Michael C

wish i could afford one to be honest every time i see the big 12footers come up there around £2800 i only paid £1000 for my trailer so not worth it

Will you not eat well into that £1800 price difference by the time you are finished though?

Ram, hydraulic pack, battery, steel for new sub chassis, strengthening of existing chassis (important one) consumables etc, not to mention time.

And when you are finished it, it isnt going to be worth anything near as much as a purpose built tipper.

Couple of years ago the pulled onto a playing field near us and left broken glass bottles pushed into the pitch! Then you get the bleeding heart lot and BBC going on about 'they have to go somewhere' and the classic 'there's good and bad in everyone and we should welcome them'

 

 

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What they really mean is 'there's good and bad in everyone and YOU should welcome them', because I have more than a sneaky feeling that they would not want them on their doorstep either.

They probably already had a family, comments like this and calling people Darwin award candidates are a waste of time and insult your and everyone else's intelligence. Have you never lost a friend or family in an accident. A bit of compassion doesn't cost anything. If you can't think of anything else to say just don't bother.

Couldnt agree more. Highly stupid and insensitive comment tbh.

I Don't usually buy cheap tools but my air CP impact wrench decided to throw a weak fit so decided it was quicker to pop into lidl and pick one up this AM for an emergency job .

First impressions are very good,the build quality looks excellent, and rips to nuts off pretty well, only tightens to 100nm though...label says its made by Grizzly Tools.

I also bought one today and tried it out, very impressive for the money tbh.

I went to look at this old beast the other day- took me a while to get hang of the JCB controls but opened my mind to the backhoe route, This is going for just under £14k with new tyres basically needed all round. so probs another 2.5k..

 

Seems alot for an over 20 year old machine, but perhaps for good reason.

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Devon Plant Services Ltd.

She looks a tidy machine, and if the hours are genuine, she is probably worth it.

If you intend doing roadwork, the non turbo models (as she is) were very dead and could smell a hill.

Did my original CPCS 10 day Training Course on Grey Cab Turbo's at OTS JCB, which was JCB's training centre back in the day.

I went on to operate Black and Grey Cab version's and the F, G and H reg versions have a fully deserved legendary status.

 

The best backhoe JCB have ever made in my opinion was the Sitemaster Turbo Plus Powershift in around 1996 vintage.

It was produced as the Jubilee limited edition with a bit of bling, or the standard yellow version. If you can find a tidy one they are straightforward and extremely productive machines with great build quality.

I Operated one for 3 Years from new on front line duties and it was simply fantastic.

 

 

 

Eddie.

If I remember right, 1995 was the jubilee year. I never drove a powershift 3cx, but a standard Project 8 from 1993. A great machine IMO and very little to go wrong.

Rather than using ply, I would use Stokbord, I recently lined a muck trailer in with it, tek screw it in place, job jobbed.

 

STOKBORD 2440x1220x12mm SHEET black

I have heard in the past that skokbord can distort a lot due to sun etc. So much so that it can shear the tek screws!

goodness no! Something else

My money is on Xenforo!

Got a wee video done in this dry weather....

 

 

I wouldnt be overly gone on the way of working there.

I have a pto saw and I never put my hand on the right hand side of the blade or never see the need to. Horses for courses though.

Has post says ......stood for a while .

 

Ste

Post says he fitted a new battery 6 months ago.

Shouldnt you narrow it down a bit mate?

There are loads of MF Industrial loader models to choose from, or will any model from any era do?

I have a new one here that I bought a few years ago, never took it out of the box because I sold the pick up before I got round to fitting it!

If anyone wants to make me an offer on it, I will look into what it would cost to send it over from Ireland to the UK.

The weak Euro should make it cheap for you UK guys now!

Think a dropside trailer non tip was 22-24" bed height

Brian james tipper is approx 23.5 inches, I dont think anyone beats that.

Truck Pick-up Crane with Cable Winch Lifting Loading and Unloading Tools Goods | eBay

or cheaper again...

https://www.vidaxl.co.uk/p/210049/truck-pick-up-crane-with-cable-winch

I know many on here love the horizontal splitters, but vertical is the only type I would buy.

Vertical splitter = horizontal table, and thats the best way for any table IMO!

This is excellent news Paul.

After nearly 2.5 years of this thread, its great that we have reached the final chapter.

Enjoy your ape movie.

The 12x12 shuttle is nothing to fear really, alright that little spring can go and its a splitting job to replace it, but I would still buy one without hesitation.

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This is my MF35 3 cylinder this morning doing a bit of hedging.

 

The farmer up the road from me has a MF 399 4 wd with about 6000 hours.

Pretty good conditionand not used for the last 5 years.

Any thoughts on this model and what it would be worth would be appreciated.

I need a larger tractor to pull my Farma trailer. I will be travelling about 5 miles between woods.

Thanks

John

You wont go wrong with the 399, reliable tractors with no electrics to give bother. They can often be bought cheaper than the smaller 390T

The biggest problem you will have is that these cabs are sought after for refitting to 100 series etc and a breaker is going to be slow to sell the back window off a cab.

This guy might be worth a call as a long shot.

Super Duncan cabsFor Sale in Kerry - DoneDeal.co.uk

He travels to the UK quite often to auctions etc, and has been involved in the business for years.

Otherwise, just get a fabricator to make a frame, get a glass fitted to it.

I've been doing what I do for 21 years now and am a very capable infividual as anyone who has worked with me will tell you.

Getting work should be easy peasy then

I have read this thread from day one and it is certainly entertaining, but I'll bet most of the people clapping Paul on the back for putting all his 'adventures' on this thread have a healthy wage packet coming in every week from their various jobs, business's etc, and most will have their own homes too.

Unless I am very much mistaken, this thread isnt putting food on Paul's table or paying any bills.

I think the occasional post like 'mountain man's' may well do Paul a favour in the long term, it keeps things real.

I wish you all the best Paul

I have only ever seen videos of them, they seem a very efficient machine, but the end product is not very nice, it seems to split everything.

Lots of kindling after it methinks.

 

With regards the petrol machines, there are road tow verions and also versions with their own little wheels. Apparently the latter are a bugger to move about, think they weight in at over 300kg, and can be unstable in transit, Thus I would steer towards a road tow mobile in this instance.

 

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I couldnt agree more, I have one of these in petrol format and it is a horrible thing to move even the smallest of distances.

Other than that, I am glad I went petrol even though I do have a tractor.

If you intend using it on different sites, you are either going to need a good roadworthy tractor, or something like a compact tractor that you can tow behind a 4x4 etc.

In your position a road towable petrol would be my choice, I indend to convert my one to road tow.

We mostly heat our house here using firewood, in a large stove with back boiler.

With the amount we use, If we had to pay for the firewood at even the cheaper rates that get mentioned here, we would probably be using oil and the stove would only be for room heat and decorative purposes, and using more coal than logs.

Luckily, we have our own forest so our firewood is 'free'.

The problem is that the firewood merchant probably needs £100 a cube to make a reasonable profit, but I wonder how many people on this site would actually use firewood if they had to pay this?