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The weather has suddenly warmed up so no tick over while scrapping windscreen. No cold starts or lights on pulling alt lighter evenings combined with different type of driving and checking tyre pressures it can all add up. Our van even does slightly better after an oil change.

Our little kindling venture good last year and going well now. Generator work dried up last year but booming now. Logs waste of time this winter hopefully will have the sense not to bother in future

If you need a hydraulic jockey wheel may be worth measureing the nose weight its surprising how little even the Amazon should have on the back. Ifor do a triaxle trailer which may suit your application well. Putting 600kg on your hitch will quickly kill your back axle. I should know

Not done an MB trac but had similar problem on a disco we had to get the bleed nipple at highest point by jacking vehicle way up in the air. Otherwise a small air bubble got caught in top of slave cylinder. The other thing is to let it settle over night and gently bleed last of air out in morning.

Bought some off a guy with good reviews on ebay just off the M4 does 20kg bag delivered for £35 . I bought a bag but not tried it yet could be pants

I know someone that has started a company making van flat bed things with a fifth wheel and trailer to carry two cars on the back the tractor would be under 3500kg and trailer would be 3500kg so tacho needed but no operators licence. The idea was to exploit a loop hole in the law I guess they just plugged that one. Its easy to see who complicated terminology and rumours lead to people thinking different things.

Yes but I like most dont have a tractive unit or a semi trailer.

Yes thats cleared it up you DONT need an o licence

This a new one on me. My understanding is if the tow vehicle max weight is under 3500kg you dont need an O licence ?

I would sell my processor long before I sold my Vertical splitter. A splitter is a lot more useful than a processor unless u know you have 8" stuff coming in for 5 years then its a no brainer but I think half the wood we get in would not go through our HP 2x . Theocus Dalen machine is probably one of the best machines for coping with big stuff and timber with bends in it but doubt you get much change of 20k with the vat now

Thats almost exactly how we do it. I load the hilux tipper with logs until we have about 60 cu metres in the poly tunnel then fill the vent bags. I use a teleporter to hold the bags open then drop them on pallets. When the logs are dry the bobcat brings them on the pallet from the bottom field and we tip the bags out on concrete poly tunnel and scoop with bucket. Similar process with large rings. I run the chain saw andy is on the verticle splitter from large cord straight to 10" log in the bag.

I have thought of this but my hiab skills would worry me so close to the Dalen operator I assume one person is loading and changing the bags.

Unless the man with the croppers has a florry jacket on then no one would notice.

Which ever way you do it its hard work I did not have a saw bench with conveyor so cant comment on efficency. The billet idea is brilliant for getting the work done early and wood seasons superbly and allows the logs to be cut exactly to the customers requirements. We had to move 24" timber 4ft long onto a vertical splitter I caught my finger against the wedge once to often dummy flew out and so did the chainsaw not done billets since. A horizontal splitter with log lift would be a better method. followed by saw bench. Its satisfying making long rows of billets and with new toys to play with even better.

Yes thats nothing to do with your driving licence entitlement and you have needed a tacho since 1997 for business use over 3500kg gross train weight.

or 3 cut into rings and straight into vertical splitter 10" logs thrown into 1.5 cubic metre vented bag. Bags last a few years and can be reused have tipping loop on bottom.

I buy the 25 litre oregon stuff from jones about £40 lasts for ever and looks after bars chains sprockets health and no gumming up.

Genius never thought of it. We have been adding octane improver ( cheap boy racer diesel additive ) I may try a 50/50 mix of red and kero which will help lubricate the pump if it blows the engine we have not lost much as it was half dead anyway.

The problem is the increase you passed onto your customer should have gone into your pocket to pay for the increased living expenses you are suffering instead its gone straight into the government coffers. I dont understand why we send so much money to deprived nations who then become developing nations and put us out of business. We pay for our pain ?

Yes and the seat stays dry and if you are really lucky the heater works.

I bought a little all terrain forklift about 2 years ago with a Kubota 850 diesel 3 cyl water cooled engine. It was a non runner but I found the air filter was original from 1986 and blocked solid stopping the engine from running fitted a new filter started and run engine. When we changed the engine oil you could hear the little bits of carbon tinkling into the tin tray. I thought what a poor way to treat a decent bit of kit, But I am now ashamed to say we have run it about 20 hrs a week and changed the oil a couple of times and thats about it. The engine is a complete pain to start cold and once fully warmed up stalls and revs drop off. We have checked glow plugs and all seem to be working, I have adjusted valve clearances which were miles out. The engine sounds like it has good compression but does sound starved not alot of pressure from eng breather and does not smoke once warmed up even when revved hard. I am thinking it desperately needs a decoke and set of refurbed injectors but cant afford to have it off the road. What would you guys do find a good 850 or later 950 engine and stick it in one afternoon or strip and rebuild what we have. Although I am a diesel fitter I dont have alot of experience in little Kubota engines they tend to run high hrs on gensets and get changed.

A farmer up the road has a hilux registered as ag. He uses it a couple of weeks a year during harvest apparently once ag you cant go back to plg ?

It took a long time to get to a £1 a litre and there was alot of noise. But it has not taken long to go up by 50% has it and it hurts more because of the economic climate.

This looks like sound advice just dont get into a punch up. I like the idea of sending court papers without paying for them have done this before with good result. I dont see why if you are owed money with slim chance of recovery why you should pay the government more money up front.

Vosa have been prosecuting people over the last few years if the trailer was plated and had the potential when loaded to exceed the vehicle gross train weight even if it was empty. Same as post 97 drivers cant get caught with a big trailer even if it weighs less than 750 when empty.