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  1. Stephen Blair
    Cheers guys, I would fix the vehicle end and have the trailer end free to move.
  2. Stephen Blair
    My plans are to put TW 23o0 in the back of the Iveco and Avant to Mini digger on the trailer, to save taking trailer on and off I thought just using ramps from trailer to pick up. First thoughts is damage to trailer floor when pressure is on but that could be resolved with a piece of scaffold board or I have low ground pressure mats I could cut to suit. Thoughts, tips, experiences and pictures if possible. Thanks
  3. Stephen Blair
    From day 1 of owning my cs100 I had a bungee holding the choke in as it would come on. If the engine jolted it would come on and engine would die, blocking chute etc
  4. Stephen Blair
    It's really good, well built! It's been improved with the addition of extra length and reinforcement from the picture in Avant catalogue! I always buy stuff after being in a job where I needed it most! The ground I work here is dry and stoney, old river bed or where a glacier has scraped over, not much top soil.
  5. Stephen Blair
    Cheers, did you go from Multi-tone to Avant ? I’ve ordered the automatic quick hitch and opti flow for the extra AUX to the front, I did want Hydraulics to the rear but I can’t have both I was told which is very strange as it can surely be as simple as a diverter.
  6. Stephen Blair
    Hi Mick, yes made the jump during the storms around March time. The 435 was great but brutal on my back, then I had a go on the 755i and I just drove it straight onto my trailer. It’s amazing, the work it can do with ease impresses everyone who sees it. Marne it’s a stone rake carrying a land leveller.
  7. Stephen Blair
    Last couple of weeks.
  8. Stephen Blair

    THIS ADVERT HAS EXPIRED!

    • FOR SALE
    • USED

    Stealth Camper work truck V6 engine, remapped and large 10 fin alloy turbo putting out 24bhp full stainless exhaust captain drivers and double passenger seats back and front remote winches adjustable tow bar large roof rack awning, side cover snorkel diesel heating system Twin leisure batteries solar panel on roof gas hobs, sink with electric tap. bed folds up into large back seat storage rear gas shower. 176k miles years MOT £20,000 ono PX considered, swap anything but a landrover considered. I’ve stayed in it for 2 nights in 18 months, so I’ve accepted I’m not a camper! mobile 07932004027, WhatsApp is best.

    £20,000

    - GB

  9. Stephen Blair
    £60 a month DD here, that overpays through the summer and covers winter. Log burner heats living room and oil does the rest of the house and hot water. Maybe £500 a year on that. Sit in the dark with a jumper on, just pretend it’s the 80’s! 😀
  10. Stephen Blair
    You need to let it bed in, personally I'd throw that away and get a wire core flip line and clogger.
  11. Stephen Blair
    Buy the 1 that’s closest to you with the best salesman/back up. Simply email them all with specific instructions, what you want and what answers you require before they even pick up a phone to you, who ever does that the best. Use them. That’s the only reason I moved from Cat to Bobcat. I tried for 4 years to replace the CAT and every time I got fed up with the process, 1 email to Bobcat on a Sunday night and 2 emails later I had ordered the machine by 10am Monday morning , better specked for about £10k cheaper and a salesman who will pick up the phone and makes the whole experience a pleasure.
  12. Stephen Blair
    Mate needed some good fill and top soil for projects and fed up with his banking he had to strim as it was too steep to cut and full of boulders.
  13. Stephen Blair
    Dave
  14. Stephen Blair

    This item is SOLD

    • FOR SALE
    • USED

    JCB JS 130 Forestery Spec with raised cab. Guarded front windscreen runs at 250 bar comes with digging and ditching bucket new tree shear, used for approx 3 hours additional £8k plus vat, will sell separately. VAT to be added to sale price of £20,000 will consider PX. 3.5t tipper with 3.5 ton towing capacity Iveco Daily, Nissan Cabstar etc

    £20,000

    - GB

  15. Stephen Blair
    Never any problems, great service no dramas.
  16. Stephen Blair
    What about the woman? Ok to send them?
  17. Stephen Blair
    It’s £2.08 in our village and has been for about 2 weeks.
  18. Stephen Blair
    The crane fed option looks amazing! It was out my league price wise when I enquired a few months back, saying that if I got it at the start of the storm Arwen It would pretty much of been paid off by now and I wouldn’t of had to do double journeys moving a mini loader or mini digger for feeding. So there’s a lot to be off set against it imo.
  19. Stephen Blair
    That's a perfect set up for me!!! Impressive!
  20. Stephen Blair
    Envy is a cruel mistress on this thread! 😒😂
  21. Stephen Blair
    It’s the last stage of a project, the top layer of 4’’-6’’ was dry matted pine needles and self seeded Rowans and Blaeburry , the owner wants to encourage grass to grow for some animal grazing in a few years time. I’ve terraced the hillside and put in small access roads which will allow him to access the woods for maintenance and feeding and will also double up as pasture so I wanted to get some organic material onto the sub soil which formed the roads, so I was mulching and blasting the debris back onto the road, doing to jobs at once.
  22. Stephen Blair
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  23. Stephen Blair
    Daves been settling in, been to work every day these last 4 weeks. Gets his 12 week jag on Friday
  24. Stephen Blair
    500i all day long and if you need a 36" bar buy an 088. I don't bother with the 261 anymore, 500i weighs about the same and when you give it revs it becomes lighter as it lifts.
  25. Stephen Blair
    If anyone in the UK can supply a digging bucket grab shear, I’ll take 1! This would be my only attachment I reckon for 90% of what I do with the digger.

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