PeteB
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BTS, simple rule is - unless qualified, don't go or have anything go within 1.5m. Call the REC and let them handle it, they pay suitably qualified and insured contractors to carry out close proximity work. That's 1.5m for lv, bigger for hv - mega distance for 132kv - act of parliament for 400kva. Try contacting one of the contractors like BTS or Connaughts for their view.
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Tuff luck Dean - hope you catch the buggers but will the law do? Bugger all or do you for wasting their time. What galls me is that they have probably charged their customer for disposal at a recycling facility. Good luck with the hunt.
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As a log it doesn't burn well as green wood, and dried out - it burns too fast with little calorific value. As biomass in a big commercial boiler it does okay!
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Who got it? Salcey Arborcare or Cleartrack EVL?
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I got a Sigma DG 70-300 to fit my Canon 400D which is good if you are a long way away or bloody close to use the macro side. Good value and I was advised to get Sigma rather than Canon.
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I've known many machines suffer from the heat on the coolant side but if your getting really hot hydraulic oil then there may be an issue with the circuit. a misaligned spool valve or it circulating too much oil unnecessarily. How are the tracks supplied with hydraulic oil? is there a separate circuit? Greenmech use a "clutched" set of pumps on our safetracs so that oil is not being pumped around a circuit thus creating heat.
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I suppose one could convert it, but it is a pto drive winch driven via the transfer box with wonderful self spool mechanism and rear fairleads, and a large fulcrum enabling the cable to go down tha chassi leg and out the front.
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You got it Stevie boy, they were mounted underneath the sub chassis behind the rear wheels and dropped down and raised on air pressure. When we started the build, it was made as a modern day Matador ie mobile crane, but could be used by the REC for pole erection etc as well as a our site work.
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My lad Tom wants to finish it and show it at rallies etc. I gave it to the fabricater and my garage is not big enough = its got the hot rod in there.
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There is another cab available, and with the surface rust gotten rid of, the jobs a good un! Self spooling winch, Atlas 4001 crane, sprags and a good engine it's worth considering saving! It was stood in one place for about 6 years and it started on the button and held air well even the brakes were okay. Everything worked when parked up and I bet it would do again - I'm almost tempted to do it myself for the hell of it!
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Combination of beer and empty belly Mick - well spotted tho.
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This got started back in 95, we gave to to the lad who was doing the fabrication in 99 when I went to work for GreenMech. Atlas crane on the rear bumper, sprags mounted underneath, mid mounted Turner winch, multifuel engine with new bottom end, now gradually returning to the earth. Is it worth anything?
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Spotted at a Vintage Tractor rally at Holbeach in Licolnshire.
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Oi Mozza Why do you need a new box assembly and why not improvise? Flexible tubing and a cylindrical filter housing and filter that came of another truck or item of plant. BTW - I going to Balmers on Monday can you meet me somewhere? Cheers
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I was looking at a Challenger rear wheel at they get tightened to 900nm! Bolt size is thy key, an engineering list will give specific torque settings depending on bolt size and thread. Good luck.
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Did two weeks for a shot blasting firm in Doncaster in the 80's when work was short - dust, noise lousy wages! You still had black dust around your eyes after a shower and black snot for days after. I had the job of filling the pot up with a shovel whilst the chap blasted mining equipment. Then had the job of blasting but got told of for doing too good a job! British Coal where ripped off by so many subbies it was untrue.
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That is a tasty peice of work that, why is it that the contractors went ahead? Surely they saw the roots as they where digging away or is it just a case of money buys happiness?
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Allan Oldfield got bit with his, that's why it has gone! Rob Forrester in Cheltenham has a couple for hire - he could give you an idea of the pitfalls/bonus's. He still does a bit of tree work, gutter cleaning on big houseschurhces and hires them out, call him on 07966 665771.
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Tracked chipper looks like a desirable tool:sneaky2: Rate are cheap too - should be a couple of hundred more than that! -
My local motor factors told me that they no longer do service kits for calipers or pistons, they come new a significant cost but nobody repairs weeping brake components anymore. I was even told that I could not get a set of shock bushes as new shockers were easier to fit.
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I'm pretty sure you could use that to dress chainsaw bars too. Am I right Bob?
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Yuck, thats near the knuckle!
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A call to Nigel and Ian at Fletcher Stewart in Stockport may help, they used to be the importers or 'phone Kilworths atAshby de la Zouch as the are the current people. Wet mushy stuff to be shredded is likely to block the chute up I know that!
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One of my cats has taken to bringing moles home and hiding them until the house humms with the smell of decomp! Perhaps I ought to get a Lab to eat them before they hide them! Nice wound tho'
