Justme

Next year can you make it easier to actually take part? The registration of that other site with lots of info needed put me off (you always seem to end up with junk mail even if you ask not to after that sort of thing). It a raffle after all not an excuse to collect personal data. Wont a simple paypal payment work?

I think you will find he was on about the fuel to fell, extract, transport, cut, split, stack & load it more than the delivery cost. Justme

Looks nice Whats it like to sit on?

Mine had the twin sill tanks. Both covered by slider plates (as was most of the brakeables underneath). Cant see the point in having a big booted 7 seater & then slapping a gas tank in the boot dropping it down to 5 seats & a metro sized boot. Also think its a bad idea especially on an open plan type car (but even in the boot) to have the tank in the "living" space. Better outside just in case it leaks as its more likely to do in the boot with stuff getting chucked in it.

I had a V8 Disco on LPG. At 12-14 MPG (heavy foot) it was the only way that I could afford to run it. To be honest you could not tell which fuel you were using except that the petrol gauge was not moving almost as fast as the odometer. Even when full loaded & "fully" loaded trailer up hill it was unstopable. V8 performance for diesel running costs.

As a customer no address = scally or flyby night to me. You all bang on about raising the profile of Arb'ing but then want to hide? Your a business so act like one.

My opinion in this "free riding" sue their asses of society we have is Well as you have identified that there is a problem & then chose not to do any thing about it due to cost I would say they would hang you out to dry. Plus as you have not taken steps to indemnify the insurance companies risk they will also hang you out to dry. My money would be on expamet being the best choice.

With the extra 6" over the back did you have the axle weights done separately? (if so how do they compare to standard?) I would guess with it fully loaded (even legally loaded) the rear axle will be well over its weight limits.

Same here except mine is the two shot model. Did consider taking it FAC as it is very easy but the consistency suffers badly. At the min if I fill it to 195bar (and not the 210 bar max) I can get over 50 shots all within 5 fps of each other.

Cedar makes great kindling & brill fire wood too. When using it as firewood you dont need any kindling as it lights so easy. If its cut & split it will dry to less than 20% in less than 6 months.

Give em a call. I bet its lost in the post or with the courier.

All that ropes & safety gear to take it down & I bet the kids put it up "free hand"

I always have problem accessing the site when I make a trip back to see my family in Leicester. Quite often I cant get on for the entire long weekend trip. What makes it odder is I connect via a 3G dongle here & use the same one when visiting so its not the ISP thats causing it.

What about scorching (in a fire) the post to above ground level? It used to be a traditional way of preserving the posts.

Thats not true. As long as its a forestry road (access way) then you do not need planning, you do not need a determination, what you need is to give prior notice. If they have not replied within 28 days then you can go ahead & do it. Roughly that 30 tonnes will do an 80mm cover on that 4m x 30m track. Or less if there is more fines in it.

Which size bulk bag?

I think you might want more than 30 ton. I have just done a track & used 70 ton for a 3m wide & about 50m long track & really it needs more. I used "sub base" which packs down hard.

That looks the part. I would deff need one with the acoustic cabinet or I would be up for that.

Yeh I know, we bought a used one & it dint last long. It still does start, run & make power but after about 20 mins cuts out. I was thinking of sending it off to be sorted. But sounds like its not worth it so I might just tinker with it. The 16 kva sound interesting. Whats the fuel consumption like? Yes I know its the noise thats the issue (neighbour & us). The Pramac with the lid shut is OK but open the lid & it gets loud. (but the 1kw petrol suitcase type one I borrowed is worse, not louder just worse, I guess its the frequency) How much? If its a 2001 wont it be a listeroid? Whats the fuel consumption like on that? I guess as you have not fixed it it will need a new alt or costly repair? Got any pics? I could fit a dc alt to direct charge the bats as a temp fix. Typical when you want one there are no canopies on ebay. I think longer term a 2 or 3 kw one for regular use & a 10kw+ one for bigger jobs. At least have a spare then & also wont be using to much fuel on a big one running small loads. I did consider a "heat & power" set up but even in winter we dont run the genny enough to provide heat. Plus it will mean having the genny closer to the house. I have also toyed with the idea of a steam powered one as we have "free" wood. They seem to be small model types or large ones.

No problem then.

Nice stack. If I was going to stack it neat I would have done it with the bark side up. Thinking that any rain would run off.

That would give me a genny replacement cost of £330 per year over the 5 years it will take me to do 4000 hours. At that its almost worth buying cheap ones & changing them every year. (but they are not a quiet) I will defo be upping the oil changes. I guess I will sell it when I feel its starting to show signs of wear & to be unreliable. I would prefer a longer lasting one but the cost & the noise is an issue. One neighbour that is about 250m away was complaining about the genny we had before this one (powerplus I think) this one so a thumper is not a good idea.

Well its arrived back. So I refilled it with oil & started her up. Was running smooth (remember this is with no load & before the service). I then connected it up to my system to see what it was doing with a very small load & a larger load. I then fitted the service parts & repeated the test. I was hoping to be able to show a difference in the before & the after shots but they were the SAME. This is small load This is a larger load UMains = incoming mains voltage IMain = incoming current UOut = voltage entering the domestic meter IOut = current being used via the domestic meter Udc = battery bank voltage Udc = ripple is battery bank voltage variation Idc = charging current going into the battery bank Freq Out = Hertz at domestic meter Freq In = hertz from genny The first pic shows a 0.3 amp load on mains & no charger (the other 0.1 amp is the system load) so 0.4amps from genny. The second pic shows a 9 amp total load on genny with the same 0.3 amps to the mains meter & the charger using the rest to charge at 106 amps. As you can see the herts (so engine speed) is high at 54 hertz with virtually no load & still slightly high at 52 hertz with the largest load we can apply. It is also interesting to see that the £200 AVR module seems to not be working very well as the genny voltage alters from 226v no load to 219v under half load.

I can even if needed set the inverter to Assist Mode. So if the power need hits the limit set for the available power from the genny (which I set for 1 or 2 amps below max) it will sync with the genny & add in the extra power needed. It also has a UPS mode where the switching is extra fast (but the standard setting does it quick enough for tv, lights & computers any way) A full strip every 2400 hours is about every 3 years for me. What is it likely to need? a, a clean up b, full recon At the min I am borrowing a cheapy import petrol 2000w genny. Its coping with all our standard loads apart from the inverter drops the charging when the freezer starts (due to hertz going down to 47/48, at 52 off load), but once started it starts charging again so is coping with the load just not the starting load.

Thanks for the comments. Yep its the P6000s. Lovely & quiet. Runs smooth starts on the button every time. Has some good design features (like the oil drain pipe, Fuel filler & level indicator, single lifting hook, elec & pull start, not that its been needed yet). The wheel kit is ok but does add to the noise so needs a bit of padding to stop handle shaking. I would highly recommend the genny, but so far cant recommend the UK agent. The dealer has been ok too. (had it failed out side the warrranty I would have done more tests on it my self & would have found the fault & fixed it for less than a tenner & if I could not find it a local genny place would have done it for a reasonable fee, in fact last time I have work done (sorting out the elec motor on a hydraulic sausage stuffer) I paid him in fresh meat from our own on farm butchers shop) I want to add remote start & stop to it (but not auto mains fail start) so in winter I dont have to go outside in the rain to opperate it & I also have a bat SOC (thats state of charge) meter that can activate a set of contacts at a pre programmed V or SOC to trigger the remote start & then hold it till the bats are full & had an EQ charge. I can also do the same with the inverter & solar charge controller as they too have controllable relays. I had a genny before this one that had auto start on mains fail. I just used the on & off switch on that to trigger it as the mains was not passed through the ports just turning it on would start the genny. In fact I still have it but would need to sort the wiring out to add it to this one. Service oil change is in the book at 200 hours I have been doing it at 100. But if you think its best to do it at 50 I will up it (oil condition/feel/ colour seems ok still at 100 hours). Its not a huge cost. My tractor "looses" more than that in a week or so. It runs for between 6 & 12 hours every 3 to four days. So about 12-20 hours per week max. Just checked that & my usage this year has been Month Hours JAN 88 FEB 80 MAR 88 APR 86 MAY 88 Had less solar panels in Jan to May as I added 50% more in Jun/Jul JUN 33 (just for power tools) JUL 0 KWh made from genny (only started recording from here) AUG 25 24 (just for power tools) SEP 29 56 OCT 65 113 NOV 68 112 DEC ? June July & Aug was mainly running it for power tools. I check the oil every time I start it. When new it used lots of oil for the first 50 odd hours & then slowed down & is now hardly using any. We dont use it much in spring & summer as the solar will provide nearly all our needs. Just the odd day running power tools ect. Our standard max load is less than 4000w with every thing on & the longer its on the more it goes down due to the bats taking less from the charger. The biggest single load would be my welder. But that only ever used on its own at low settings & is plugged in via the 15amp breaker so cant draw more than 3600watts ish & I dont use it often. I am however looking at a bigger genny (poss PTO as its more mobile & can be used as a back up if the main one fails again) for it as I cant turn it up to max for thick stuff. They have point blank refused to do it under warranty. Even after my selling dealer tried to convince them. The dealer has just passed on the costs with no mark up. The repair bill is courier both ways £90.70 (which is cheap for a 200kg plus pallet on next day) capacitor £4.50 Labour £54.67 (just to test & fit cap) VAT £19.14 (already added in above costs) Total £146.75 (the thing is I would have been liable for the courier any way & had it been a warranty item I would have had the dealer service as well, so all it would have cost them is the £4.50 cap & 30 seconds to fit it) Thats the min to fix. They also wanted to do a service for about £100 but I said no. So they would have got more money out of me doing it as a warranty item. But I did buy a service kit for £37.63 inc vat that contains 1x air filter 1x oil filter 1x gauze fuel filter 1x paper fuel filter 2 x 1 litre bottles of oil (did try to not have the oil as I buy that in bulk but its part of the "pack") The thing is that have now fixed it (due back on Monday) & I assume tested it WITHOUT DOING THE SERVICE that they say caused the failure. It will be interesting to measure the RPM when it returns to see if it really is slow & if it changes after fitting the new filters.