PeteB
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Nothing in the manual? A call to Overland m8ght be unordered otherwise!
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If you wanted to chip 4" and were a tad brave! It can rattle the fingers on some stuff! To be fair, most things have a spot in the market but I would rather support a closer economy than prop up one from further afield! Except the Peruzzo as they did copy ours while smooching us into believing they were a good partner! Tbh, I see all these wannabees as financially a drain, worthless as a trade in/leg up to professional machines. As a homeowner, I would rather rent a good one than buy a bad one!
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Search on eBay or Facebook marketplace and get something built in Europe, preferably in England, even better from Warwickshire!
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As an extention to this and it has featured before.... Some years back (1990?) I got a Bedford MK4x4 from Shepshed Military Auctions, we used it and the mid mounted winch for several site jobs as the Matador was long in the tooth. The grand plan was to put a sub-chassis on it, reasonable crane and use it for pole erection, winching, loading etc. It was a bit of a 'vanity purchase' as we liked kit. We I went to work for GreenMech, the paperwork was 'lost' as it was parked at my Ag Engineers spot with the project started. It is still there now. It is possible to spot it on Google Earth too! That must be a record for kit that has been forgotten!
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Two inch of slush in North Notts! Grim, wet and cold!
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I used my sons OBD2 plug in Bluetooth with the Torque app on my phone but it only came up with fault code U0001 after several attempts. They are cheap but don't do much at all tbh.
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The battery was fitted about 18 month ago and I did wonder - it is at 12.8v at rest. I'm think of a wiring issue somewhere, a ground, bad connecting plug, earth intermittency etc. Hate bloody electrics when they go wrong! Foxwell was recommended but a dedicated D4 unit - would that also do things like tell me which/why the parking sensor has stopped working etc? or is that a bumper off and test each sensor for faults?
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Undiagnosed electrical issues. Wouldn't start on the key last week, nothing,zilch, nadder. Put the battery on charge and did an ECU hard reset and it started, but said Gearbox Fault, then suspension fault, and no not starting again. Smell of hot wires in the engine bay too. Had an alternator last year which was a bugger to fit and I did one of the rockers too. With all these warning coming on (inc EBD, HDC and just about everything) it is a badelectrical connection. Very basic OBD reader just said U0001 cambus link issue.....
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I'm after a fault code reader for my own Discovery 4, the damn thing is in need of some interpretation! Anyone use a fault code ready to help with diagnosis? Anyone recommend anything? They seem to be priced from £150 to £500, while I ain't afraid to spend the dosh, but is an expensive thing right? I would sell it once the car goes so get something back from the job. Or keep it if I get a later model
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Not necessarily. TW would have done a lot of testing to get the best performance within a few parameters. If you have two blades, it is having two impacts per rotation, and the rotor would slow down quicker given the HP available. With regards to the pack of straws in a big bundle, a disc slices through the bundle at the same angle. With a drum, as it rotates, the blades would/could start to strike pushing up the grain, then transition through the vertical and end up towards the horizontal again, which is trying to pull the material further in - ready for the next blade to do it's job.
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From memory, the Eliot is a shredder which uses a three sided star blade? The point of the star slashes at the material rather slices through it? This shredding action going up the grain is okay but across the grain, as you say, slows the feed down and is inefficient.
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Stuart is right to a degree in that as the drum blade bites, it is straight across the grain but aspects deeper, it is changing its angle to ultimately be cutting down the grain. The bigger drum machines end up using a number of small blades so that each one is getting the benefit of more horse power and are cheap to buy and thus more efficient than a full width flat blade. Big biomass units can have a screen as the outer casing so that the chips are of a regular size. They are often fed to a disc which blows/throws the chips out. Lots of weight, cost and moving parts which would not suit the bog standard Arb chipper.
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Couldn't tell you the spec etc. GM France would have them on the shelf. There may be a a maker's plate on it somewhere too.
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A disc cuts the same as a drum, except those machines which have an angled disc like some Bandits and Farmi units. Discs are, by and large, more efficient at blowing or throwing the chips out while drums struggle to produce the same level of 'puff'. Drums however, can be very effective at getting a bigger capacity while a disc can only gets less than half the rotor disc as capacity.
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Is it possible to clean the race and spot the number etched into it? Does it show anything in the parts manual to give you a clue?
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No FSI dealers in France?
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I tried grafting and not one sprig took!
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Or did you hide it there from the missus!?!
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9n of those tow behind flails behind the quad?
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Looking for a freelance tree surgeon in Edinburgh
PeteB replied to Macauley Pryde Scotland's topic in General chat
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She was like that anyhow Johnny! Big Hammer on the rim and back to work!
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I got a couple of pairs which I use for leisure and work. Right comfortable, hard wearing and suit a lot of 'needs'. But, they are a pain to re-wax etc. Anyone try or recommend similar but easier processes to reproof them?
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Is the 660 the big thing where they mash up the one bearing and the housing can come loose and move?
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I'd warrant that she pulling inwards on the bearings unless a fault has occurred in the rotor and that is flexing at each bite? Get a lever between the rotor and the housing and give it a tweet, that could give you a clue!
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Not sure about the blades and the angles tbh. A decent engineering outfit or groundcare machinery supplier should be able to do them.
