monkeybusiness
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I was in Lviv on Tuesday-Wednesday this week delivering aid and vehicles for a local charity. It’s well away from the front line but there were air raid sirens going off as we arrived in the city and fighter jets overhead (precautionary I’d imagine). Armed soldiers everywhere and all businesses running off generators as the electricity supply is limited (the area is split into zones with each zone having 4 hours on/4 hours off/4 hours maybe). It was otherwise business as usual with people going about their business as usual, schools open, bars/restaurants open, buskers in the square etc. You could have been in any big European city tbh!
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That’s a dark art - are you actually a witch? Turntable trailers are essentially impossible to do anything backwards with!
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Taking cash machines looks really easy! Why would you have one outside so accessible?!
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Just bare in mind that it expands and contracts quite a bit with heat - it’s great in applications where it can move a bit but can bow/wrinkle etc if movement isn’t allowed for.
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That might be the greatest machine I’ve ever seen!!!
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£3k looks like a mental price to me tbh. Talk the customer into burning the brash on site and just ring it up - a couple of guys for a day should easily sort that surely?
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I’ve always wanted a go on one of those!!!
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I’ve had a KTS trailer with the 6.7m crane for a few years and am happy with it. The grab is not the best (the crane will lift more than the grab will keep hold of) but for the money they are very good. When it came I took it to a local fabricators to get a frame made for the spool block and they commented on how well built and thought out everything was. I don’t have any experience of the Moheda though I’m afraid.
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We essentially lost last year with family bereavement and planning department inertia - this year it will happen though!!!
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There is a Nugent dealer near here that is advertising big discounts on new in-stock trailers on Facebook.
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Yeah - FR Jones basically went on an all-out mission to destroy the market for all other chainsaw and arb kit suppliers by ‘stacking high and selling cheap’. I can’t help but think suppliers are now sick of having their products devalued and are possibly holding back supply. Either that or FR Jones are struggling for money and don’t pay their suppliers. I won’t spend money with them again, too risky.
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Sorbus are always brilliant - we don’t bother talking to anyone else.
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Pto chippers fed via a roof mount or mounted crane suffer from the operator not being able to see the feed rollers - much more efficient feeding them with a machine in my experience. But you obviously have to drag another machine to the job.
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Yeah, it was/is a katsu and is apparently made from the same moulds etc as the genuine Makita equivalent. It is a very nicely made tool tbh, I wouldn’t quickly tell it apart from a makita. But the first one did go on fire which was not very confidence inspiring!!!
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I bought a makita copy 18v brushless router from Amazon. It went on fire the very first time I used it!!! However, they sent another out and I’ve tried to get it to burn up but it works perfectly. I’d never leave it unattended with a battery fitted though.
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Are the wheels a different offset? Try fitting one of the Savero tyres to one of your existing 13’’ wheels fitted to that trailer and see if it moves the tyre away from the bolt head.
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Is the correct answer! We’ve had all types of tyres on trailers and these Saveros are far and away the best from a hard-wearing and resilient perspective. (When fitting make sure the thicker wall is fitted to the outside - I’ve bought them built up onto rims before now and some were mounted backwards - it’ll make sense if you look at a tyre).
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I’ve got a new 2.8l hilux and that used all of its adblue in the first 1500 miles (and it’s a right ballache to refill as it goes in under the bonnet and is only supposed to be topped up during the 10000 mile service). It’s bloody thirsty too if used for towing - I’ve binned it off now, it’s become the wife’s car. My MAN TGE is coming up to 8000 miles and I’ve not put any adblue in it yet. It’s doing exactly the same work as the hilux and is pretty thirsty but it’s a great thing. I had 4x Navaras before the hilux and the last of those (newest shape but no adblue) was the best truck I’ve ever had - kicked the arse out of the current Toyota if I’m honest.
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Here are the bits, need to sort the wiring to the front of the tractor to test it though (which probably won’t happen this week)
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Are new boats many many times more expensive than second hand? I assumed they held their value fairly well (but am not pretending to know anything about that market).
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I like Kane, but when you get paid £200k plus a week and your job is simply to kick a ball into a net then you shouldn’t ever miss a goal entirely from the penalty spot. ****************wittery of the highest order!
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I’m literally in the process of doing this - I’ve just bought the motor and got the coupling today, just need to make up the mounting bracket and some hoses and we will see what it can pull!
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The woman is a complete twat as far as I’m concerned, I doubt it would be possible for anyone to have a conversation with her without her finding something to take offence over. It’s a total stitch-up job, very unfair that she’s been given the air time she has IMO.
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GreenMech Evo205DT (fixed base tracked) and Tri Axle Stolen.
monkeybusiness replied to PeteB's topic in Stolen Equipment
They require power but work well even buried deep in a machine. I still don’t see why they aren’t simply an integral part of the control box. The machine could still be stolen but it would be more difficult to bypass/remove the tracker, and would be far more difficult to subsequently put back to ‘normal’ use. Telematics is common on agricultural and construction machinery nowadays - the manufacturers know where machines are and what they are doing. I can’t personally see it being a massive step up to include this tech (at a basic level) in woodchippers.
