PeteB
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I was under the impression from talking to a chap who tried to import the Ducker into the UK that they were indeed TP, but rebadged Ducker because they could sell more in Germany under that name, and it was about 25% of TP production every year.
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I used to run a 4x4 Iveco daily which was a 3.5 tonne tipper. List price then was about 30K, we had it for 17.5k and spent 2k on the tipper. Last seen at George Walkers in Syston. We also had a Transit with the 4x4 County conversion.
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And so it should.
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Renault Dauphen Gordini I think.
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"Extras" Heavey on the handlebars!?! - do not do any late brake tricks, you'll swap ends and quickly.
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Possibly a bit light on the handlebars?
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Sorry, but if your my ex-wife, then after all I've been through - I think I deserve a stab. Seriously tho, there is nothing wrong in being blonde, female and from Essex. Being dumb, gullible, un-intelligent, bitter and twisted and vindictive is......
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I took a girlfriend to meet Ma & Pa in Shrops years ago and told her we were having Shropshire Pig Surprise for supper. I said it was pig stew and if she got the bit that looked like a burger with two holes in it she have good luck forever as it was the hooter. She silent for two hour trip and very pale! Mind you, she was blond and from Essex!!! What a surprise when we had beef curry! Ha Ha Ha....
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For me, my first album was "Slayed" by Slade from the Naafi in RAF Bruggan in Germany 1973, my last was "Mothership" by Led Zeppelin at Morrisons in Bodmin today. Absolutley cracking discs, brought back many memories of the seventies and eighties!
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I once set two teams out to a nasty 11kv job several fields off highway. Whilst going across a ridge and furrow field, the 130 stopped arse upards - the Tranny did not. Result - Landrover on dashboard! Had to claim - too much money involved and the driver of the Ford was **** hot worker who wasn't paid enough really. Broken light lenses on poorly reversed trailors and chippers were charged to the drivers. Otherwise breakages were few and far between.
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I do sincerely apologize. It was bad form to "call" somebody I don't know, however, I've come across so many people that slate GM, many without real reason. A very few with reason, what matters is how the "crisis" is managed. The combi is a good machine in the right hands, put it in the wrong hands and, like any shredder or chipper will bite someone on the bum, usually GM. GM have improved over the years and they still look at improving the price, specification and performance. GM aftersales is phenominal but only if they are made aware of an issue. The guy who signs off these issues is not known as Mr No, as is known of other manufacturers or suppliers and I do relish putting right the wrong. I've never shyed away from any problem (apart from marital)!!!
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Had a bad day? Perhaps the two Combination machines are idle because the users are, perhaps some daily maintanence could be of benefit, perhaps you ought to learn why its not being used and put right thos problems. Utilise the kit available - its cheaper.
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Mine came from a rogue in Tewkesbury. The exhaust the he'ed fitted fell of within two weeks, the stench pipe for the cab, guard and fittings cost nearly £900 plus vat. The silencer had then to be cut to fit. Some parts can only be had from MB orsourced from broken ones, so good parts can cost an awful lot.
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Thats and old truck!?! My Matador was built in 1942, I believe that it is still going somewhere. (If only the oily bits) I was told my old Mog was built in '79. Look at the hour meter on the end of the engine, if it looks a bit leggy, don't cry, go to an Ag breakers - Merc engines were fitted to combines which are only used for a few weeks a year.
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The guy who lost his ankle (then leg) a couple of years ago was the site safety officer - a fine example really. UK margins being what they are coupled with transport laws etc mean we have to piss with the prick we are born with. If we can only afford or tow a small chipper, think logically. You've seen what it can do to a lump of tree, feed it stuff it can handle. Get the job done safely. Manufacturers, suppliers and users have to do what the do-gooders insist we do. Big or small, they all can hurt. Whilst on the safety band wagon, I'm aware that a trailor carrying a tracked chipper recently came off a hitch and seriously hurt a young lad. Please check that all trailor brakes and hitches (inc break away cables) work properly.
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My vote always goes to kids, Poppy appeal then cancer.
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When heard like that it's scary, but with eletronic transactions done daily by the billion, I would not be at all surprised if THEY already know all the details on many of us. Still scary stuff tho.
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We have our Rememberence Day, do other countries have their's? Isn't one of the points that we remember our dead, for their sacrifice in doing what they thought was right. I would like to think that other nations think of their fallen who died doing what they thought was right at that time - even if history shows otherwise. All the fallen soldiers, airmen and sailors died doing what they perseive as their duty, whether they where conscripts or volunteers.
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I ran a U1000 uprated to 125hp with a rear mounted GreenMech 9". Worked well for me - ran it all day long at 1000 speed, which made it quiet and economical. Tidy unit in all, but it did leak a bit so we had to carry a drip tray for domestic work.
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Another one I came across three years ago, a guy from the EA told me that every tree surgeon should get a recycling exemption certificate for every site he chips at (unless it is a farm doing under a certain amount every year). The fine was minimal, but to fill yet more paperwork, at an extra admin cost, with no one to read it, store it for a few years then dispose of it in an environmentally friendly manner seems crazy. But not as crazy as he told those present that it was the surgeons duty to find out about this rule, not theirs to highlight it!
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Just got back from stock racing at Coventry. Good stuff, there is something about a 460 cubic inch V8 on cam! Wicked stuff. Really enjoyed it. Off to Hednesford tomorrow, F1, F2 and "stock trucks". Apparantly thats armoured tractor units battling it out. Thats my fix!
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"Well, that dog won't hunt" "Pass the big hammer, that'll move it"! "You got that metric adjustable"? "What do ya mean, too dear? Christ that's cheap"! "How much, can you do it for the timber"?
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I'm a lumberjack and all right I sleep all day and I work all night!
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I've a good elbow that cracks at 150knm! then I know it will stay on. Seriously - if a setting is prescribed, use it. I had a huge Yorkshire rugby player labour for me, great guy, but useless on the spanners, every bolt could get sheared with a gentle "Fook, another one bust"! I left him in the yard once with the instruction to move a container 6ft with the Matador. Got back an hour later, he'ed got it 1st and winch engaged and couldn't disengage either! He did not know what to do except sit there and sweat. I turned the engine off!
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Could be marketing talk. Them titchy Tinnywolf blades can be done by hand as they and the bearings don't last long enough to worry too much about the cost. Worry about the big bills and save the small ones til last. I thought the concave or "hollow ground" blades were reserved for the 190. Harder to do and not that much benefit.
