PeteB
-
Posts
11,236 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
42
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by PeteB
-
Lovely truck, and I am a fan of the marque - this is the 8th LR since the early 80's and I learnt to double de-clutch in the first one registered in Hereford and Worcester. They can be hard work at times and unreliable, but then, I've spent a few days in the hands of the AA with Ford Ranger too! I've had a few of the plugs apart and found no corrosion in them, the earth in the osf wheel was knackered and replaced but still got a few issues which bug me! Perhaps I enjoy pain, suffering and expense!
-
She has 115k, the body hasn't been off to my knowledge but she has had some work done, telltale in screws, plastic body fitting clips and fixings etc. The park assist started getting intermittent then stopped altogether. I've check resistance of each sensor and the read pretty much the same, I can trace connectivity through the earths to the body but no joy. It would be fantastically rare for all 8 to fail at the same time! The nanocom reads "no voltage to the front" and no faults for the back.
-
I see that loathsome turd, Cummings, is spouting forth his bile again. Why doesn't he understand that his employer decided that he was unworthy and had to go? Whinging on is not going to get him a job anywhere!
-
Any members good auto electricians? Is the park assist module the same as fitted to Jag S Type units? If I swapped modules as I think mine is duff, is it complicated and needing a recode?
-
Get an M500, pushes itself. Technically, it pulls itself but that is semantics. Good tool, love the detachable fuel tank etc, but will it go through a 32" gate? The smaller units do gave there place.
-
Can you push a jensen around a back garden through a narrow gate way?
-
I'm not really up to speed on all the different payment methods myself, too "old skool!". But never talk paper bankers drafts or cheques before they can get checked and never pay for something you ain't viewed!
-
Personally, I'd rather support a closer economic community, even if it costs more......
-
I'm often shocked at how often at how often machines or aspects of machines are plagiarised. We saw tech drawings that came from GreenMech on a Chinese chipper site. Then there was the Jensen X track, the Jensen version of the Predator, that Barford chipper, Bandit and Auschip.......not to mention a brand of chipper based on a German made unit....
-
I'm always surprised how many tree people live in Shetland, Skye or some such plade who sell chippers etc and how many pay for stuff unseen by BACS or sell stuff and take a bankers draft on a Saturday afternoon and watch there goods disappear over the horizon!
-
Why would I have a memory of this pair doing something in the 70's? Anyone know if they made the charts back then etc?
-
Eliza Tynsley does a fair bit of iron mongery.
-
I reckon that the same farming family have took on one in Scotland on the M74 too. Pricey, but quality. I stopped today on the M6, Franklin? What a dire dive!
-
Start an Arb Machinery service centre Josh, you'll do well.....
-
My old Ranger did have a load of dpf issues, Ford did four, forced regeneration cycles one afternoon in an effort to make it work. They ended up fitting a new dpf in the end.
-
I heard a story about a tow tug tractor where the driver kept on hitting the 'delay' for a regen. Eventually, the thing would not work and the dealer had to get involved and on the advice of the manufacturer, it had to to an enforced, long term regen cycle. It was sat in the yard at full chat for a day and a half to clear it out! The exhaust was glowing red and it used a massive amount of fuel too!
-
Am I correct in that some modern trucks/cars, they use electronics to assist a driver in a snake? Nipping odd wheel brakes if this odd motion is suspected? I've only experienced sway a couple of times since I started driving 40 years ago and on each occasion it was down to poorly loaded trailers!
-
Some good points in that post! I usedto use my ancient 2 stroke DS on the rough bit that wfere long then push a mulching mower over to tidy up the hay crop! It could take mega thick cord for real heavy work!
-
We did this for a while, still got a couple of the trailers too. But the style of trailer meant a stupid long sentence necked drawbar which put the chipper way back and it was bloody heavy!
-
Far from the truth to be honest and I've turned down some sweet packages over the years too. I went through an awful divorce period some years ago. The MD questioned me on arrangements for my kids. He insisted that I ensure that they are scooped up early on every Wednesday and at the appropriate time every other Friday. A reps job is long hours and going where the business is....9 months later, at SALTEX at Windsor Racecourse, he sent me off home on the Wednesday at lunch time, to drive to North Leicestershire, to do my thing with the kids.....I doubt many other employers would have been so understanding then or since and that is worth far more than the monetary rewards. And as said, I believe in the product, the team, the dealers and our buyers. Job satisfaction.....
- 69 replies
-
- 16
-
-
I thought the V10 was a lot worse than that? I did sort of hancker after one for a while but got a lemon Q7 then a Discovery 4 which is more economical than the Ranger I reckon!
-
I ran two GreenMech wood chippers back in the mid 90's. One towed and one on a Unimog. They were reliable and well cared for by all the staff. I had one for three years and one for two before I packed in the tree business and went to work for GreenMech. I also ran a flat bladed machine which was reliable too. The flat blades occasionally burst and caused consequential damage, they often had to have an amount ground off them to get rid of imperfections and cost £340 per set and we had a couple of sets per year. The Disc Blades on the GreenMech units lasted longer, they were very forgiving, were easier to look after and I never purchased any more. Having sold GreenMech for 20 plus years, I'll stay loyal to them and the wider team of staff, dealers, owners (past, present and future).
-
I got an old DS wheeled strimmer for the rough areas at her spot that people cba to run the mower over. As said, works well but leaves a lot of mess compared to an ordinary strimmer which tends to 'mulch' the stuff down....
-
I've had my Ranger down to 15mpg on a tank and up to 28. They are a tool and the costs need pricing into the job. You get good ones and bad in all of them. Makes your choice and pays your money. I like VW stuff but I did think that they were a chunk of money!
-
Shame that you went to that effort though! Always braver to walk away for a reconsider. Something worthy will appear eventually. I've had a couple of folk talk to me about used kit that they had gone to see and once home, found issues of one kind or another only to be told 'sold as seen'. There ain't no such thing in the UK, is there any redress similar to that in France?
