PeteB

Ring the factory for advice. You do have the numbers.....

You could fit a 'gag' in the circuit? Basically an insert which has a small diameter hole in it that restricts the flow. No good on a high usage circuit as it will heat up the oil, but for a rotator, it might work. Have a google on some of the hydraulic suppliers web pages.

Uh oh! Bearing is US, quite rare too. If you are lucky, two bearings and job is a good un! Hopefully shaft is okay, blades and shear bars need checking too. Call GreenMech or take it to your local GM dealer.

I would think I live in a pretty ordinary, early 80's, three bed detached house, thrown up with some haste and maybe some corners cut in the name of profit/haste...I've lived here about 12 years and had a constant battle with rainwater sitting on my driveway and on several occasions, flooding my drive, garage and garden with surface water and "brown" water. Over the years, myself and others have moaned bitterly about this to the various bodies involved and got fobbed off by their experts who claim it doesn't happen, is beyond physics, the once in 50 year event etc.... Basically, we are at the bottom of the hill so any rainwater that misses a drain heads my way. There was a blocked surface water drain into the brook behind which was fixed but the puddles still kept getting into my brick blocks...sensors where fitted to the sewers to alert them when they were flooded and a NRV fitted in my system to prevent it coming back up my loo. A short time ago, a well informed chap came from the council, took one look and said that there was a surface water issue and he would try to get it altered but not to anticipate anything too quick. He took me to one side and we had a deniable conversation. The estate was built with too much haste, the inspections at the time were wrong and incomplete, the drainage was inadequate and wrongly laid (it has to flow uphill at one point), the rainwater off the roofs should have gone into either proper soakaways or fed back in to the drains. Each side of my roof drains into a gravel filled hole, possibly a meter square, and added with the stuff that flows downhill, cause the flooded driveway. He suggested that I get a couple of water butts and regularly drain them. This was done. Last week, they were both at tap level as I let them drain slowly into the dried up lawn. This morning, they are full again! And, my drive isn't flooded! I never really considered how much rain falls and how crap these house were built!

Tbh, most main suppliers, like Greenplant, or any of our dealers, they would despatch parts by courier direct to your door. If they do not have it in, then their supplier, whatever the make, will dispatch direct too. There may be a cost, but, say it is £15, that is cheap in comparison with the time lost going to the dealer when you could be doing something else.

Ooph! "Not take long to change?" Altering a manufactured machine and then getting it through CE Ccompliancy? I seem to recall that it took Orange Plant over a year to get it done on a Carlton wood chipper and major expense!

Drones are amazing pieces of kit, and you need some practice and skill to fly them. I got a small one which has decimated the house plants, scared seven shades out the the cats and I still dare not take it outside for fear of losing it! Good luck to him!

Save up and get a GreenMech?

Ex hire machine?

Update! Finally got mine back. To be fair, they went on furlough for a while then they were doing only urgent works. I asked what had been done but got told, "everything Ford told us to!" And Ford paid the expected +£2k bill. I did ask if they expected to see me again and they told me that if it goes again, one of two things could happen, firstly, they would prefer me to crash it hard and secondly, the Ford Technician would have to trails North again! It was really weird getting into a smooth automatic, comfortable, powerful and tight suspension etc. Rather than the frankly awful 63 plate, 2.2 manual old reps Express!

If it is as in the picture, don't bother, the infeed chute controls etc do not adhere to the HS&E regulation.

I thing that later versions had a secondary fan mounted externally to the shredding chamber.

Talk to Timberwolf direct, I think that another fan can be fitted to increase "blow".

Would be a handy piece of kit! Big crane, 55t at one meter, advertise yourself to Western Power for pole and transformer work. Farmers mate for steel shed erecting. Bit of machine moving etc....good find Ben.

Try talking to Nick at Joe Turner Equipment, he should know what goes off!

Agree with the above, I but more observations or info needed. Smoke from the exhaust? Smoke from wiring? Smoke when hot?

I just meant to tow the ordinary tow behind flail while standing on the platform!

Got any pictures of yours on site work? Interesting alternative use for kit!

9kay to tow the flail though?

Would an Iron Horse tractive unit do?

Nothing was done when the new battery was fitted, how would you reset the battery management system anyhow?

My Discovery 4 started to misbehave the other day, restricted performance and when I plugged in the OBD2 device, it came up with a fault code for charging issues and it was only reading 12.9v at 2000rpm. After a right battle, I fitted a new alternator. The battery was new about 8 months ago and the indicator is green. Took it up the road and the dash lit up with every fault going! HDC,EBD, Gearbox, ABS blah blah blah.....I tried the trick of disconnecting the battery for 20mins then keeping the car pos and neg together to reset the ECU, but it still says "charging fault". OBD says we are getting 13.9v at 2000 rpm. Anyone got a clue?

Back in the day, (maybe 30 years ago) I had a couple of twin cylinder Echo saws. They were good! Thirsty but by god, they cut cut!

Thinking of the original post, I did say to my son that I'm glad that he and his sister are done with formal learning and don't live with me. Partially because I'm not sure that it would go well, I'd struggle with it and partially that I'm "old school", and my education wouldn't suit the modern temperament! Proper maths, trig tables, equations etc, no calculator etc. Hand writing rather than electronic typewriters and keyboards. Books rather than screens etc, and the biggy - discipline! Very best wishes to those who are having this task and to teachers in ordinary times!