PeteB

Penguin - poor mans bourbon!

You are right, I did and thanks for putting it correct!

Google RS Electricals, they are a good source of virtually any electrical component. Try moving the switch to a position where if is still to hand but less likely to get whacked!

If you still struggle, kill the blade with a hammer and chisel then get the remains out once the blade is gone! All the above advice is good, the best advise is to clean the holes out properly and use an impact driver to "shock" them loose. Don't forget to change your torx drive if it starts to wear out too.

Get it recored - it will be a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a suspect used one!

When I first started working for GreenMech some 12 odd years ago, we had a couple of machines back in to the service dept with rope damage. I remember that one was while the climber was still aloft and the line parted under the strain. For a while though, the chipper was a high speed winch! The rope wrapped about the main rotor shaft and indeed, changed the shape of the housing and popped the bearing. No one got hurt, thankfully.

Wife says to husband "u only ever want sex when ur drunk"husband says "thats not true....... sometimes i want a kebab,

Spot on, thanks for that!

I'm trying to remember the name of that mini skidder type gadget that was tracked and you could either stand on it or it had a handle which enabled you to walk in fron of it? I seem to remember it as a log skidder or even towing a sledge/trailer across boggy or uneven ground. Anyone know what it is called?

My condolences to all present or affected by this tragic waste. Please, don't take unnecessary risks.

To be honest, I'd take it to an Ag Engineer and give them the phone number for Hardmet Landforce for advise. I'd also look in the owners manual to see if there is any advice or hints in there. How does it work? do you know? Check all electrical connectors from the hydraulic spool valve through to the computer and from there back to the measuring device for a start.

It isn't really possible for a manufacturer, supplier or agent to make and carry parts for long dead models. That is why you have the "after market" making "pattern parts". Can you imagine Ford still carrying parts for the Model T?

I had an ArborEater back in the early 90's, did the job and we wrecked it! Then rebuilt it and it was still going strong in the late 90's when Alan Mason got it and sold it on. I remember being impressed with the size of the bearings and the fact that they could be greased. Shear bar was a PITA to keep set back then, but the Dalrymple people are good people and Richard Court does their work so there is a comfort zone there.

£145 nicker is cheap for an alternator. Someone told this week that the Range Rover sport alternator is positioned so that if it needs replacing, the whole engine and front of the car has to come off!

There are numerous places that you could take it to and get it rewound. Unfortunately, it'll not be cheap but it will be a darn sight cheaper than getting a new one.

Is it me or is she slightly bent in the middle as well as the front?

Please do! Yes, I spotted it too, but only after the first response so I could not edit it! Good vision tho!

We did utility work many years ago and on one site, the access to the field was so dire through this filthy farm yard that the owner made us walk in, do the work, burn the brash and stack timber in a pile and all for his own new supply. We carried out his instructions to the letter and some weeks later we got called to meeting at the office. "His prize shire horse has died from blood poisoning from wounds received from the log pile" said Bernard, the Wayleave Officer. "Righto, I'll go an see the disgustingly dirty fellow and sort it out" said I. I appeared in the filthy yard and went to see the owner who was dressed in the most disgustingly dirty clothes, unshaven (many days worth) and hair matted together, blue teeth and refused his hospitality (he had kept the same jam jar from the original site meeting). The value of this "working shire horse" increased by £1000 before we had crossed the yard whilst he told me of the care that he and his vet had lavished on the animal. "Which Vet do you use?" I inquired, "I'll need a Vet's autopsy report to claim on the insurance". "You cannot have it" he replied "When she died, I was that heartbroken, I buried her in the field (near the watercourse) without calling the Vet". "Oh", I replied "without the report, there will be no compensation". "Argh" he retorted, "I knew you would say that, so I cut the hoof off before I buried her and the vets notes will tell you she was poisoned by infection of the wound!". Sure enough, he went across the knee deep stack yard in slippers and fetched a stiff Donkey jacket off the back of an ancient tractor and pulled a horses hoof out of the pocket and shoved three fingers into the frog to demonstrate the size of the wound! It transpired that his Vet also cared for my cats and dogs and he informed me that Mr X did not pay any off his bills despite the vets threatening court action and that if we were lucky enough to get a claim off of our insurers then could they have first dibs! He also told me that the horse was totally untrained on the collar and a gift from a relative who died - valued a pet food only! He also told me that he had told Mr X to keep the animal in a clean loose box and clean the wound twice daily and he never moved t from the field. I reported all of this to Bernard who did not bother to finish his supply off and let him know that as a JP, his advice was to mourn his loss, quietly!

I once gave a day rate for two to clear up a monster Lebanese Cedar in the grounds of a large posh place near to me that was wind blown. The butt was that big that we ringed it up with an 088 with a 4 foot bat and there was a two inch bar overlap the center. I'd cut a few rings out, each about the width of the saw body, and out came the owner who was a bit annoyed at the slow progress. "You're taking forever doing that, cut them twice as thick and I'll pick them up with the JCB!", and stomped off. Turned up next day to see he had made a right mess of the lawn with the JCB and his PA came out with a tray of coffee and asked us to halve them as they were too heavy for the JCB to lift in the 4in1! Pratt had us cut up some really valuable timber because he did not want our crane truck on his lawn and market the round timber for him but he made a mess trying to get a 2 wheel drive JCB with a lump in the 4in1 off of the lawn!

Thanks for that Pete, I won't be using a taco as often as before but it is still info that we need.

Sweet As! Why was it banned?

My blood pressure remained low all last night. I have never watched nor intend to watch any such drivel for the last 7 years and if my children want to see such mind shrivelling dross, their Mum has to record it and they watch it in her time. I see watching such rubbish as an absolute waste of my time on this earth. All of the presenters and most of the participants are a load of talentless dead heads, some of whom are still riding a wave from their also wasted past!

Glenn Kay at Stockport possible has the biggest in the land! Based on a 6 tonne excavator with a massive wheel. It is the machine that Justin Kingwell used to have and Homegrown were the original owners.

I'm not one for union membership or strike action, but then, I've never been in a job that demands it or where a union requires it. I brought my house off of a Unison member who has never bothered to notify them of a change of address. After three years of forwarding her mail, I got fed up and just returned them clearly marked as, addressee not known at this address. I still get her mail which goes straight in the bin. Unison recently balloted its membership on strike action and the motion was carried. The results were sent to me and I opened the letter and was surprised to discover that less than 30% bothered to vote! A couple of points spring to mind; 1. Why couldn't the members be bothered to vote? 2. How much do Unison take from its members in revenue? 3. At what point is a ballot counted as worthless due to poor turnout? 4. How much union money (members money) has been wasted on a ballot about the pension rights etc and they could not be bothered to voice (vote) either way.

I used to stop cutting hedges when the customers stopped asking!