monkeybusiness
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Ordering a single new-order van from a dealer leaves you wide open to being bummed - list prices are always mental and they charge extra for everything on a factory order. You’re better off finding a dealer with pre-registered stock as you’ll have a better chance of negotiating a deal. Fleet orders trigger big manufacturer discounts and some leasing companies will bulk-buy - have a look online for the type of van you are after and be prepared to do a deal at the other end of the country. Vehicles sitting registered on forecourts are about to be a year older (even though they are essentially brand new) - this makes them cheaper to buy too.
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Only if it had been soaked in liquid uranium.
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Would be very interested to hear feedback on this machine, they look a really smart bit of kit.
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No, that’s just the way I walk.
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If it’s in the Peak District it’s definitely got something to do with sheep getting bummed/farmers getting bummed by a sheep. Fact.
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Possible de-alignment of flywheel at Arbtrak190?
monkeybusiness replied to Soeren's topic in Greenmech
I think the foreign object is a red herring - we’ve accidentally chipped all sorts of nasty stuff over the years (plenty of steel rebar etc) and it doesn’t tend to destroy bearings (not immediately anyway). The bearing being worn and failing will have caused the flywheel gap to alter which will have caused the metallic sound you heard as the blades struck the anvil in use - this contact will have mullered your blades. That’s what I reckon anyway! -
Possible de-alignment of flywheel at Arbtrak190?
monkeybusiness replied to Soeren's topic in Greenmech
The edges chip off when the front bearing fails and the disks ‘tickle’ the anvil… @Mike Hill - that front bearing mounting is the same design as the 1928 machines. I’ve been running those for ever, and still have a 2005 machine with well over 3000 hours on it now (which goes out working most weeks). I’ve never had any issues with structural part of these chippers, the design works well. -
I’ve got a pressure washer with a 13hp Honda engine on it that drives one of those patio whirligig type cleaners (I took it as part-payment towards a bad debt, I don’t wash patios). It’s a beast of a thing when using the jetwash lance - you need to wear your heaviest shoes to stay upright when you pull the trigger… It has to be run from a bowser as a garden tap won’t keep up with it.
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Possible de-alignment of flywheel at Arbtrak190?
monkeybusiness replied to Soeren's topic in Greenmech
I suspect the bearing has failed - if you slacken the belts and put a bar under the rotor shaft you will probably see movement. -
Liam Gallagher. Owes absolutely everything to his brother, I cannot understand how he has any sort of career outside Oasis.
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We subbied to Ground Control on the WPD contract for a couple of years - I had 10 fully authorised climbing arborists working with chainsaws from ropes and harnesses around live power lines day-in, day-out. Mountains of paperwork, regular site audits, routine safety briefings (days with no pay for me as the business owner but the same wages to pay etc, all part of the job!). It came to a bit of a head when some office-based safety muppet decided we needed the NPTC blower qualification (we all already held just about every NPTC ticket available, and had to routinely refresh these!)… I lost my rag tbh, told them we’d just leave the blowers in the yard and they’d have to explain to landowners why the jobs weren’t left very tidy. We don’t work for ****************wits any more….
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Don’t be shy with it - choke as many logs as you can together and drag them all in one pull! Don’t use the tractor handbrake and make sure your arms are free to drop whilst winching - some tractors lock them each time you turn the engine off etc and you need to let the winch pull itself into the ground as it loads up.
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Are you fitting a new chain with the new bars? Sounds more like a possible chain issue to me.
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Yes - the Tajfun are brilliant winches. We run ours on a little 90hp SAME and it’s a mega setup. When pulling hard the torque through the pto can make it lift a wheel… Get the powered outfeed and radio control would be my advise.
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Most disgraceful customer supplied refreshments.
monkeybusiness replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
I think you need to lay off the crack (or at least reduce your consumption)… -
Certainly seems to get them burning well enough when hung on the speed cameras around here!…
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Cabstar cabs rust for fun - have a good poke around under the seats and up the back.
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Sounds like it’s goosed - I’ll give you £50 for it.
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Totally agree with you tbh!
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Catchy saying that!
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A fixed (ie non-swing) rotating grab gives massively more control and dexterity than any other type BUT is subjected to a great deal more forces than one that swings, so needs to be used with a degree of mechanical sympathy and built as strongly as possible. For the money suggested above I’d probably consider the Kelfri free swinger, as I’m not sure how well a cheap grab would stand up to being fixed onto a digger.
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That’s all mine do.
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The trouble is the police (like all walks of life) have their fair share of dickheads. I know a few coppers socially, all bar one of them are sound. That one individual is a nasty piece of work though, a power crazy bully with no idea how to talk to people and no understanding that he rubs people up the wrong way.
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I got pulled over by a traffic officer on the M62 a couple of years ago as his ANPR camera had flagged up my pickup (he was driving and not actively checking me, whatever system he had fitted must check all the plates going past him I guess). Apparently my vehicle (same model, colour and reg) had been used to steal something from a building site in Kent a few weeks prior, and I can only assume the reg was being looked for across the whole country (which I was quite impressed with!). Anyway, I was in Gran Canaria when the theft occurred and my pickup (only driven by me) was parked on my drive in Cheshire whilst I was away so it was obviously someone with cloned plates. The copper was really sound, and I didn’t worry about the half hour lost.
