tommer9
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Wow thats great. The one i used was a 500 i think, but the chip was soaking as it was peeing it down. It was ycamore, and no leaf. It really struggled:confused1:. Then again you do appear to be shovelling a bit of chip there:sneaky2:
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whats one of them....
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Streuth!!!!!
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That greenmech is a very good machine. I have also been VERY impressed with the Jensen 530t, although i hear that Jensen's quality is maybe slightly dropping off, although i have no direct experience of that.
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The lantra training books should be given out by any self respecting training body as a matter of course. This would have the relevant info int it as Mick said. My first port of call would be my tutor.
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I dont, but that seems to be where we are being direscted to look for reasons as to why we should buy aspen:confused1:
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Yeah- but i have subbied for a JB owner, and i was just climbing and the damn thing wound me up to top pitch....it wouldnt get down the garden path, it wouldnt fire the chip past the halfway point on the landy bed, and you had to stand there feeding the thing as it has no feed rollers. I would rather get the customer to pay for a groundy, and make money off the groundy. Ady- didnt i rent you my groundy once and he had to drag chip up hill to your greenmech:lol:
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Yeah but that wiki entry is wildly wrong....in fact since 2000 benzene levels in uk petrol have been less than 1% by volume.....(source:UKPIA)
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The use of surveillance cameras is higher in this country than any other.......and our crime detection rate is one of the lowest...
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Aah. Cheers Liam.
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and stand there feeding the damn thing.......or price in a groundy and make him do the dragging..... and raking all the chip to the front of the chip box coz it cant spit it far enough...... I still cant see the attraction, and hasnt the king of the wee chippers just bought a dirty great tarcked machine:sneaky2:
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Whats a 'rodeo' pete?
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Hear hear. I think that alot of the perceived problems come from people who assume they are buying something other than a dressed up old tractor when they buy a landy.
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It still doesnt alter the fact that it is so much more expensive than petrol, even though 80% of pump petrol is tax, yet 80% of aspen ISNT going to the govt....so where is it going.........to cover the costs of research into it...which when covered will simply mean that Aspen are making a killing out of an industry that is running on mega tight margins already. Other than hedge trimming (which i dont do) and alaskan milling (which i do very little of) I fail to see the benefit other than for aspen fuels LTD.
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I may yet be tempted...... I can think of no finer place to be......I finished changing the transfer box at 3.30 am last saturday.. LOL- we knew that....everyone is really.....except me- i hate them:001_tt2:
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:laugh1: Nice box James,
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Soft wood Timber framers... Any one intersted in building a barn?
tommer9 replied to bareroots's topic in General chat
I was asked to supply graded timber, and sought the advice of a friend with a huge commercial mill, who is qualified to grade timber, and he told me that there wasnt a uk softwood timber that could be graded for construction for reasons mentioned earlier, ring spacing etc. i was particularly asking about larch and douglas BTW. -
I agree with you totaly there Steve. Like the idea of the cambelt and head gasket.....its certainly different!! I never thought aboput the td5 like that- has it outlasted the 200/ 300 total too? I was very close to replacing my 300 with a td5 hi-cap a few years back. It would have cost too much at the time, but i have since decided to keep to the 300 (i even paid 2.5k to have mine rebuilt 2 years ago) as i keep seeing td5's in the garage with engine probs though. Did you get many /any probs?
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That will have helped do the damage too!
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I would strongly advise a 300 over a td5 any day. The landy garage i use have the servicing contract for all the landies used in the china clay pits an cornwall. They (tha vehicles) work in what is probably the harshest condiions possible. The silica gets everywhere, and there is slurry all over the place from being in deep silica/ clay pits with water everywhere- brake discs last about 2 weeks and are like paper for example. There are 2 landies that run 24hrs a day taking men all over site, and after 3 years they fetch up to about £300 at auction....whereas the 90's driven by the managers fetch very good money second hand. So daimler benz (the leasing company for the landies) said they were fed up of this, and orderd a trial of the ranger. After 6 monthes the rangers were dead, and spent most of that time in the workshop. They now use landies again. There isnt a jap motor on the fleet. This says it all for me.
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I had a hilux in between various landies.......i bent the chassis, and the electrics failed, and it was seriously lacking in the carrying/ towing dept. I went back to a 300tdi defender which has been ace. The TD5 is an awful engine TBH. The jap stuf is generally more reliable yes, until wirked relly hard, annd then from what i can tell they break like any other marque.......IMO!!
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The zip issue is almost invariably sorted by wearing braces. According to one supplier on here, those with zip probs didnt wear them. I stand corrected if you do wear braces tho!!!
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One thing that puzzles me slighl....how on earth did you come to be in possession of a load of hillux bits....?? Random or what lol
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That big bit with the teeth missing is called the crown wheel, and it lives in the front differential housing.....it is basically the front differential.....and its scrap. I would hazaerd a gess that they had the locking hubs locked, as they should be, and just went wild in the truck. That sort of damage usually happens at high revs and speed, when the vehicle leaves the ground, and when it hits the groung again that sort of damage occurs. It is often the case that the half shaft snaps, or strips the splines off on a landy, as the diffs are huge, but the comp-safari (off road racing) boys regularly strip out diffs....
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I know you dont want to drive the length of the country, but there is an excellent machine down here for sale which would probably sell for about 2.5k, as he is desperate to sell, and would happily take a hit on the value if someone offered cash... PM me if its of any interest. BTW there is a world of difference between the two makes you have mentioned IMO. The vermeer is a better built machine I think.
