Rowden the cowboy
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My stihl 070 pisses out fuel if its held upside down or nose to the ground. I know that the fuel cap leaks but there is another bad leak somewhere in the other side of the tank. How easy is it to replace the fuel tank altogether, or at least botch it up so it works?
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Tipper body for nissan navara
Rowden the cowboy replied to Rowden the cowboy's topic in Large equipment
Not too fussed about payload so long as it stays within axle limits. Know any body builders in hampshire? -
Does anyone know a company that does tipper conversions for Nissan navara D40 model? Mines a double cab and could benefit from one. I'm in the Hampshire area and dont really fancy travelling more than one county away. Any thoughts?
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so is the grcs really worth the £1800 or whatever it costs? I always thought a port-a-wrap at £80 was extravagant! It would be interesting to see how much more efficient that extra gear made the job. How bout you do another beech TD and use natural crotch rigging and a bit of polyprop rope. we'll watch.. haha
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And the problem with this is??? I am really a pimp in a tree surgeons body. In all fairness the navara is awful offroad largely due to its low ground clearance and road biased tyres, but then most of my work is urban and the navara is mostly for show anyway. That said, I had a landrover before this that was truly terrifying to drive above 60mph and broke all the time, whilst my experience of l200s is that they are baffled by corners:god help anyone trying to negotiate a roundabout at speed in one. Then the hi-lux...They are almost as slow as landrovers! They are so gutless and weedy. Really i am right when I say that the navara is the best of a bad bunch although a hairdressers motor. I think the D40 is much improved over the old D22 that seemed to blow up after 60,000 and its only drawback is the stupid interior tie down system: why couldn't they have just given me rope hooks or tiedown rails like everyone else?
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Which model Navara is prone to slipping conrods??
Rowden the cowboy replied to Mozza's topic in Large equipment
I think thats the D22. You want the newer D40: loads of poke and although crap off road, it goes like stink on road -
Any ideas? Its the old Hi-lux vs L200 vs Navara debate. I'll open the debate and hopefully piss a few people off by saying that the navara is the most powerful, the best looking, the highest towing capacity and, most importantly, I have one. Anyone care to contradict me?
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Does any one here have a Navara D40 and know where you can get tie down bars to secure loads on the load bed? my navara is sadly lacking in any rope hooks or anything to ratchet down timber and stuff like that so most of the load gets distributed over the road behind me as i drive away. really, a couple of bars welded to the body work paralell to the load bay on either side would do but it would be nice to make it look profesh and not like a pikey botch job. You can get them on the l200s .also, while im at it does anyone know what size tyres can be fitted to them without screwing up the castor angle and requiring tyre offset. i want to stick on BF all terrains, cos with the current tyres it is truly awful offroad.
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Does anyone know where the event is being held this year? theres a rumour going round college that its not at Capel Manor any more and may be being held down here at Sparsholt. Can anyone confirm this?
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I know you aren't meant to, but i like to use a stihl 020 for logs like that, fitted with a 16"bar. it means you've always got a spare hand free to steady the log, its nice and light and its got plenty of poke. does anyone else do this, or am i just living up to my name?
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I am looking for a used trailer rated to 3.5 ton to use for moving timber around and various other jobs. It will be towed either behind a landrover or my navara and i am based in the Winchester/Romsey area of Hampshire. Anyone got one they fancy flogging? I'm not looking to spend a lot of money
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Is it true what they say about unimogs: that they can be driven on a normal post 1997 license? I also heard a rumor that they can be run on red diesel, which would help as your unlikely to get above ten mpg.
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I have recently acquired a stihl 070 with a 36" bar, and was wondering if its actually legal for me to use it in the work place, that is when working for myself. Obviously no employees could use it but it has no chain brake or anti vibe etc... However, i've noticed that the oil tank has a manual pump on the side. does anyone know if the saw requires to be oil pumped manually, or is it a "top up" pump for use with larger bars like on the husky 3120? In general, the saw is slow as hell at cutting but impossible to stall or jam: you can push it as hard as you like. let me know your thoughts anyone else who has one.
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I have a Makita dcs7901 and run a 18" bar or a 28" bar on it depending on requirements. it is a fast cutting saw with a lot of grunt and is the only floor saw i need. it out cuts my mates 066 with a 28" bar on it and is easy to maintain. However, it is blue.
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I tried to make sense of paolo bavaresco's extreme rigging i.e. using lag hooks to rig chogs down from the stem. Has any one here actually used them and was it more efficient than snatching overall? its just there's something about going up the stem with a cordless drill that sounds like a real arse ache. I would appreciate any comments from anyone who's used this technique. Cheers
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so how hard was it to get a pull rope on the top of those lumps before felling them out? Surely thats safer than relying simply on wedges to push them off. Also, why not use a bigger saw up there? My medium fell is crap on the ground and i bet its no easier 80 feet up on spikes! Still, respect to that ballsy climber.
