Ty Korrigan
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Right, Local dealer where we bought the Quadchip from was in true French fashion USELESS. Never seen this type of hose before and was not interested either in helping us. To remove the hose entirely would mean taking off a pulley and that is not something I am willing to entertain. I am wondering if another option is to remove to external grease nipple and simply reconnect it on the interior of the chipper body as a stop gap. Does this sound a plan? G.M are closed today or I'd have an answer from Mac. Regards Ty
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dealing with rude/wrong customers
Ty Korrigan replied to onyx landscaping/fencing's topic in General chat
One Saturday I arrived at a Brit owned second home to quote. I was early and so had a look around whilst my wife who hails from the Moroccan Sahara and who had come along for the ride, walked down to the village to buy a bun. The client and his family turned up 'late' and got out and I shook their hands. As we where chatting about their plans for the property the old man turned to me and went off on one spouting this unwelcome diatribe. "We bought here to get away from bloody immigrants but now I've just seen a bloody 'moozlum' when I went to buy me bread. Makes me bloody sick, you just can't get away from them bloody ragheads." I just felt nothing but cold anger but finished the quote and bade them goodbye. I won the quote, did the job well and billed them promptly. They may not be my kind of people but it is their money I'm after not a fight. Ty -
Many thanks for that, a weight off my mind:thumbup1: Regards Ty
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Do you know if the hose is a bog standard part or special order stuff? cheers
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Hello, On our Quadchip, there is a multiple grease point and one of the hoses has split. I think it goes to one of the main rotor bearings. Is it a ball ache to replace OR is it within the realm of the amateur mechanic...? I need to get it sorted sooner rather than later. Regards
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Shame your banned, I'd like to have had a discussion with you on staff welfare and motivation. We pay for a full 3-4 course restaurant meal most days for our staff. If not, a huge baguette and a sticky bun. We also have a modest slush fund for bonus payments, presents and nights out. Ty
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When a dealer tells you a bare faced lie and calls your integrity into question and yet you love the product, just what are you to do...? Ty
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We sell ours as mulch, it is very much a growing fashion here to mulch with wood chip. I deliver a tipper load for 90euros locally. I recently sold 16m3 of Lawson chip for 200euros instead of paying to tip it...K'ching! Ty
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We use a bin full of alcohol to rinse ropes during and after jobs and even T shirts for resin. Ty
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My second job is the same as my main one except it's for cash... Ty
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We turned up to quote for a garden renovation this summer and found a nearly new petrol mower in the middle of the overgrown lawn. The property owner didn't know it was there! It belonged to the guy who had originally been taken on to cut the grass, in fact you could see he had got a couple of metres into the garden before either the mower or himself gave up and he must have walked away and forgotten about it...bizzare! The owner told us to take it to the tip. So we took it to our mechanic and 80euros later have a 500euro mower...K'ching! Ty
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Seems a bit extreme to bin it 'tout de suite'. Why not continue using it on jobs until you detect a change in the character of the rope structure. It may harden or suddenly stretch but it is unlikely that it will just turn into goo or dust overnight and even more so that it will just snap without warning. Ty
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L200 limp mode solution
Ty Korrigan replied to D.M.Taylor Firewood Supp's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Interestingly enough... BBC radio 2 this evening was talking about bio diesel and it's effect on 'certain' car models where it blocks the filter. The AA/RAC have 600 a month each to deal with. It's NOT a single dodgy batch of fuel they confirm but a growing trend. Ty -
Saturday = Cash day... Ty
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In the free ad's on the Brit forums you often see people offering their tree's to be felled for free or a share of the wood. What they often get is very little wood, a whole mess of branches and stumps. The land ends up looking like the '87 storm has passed all over again. Ty
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Slightly different subject. Tomorrow, we are dismantling 6 pines. The chips, we'll take home to avoid the tip fees but the wood... Well, I'm charging 600euros to 'remove' the wood. So I've put out a free ad on the web inviting people to come and help themselves to the free 'firewood' for which I have charged to remove. I would be surprised if any wood remains in my experience here. I do this regularly, even with the chips but they are harder to sell. 99% of clients keep hardwood whilst the resinous stuff we get to shift. Ty
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Interested in the drive to the head which appears to be mechanical, a drive shaft...? I like the design of the others too but 35hp is my ideal. Ty
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No-one then? I'll scrub this model off my Xmas list then shall I? Ty
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Chipper blade damage Hall of Fame (or shame!)
Ty Korrigan replied to Al Cormack's topic in Large equipment
Same here, thin bar used by clients to support hedging. I picked it all out I thought but I didn't see the stuff laid down behind the hedge. I heard it go through from the other side of the garden. Looked just like thin laurel too. Ty -
Hello, Any owners/users out there? Looking for opinions and price new and used. Regards Ty
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Oh, I didn't realise that Quadchip's were useless:confused1: TBH I don't have a great deal of experience with a wide variety of machines but I am a Greenmech loyalist:thumbup1: Really, what access can you not get on a Quadchip? All the panels come off and the 2 tanks swing out plus it takes up F'all room in the shed. The blades are in and out on 20min if I put my mind to it. The CS100 we started out with effectively bought the Quadchip with the money it earned in 3 years:001_rolleyes: I'm happy! Ty
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McAlister all the way! My 200t has cost me far too much in tuning and carb issues... Ty
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[quote=CJM I'll just air my views of the the current green mechs personally the gravity fed green mech I'd rather brash up than use that chipper. (More fool you!) The quad chip is essentially a 150 green mech on a turntable but it's harder to access engine and blades with the compact design. (what access do you need? and how difficult do you find the very easy blade change to be?) One more point I find greenmechs are very messy machines compaired to other makes (I really don't understand this one, mine is totally house trained:laugh1:) Ty
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Where to have quadchip serviced near Huddersfield
Ty Korrigan replied to Kev Stephenson's topic in Maintenance help
Hello, I don't get ours done annually but at the hours laid down in the manual. As far as I am aware, our dealer only changes the oil and filter (which is a total pain to do as the chassis is in the way) as well as a change of fuel filter. They check out stuff when I ask them too and even repair things without asking like the insulation which seems to need re-sticking every few months. I get the brakes checked regular but we still have issues with the towing apparatus knocking badly that no-one seems to know how to cure. I grease, I do the blades, I blow the air filter out and I open up the body and scoop out the mess of dust that builds up but that's as far as my expertise goes. I do it as our dealers for the 'stamp' effectively so we can get a decent trade in price one day. Regards Ty -
You want to come to France? No barriers here for certificates. Ty
