Stephen Blair

It's not yours to sell, it's the finance companies. If you want to transfer the finance over to the new owner you can, costs £250 as long as the new buyer passes the credit checks. What you can do is get the buyer to right 2 checks, 1 for you and 1 for the settlement figure. When I sold Chris the Iveco, I gave my finance guy his details, Chris gave his finance guy my guys details and they did the work and I got a cheque back with the change and Chris got the truck. It does take a week of emails and calls since the 4 of us stayed in different parts of the country .

No it was the welder s who was fixing something

My dad had 1, I remember being terrified because they said there was a bull onthe field if we got out the van, they left us in it to go for a drink! Then the roof collapsed when we were in the damp stinky bunks! I hated the thing! Then he got a square 1 with no window and concerted it himself, with no windows!!!!

My wife was expecting our 2 child, she wasnt well for 3 months with low iron, :thumbdown:my eldest was toddling and 1 of the dogs had a litter of pups, oh and my worker chucked it that I had trained up on the tractor., my mortgage deal was up and was going to increase by £600 per month and basically my head was fried as I couldn't get to work and had to look after my family. I'd also bought 3 other houses in 2005-2006 that I was going to sell and make loads on but after the downturn they were worth 25% less than what they should of been and I had taken into account their appreciation when spending so much money on kit:001_rolleyes: It was 2009 so work had almost died of death, so I sold All my kit as I couldn't stand seeing it sitting when it could be money in the bank. So I sold that and my Mog, paid off 10% of my mortgage, all my vehicle finance, de registered for Vat and did as little as possible work wise for a couple of years and spent most of my time on here while I kept as eye on the kids:thumbup: Then it was the Gloria years:biggrin:

Awesome lawnmowers, I think FR Jones does them.

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'!

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:

more:001_smile:

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ill see if this works

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!

Great pics, thanks for sharing:001_smile:

That's the valmet I bought , was your mate called Pete that moved to Oz?

Wow that's cracking!

Welcome, sounds great and a very brave move! Any pics of your place and surroundings? We love pics!

It was a cracking day today, we even had sunshine! It's now blowing a Gail and torrential rain!

Hi and welcome. Get some pictures of the tractor up with the attachments you have for it!

A nice little stump grinder me thinks:biggrin:

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.

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!

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.

Now that's a thing of beauty! Nice 1:thumbup1:

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.

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!!

I took the guarding off mine, the visibility is night and day, my eyes would go wonky trying to focus past the mesh.