Stephen Blair
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Luckily when your butt clenches your left hand always brings the boom back to centre! I did have a close 1 , 1 day with a soft bit of ground craning rhody to the Mog! I think the back wheel lifted about 3" and felt like 3'!
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never tipped it mate, Johny i think it was about 10m, i dont go into specs, if it looks cool, makes a big noise when you press the right pedal, ill buy it:biggrin: i sold it to a lad from Manchester, it was in the FBT magazine a couple of months back as they did an article about him. she weighed 10.5 tons with tyres ballasted, ok so i know 1 spec:laugh1:
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more:001_smile:
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some more:001_smile:
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ill see if this works
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I'll shall go to the slow laptop for,pics, may take some time! I'm sure Stan said he was going to Oz at the time!
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Great pics, thanks for sharing:001_smile:
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That's the valmet I bought , was your mate called Pete that moved to Oz?
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Wow that's cracking!
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Welcome, sounds great and a very brave move! Any pics of your place and surroundings? We love pics!
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It was a cracking day today, we even had sunshine! It's now blowing a Gail and torrential rain!
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Hi and welcome. Get some pictures of the tractor up with the attachments you have for it!
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A nice little stump grinder me thinks:biggrin:
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Secret is too keep your feet clear, log splitting is a minotinous job andif you are working with a table to catch the splt part of the log on the opposite side then you will have to lean over to get them. I'd put a bungee on it so it always pulls back when let go.
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Good job on the construction:thumbup1: My concerns are the controls. It won't take long for the operator to just knock that lever forward and do something else, most folk try and be as efficient as they can and standing waiting for a ram can get boring after a few hours of splitting in a cold shed:001_rolleyes: If you slip or trip or a jacket gets caught on that control it could be very messy!
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I bought a camera with built in spots lights to fit to the underside of the dipper but I never got round to fitting it. The tractor already had a tv screen and camera for chipping. Maybe the new owner fitted it.
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Now that's a thing of beauty! Nice 1:thumbup1:
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Believe me, you knew it was up there somewhere! On that tractor the controls were on the armrests, joysticks so you just sat back compared to levers on the back where you are crouched at the back window.
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I only ever gave the tractor a slap on the roofmount, I would loose the crane in the dark and on the 8950 it was huge, 10m I think ! Then all of a sudden, wham skinny beech whacking the cab!!
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I took the guarding off mine, the visibility is night and day, my eyes would go wonky trying to focus past the mesh.
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All you can do is choose a different name for the procedure that takes height off them. Cutting the top of them is exactly that, topping!
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That's very sad, 50 is only 12 years away! I had my internals looked at 2 years ago when getting my heart checked after my dads heart stopped, I asked the ladies who were checking it with their gadget to check over everything else, and they did and said, I was all good! All my work is outside and the sawdust ir big compared to indoor machining I'd like to think anyway.
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I need to go to drs to find out a bit more. In the last 2 years I've become allergic to shellfish and my dogs. I put it down to stress at the time, but that's a self diagnosis. I've started using my sons inhaler here and there and I think it helps, this thread has given me the little push to go back to the drs, last time I went I got a nasal spray for a post natal drip which I'd forgotten about until my wife told me tonight after reading her this thread. I'm very sensitive to smells even with a blocked up half runny nose! I'm always around some sort of engine fumes and sawdust and in the last month bonfires so maybe its just my body trying to fight all that.
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I've had an Ldv Luton for over 3 years now, I had to spend a grand on the engine 2 years ago, apart from that its never faulted and mots cost about £150. It gets abused something terrible around the farm and back roads. I love it! My mate had a double cab and it served him well.
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Yikes! Get that man a pole saw:laugh1:
