PeteB

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?

RESULT!!! I hope that the punishment is worthy of the crime although I doubt that it will reform them. I wonder if the CPS will send the case to court or that they will decline due to lack of evidence and your culpability in owning such an item forsooth Milud!

David Barrowcliff recently passed away after a battle with spinal cancer and dementia. My best wishes to all those others affected by dementia and have to watch as the great and the good suffer from this truly awful condition. David Barrowcliff was my uncle, he allowed me into the world of timber contracting as a holiday job back in 1982. That holiday job lasted until 1998 when it finished and I joined GreenMech. He was born as one of five children between the war years and his father and uncles were also timber contractors of note in the East Midlands. As an 11 year old, David even had his own horse and helped his father tush out trees and after a stint on the college farm at Sutton Bonington College, National Service, a couple of years with the BRS and driving construction equipment during the building of Ratcliffe Power Station, he went back to timber. His first job was to clear fell 27 acres of poplar trees which he sold in the round. He set out on his first day to cycle the 7 miles to the site on a bike with his cross cut and axe tied to the cross bar, by the end, he was employing people and had transport and a D8 crawler with a blade. David was for a while in business with one of his brothers, Keith, who was an inventive engineer and between them, they converted Army lorries into Artic Drugs (Bolster trucks to you young ones) with kit purchased from Ruddington Sales as well as buying and selling timber. Keith died from injuries after an incident with a Chevy Quad timber crane which I purchased many years later and was instructed to cut it up for scrap. David ran a sawmill cutting timber for all kinds of people and included many hundreds of lorry loads of pit props that prop up the mines of Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. David felled, snedded, loaded, converted and delivered many thousands of trees in his working life and I helped him cut down the last big Elm tree in the parish of Sutton Bonington back in 1984, that tree was the last of 97 from that parish alone, some of which I remember being 8 feet through. After the hey day of DED, he down-sized the sawmill to concentrate more on contracting to the Utility sector. Although he would occasionally take on "fell and extract" work to give his employees (me included) an insight or skill base for their future. He taught me to extract and load some sizable lumps with a small 2 wheel drive International without getting the butt too dirty or making a mess of the landing. When I started, the mill was finished, although we would occasionally mill butts for the experience - he was brilliant at quarter cutting by eye and I still have his bible of Decimal Cube Tables dated 1949 and Hoppus Feet Tables. He would even have us split butts with wooden wedges so that we could experience the old methods of work without power saws. He es-cued many modern methods and tools but always completed the work required to an excellent degree, he would never entertain getting a blower or cherry picker or even a tipper. He taught us to put a rope around the load of brash and get someone to drive off whilst you pulled the load to the ground! He was cynical of me when I started to buy Landrovers, 4x4 Transits, woodchippers and the Unimog. "Cash is better in the pocket" "boot leather is cheap" he would say. David was typical "old school" in that his word was enough, did not bother too much with order numbers, but ran a profitable organisation and he fostered into many people, a strong work ethic and the desire to do things "right". His tree work skills where learned from his fore fathers and was working to a form of CODIT whilst Doc Shigo was chewing on his pencil. He would often cut a log in certain way to show the young ones the collars and barriers within the grain of timber and show how/why a pruning cut is necessary. He wore steel toecapped boots, moleskin trousers, putees and more often worked in a vest believing that chainsaw trousers/boots were not necessary if you were capable and competent. I rarely saw him wear ear muffs or safety helmet or visor - he preferred to hear/see when a big butt is coming over. Head protection was a woolly hat and a coat was a Donkey Jacket with NCB across the shoulders. Although not a tall man, he was heavily built and had "presence" without demanding it. I saw him get really cross on a number of occasions but he did not feel the need to shout or thump people - a gentle man who liked to have the odd drink, play dominoes in the pub and laugh heartily. He would help anyone who asked and many who did not, benefited from his largess too. David always helped out with the local branch of The British Legion and was always giving generously to local affairs like the Kegworth Steam Show (when it existed) and quite often "forgot" to send people their bill or collect money for firewood delivered. I have many, many fond memories of working at Barrowcliffs and I'm sure the others who worked there will too. Some of whom will be at his funeral on the 31st Jan. David is survived by his loving wife, my aunt, Joan. Rest Easy Dave, thanks for everything. Goodbye My Auld................

Awful mustard yellow!?! Come on Johnny, that is Caterpillar yellow or Vermeer yellow, the Blue Machine had theirs blue and HSS had theirs blue with yellow safety bars too. I had mine in Ford Radiant red, you can have them in your colour if that is what you want. We have done them Red/Yellow mix, Orange, Landrover Green, Navy Blue, White, Brown, Buttercup yellow and I even quoted a chap for a metallic colour but that was a tad dear! Hey Dan, good luck with the search, I hope she turns up!

Capel Manor is a College in north London by the A10/M25 junction.

Acacia GroundCare Rental at Henfield do chippers, why are you specific about a TW150?