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  1. Home | Albert Jagger Ltd - Commercial vehicle body fittings - Trailer fittings - Machine building elements
  2. Piano wire is the weapon of choice
  3. We have a solution for that, its called a spare wheel, and if you put a bit more pressure in there it will do the same job your C02 bottle does........
  4. Alan Tichmarsh
  5. You gave them advice and a quote, they went another way. Its nothing to do with you, walk away
  6. You keep your saws for a decade? Unless its a model I am particularly fond of they are replaced with new and sold off as soon as they are off the books. Most used saws bring at least half the cost of a new one back, getting rid sooner makes financial sense.
  7. Or just lucky I was at the York farm sale last week and customs were dipping on the car park and any vehicles parked on the sales field. Just before that at the VOSA station on the M62 (Oldham) customs were dipping anything and everything, all day long. last month they rolled onto an equestrian yard I drop logs at "we were just passing, mind if we dip your tanks?" (like we had a choice and its down a narrow back road so they weren't passing) If you were running red you would have to avoid such places like the plague
  8. That doesn't sound right at all, HMCE are interested in road use, the law allows them to prosecute for illegal road use but forage and fencing are off road activities which can be done with rebated fuel.
  9. treequip

    Uniforms

    The only time I wore a vest I got burned above my t shirt tan line and scratched to buggery. Not for me thnks
  10. That's a possibility but it will probably pop not long after you take the band off.
  11. Simple answer is volume, barrows cheap and nasty sell by the truckload, arbtrolly sells in hundreds
  12. A tube on its own would be a liability, over inflate the spare a little and use that use that, just remember to top it up and or let a bit out of you have to use it in anger, or you could stop aresing about and use a brush for field servicing and a compressor in the workshop.
  13. On the right job it's a godsend, you can pile kit on it as well as moving waste. I don't use mine every day but then again I haven't seen much of it since I made it,,,,,,have i Ed?
  14. Well welding your own up, scrounging oddball wheels down the tip, using random steel sizes and getting your mates to powder coat is all well and good for a one off build but you cant make comparisons between that and what fletcher stewart have to do. For a start they don't manufacture so they are tied to providing a drawing to a fabricator, messing about sourcing cheap materials to save a few quid would cost more than any savings and randomise the product. If someone needed new pins you could have to make them as a one off special and that's not how production work is done. The fabricator will want his money for manufacture and will want a handling charge for materials, which is fair. Someone has to take the items to and from the powder coater, they will have to warehouse the stock before paying to send it to retailers who will also want a slice, then there is the capital tied up in materials, advertising and the like. Its easy to see it as a high price for what is essentially a two wheeled trolley and I do think the price is on the high side but I can see where the money is going. You just cant make a direct cost comparison between what they are doing and knocking one up in your garage with your mates to help.
  15. I said to primer (painted) It takes 20 mins to de grease the thing Show me those wheels That was a bit of a joke, Reg is the designer of the stein trolley (AFAIK) there was a patent for another granted in Germany, I used one back in the day. I am not defending the price they charge but similarly your estimates are low by a magnitude.
  16. Some of your other posts/rants sound to have half a grain of truth but this is nonsense and I know because I have made my own trolley. Decent wheels are 45 quid each and it took me half a day to get from raw materials to finished and in primer, that's more than able in a well equipped workshop. If you were making them on a production setup with a jig, you would make them in less than an hour but that's got costs of its own, buy the steel, pay someone to fab it up, wheels are £45 each (bought in ones and twos), it needs to go out to powder coat, storage transport to retailer, retailers markup and all that before they pay Reg his intellectual property rights:laugh1: I agree its not cheap but its not 40 quid and an hour
  17. And DWP these days
  18. treequip

    Uniforms

    Its safetyspeak for as low as reasonably practical What the term should be in this case SFAIRP so far as is reasonably practicable
  19. See now everyone shouts VOSA but fuel usage is a tax matter and that's down to Her Majesties Customs and Excise (HMCE) I am sure VOSA were there but the fuel thing is HMCE Just saying
  20. You can "juce" the 8274 up but the stock version is just fine for me
  21. Just a thought, if you fit a winch make sure the fixings are tamper proof, I caught some scrotes looking under mine recently. They were clearly casing the job but found they were going to need half an hour with a grinder to get it off.
  22. Warn 8274
  23. Ha ha ha Its not about how much you spend, its whether you are guilty I the eyes of the law. The LA could have blown their entire annual budget on that case and the outcome would have still been the same. It shows a degree of financial wisdom that they didn't spend any more
  24. ELECTRIC Pros. Simple to fit Can be operated with remote Cons. Relatively poor endurance Weight issues with extra batteries HYDRAULIC Pros. Good endurance Can be operated with a remote Cons. More expensive than electric Not as simple to fit More weight (tank, valve, pump, pipes and fluid) Mechanical Pros. Very powerful Good endurance Cons. Cant be operated with a remote For me arb use is pulling a stem over now and again dragging the same onto trailers, winching vehicles out and suchlike. I use an electric winch for arb and its limitations don't cause any problems.
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