PeteB
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Too right, always learning, always paying out. Well done.
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As you've got hydraulic power, use that. You'll need another spool valve, hoses and motors and drive wheels. Yes, about a grand'll do it. But it's still a road tow. Buy a tracked machine it'll ease the pain. Brian James do a great trailer that is only just as wide as the towed vehicle, it'll fit in a container and as a tipping unit, can be used pretty well like a road tow on the back of a vehicle.
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Why are you looking at a 3500kg 4x4? Having run them in the past I would now question their application. Consider the options if you would. If its needed to carry kit off road, then buy a standard 4x4. If its needed to drag a road tow chipper across fields, buy a tracked woodchipper. Leave your wheels at the roadside. If you need it to carry woodchips, think! A Landrover type 4x4 is narrow (relatively), high and comes with axle travel. It WILL rock and roll. A transit type 4x4 will not carry any more, but same as the others, will sink into the mud, cut up the grass and be expensive to buy and run. A truck type 4x4 could be the way forward if you need to recover your chips and tow a chipper and have a licence to suit the combo. But costs are high and resale value is low.
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Took the shine (profit) off the job! Hard lines
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I chopped off a thump twenty years ago wearing a soggy glove on a circular saw - never wear any jewellery, it can get lost or eaten in machinery. Always wore a watch tho. Hope you heal quick, Best regards.
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My Rodeo is twenty months old and has done close to 100k miles with no problems, newer Rodeos have a better interior and better engine, but i've no real complaints about mine. New shape Nissan Navaras might have a clutch problem (heard they're fixed under warranty - but it's the hassle). Ranger supposed to be good, L200 look silly, Landrover will always hold their value - new ones with six speed box and Transit engines are great, I've been around the 4x4 course at Gaydon in one.
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A friend had a crew that did major work to a laquer tree that apparrantly was a miss-ident. Wow, they were burns that made a leg of burnt pork look off putting. Case ongoing I understand.
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Great revenge trick. I've laminate floors in my gaff, my lad wanted to do donuts with his RC car on living room floor. Rolled back the rug and polished the floor with Pledge, wicked donuts and skids ensued. After I took the kids back to their mothers, I walked in and bent down to turn on the box and went base over apex big style. How they would have laughed!!!
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"Do you know the arse is hanging out your trousers"? "You hum it, I'll come in on the chorus"!
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Girlfriend is like a moped. Great fun to ride - but you wouldn't like your mates to see you on it!
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Looks like this thread has died. But by looking at the poll I'd say that someone jumped ship fro the popular to the less so.
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I do what I can for folks I know, whether they be old customers, friends or people I know that have had a bad turn. I can remember my own vultures spiraling. I can remember the putting my business into liquidation and getting broken into the day the notice went out - nobody helped me. I know how I felt. I still have a bad credit rating thanks to a business putting goods supplied to my business onto my own card. Sometimes life sucks - sometimes you deserve it. Thanks Craig, your a ****!
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Sometimes just being a sympathetic ear and a shoulder to cry on is all that you can give - but thats stacks more than a cold shoulder. I'm sure they realise that you are not able to help financially or with a roof. Good luck to your mates.
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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.
