Canal Navvy
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There's a big auction of landscaping and tree surgeon bits
Canal Navvy replied to edwards97's topic in General chat
Auctioneers seem to put little effort into their sales description...... the big milling bars were listed as harvester bars and who would have thought that several items of plastic and a black and red safety rope was in fact a boa cable bracing kit worth a bit more than the £62 it sold for. -
Have you tried a brand new plug out of a box with a name we'd trust ? Been there with plugs that would work in other machines and when out (checking for a spark held against the engine) but not in place 🤭
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In hindsight it's lucky that the government department British Waterways didn't have the powers to stop public protest that is available today, these days they would have been able to achieve their task and the whole network would have been infilled and sold off piecemeal.
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Collapsed culvert?😒
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If it is running well and is burning all of the unburnt mix in the muffler then why would you want to breathe in fumes by changing things ?
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It was Charles Mynors offer to act as an expert witness pro bono to anyone brave enough to take it to court that caught my attention. I've heard that it has got close before but the planning authority withdrew the case so it remains untested.
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Has that ever been tested in court ? Surely planning laws don't have the powers to override preexisting laws of property 🤔
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To be fair to him that £700 is a good chunk of the cost of the bit that goes in the middle of his alloy wheels that some oik prised out as a trophy .
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I thought that Bazalgette mk. XI had cured that 🤔🤭
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I wonder how many are show thefts are done by people who've stood at the paydesk for ten minutes being ignored by the staff who are too busy catching up with old acquaintances and thought "bugger it" The "professional" show robbers are altogether a different animal, definitely vermin. End result is still the same, less of a show for the honest and patient visititors 😒
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stihl ts 400 got too much compression any ideas
Canal Navvy replied to gary1002's topic in Maintenance help
He may well have nodded off 😁 -
stihl ts 400 got too much compression any ideas
Canal Navvy replied to gary1002's topic in Maintenance help
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All this talk of the Floyd made me remember that my much missed old farmer friend used to shoot with Nick Mason. Knew he had a house in Corsham but I'd never felt the need to do a Google search on which house ........so I did ...... bought his house off our new Queen. Instead of sleeping I was thinking of the oddity of life with random coincidence and wondering if drummers like terriers as much as Queens do 🤔
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There is a test report on the tigrone 7700 out there that mentions a mechanical transport lock 🔒 🤔
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I'm proper intrigued to know the reason too, could it be to fit in a container, or to clear under an aircraft wing, or to fit in a chinook/Hercules? . Could be all of the above, get flown into a battle zone, prepare a landing strip for the heavies and then be useful around the place. I bet it's pleased where it's landed for it's civilian role 😉
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I've worked it out by assuming that the aspect ratio of your current rears is 85% and used 80 for the fronts and come up with 1.4 to 1 The factory fit sizes you've given if worked out at 85 aspect ratio are 1.36 to 1. In my experience factory fitments are not always perfect but the only time you ever noticed was when working in newly germinated crops or when touching the brakes on the road (which engages four wheel drive to give four wheel braking) I was actually half expecting them to have used an oddball front diff to get it to work but fortunately not 😃
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The fitment you've got is oddball (presumably to get the overall height of the tractor down) , fortunately the ratio between the front and back work out pretty much the same as if it had the full size rims on 😁 Those tyres on rims that Gareth posted look pretty much ideal if fitted with the correct disc, that pattern of rim is particularly robust and not prone to cracking 🙂
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What size are the rears currently?
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Looking again at the photo more closely of the tractor those rear rims do look small in diameter and a 15" rim would be correct for a tyre with a 16.9 section width 🤔
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15 l means it is fifteen inches wide where the tyre meets the rim and it has a single shallow well between the outside bits of the rim where the beads seat. The 24 is the diameter of the rim in inches that the bead fits tightly on. Those rim sizes look pretty standard for a tractor of that size and shouldn't be to hard to find with an agricultural tread. Oddly enough tyres are usually sized in inches for the diameter and metric for the width
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Gotcha 🙂 If you and your client are happy with the willows as they are then there is absolutely no reason to cause them any harm. A few years ago I installed a Tricel treatment plant that serves four holiday apartments that has a pumped outlet through a 63mm MDPE pipe. It would not be that challenging to mole under the trees and cause so little disturbance that by the end of summer they'd be no sign of any works. In your position I'd be resisting trenching as a non damaging alternative is reasonably practible. Hope it all goes well 🙂
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I was trying to think of one that was compliant for direct discharge to a water course that didn't need a power supply
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As I understand it you are contracting to someone who is having to update their system due to it discharging to a watercourse and have an easement over their neighbours land. In my experience domestic sewage treatment plants need a power supply to operate the aeration system. Selecting a system with a pumped discharge would make it easy to install the pipe run without undue disturbance and without any joints or risk of future blockage.
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If its a pumped outlet from a plant then moling under them would be best. If it's a rigid pipe then you'll do less damage going directly for them and accepting some hand digging rather than cutting a whole lot of fine roots with a trench up one side. I would be suggesting that this time of the year is not the best and that it would be better to go for autumn.
