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gensetsteve

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  1. Bernie will know what to put on and may even have pics. I would measure the bump stop and go down the breakers for some coils. The ride stays soft until the weight sits down on the coils best of both worlds. My brakes may have been poor because the brake valve on the back was seized so the front brakes were doing all the work.
  2. Good people to deal with. If I was going to another one I would measure up the extra cab as it carries 1085kg but the single cab 750 kg. I was hoping with the buck off it would increase to 850kg but the tipper must of been heavy as it was down to about 450-500kg and thats before I got in with me sannies. I put an extra helper coil spring in and it carried 750kg fine on private ground but 850 was too much as it swayed and brake were not up to it.
  3. I felt better after about 3-4 weeks then found it hard to justify more than the odd pint.
  4. They may be able to if they got a grant for £250,000.00
  5. Boulters in Tadley did my conversion if you are down south. He provides a serial plate and certificate which NFU were happy with. Very well made with huge ram but a little on the heavy side but it will always tip and you wont twist the body.
  6. New harvester, forwarder but uses outside transport to get it back to yard.
  7. He seems happy with what he is doing he harvest thousands of tonnes all summer and processes all winter.
  8. Its very old technology now a good independant will sort that for a 5th of the price and will know what they are doing. main dealer = £110 ph and a spotty teenager working on your car.
  9. Or bite the bullet and get a Hilux. They have twin battery set up and no poor quality starter motor or immobilizer.
  10. We have a mercant just down the road at least 1000 tonnes of beech in stock 3 cu metres delivered for £190. Its not always the driest especially as you get into the winter but at that price people make the effort to get it a year in advance.
  11. I found in our area in a hard winter you could get £100 a metre or more. But at the start of any winter the cheap boys set the price at £60. If they run out its difficult to get the price up. If its a mild winter and they dont run out you are stuck with a huge pile of logs. These were the only reasons we stopped.
  12. Often when I answer a with held no the line goes dead. If they can hang up on me without saying a word I can do the same half way through their spiel.
  13. I think its time for a chill out pill all round. I think we need to worry more about passenger planes falling on our houses and millions of refugees making a run for our shores. There is enough bitching and fighting going on in the west with out people fighting over a cat. Judging by the amount of dead cats I find in my garden secondary poisoning seems to be evening up the score.
  14. Just what I was thinking. £300 for a used all terain pump truck, £1000 for the hydraulics, £1000 for the engine still leaves £5000 for the things I forgotten.
  15. There is a little black box near the sunroofs with an aerial on it. This will immobilise the vehicle but normally it starts playing up and you struggle to open the doors. I am not sure if the td5 has the spider fitted under the dash like the old 300 tdi
  16. Are u sure its not the immobiliser playing up
  17. I agree with all the above but if the battery is def good and the terminals are clean I am still putting my money on Starter Motor
  18. Probably the contacts in the starter motor common fault go about every 80-100k you can buy the set for less than £10. Starter motor is a pig to remove so I rebuilt the start solinoid on the car. If it cranks over well but does not start I seem to remember the only sensor that stops it starting is the crank shaft sensor.
  19. Health and safety is supposed to focus you on common sense methods to improve your working enviroment. Often its not actually H&S that is the problem its the way its interpreted and implemented by management with some organisations. Often its used to create problems and well paid positions that are not actually needed.
  20. Woke at 1 am this morning remembering someone asked me if I wanted 6 service agreements. The email was 3 weeks ago before I went on holiday and never got on the list. The reply was done at 1 am and asleep by 1.10
  21. who is liable if they look for something to trip over. Also I found people collecting normally were looking for a large discount and had plenty of time available to wear you down. If you are going to retail I think you need to do it properly or leave it alone and just do deliveries.
  22. I had the police one over 10 years ago they even offered an improved service if you went for it Another to look out for is do you have any unrecovered bad debts. They ask you for one they can look into to prove how good they are. They then ring back and say yes they can recover the debt thats £200 for looking into it.
  23. I think alot of the 3.5 tonne iveco stuff is same running gear as the bigger stuff. Just down rated without being too heavy you get a more robust truck and still a reasonable payload.
  24. Spud would be the best man to give an answer. Sounds to me like the carb was set up before the saw was run in and needed retuning as the saw loosened up especially as it was cutting so well sounds like it was running lean.
  25. The only time I get stressed is if I have too much work on and have underpriced one of them. I used to struggle to get to sleep trying to remember the thing I had forgotten. I now use a free to download package called chaos. You list out all your todo's in priority and empty your mind at different times you remember things and add them . You can do same thing with bit of paper but i find it easier to update on the screen and print. Anything I cant remember now is unimportant so dont need to worry.

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