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nope no other cars down the road , i hope that they were looking to clock someone speeding and the boot it after them , well thats what i would be doing in an mtech X5 bmw

40k !!!! feck that , i would be more inclined to buy a jensen in that case !!!!

the worst of it is that once the insurane company finally sort them selves out they could have bought me the 58 plate warrior and had done with it , hire charges of nearly 9k !!!!!!

i have a pair on alloy bashlins with velcro pads i have had them for about 8 years and appart from changing the pads i have not got a bad word to say about them , well worth having a look at if im honest

lol i will remember that . if they did catch me it will be 9 points since the arb show lol

if i was to go for a good alround tracked whipper i think i would go for a schliesing but it all comes down to what you are going to use to get it to site etc i tried the 10 inch greenmech but to be honest was not to impressed with it .

cheers bud , to be honest i have used Accident Exchange once before when some fool went into the back of my scoby , to be honest they have been great as they supplied me with a l200 warrior to use as my work truck whilst this is all being sorted . have you had experience with them before ? i found them to be one of the only ways to get a vehicle to cover while they sort out my truck .

i went past a traffic car on the side of the road with a copper leaning over the bonnet with a speed gun , my question is - if your speeding do they have to pull you or are they now able to send a ticket ?? i know that the cammera vans send a ticket but not sure about the trafffis car on the side of the road . anyone got experience ??

i recently had a problem with another tre company that were taking the pe and not paying etc etc , i was amazed at the response i got when i phoned head office and the parent company to explain that i had one of their chipers on the back of my truck chained up . to my amazment i was told that the funds would be in my account the next day . it really does go to show the a little persuaision can go a long long way

its basicly a schliesing , i have never used one my self but anyone i speak to that has used one has nothing but good to say about them , mind you i did use a jensen 6 inch contractor the other day that was trsailed but feck i was impressed that a 6 inch chipper as capable of whipping volumes of brash like it did

hiya Ady , im sorry to hear that the spineles fool did not stop to exchange details , the problem i have is that i have a commercial policy as the truck is used purely for busines and its going to cost me my time to source a vehicle etc etc and as far as i see i should not be out of pocket for an acident that was not my fault . any way it was my firs truck that i had bought when i went off on my own lol

have you thought about a premier tracked chipper ?

cheers for all the info guys , 2K is a reasonable offer however it will cost me more than that to replace it in cornwall and the costs of going out of cornwall make buying one up country pointles too . my issue is that even though the truck is old and has seen the best of its life i can not get anything similar down here for the money and certanly not seeing that its a commercial and i will have vat to pay . like i said to the insurer , this all happened because some fool was not paying attantion and went into me and because of this i now am faced with replacig a truck that i otherwise would not have had to replace !! but i do appreciate all you imput guys . will keep you posted on how i get on trying to beat the insurer failing that i will have to claim for some hefty unasured losses !!!!

Tommer give me a call and i can put you in touch with a company that i use for ua training , the biggest problem with having the UA tickets is that unless you do Western Power's training then you will not be autherised to work within proximity to powerlines . it is a pain in the arse to get into and costly but well worth it ,

i was unfortunate to have had one of my work truck written off about 5 months ago by a guy reversin into the drivers side of my Mazda B2500 , i called Accident Exchange and the promptly dropped me down a replacment vehicle and collected mine ! Three months later i hear back from them telling me that the third parties insurers were picking it up so that their enginer could inspect it !!! another month later i get a cal from Accident Exchange telling me that the truck has been writen off and that the third parties insurers are offering £2000 or £1600 pluss the truck back , i was clearly not hoppy with this as i can not replace the truck for what they are offering so i explained this to Accident Exchange and asked them to go back to the third party Insurer to explain this and ask them to review the settlement figure . Yet another month later i get a call (today) from Accident Exchange and they tell me that the third party insurer will not review the offer nor will they give me the 2k and truck back , i have explained that i can not replace the vehicle for what they are offering me.I know htat the truck is S reg and probably not worth alot but i cant replace it for what they offer and it has a greater value within the company . so i just thought i would ask you guys for some advice and see if you have any advice on dealing with such an issue .

funnily enough i had something similar just recently !! i had a call from a chap who asked if i could have a look at some trees in the garden or a house he has just inherited so i agreed a time and date the suited him , on the day i turned up to the address and was shown the trees which were set at the bottom of a massive garden and no acess to get any kit near to the trees at all . Any way i quoted had a further look at the job which was to take down 4 Cupressus Macrocarpa's which was going to be a pretty big and expensive job so i asked the chap which address he woud like me to send the quotation too at which point he looked at me told me that he was not going to pay for the job and that i would make more than enough money out of selling the timber to a saw mill or for logs !!!! what makes it even worse is that the property is located in one of the most expensive areas down here and the house is probably worth over half a million ! Infact i could not afford to buy the summer house in the garden without a big Mortgage .

what sort of size machine are you looking for John ??

try giving Planskape southwest a call , they buy alot in and are based in plymouth , funnily enough i was in plymouth working for timber cutter dartmoor today and what lovely weather it was ,

hiya i know it may sound silly but have you tried speaking to bruce at totall tree care ?? if you aint heard of him before he runns a tree surgery agency and from what im told he is busy all year round , sadly i dont have a number for him but im sure someone on here will have it . any way hope this helps , oh and it may be worth giving High Line down in exeter a call as i knoe they are expanding throughout southwales and bristol . anyway hope this helps mate

so true steve , we were lucky to get the mog back to the yard as we were loosing air like mad and trying to get down the biggest hill in the area without using breaks or exaust damper was a bit hairy lol anyway its all sorted now and the drive tomorrow will cheer me up .

looks like a great job and carried out really well , well done mate who did you use for the crane ???

thanks tommer , it did cost me a grand to sort the problem and then while its been off the road its not been earning either . but hey thats life . how was your day off ??

well guys i must say a big thanks to you all for all your advice and help , and a big thanks to rob who is one of my groundsmen and does also has a good knowlege of agricultural equipment and maintainence , after several hours with the workshop compressor , stripping down the main distribution valve which was full of crap , then the blow off valve and finally we replaced the main airline from the compresor to the blow of valve which was leaking small amounts of air from several areas due to the pipe heating up majorly when the compressor was on its way out . so now the mog is building air up to roughly 18.5 bar and then the blow off valve kicks in , during the last 2 days and stripping the air system down we have managed to cure a couple airleaks as well . now i see what the likes of Steven Blair , Sky Huck and the rest of you mog owners meant when you said about the ammount of work neded to keep them on the road . and after all this i can safely say its no longer a 6 ton lump of scrap its a mog again lol

any news on the skylotec justin ????