PeteB
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I spoke to a lad about the Sany range, he tells me that the makers are really subsidising things for 5 years, then things will change. Second hand prices will start to dictate prices then and the market prices could change and many people could then revert back to other manufacturers!
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Sorry, just right busy at the moment and not been home for a few days, will look tonight! I would think that most parts or substitute parts are out there!
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I'll look in the master records to see was the original owner later!
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Jase's recollections are spot on. The electric drive was fair jerky to inch forward so some had some kind electrical slow start device to help. The electric motors could also ingest a certain amount of crud which could stop them fro working too. When the hydro units were introduced, we stopped importing the electric drive. You could lock a a wheel with a simply, "over centre" lever with a cable down to a lever on band brake, the levers were vulnerable to getting bent though!
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Back then......they had more horses than the Rayco or Vermeer, had a bigger cutting head and were a tad cheaper too!
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25 years back, Tony Turner, the Chairman of GreenMech drove his Range Rover to Barcelona towing a trailer with an 8" chipper on it and towing another behind it too! He got stopped on the M40, the Police walked around this train, then asked "is this really legal?". Tony replied, "if it isn't, I'd not do it!". They let hi on his way..... Yes, reversing was an issue though.
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Not a bad way of calculation without the core test and dendro count! Size is a total guess agin a count!
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My high mileage, GreenMech tow tug is starting to fail with gearbox issues (the diff is bloody noisy too). Symptoms are that pretty well continuously, almost like a heart beat, the gearbox drops a gear and changes back up instantly. Sometimes only noticeable by looking at the RPM, others with a pronounced judder through the truck. Ford have had it on the ramp and plugged it in but no codes are recorded and they tell me that to take it out and send it off could cost a few thousand. Any gearbox gurus in the house?
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Try Liam Webb at Maple Trees in Nottingham. He may send a walking floor etc. 07860725113 -
Red Diesel: Arboriculture exemption recognised by HMRC
PeteB replied to Stephen Arb Association's topic in General chat
Fair point that, how about chippers/grinders on hire fleets? -
Are they UK built? Thought production was at the Laski spot in the Cz Republic? Apologies if I'm misinformed!
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I was able to have a good, up close look at one. Good from afar but far from good. Truly awful bonnet moulding, truly awful looking infeed and controls, worth nothing second hand and expensive new when you look at what you get. Far better quality 'budget' chippers available from the big 3!
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A tractor dealer near there said that sold a used GreenMech SafeTrac 22o and he told me it was to AJ or AJS trees in East Sussex!
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https://www.stevensbodyworks.co.uk/our-build-range/
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I did see on on a trading estate in Market Drayton, I'll look on Maps to see if I can find them.
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I only ask as GreenMech, TW and Jeau Beau don't have a bar. Perhaps they have different regs where they are made? How long and how high is the chute opening? On another note, did you buy a tracked GreenMech 220 off a tractor dealer near The Balloon pub?
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What is the Red bar for? Is it instead of a red mushroom switch on the top?
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While I feel sorry for your predicament, I struggle with the concept that you are doing nothing illegal yet the premises are not registered for any type of residential accommodation, therefore it is illegal! If you get a live aboard boat (or any boat for that matter), it will have to be registered and a stipend paid surely? Just because you pay someone else's tax doesn't preclude on paying yours? I do find certain LA rules a little odd too. I have a footpath on 2 sides of my home and any alterations/replacements to that boundary may require full planning consent. If the fence is over a certain height (maybe 3'6"), I'm okay, but I've a 6' fence to my garden and cannot change a post without full consent, build method and drawings submitted etc!
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Evergreen or Green Climber? Roboflails by McConnell are yellow/black at birth!
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I could use No8 a few times!
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I switch several times a day from 4, 2 and 1. JV is just sensationalist tripe - akin to listening to the Sunday Sport.! R1 just gets a tad to regionalism with "local" accents and woke fakeness at times! Occasionally on 4, they have some good programmes that lead BBC Sounds! For example, "I'm sorry, I haven't a clue!" Is very entertaining!
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When my parents moved to Chard area some 20 years back, they joined in a lottery funded group to do historical records. Interviewing old folk in the parish, looking at old records etc. There was one record of a birth with the father being recorded as "she was overcome by a man on Bewley Down". Terribly sad!
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GreenMech CS100 is the original and best, Wee Chipper!
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I've seen this in the past. I do wonder what it would look like by the time it has been changed to suite the European infeed regs that we have to construct things too!
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Jeff Beck died. RIP sir, thanks for your talent.
