal sale in the States a while back.
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Sweet ones John! She was only the Undertaker's daughter, but anyone cadaver. She was only the tarmac layer's daughter, but she knew how to get her asphalt.
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A Defender 130 I had in the early '90s had a capstan winch at the front which was driven off of the dog drive on the crankshaft gland nut. I rebuilt the engine after a gudgeon pin incident one year but from then one, the gland nut would occasionally come loose which worried me a tad - the thought of the lads miles from home and the pulley coming off was not one I enjoyed. So I took it to an ag engineer mate and said "Can you get your lad to put a spot of weld on it to stop it coming orf" He did that alright - he seamed three faces of the nut! That was never coming apart again! Pity the next owner trying to rebuild that motor! Now that is a proper bodge!
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Many years ago I did some banger racing on a small circuit in South Yorkshire. I had an Austin Princess wedge for a car which was surprising lively when stripped out. At one meeting the gear-stick came off in my hand mid race - so I reached through the hole in the floor and managed to shift up/down by pushing /pulling on the rod! As the linkage was totally knacked, we fashioned a lever to shift up/down between 1st and 2nd and finished the afternoons fun without 3rd, the car afir screamed down the straight but who cared.
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APF is next September isn't it?
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The infeed is low so that you can have a top bar which trips out less and the upward slope is dictated, partially, by the H&SE and the turntable effectively raising the height of the roller box. All CE approved woodchippers must slope upwards towards the infeed rollers some do it slightly more than others that is all. I think that I've seen the odd German machine with a right uphill on it!
