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monkeybusiness

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  1. I bet you got a decent view of the northern lights from up there last night!
  2. I saw this last night - hopefully the rights of the dead and injured burglars carry less weight than those who appear to have been defending their property. (Although I admit to a great deal of speculation here on my part!).
  3. I don’t recall his quote ‘This forum is a bellend magnet’. I need to watch more of his stuff I guess!
  4. I guess none of you want to buy DR71OGS (dry logs) or GO71OGS (got logs) then?…
  5. A mate has had Schleisings for years, always buys new from Overland, won’t have anything else. The last one he had was/is a total dog from new and Overland were pretty hopeless - I’d have been a lot less patient than my friend (it should have gone back for a full refund but they had him dragging it up and down the country several times for repairs with no compensation and no offer of a loan machine). I’d personally never deal with them after seeing how he was treated (and he still won’t speak badly of them!).
  6. 4 workers for 5-7 days plus a digger - there shouldn’t be a single twig or root left in 1.2 acres of woodland after that surely!
  7. Exactly - I wasn’t suggesting no sides, just a flat-bed construction.
  8. Unless you are carrying serious weight and therefore want as low a floor height as possible I’d personally avoid a tub-style trailer (wheels to the sides) as flatbed (wheels below the bed) trailers offer more versatility for loading etc. Forklift loading and shovelling loose material straight off the trailer are two massively limiting factors of trailers like the GD range.
  9. It worked on my iPhone.
  10. This looks not far off ready to go for fairly sensible money - it’s on a tractor and plant group on Facebook.
  11. I’m certain that we fall under the exemption essentially covered by - ‘If you only carry your own goods in a vehicle of 3.5 tonnes or less and your trailer’s unladen weight is less than 1,020 kg you may not need an operator’s licence for operating within the United Kingdom.’ However, if you are delivering logs/chip etc then you would definitely need an operator’s licence. Where it might be a bit grey is if you are towing a heavy wheeled chipper. Tracked chippers and arb-diggers on plant trailers generally meet the ‘under 1020kg unladen’ rule. A couple of my lads and I are about to do our artic lorry and CPC training from a standing start so I’m hoping to gain absolute clarity on these rules - we will probably end up running hgvs of some sort in the near future so will obviously need an O licence then.
  12. I’ve had a few pairs of Arbortec Fellhunters now and they’ve never fallen apart. One pair leaked from new but they were quickly replaced.
  13. They were a few years old, but had been owned/maintained by nationwide hire from new, and I had them directly off their hire fleet. They were ‘tight’ in all the pins/bushes/wear parts etc, and the engines and hydraulics were perfect. Totally let down by the electronics which were impossibly complicated, horrendously expensive and only properly diagnosable through a terrible uk dealer.
  14. Don’t want to think about it - these were the pieces of shite… It is all bad memories!
  15. Our local tool hire place has a 17m trailer mounted nifty lift and it’s surprisingly good!
  16. They are all super-gay though!
  17. Rhodesian ridgeback - he is a good looking dog but more importantly he has an incredible temperament, a real softy.
  18. My 3 getting their heads around their in-build new home…
  19. Wiring and control panels were the issues I had. All the dealer wanted to do was sell me new panels (over £1500 a pop, and there were 2 of them) to ‘try’. And also joysticks at near enough £1k each, but they couldn’t tell which was faulty so needed to sell me 2. And no returning parts supplied for incorrect diagnosis. And always money up front. Absolute scam, the machines are way too complicated, they need to only live inside out of the rain and never be used….
  20. I bought a pair of second hand Teupens - they nearly broke me. The UK service agent was beyond dreadful. The machines were fantastic when they worked, but seemingly impossible to fix when they didn’t (which was most of the time unfortunately). I would never entertain one out of warranty again.
  21. I’m not signing up - it still recognises the device/me but won’t show statistics (which I really don’t care about!). Can still play as normal though by the looks.
  22. It’s just asked me to create an account and/or sign in after playing this morning - never had that before but my stats have apparently gone. I assumed it somehow tracked me via my phone as always play on the same device. Anyone else had similar?
  23. I’d never seen that before - it says it was updated in 2023. Was there an earlier version that you are aware of?

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