Dean Lofthouse

Mine getting in the way again Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

This is one that Coors brewery have just bought, it was a special order. I don't know the details of it, I'll find out next time, but I looked under it and it looked to have diff lock on the rear. I can't have anything without low box as Stevie pointed out, he and Tom have both been to my house and seen my drive and the hill I live on. Just thought it may be an alternative for you transit bods Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

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Make a good Arb truck ??

I had the same problem with my 450 last week and it was the mesh filter in the carb.

Saw this earlier, one of the best ideas I've seen for a long time, very intuitive.

I have my defender and I have had 4 fairly newish Landcruiser amazons. Whilst the amazons are literally bomb proof and very rarely need parts, the parts when you do need them are breathtakingly expensive Throttle pedal £600 Vacuum sensor ( a basic on off switch ) £350 New turbo £3500 (quote from Toyota ) I love amazons but one breakdown in the amazon would pay for ten breakdowns in the landrover Just as an aside, the amazons collectively let me down 3 times in 12 years, the one defender has not let me down

I have to back you up Matt, I,ve had mine 12 years and it has worked like billyho, it has not let me down in that time and has been ultra reliable..... Why ? Because I look after it, it really is that simple. Landrovers are always getting a slating and the only reason they get slated is people run and run them with very little maintainance and expect them to keep going. Landrovers are not luxury cars, they are luxury tractors, they are work vehicles and boy does mine work. I can only sing it's praises

I miss charging the condensers up on a mega or off the coil and throwing them to your mates I remember doing it once to a Turkish Cypriot whilst working in the UN workshops in Cyprus, he chased me round the workshop with a shovel for five minutes trying to kill me screaming obscenities in Turkish .

Points and condensers ! By ek lad, them were the days (-; Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

I found there were two types of people The ones that brought their machines in for service at the correct intervals. Then the ones that only serviced their machines when they broke down or started playing up. The symptoms of the pictures was bad starting

Haaha....I used to service other peoples

Having a clear out and came across this plug from when I used to do servicing. I've also seen worse. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Arbtalk mobile app

I think design was definitely crap, they stacked two 6mm pads on top of one another instead of just using a 12mm piece. The two pieces just started sliding over the top of one another and eventually the securing bolts gave Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

I posted pictures of it before Tom, when I stripped it to have a look and photographed the damage. I loosely say "Nylon" sheet, it was a double barrelled name I can't remember which I bought specifically for the job, I foolishly never wrote down what it was called after buying it, my memory is crap

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Had this week off to do some maintainance work on both my chipper and the loader. Suspected that the wear pads were knackered on the extending boom for a while so haven't been using the extend option till I got chance to take the boom apart and look. Good job I did and I happened to have to Nylon sheet in stock to make some new ones. On the top of the inner boom at the back was a crappy little 3" piece of wear pad which had fallen off and got chewed up inside. The bloke I bought it from carried on using it like that and you can see the result from the photo. Rather than doing a quick easy job and replace the small pad, I decided to fully line the top of the outer boom with a new pad to cover up all the scoring in the metal work. So instead on having wear pads on the inner boom they were fastened to the outer. The job was extremely difficult having to reach 1m inside a small tube to clean, bolt, drill and fasten stuff but the result is much better. Nice solid smooth acting boom extension. Hope it makes sense.

Steve, that's the type of thing you want if your going to grow dreds, hug trees, smoke spliffs and be seeing slightly more of your feminine side, next you'll be buying a pinny to go with it and subscribing to heat magazine Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

Thank you chaps

Looking at them, most of the big cut machines are well in excess of 40kg anyway. I do have planks that I use to load my stander mower with, so it might have to be

I have started looking at mowers with the intention of getting a new one in a few weeks, but I,m finding it an absolute minefield. You settle on something then see something else, I really really like the lawnflite 553HWS-PRO One thing that puts me off it is the weight, getting it in and out of the landrover. I am looking at spending about £1k, was originally looking at the option of having side discharge for wet days and mulch for dry. I mow a variety of grass from short to 1ft long, some on slight bankings but mainly flat verge type stuff. Don't need roller and would like bag emptying without stopping engine and could do with 20" + cutting width. I really do like the lawnflite, I just wish it was 20kg lighter. At the moment I have been getting by with a Honda HRB423 for the last ten years and it's hard work

As above, beardsworths, their chip pile is right on the entrance and is a couple of mile from wibsey. Just ring them to make sure their not full up

If you,re looking at trees purely on monetary value, a standing tree is worth far more than a felled tree. It is future work. I personally didn't come into this profession just to kill trees and swing from limb to limb hacking away to collect a wedge of cash at the end of the job. If that is all my job entailed I would soon get bored and move profession, job satisfaction and pride in your work is a big motivator for me. Soil testing, remedial pruning, planting, diagnosing, treating, advising etc etc are parts of the job I also enjoy. Don't get me wrong, I will take a tree down no problem, but I would feel much better about it if it was for a better reason than leaves in the gutter or it blocks a bit of sun