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Sweet Ride Ace!, is she ex - Ruddington?
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An engineer would ask for the bolt size and pitch - thus giving a set torque measurement. Most people would say "FT, its a gut feeling thing", try ringing Vermeer in Wellingborough on 01933 274400.
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Nice ride! Don't tell me that your getting some fetching allinones too?
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I have to confess that...................... After watching that series and a few other such programs (and being old and wise now), I wish I had had a gone at the States, Aus, New Zealand etc 20 odd years ago. Anything like should be done early, follow the harvest across the states, go shearing, cut timber etc before age and sanity, wives and ex-wives and kids dampen your spirit but not your ability! Fair play to those that do!
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We used to keep chain oil in 205 ltrs purchased from either the local household heating oil supplier or from a good local Ag Engineer - back then it was roughly £1 per Ltr. 2 stroke oil was purchased in 25ltr drums as well and self mixed.
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if i dont get a decent job after this then whats the point !
PeteB replied to jayman's topic in General chat
"or CSE drama (grade 2, the shame)" Hey, grade two is good, don't knock yourself! -
We have tended to use the Brian James tilting trailer to cart our machines about and have sold a few as well. Low, about as wide as the tow truck, plenty of lashing points and reasonably priced. About the 2k mark I think.Very good for towing a tracked machine about but without sides etc, not much use for ought else. Far better trailer than the standard plant trailer which started to "age" very quickly with us.
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You are entitled to your opinion. Whatever it is - however you got to that reason.
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The engine we are fitting is the Kubota 3 pot turbo engine rated at 34hp.
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Machines are only as safe as the person using them. Cutting with a guillotine isn't new, I remember a green one at many trade shows being fed by a conveyor (with guard) and driven by a hydraulic motor that was attached to something like a 5hp motor. Not many moving parts or bits to go wrong. But the logs weren't as pretty as cut logs.
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List price for the version which has a tipping turntable is £23,690 + vat. The Quadchip was a "clean sheet" design with the design criteria of 6x9 inch opening, reasonable hp(34), good make of engine, on a turntable, with brakes, top/side safety bar with the whole lot weighing in at less than 750kgs. The next evolution was to put it on tracks. I think it is being reviewed in Horty Week in the near future after some recent trials at Westonbirt Aboretum.
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Sometimes yes, a dealer can "multi-brand" but if there is too much conflict, then the one brand will say "Ours or theirs - make your choice"! How many outfits do you know that sell TW and GM or any other combination of chipper for that matter. If you owned a shop then politics will become a factor in your life. What you sell and where you sell it can dictate the terms that you buy in at, and what product range is available too you. Some machinery dealers, John Deere, for example, make it very difficult for you to stock any other range of machinery because if you want to remain a John Deere dealer then your skin is green and you bleed yellow. Anything else just ain't gonna happen.
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wasn't this gadget on a stand at the APF? Someone said their was asplit/guillotine processor that looked a tad dangerous to work.
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What? be agents for them and risk losing the GreenMech deal? Hmmm:sneaky2:
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Hey Max! Mine has now done 230k with only a couple of issues. Not the most comfortable (front or back) but reliable and reasonably economical and mine did not have the Prodrive button either!
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Are Timberwolf chippers really that good ??
PeteB replied to combined tree services's topic in General chat
Fun reading all these threads - but I'll keep my mouth shut:sneaky2: -
So right with this one, We all witness stuff like this every day yet we do nought about it!
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Chipper help! Old Wessex \ Stierman Soest machine
PeteB replied to andrew's topic in Large equipment
Too be honest, I would advise the owners that they would be better orf buying a new machine. When using this tool, it should be noted that nobody should be able to touch ANY of the working parts whilst the machine is working. It looks to me like some guards have been removed and not properly replaced. As it was built in 1993(or 8) it is unlikely to comply with the H&SE standards that are required today and updating this tool when the origin is not known could prove expensive. -
Don't sit there feeling sorry for yourself, look at this as as opportunity to go self employed or seek work with someone else. Sorry that it has happened - never a good time but make good of the chances given!
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I did have a chat with Paul Abbott on our stand about it and I have to admit that I can see that it has a application for ute work, where a lot of chip is left on site and 4x4 is a must. A good customer of ours was looking to get LR to do him a likely device to carry a 6" GreenMech PTO and discovered that axle loadings, fuel regs, licence regs, cost blah blah blah were going to be an issue. Perhaps that is why not many Agri-Rovers were built/sold. Fair play to Paul and his team for having the balls to give it a go. (Still would have been better with a GreenMech tho)
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3 people are coming to the show to see that one, absolute steal! First come first served tho! Get in early is my advice. Got your bolts Steve - we have a chat about a Quad Chip at t'show. Cheers
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Me mother and Father went to live in Hinstock years ago, in a converted Butchers shop which had been a pub a few hundred years ago. Dad wanted to change it back to the pub name but the was opposition to both names. Cock Hall and Cock Inn. A bloke round the corner from me calls his house Furkham Hall.
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Come on Ian, your a Yorkshireman - get with the programme lad - we are all out there for profit, you, me, everybody! Your right in that that bearing you got was a tad dear but, you paid. You might not ever go there again but you did pay!
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Jan, your trying to compare machines with different applications. One is on wheels and one is on tracks. If you need tracks, then you might be limited in your choice of machine. If not, then you will have plenty to choose from. You are correct in saying that the Pred 50 looses power driving the head hydraulically. Most hydraulic applications loose about 25% of their power. Therefore the Pred 50 has 37.5 at the head.
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Well spotted Josh The top picture was taken in the '80s I believe and subsequently someone sold it off and had NVS put on instead. Notice too the slightly different profile of the wheel arches and the rear lights have changed. I've got my work cut out getting ride of some rust issues and a couple of mechanical issues and add to that, electrical issues over this winter.
