jose

i bought a old 4 inch entec, worked great for about a yr, then had problems constantly. in the end even the timberwolf dealers couldnt fix it! got a brand new 125 and have never looked back ( that was 5 yrs ago). personally i find everything in the tree game from you rake to your truck takes a beating, buying second hand is just asking for trouble. Yes find if you have the tools, knowledge space and time to repair your own then crack on. If i lose 1 days work from a broken machine thats at least 2 months paymeants for the chipper! not to mention the cost to repair and the headache it brings. Always buy the newest u can.

here is our old body put back on and painted. unfortunately where it was sand blasted the sign writing isnt sticking well so needs some more work.

here is stage one to keep us working

i have done 1500 miles in the last month since getting the truck now. thoughts: Its not as easy to drive as the transit. by this i mean the gears dont go in as easy or as light. Has quite poor torque. cant count how many times i stalled it in the early days! ok now i am use to it. if you let the clutch out a fraction before alceraeting then it just doesnt pick up the reves and you end up going nowhere. mine is the 150 hp modle. really they are only minor faults but the only ones i have found. oh and the bloody thing beeps and cuts the radio out until you put on the seatbelt. damn safety! plus side: more room in the cab, more cubby holes for all the bits and pieces, more storage under the seats. AC- so good on a hot day! Cheaper ! bought mine as a pre reg with 30 miles for the same price as a 2 yrs old transit with 10k. Hopefully less desireable to the gypos but time will tell i guess. Get some pics up soon Jose

stop stop! no i dont want and cant spend loads building roads, plus i always thought in the back of my mind if i built a proper rd would the council come along and sniff out the potential to make more money out of me. its a shame as obviously we generate 1-2 tones of chippings a day but these have leaf mixed in, not just wood. i hopefully can get use of a farm loader so can get round the mud issue, just makes life a bit more double handed. thanks for the info though guys. jose

Thats what my partner said tbh but i thought i would ask others who have actually done it. Thanks for the fast replys Jose

I have use of a field however it gets very wet and muddy. If I put down a thick layer of Chippings, say 2-3ft deep would that help to spread the weight of my 3.5 ton truck? Or am I dreaming and are just going to sink straight through? Any thoughts welcome

was havong a quick look into this and its a bit of a grey area. it seems possibly if the police recover it for forensics than they may be liable but if its deemed a abondoned vehicle and is just to be recovered ( to prevent further damage and or parts theft) then this falls under a road act and is not the polices resposibility. Like i say a bit of a grey area!

lol i am going to try and find out which camp it actually is, so if my truck goes again i can go straight round there. i think its safe to say that nobody here has much faith in the police then. i am going to make a formal complaint against the old bill for there absolute uninterested attitude in solving this crime. and a quick question why do you have to pay £300 to retrieve ones own property? its mine, i already paid for it. also i have already paid council tax which a part of it goes to pay for the police. feels like getting robbed all over again!

Sorry its a bit short notice, was let down by my regular guy. After a groundie tomorrow monday 28 may in Bracknell berks. Dragging brash and chipping (or even just dragging). pm or text me on 07867523823 many thanks jose

yes and no. After yrs of hard work and sh~~ trucks i decided to treat myself to a reliable new vehicle,but only had it yr and a half before it was nicked. Do a fair bit of london work so forced to get Euro 4 or higher. So i had to have a new ish van. In my mind my last truck was still new. So mixed feelings as yes this is new but i was happy with what i had! i am getting my old body put on it next week ( only 1 &1/2 yrs old). Its all i got left after the gypsies took the rest! What it does have though is AC. Cool air has never felt so good! will stick some pics up.

Well after some consideration of which one to get i ended up getting a movano. I dont fancy having another visit form the gypsies. I got a new one( pre reg 11 plate). Cost the same as a 2010 transit with 10k on the clock. The new ones are twin rear wheel and rwd too. had a hire van ( ldv fwd ) and was getting stuck on everything that wasnt grass so got put off a fwd truck. It was a shame as saw a nice red movano , 10k on a 2009 reg with 15k miles. ally body and built in tool box. would have been perfect. Its too new to say but if i am honest its not quite as a effortless drive as a new transit, but that might be that it needs to lossen up a bit first. cheers

hope these pic come up. The wooden sides ae a tempory attachment, made using existing holes ( the cargo strapthings in the bed floor mainly) . many thanks

hi all i have brand new scattolini tipper body currrently fitted to my vauxhall movano ( 11 reg) . i am getting my old chip box body fitted to me new truck so they will be using the ram and the lower frame of the new body but the actual body will be unbolted and not touched. this body is brand new( couple of days old not even chipped into yet). ideally i wish to sell it on. but tbh i have no idea as to its worth. worse case i will sell it to the scrap man but i feel its almost criminal to scrap a brand new body. any body interested? its in tadley, hampshire. will need colecting. i have taken some pics and will post up hopefully tonight. i will need to confirm but i may also have the tipper ram and bits from my transit tipper also available. I will be swapping the bodies next friday. please pm or reply if interested. cheers jose

no afraid not, nor the hire vehicle we had, though next years renewal came in the other day and that would cover van hire. We had to badger the police all day for them to come out to take a crime statement ( all i wanted was the crime ref no) for me to get the insurance co to start moving. They are another joke, after saying give us all the paperwork within 7 days or we assume you dont wish to proceed ( r they joking?) we got it to them by monday for them to say they person dealing with it only works off the phones once a week on a friday so nothing is done till then. so another week to go by. I would love to say to these people sorry the accountant doing your wages this moth only works on it once a month so u will have to was another week or so before they bother to start sorting your wages. How fast would they moan then?

I personally blame the people who have no interest in changing the current laws, be it the judges or the politicians. Its a very well know fact that these scum account for a large part of specific crimes, and yet they use loop holes to get off scott free. This camp only has 6 familes on it currently so there are not that many culprits to chose from. why not change it so that by association, ie living surrounded by stolen goods that you have some guilt. I am sure many of us could think of loads of changes to stop them or at least make there life harder to commit crime. It turns out that they stole another van on the thursday night which ad a tracker unit fitted, the police did a covert search and saw the van and then launched a proper raid at dawn this friday. Upon entering they basically found a shed load of stolen kit, including 6 trucks. They ask if anybody owns anything, they shrug there sholders and because nobody was seen doing it they are all presummed innocent! The only reason they recovered my body was the recovery man saw it poking above a fence and got the police to investigae. they were already getting ready to leave. my body was behind a fence in a big hole! upon reovery to the secure location the police took photos of the body and immidiately wrote it off as a simple ally box with not way to trace the owner so its wortless apart from scrap. YET from 10ft away you can still see 90% of the sign writing!!!! it was only because the recovery firm looked into it and got my phone no off the body, then he called my office to c if we have lost a vehicle( which we had) that we have got anything left to show for it. The police didnt contact us for another 24 hrs. And only upon finding out how much the body costs to build was the officer dealing with it showed any interest! the icing though is with the ladder. I asked the officer about my ladder as i knew they had recovered a large number of ladders at the site. I expalined that it was a very distinctive ladder ( i have never seen another like it ever!) and would be instantly recognisable. On the phone the office seems a bit cagey and unwilling, and kind of fobbed me off with a 'speak to us next week when we have had another look'line. Yet speaking to the recovery firm he said that 2 of the gypises did tree work for a living (yeah right) and said that the ladders were theres, so they took some pictures and let them lake a load of them away!!! Thats a £250 ladder that isnt covered by the insurance! And to easy life one of the biggest problems is they claim is racial discriminalisation. How exactly? they r as white as me! Only difference is they live in mobile homes and steal for a living. thats it! This country is plagued and will be its down fall by do gooders claiming everybody has rights for everything. Except the white middle class. they just have to pay and put up. The poor get given everything. they rich have it all so are shielded from the scum and /or poor so they dont care. i think i could rant for ever but need to get some sleep soon. parting thought. insurance keeps going up but look in the rich list that came out and quite a few are in there. ( admirals worth something like 3 Billion). i am sure they are still blaming the rise on sept 11. or is the drought now......

Just found out the police have recovered the body. Where? Wait for it..... Gypsie camp, static one in tadley. Also found quads, 6 cars an loads of ladders. Our body was painted in primer for its next coat, but u could still read our logs and sign writing. The chassis cab etc is not there but getting the body is a start I guess seeing as its 8k worth! And one copper hurt in the raid when they threw metal bolts at his face. Not sure of the next stage yet, will let u k ow.

yeah the shock was a real shock. get it? tbh the obstacles is a doddle for anybody doing our game for a living, there was even one where u pick up a log and go for a run with it! i was going to ask where to send my bill! for me it was the running especally the last bit which was the best part of 3-4 miles constant at a guess. i would have been slower but my brother is a demon when it comes to long distance running, well i cant have him beating me now( even though inside i was begging him to stop and walk just for 2 mins!!!). he now want to do the ultimate mudder, 8 mile course but goes on for 24hrs. not so sure myself. next one is in scotland which i think he has already signed up for. if u r going to do it the best thing to do is running in the forest!

That was good! fantastic day, cool, dry and sunny. Water was cold Obstacles were easy tbh. u need to be able to run some distance The electric obstacle ( 1st one) was bloody horrible!!!! without sounding funny i didnt think 10000 V would be that strong! it was like someone hitting u in the back with a lump hammer! One guy slipped and broke his leg 2nd obstacle from the end ( about 500m away). slipped down the high jump and hooked his leg on the hand rail and was stuck there, couldnt get himself down. not nice my time 2hrs. not bad for 12 miles and 35 obstacles! sore knees today though

lol no you havent. I started with a landy, had a new engine fitted at 60k, i got it at about 90k. more service history than i had ever seen. What a piece of S!!!. Constantly broke down, about once a month! tried loads of the local garages, u would think i brought in some exoctic high tec machine, not something designed in the 50's. had a lav with the transit engine, 30 k and about 4yrs old, immaculate. Cue the above! my transit was brand new and faultless but some swine relived me of it and the insurance co is about to pull down my pants and .... me:blushing: So now i cant afford a brand new truck. I belive to a certain degree that some vehicles are good, others seem cusred from the start. I am going to go have a look at the one above and go from there. thanks for the info

thanks guys Good to see no horror stories jumping right out from the start! Mileage i find never changes, from my old 130 landy to a brand new tranny i always seem to get the same miles from £50. Just a quick one for whiteoaks u say 1000 on repairs is yours older or high mileage? i know my last tranny was new but only every serviced it in the (almost 2 yrs i had it) not a single thing broke. You know how it is you never know what is ture theses days hence why i am asking. I remember there were horror stories about transits needing new clutchs but they were linked to the flywheel so it cost £700+ where the previous modle was like £50 for a new clutch. I never came accross this but i guess someone must have. Thanks for the replys

are these any good? need to find a replacement for my transit and one of these has popped up. I dont know anything about them, only major difference i can see is it has single rear wheels. Used VAUXHALL MOVANO 3500 CDTI MWB Tipper Diesel Vans | Van Trader UK a major concern i have is if i get another transit will the pykies be back once i replace it for the replacement? that was exactly what they did when they stole my tools, they came back 4wks to the day and broke in again, lucly i moved so they didnt get anything. if i got a vauxhall, renualt or a cabstar these arent the trucks they use so am i less like to have another visit? Please and words of wisdom greatly apreciated! many thanks

the worst thing is any other bit of kit i can go out and buy staright away, the truck with a proper body takes weeks. Tip master have a 8wk delay! In 8 wks the banks will be forcing me out of my home, kids will have no food. ALso insurance is going to take at leaset 2-3wks if im lucky so i dont have the money to replace the truck right now when i need to. potentially i may lose jobs from people who have already been waiting 8 wks for there turn! The market is pants for second hand truck too, especially as i am forced to take into account the stupid emissions rules for london ( so really got to be Euro 4 up). Calling the main dealers is painful to say the least, mention tipper and they react like i switched to chinese!!! Call a renualt dealer today ref the traffic, didnt even mention tipper and the woman didnt have a clue what i was on about for about 5 mins! All they want is to sell u brand new drop sides. I think the biggest thing i have learnt so far is why bother with proper bodies, made out of light weight materials. Tip master quoted between 5-8.8k for a body similar to what i had. For that money i might as well have a few fines off vosa for been over weight and i will still be about 8k better off! Seriously pissed off for been screwed for been honest.

we the old bill came out last night for a staetment, only 14 hrs later! even he said it was most likely the gypsies ( didnt think they were allowed to call them that) and basically said unless they r stupid (WHICH THE POLICE KNOW THEY R NOT ) then the only chance is if ANPR picks up the plates. So there goes a nice truck. And yes i do blame them because from the day they r born they r programmed to steal anything they can. Problem is when people make excuses for them. They should round them up and make them prove owner ships of all they have, if they cant take it away. when they drive around stop them. waste carries licences etc. not got one- take the trucks. all the stolen scrpe on the back= mandatory jail time. too many do gooders crying they have rights. have more damn rights than us stupid honest hard workers. If i tip up on a local football field do u think i get wriiten worning and 7 days to move, or handcuffs and a fine?

what gets me, call me wrong for sugesting but it always seems to coincide with when the fair ground comes to town. they come and half the garages get broken into, my truck goes, my other truck got broken into. my mums house got broken into. got a sainsbury delivery today and the driver was saying he hears the same thing with nearly every other deilvery he has made! old bill still hasnt bothered to come out yet! with all the bits and vat it was a 30k truck, the old bill dont give a damn, insurance not bothered , can take weeks to get anything sorted! in the mean time 3 men and families are not earning a living. what a poo day!