Chris Sheppard
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Yawn.......
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I just left boss at the time to deal with them as they had us both in two vehicles. Fined and given a prohibition notice (but they did later give us an exemption to drive the 350 miles back unloaded at no more than 40mph). Had us there for a cuple of hours and if they really wanted to could of had on overloading but went after the lack of tacho instead. Thankfully I don't do anything like as much driving like that now.
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Would Newton Stewart be too far south? Father in Law uses a garage who's proper into older stuff and I think even used to be a renault main dealer. -
That's a cracker - up there with the worst ones I've seen
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Sort of similar, I used to buy £4-600 discoveries with as much MOT on them as could find and run them til the test ran out (or it died) - if they didn't re-test then they'd still fetch £500 on ebay. That was cheap motoring most of the time but you win some you lose some.
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That's what we thought but when we got stopped by VOSA we got told that it wasn't good enough to do that and that we had to have a tacho fitted. We'd have gotten into less bother if we'd pleaded ignorance but in their eyes, the fact we'd been keeping records meant that we were aware of the rules and were trying to sidestep them as such.
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It wasn't steep on that bit as we were on the track - a few stumps but now much. Think it was a combination of a few things. That 1010 looks interesting. Bet that larch made you jump Done that a few times too - usually managed to put it right with the crane and a ratchet strap off a stump. Dad did once lose a wheel off the old carraro (sheared studs) and the County used to cock a leg well on full reach but no pics.
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Feel free to add your own photos as and when We've been skidding out the last of some sycamore on a steep site this week. It's gone fairly well but had it's ups and downs This happened a couple of days ago - was wandering back up and nattering to Joe and turned around to just see it start to go and driver get clear as it was going. From it happening to getting back to work was about an hour - only took a few min to get it back upright but wanted to make sure all the oil was where it was meant to be before starting it back up. We're still not quite sure why it started to go over - it did though and luckily no one hurt and the only casualty on the tractor was the wing mirror lense.
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18" beech or oak are going to be pretty hard whether green or not - a 45cc domestic saw definitely isn't going to eat it at anything other than a steady chew, especially after only 30 mins of being fresh out of the box.
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Abolutely, seems their only aiming them at the bigger firms or farmers.
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If it's just for one big bonfire, probably be better value for money if you were to speak to local sawmills and buy in some of their slabwood. We're all booked up timber wise at the mo else we could have helped
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Still think LR should have had the option of something like a 3.5/4L straight six diesel in a defender - turboed or not it would have been an improvement. Can think of worse towing vehicles than any defender, mark 1/2/3 hilux anyone
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Looks a bit like a small Norse - the swinging lip at the bottom of the buttplate is something I've only ever really seen on them.
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My saws range from a 1985 husky 181 (fair enough has had new barrel and piston) to a 2011 Husky 550 and a smattering of saws between 1989 and 2005. Other than the 181 which had dropped a piston ring pin, the only other one which has needed a new barrel and piston was a 357 which only went pop because the auto decomp pipe split. If you look after them, saws generally last pretty well - most stuff is smaller wear and tear stuff that needs replacing or if you're unlucky, physical damage caused by dropping/running over etc.
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Size between a hilux and land rover
Chris Sheppard replied to not for sale sorry's topic in Arb-Trucks
110 tipper will carry more weight than a hilux, especially if you go for a HD version at 3500kg GVW - chances are it will then carry more weight than the LDV can too. I work with a guy who used to run a hilux tipper and upgraded to a 110 HD tipper and he says the difference in how it handles the weight compared to the hilux is huge. -
aye, but that's a bit bigger than a £200 4 tonner though
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Have a look on ebay at just how many cheapo splitters there are on there as spares or repair or even as second hand parts - there lies your answer as to how good they are!
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You can't be far from me then. You don't happen to be Dave's younger brother are you?
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Other than the cambelt snapping, those other bits are fairly minor (though I know how you feel) - if the rest of the vehicle is pretty sound then why rush into anything hasty? Now cambelt's done, that should be good for another 50,000 miles or so. Replace broken bits with good quality parts and then they shouldn't break again for a while.
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Depends on tester as to whether he's bothered about it being there or not, but it shouldn't fail the emissions as they only test amount of smoke on diesels, not whats in the smoke. I've been catless for the last few MOT's, including the one a couple of weeks ago and that's on a high milage defender (285K).
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As above, in reality you'd only really use 880/3120 for felling a big stick and ringing up the biggest bits. For milling the extra power would come in handy though. As much as I'm husky through and through, I really get on well with the 660 from stihl. With a 25" on it's small enough for delimbing and it pulls a 30" with ease. I've heard of people using it with a 36" but I haven't so can't comment. Unless you do a lot of big trees, like 4ft plus diameter, I'd reckon you'll find a 120cc stays in the shed a fair bit whereas a 95cc saw will tend to get brouht out a bit more often.
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If deep down you want a landy, then a jap pickup will always feel like second best. Plenty of people like the jap pickups but as a proper work horse there's little to match a decent landrover, especially a HD 110 pickup. Using a defender for longer runs is no problem unless you're fairly tall or just used to driving cars. I used to put 25/30,000 a year on my old 130 and it was fine. In my experience landrovers often get called unreliable because people fit cheap parts and wonder why they then break - I generally use genuine as I can mostly fit and forget. For what you've described though, I'd say another van (though the 110 would be hard to pass up on if you can justify it to yourself).
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How much Arb "waste" can you process in a day?
Chris Sheppard replied to benedmonds's topic in Firewood forum
I'd say your two men sawing are either having a laugh or are using too small or blunt saws if that's all they've sawn in a day and not even split it. -
I'd hazard a guess that one is small 3/8ths and the other is .325 have a look on the bars and see if you can see anything stamped into then, usually near the saw end.
