PeteB
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Mid June, anyone doing it or watching? Friday is last entry date. Touch and go whether I muster the drive to enter!
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Nice response. Things happen unfortunately, and it never happens where it doesn't matter! Good luck going forwards and never panic!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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Wasn't that a Morecombe and Wise gag?
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As said, turn the engine/rotor over by hand to check that everything totates. Then leads, then connections at the starter. There are plenty of more local folk who could see to this if you are skill short!
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I spoke to a lad about the Sany range, he tells me that the makers are really subsidising things for 5 years, then things will change. Second hand prices will start to dictate prices then and the market prices could change and many people could then revert back to other manufacturers!
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Sorry, just right busy at the moment and not been home for a few days, will look tonight! I would think that most parts or substitute parts are out there!
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I'll look in the master records to see was the original owner later!
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Jase's recollections are spot on. The electric drive was fair jerky to inch forward so some had some kind electrical slow start device to help. The electric motors could also ingest a certain amount of crud which could stop them fro working too. When the hydro units were introduced, we stopped importing the electric drive. You could lock a a wheel with a simply, "over centre" lever with a cable down to a lever on band brake, the levers were vulnerable to getting bent though!
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Back then......they had more horses than the Rayco or Vermeer, had a bigger cutting head and were a tad cheaper too!
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25 years back, Tony Turner, the Chairman of GreenMech drove his Range Rover to Barcelona towing a trailer with an 8" chipper on it and towing another behind it too! He got stopped on the M40, the Police walked around this train, then asked "is this really legal?". Tony replied, "if it isn't, I'd not do it!". They let hi on his way..... Yes, reversing was an issue though.
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Not a bad way of calculation without the core test and dendro count! Size is a total guess agin a count!
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My high mileage, GreenMech tow tug is starting to fail with gearbox issues (the diff is bloody noisy too). Symptoms are that pretty well continuously, almost like a heart beat, the gearbox drops a gear and changes back up instantly. Sometimes only noticeable by looking at the RPM, others with a pronounced judder through the truck. Ford have had it on the ramp and plugged it in but no codes are recorded and they tell me that to take it out and send it off could cost a few thousand. Any gearbox gurus in the house?
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Try Liam Webb at Maple Trees in Nottingham. He may send a walking floor etc. 07860725113 -
Red Diesel: Arboriculture exemption recognised by HMRC
PeteB replied to Stephen Arb Association's topic in General chat
Fair point that, how about chippers/grinders on hire fleets? -
Are they UK built? Thought production was at the Laski spot in the Cz Republic? Apologies if I'm misinformed!
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I was able to have a good, up close look at one. Good from afar but far from good. Truly awful bonnet moulding, truly awful looking infeed and controls, worth nothing second hand and expensive new when you look at what you get. Far better quality 'budget' chippers available from the big 3!
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A tractor dealer near there said that sold a used GreenMech SafeTrac 22o and he told me it was to AJ or AJS trees in East Sussex!
