PeteB
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Got a healthy order book and only had a couple of people bin their order. True enough, selling anything other than big rolls is hard work but we will survive and we are planning for the future! The drawing office are working from home, linked with Zoom. Life goes on.....
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I'll look in the archive section remotely tomorrow...not that tech savvy but have a go!
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No idea! I'll measure the one outside my house later. It will get in a domestic garage okay!
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Jase Hutchinson is on the case, even if we go to full lockdown and someone needs help with their chipper, Jase will do so via email at home (he does this now as well as doing stuff on here). He can be reached on [email protected] Bricked sent me a message and Jase will sort him out!
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Just thought I'd leave this here. The first 6" (or so) to be fitted with a 45hp engine. It goes some.... GreenMech_EVO165_45_Leaflet.pdf
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I've nearly forgot that about this, but, it is still with them. The last I heard, Ford sent out a field specialist and in a test, they got it to measure 100% with Ford badged AdBlue but only 67% with Esso badged AdBlue.... but the ingredients listed on the pot were the same. So, it is still in the garage while they collectively scratch. That's three months now it has been away.
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Off memory, they suffered from hydrostatic drive issues with four wheel drive stuff, Ford compact tractor) Otherwise, a few steel issues with front loader arms (light paint on either arm), otherwise well respected. Just over took by JCB stuff etc.
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Spotted at a clients, available as a project for a respectable price. Too useful to scrap!
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While I understand that, occasionally, dealer experiences aren't great (the Fife lad and the local TW people and Kev), I got to point out that they have a different level of overheads than a man in a van. They also want to eat meat at weekends, and what have they to gain in annoying you to the point that you never go back there again or, tell your mates to avoid them too!?!
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Orange still exist but no longer Jo Beau dealers.
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We always had to pit it in chippers sold to the EA.It was massively expensive and didnt last long. If it degraded, it could ruin every component! We had decals made up to point out that the stuff was in there as the two do not mix. An EA Fitter said that at the first yearly service, it was replaced with ordinary hydraulic and the decal removed!
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Got an ArbTrak 200 and an Evo165 petrol at the event! The AT200 is going onwards with a demo later.
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I got the jist!
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Guess what? The mechanics did as the Ford Field Engineer told them - fit a new tank as it was this which is faulty and it won't record anything more than 67%! The next step is to remove all the wiring from the ECU to the tank and the associated parts, check it for corrosion and try that! I did suggest that I have it back, put tape over the warning light and chuck stuff in every week but that will not help!
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What tyres are people running on their pickups
PeteB replied to Rwhiteheadfirewood's topic in Arb-Trucks
Sussed that! Got the tyre man to out that on the inside so that you have to look closer! -
Crowborough!?! East Sussex!?! Blimey! You couldn't get much further away! But you are welcome!
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https://www.hamiltonrossgroup.co.uk/come-along-to-our-bishopton-open-day/
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So I understand! I'll check that detail - it may be by invite but a call to Hamilton Bros or Ross of Lanarkshire will get you in!
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Wednesday 12th March, GreenMech are at the Ingliston Country Club on the Old Greenock Road out of Bishopton, Glasgow. Hamilton Bros are having an open day and Peter B will be there with an ArbTrak 200 and an Evo165.
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Blimey! That's asking a lot! Rust free steel tipper from 2000! And in blue!!! Best off buying a new one to suit as everything else from that era will be dead!
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What tyres are people running on their pickups
PeteB replied to Rwhiteheadfirewood's topic in Arb-Trucks
Have B F Goodrich on my 18 month old Ranger. Done over 40k and likely to get close to 100k I think! Don't do much off road, plenty of towing though! Original fit tyres only seem to get circa 30k. -
I feel sorry for the technicians at Shepshed Ford, they done everything that Ford have told them to and that has taken the time. I understand that things break down and workshop's cost etc. But it is devilishly frustrating and time consuming! My job revolves about towing GreenMech wood chipper products up and down and having a ropey old thing or getting a very expensive rental to do my work is a PITA!
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Update!!! Motoring God's aren't with me! I got put in the spare Ranger, it had the engine rebuilt after the pre Christmas episode and had thousand miles of light work! The following morning, a foreign driver reversed in to it at an island!!! Minor damage but still a PITA! The garage ring, Ford's finest came out and spent 5 hours with the local chaps. With the tank on the floor, they got it to read 100%, in the car it would only read 67%. A duff measuring system was blamed. One is on order to be fitted. Cost this time is estimated to be £750, and the local chap is down 5 hours labour which he doesn't want to charge us but Ford won't pay out on! If this doesn't work, they tell me that it could be a couple of days removing and checking all the wiring at massive cost!!! Ford Relationship Centre deny that the first visit for misreading AdBlue is anything to do with them. All very disappointing and doesn't really make me want to give them my vote!
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Update! The loom checked okay, so Ford told them it was the pump module. This checked out okay as was recently replaced. Ford told them it was the injector, this was checked and was 100%. Now a Ford Field engineer has to come and view it personally as no one knows where to go next!
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Who is the other agent for Jo Beau? Thought had it country wide!?!
