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This might save someone's life - it doesn't hurt to have a quick refresher once in a while...

Like this.

Ha ha, perfect answer!

I'm amazed that the tipper chassis rotted away and the Landy chassis didn't - the vehicle's chassis looks very clean in the pics. Looks a nice fabrication job - I'd personally give it a mega waxoiling now whilst it is still nice and clean!

If they are that good why do you keep selling yours?

Your dog is a legend and deserves a big juicy bone!

Where was it advertised - have you got any pics of the machine?

Good luck with it Dave, that's terrible news.

It will drive fine, don't give it too much beans though. It won't wind the diff up, but you are putting all of the drive through the front axle which it isn't really designed to do long term. I recently replaced a UJ on the rear of my 56 plate (old shape) Ranger - the part was over £140 from Ford but a Land Rover UJ was exactly the same size and a tenth of the price! Get your verniers out before parting with your hard earned...

Sorry Dean, I didn't think you'd mind. I'll stop now.

Is there a fuel strainer in the tank on the end of the pick-up? If so, this may be blocked. Try blowing compressed air through the fuel line back towards the tank from the tank side of the in-line filter to see if it clears it temporarily. If it does, drain and clean your tank out. It's unlikely and the wrong colour smoke but make sure your air filter is clear too...

I did that with a pair of Haix in the same place and there was no blocking material present - in discussion with the importer it turns out the blocking material is basically on the top of the boot running through the tongue. There's a thread on here about it somewhere. Don't rely on your ppe even if it's super expensive. Glad your 5 little piggies are still wiggling happily!

The difference between safetrac chippers and normal tracked machines is massive - I can't talk highly enough of the 1928 greenmechs. They will go practically anywhere and have a really wide infeed hopper and feed rollers which are great for dragging brashy material in. I'm not sure why others have experienced these machines blocking up - I have used a damaged machine that did this but once repaired the problem was cured. If you are looking for a smaller fixed track machine from a weight/budget point of view greenmech now have a machine that takes the 6" timberwolf and Jensen on, but it has a 6x9 letterbox feed (taken from the quadchip) so is much better at dragging material through. These machines are available with the round disc blades (criticised by many - normally those with no operational experience of them - but in reality the longest lasting chipper blades available) or the square quadchip blades which look to me to be an expensive alternative. Get some demos from the different manufacturers and let us know how you get on.

Perfect! Where is that? It looks like the wrist has been a tree in its own right at some point looking at the way the sets are lifting.

I've never had a problem with Saturn knives personally - they seem to be the equal of OEM IMO!

100 hrs is easy with Greenmech discs. Move away from orange metal/plastic - the future's green!

Good on you Lochnager and great call Ty - please post some pics of the working party. I hope to visit the Somme one day (I'm ashamed to say i have not been yet) - Normandy was a humbling experience last year. The work you are doing is of great importance - this history needs to be kept in the public eye ad infinitum.

My 3 year old niece was walking along a busy train carriage ahead of my sister, looking for a seat. Upon seeing a man wearing an eye patch she turned to my sister and shouted 'There's a pirate on this train mummy!'. Nobody laughed.

Exactly! Have you run it with an 8 pin sprocket? That with a 15" bar is the recipe for super snedding!

Standard 560xp is miles better on 15-18" bar than 362 - 362 is better on bigger bars IMO (seems to have more torque).

If you're getting doors make sure you've got a heater - I don't know about the Kubotas but the doored Gators mist up for fun!

Defo Greenmech - either the new 160 or if the budget will stretch get a quadchip.

I know nothing about cranes but I was on a demolition site once and a 1000 tonne (I think) crane turned up along with a trailer full of weights that got loaded onto the counterweight. There is no way that machine could have weighed more than 200 tonnes all up. I don't understand how it works and may well be very wrong though...