PeteB
-
Posts
10,292 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
26
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Calendar
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by PeteB
-
Police, Camera, Action!
-
A half decent bottle of white wine does it for me! Oh, cocodamel or silly strong ibruprofen with an antacid before!
-
try giving the council a ring, there was a place off Wade Lane (of Faraday Lane, off Ringway N) by the council depot.
-
I was asked a few times to reduce the bill for the firewood. My usual response was "I'll reduce the price to leave it all here" Because by the time you have cut it, carted it, converted it and delivered it - you could well be out of pocket!
-
Funny how they grow their beetroot in that country, did you notice too that his grass is of a different species to that used in the UK. Fascinating really!
-
might be worth visiting a LandRover forum too. I don't know wether LandRover Owner International magazine have a Q&A section.
-
Give Allan Oldfield at Beaver Plant a ring. 01759 372552. He has one in the shed but I'm not sure if it is for hire or just for sale. You could need a reasonable size digger tho, 200kgs at reach means 1.5t at least. CBL at Soham keep a range of Takeuchi diggers on their fleet. 01353 649599
-
Nice one!
-
Economic load carrying vehicle, for under 21s
PeteB replied to Andrew Reed's topic in Large equipment
I was just going to post - forget serious load carrying, get to the sales and buy and ex-post office AstraVan! -
I used them back in the early 80's, wow, but they were hard work and bloody noisey too!
-
You got it, Corby Glen, south of the town. He wasn't there tho! It always does flood out on the Meadows (11 arches) in Loughborough, and at Barrow on Soar. 98 was a bad year for it, possibly the worst I've seen it since 82 when I moved there. At that time, one of the trucks I ran was an Iveco 35.10 4x4. I drove it through floods near Kegworth (by the planks for those that know) and someone video'ed it from Kegworth Bridge, the water was well up the bonnet with a nice bow wave and then it started to get to the end of the water - it was only then that the watching masses realised how deep the water really was! as this big wheeled truck started to rise up out of the water! I've some pictures of the truck and the floods - but they are in another shoebox!
-
Madmatt, yes that was 98 - we had loads of fun in that! NickB, yes, I modded and tinkered with all kinds of motors back then. Armchairarborist, thankfully my driving style matured, at least on the road it has! RobertS, the jack was a tad small - it was all I could get hold of at the time, but did you like the "stack" of logs? "Managing" is something that a lot of tree people do, when it needs doing, tree people have to manage with what they can get!
-
Nicely done! Looks like yourself and your mates enjoyed yourself!
-
Last 2. 1. Bloody cold that winter 2. Thieves got in again, another load of saws etc gone!
-
Some more 1. Repairing the rack bench prior to it being sold. 2. Paul and Dave practising aeriel rescue. 3. Hired in International 1255 and GreenMech chipper. 4. Elm tree in Engelbert Humperdincks back yard.
-
Some more. 1. International Tractor that got worked hard 2. Banger racing in early 80s 3. My old Mog and GreenMech chipper 4. The last flood in the Soar Valley
-
Been through that shoebox of old photographs! 1. Taking the engine out of a wrecked car 2. My RS2000 remodified 3. A Rochdale Olympic that I cut up. 4. I put a Dolomite Sprint engine in this with the owner and it crashed.
-
Why, it's nowt but chair leg man!
-
Fairplay Woodland, no worries. Both TW and GM have changed how the no stress device cuts in and at what rpm, that is what makes the difference - not the engine. The base design of the TW has not changed in many, many years.
-
Bet that they are claim tax credits too!
-
Sorry Woodland, I was not trying to be offensive to you, but, having been around machinery for some 28 years, I do know a thing or two. The engine has little or no influence on the ejecting of conifer brash from a woodchipper - it is all in the cutting mechanism and the air blast generated by the chipper flywheel that gets rid of the chips. Wether it be the fans or the speed, or the air "in" or air "out" and so on, the engine only drives the rotor shaft and very little else. (put a big engine in and that will help but only because it does not slow down). From memory, a GM shifts considerably more air (in a given time) than the TW which should ensure that the chips/mush get ejected quicker and further. You said they had improved, I asked how?
-
I would not like to add up how much tax I've personally paid into the system, furthermore, I could not calculate the revenue I given to the state when I ran a company for 17 years. Some of that money has been frittered away and some has come back to me in the way of "homeland" security with HM Forces, my kids where born on the state, educated by the state and nursed into health by the state when they needed it. My taxes have paid for the Police, my roads and a huge variety of other things. Some I agree with and many I don't, but if there is a way of getting cash back from this backward state then please tell me, if everyone else is on the "make" (from politicians to Poles) then I want my share too. After all, I've been honest and loyal to this island all my life so surely I should I'm entitled to get free money?
-
£650 tax per year is about £1.60 per day. If that saves you getting fined for over weight or reduces the trips then I think that £1.60 is a worthwhile investment, don't you? A pack fags is about £6 I believe, are they a worthwhile daily investment?
-
Quote: Originally Posted by woodland It has to be the TW, just collected my new 125 2 weeks ago and I love it terrific chipper TW have sorted out the old problem of it blocking on wet conifer, I have used GM in the past and was quite disappointed. Im chipping into the back of my ranger and all seems to be working well. Blimey, how have they done that? ________________ Please Mr Woodland, enlighten me. How has the blocking been beaten? Who sold you the machine? because I suspect you have been done up like a kipper!__
-
A Steve says, if it has been struck before, it surely will have visual damage and therefore structural failures so is it really worth chucking a conductor down it rather than a saw through it?
