Tom D

Fracture pruning some beeches for the FC..

No, no leaks.

The new defender engines aren't that bad, but too small IMO, they have a clever electronics that attempt to mimic low down torque which thee do to some extent but there's no getting away from it, more displacement and a longer stroke would be better. Mine tows the tractor nicely but its had an ecu remap, and I don't know how long the engine will last with all the hard work it gets. I'd like a new defender with a bit more room in the cab and a 3 litre v6. If you want a reliable engine lengthen the stroke and limit the revs, this is why tractors and lorries only rev to 2000 ish but can do a million miles, and why f1 engines rev to 18000 but only last 1 race. In their effort to make modern diesels more refined they have made them less gutsy and probably shortened their lifespan.

I remember when I loaned my brother my defender, he couldn't believe how much nicer it towed than his navara, not the power, just the suspension soaking up all the jolts from a long trailer. The tri-axle trailers are even worse apparently.. I have been thinking about an american truck too, that yellow thing on top gear the other night looked good.

Its on the list, just need the right tree.

For the last five years all the pickups available have been made for hairdressers. Its really depressing this, I will replace my defender in 18 months or so and it looks like there will be nothing to replace it with. I hate all the current offerings, and I need a 3.5 ton tow for the little tractor. I have a friend who has and Isuzu and he reckons its not a patch on his old trooper for towing. My brother had 2 new shape navaras and both were unreliable and i never liked driving them. I find all these pickups much of a muchness, trying to be too car like, massive rear overhang, cart springs on the back so you feel every little bump of the trailer. And small engines with loads of power and no low down grunt. I googled the G Waggon to see what they were like as I had always liked the old ones.... they start at £70k! So I won't be getting one of those. What I want is a truck that will tow 3.5, do 70mph without screaming, be good off road and be able to take a few knocks without loosing half its value. My Defender ticks all those boxes, its such a shame they are no longer making them.

Ironically I was reading this thread while in the waiting room at the eye clinic, I got rust in my eye on thursday, stupidly left it till friday night by which time I was in agony. Got it taken out at the local hospital, had to be driven there as I couldn't see properly. Today it was still blurry and didn't feel right so I went to the eye clinic in edinburgh and they found some more rust, which they pulled out with a needle. Its sore now the anaesthetic is wearing off. Goggles would have ben a good idea.

http://redkiteyurts.com Try Paul. He makes them to order he may be able to help.

The big ones usually do as they are told, its the smaller ones that tend to go bang. The main thing is forget the NPTC rules on the size of your gob, go where the sound wood is, if that means a tiny gob then so be it, if it means a massive one then do it. Don't worry about the wood in the centre, just try and get some live wood at either side, don't leave it too thick either, 15% max, it will go with the lean so fell it that way.. In this vid I was felling some biggish crack willows, they were 80-90 foot. The only thing I'd say is don't lean over the back of the tree (as I do ) when checking your cuts as if it goes like Matty's did you could get a sore chin.... [ame] [/ame]

That must have pissed you right off TCD, having to wait all that time..

I know of two farmers round here who got done, one had taken a load of scrap off the farm to a scrap yard, and the other was taking a load of waste wood to the Nov5th bonfire in the village... If you are driving to a legitimate job (forestry, farming, horticulture, building site) and are only taking a legitimate machine (see the regulations) then you are ok. The moment you transport chip or timber you should be on white, I think. Best plan is get this \l/ \l/ \l/ printed on a tarp and put it over your trailer.

We just planted 400 fro edinburgh council, we used soft slings and a mini digger for the big ones, They were off loaded with a tele handler though.

Reading the link above leads me to believe that you should appeal. Roadside trees are clearly ok.

There must be a position sensor if it has draft control...

On the VOSA site it says that if the trees are road side then red is ok, but for anything domestic then its not. But also it depends what is on your mog, if its just a crane then its mobile plant, and again red is fine, if it has a chip bin then it hauls for hire or reward and it needs to be on white. So my tractor and heizo is ok to travel to and from site on red, but if I haul chip or timber then it has to be on white. We run on both, but we don't change filters....

Air lock? I take it there are no obvious leaks?

What do you feed into these machines? how fine / dry does it have to be?

On models with an electronic shuttle like the N series it wouldn't be a split job I don't think.. Its very handy on a roof mount, I use it all the time. It will be an essential on my next machine....

Have you turned the draft control on? if so turn it off...

I just stand around and point at stuff these days, the skill is with the lads. I still climb occasionally, but I have to look at a lot of jobs to keep these guys busy......

Not sure about the 10-500, but I think the most you can do with an 8-400 is about 100 ton a day, I did that with mine on a 210hp new holland.... I'd be interested to know what the 10-500 can do.

What chipper do you have?

Whoever felled that is a genius! Thats my new plan, fell tree and leave in huge pile in the garden, charge £800, tell customer to put it on gumtree and he'll make his money back!

Do you already know how to fell? if so then get the transit and get out there working, Mrs Miggins won't care what tickets you have. If you don't know how to fell then do a course first.

Stick it on arbtrader.