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  1. gensetsteve
    Minimum wage seems to = little hassle skilled working man £10 with lots of hassle. Lots of engineers have left our trade due to driving hassles and never ending h&s paper work which most of the time serves absolutely no purpose but to keep the paper clip counters in a job.
  2. gensetsteve
    When I hired that big jd to pull our timber trailer got to the dual carriage way and it took me 20 minutes to get the light on the roof to flash. Lots of manual reading and computer fiddling just to get the beacon on. Not sure I would be worth £12 an hour
  3. gensetsteve
    Operating machinery effectively and safely involves skill understanding and intelligence especially the new £50,000 + tractors. If I was running a farm I would be looking at the quality of the operator considering the damage a mistake can do. A pound or two an hour is nothing compared to a bent plough or someone killed.
  4. gensetsteve
    If they lower your rate thank them for their loyalty and carry on as normal find another farm that pays more then leave at the height of harvest.
  5. gensetsteve
    Mercedes Vito dual liner 110 hp. Make sure you get one after 2006 and make sure it was one they galvanised. 40 mpg on a run and tows 2 tonne and its rear wheel drive.
  6. gensetsteve
    I was planking it and using it for kindling but not worth the time and not as popular as pine for resale. When I get a big saw up and running again will ring it and sell it for beer tokens.
  7. gensetsteve
    Got about 10 of these if you want to collect some
  8. gensetsteve
    Normally people pay to have Poplars removed not a great deal of value in the timber especially as firewood. It burns but I would not step over beech to get to it. I have a pile of 3ft wide straight buts 8ft long if anyone wants to try some.
  9. gensetsteve
    Adding 2 stroke to old diesels may not harm them but the latest stuff has dpfs. To avoid blocking them up we now use oils such as c1 spec which has lots of the useful additives removed to avoid blocking the dpf with ash. Then some bright spark goes and dumps a load of mineral 2 stroke in the tank. Components that are under more stress are valve train and crank due to lack of additives in the oil so two stroke wont help.
  10. gensetsteve
    If you use green they will assume you are running on rebate fuel from southern Ireland.
  11. gensetsteve
    My trailer is 2m wide and I cant get the metre cube bags side by side you need a lorry body for that. I have 600 gallon steel tanks with 2ft cut off the end. I drop one bag in the bottom and one on top 4 tanks 8 bags total weight of load incl tanks 2500kg.
  12. gensetsteve
    They charge £140 an hour now for a 17 year old apprentice that forgets to actually put any oil back in the gearbox.
  13. gensetsteve
    That sounds like the rule for tacho not cpc. If your gross kerb weight is under 3500kg you dont need a cpc. Your gross train weight can be over 3500kg and you still may not need cpc.
  14. gensetsteve
    Keep an eye on the oil level if it starts to rise get it to the dealers and burn their ears to change that and the oil filter free until they find a proper cure.
  15. gensetsteve
    Things that gave that listing away. No actual description of condition and did not list as I am selling or entering. Also a seller who has not had a review since 2007 indicates a hijacked acct.
  16. gensetsteve
    It does not seem to matter what you buy they all have their problems. In the past you could choose from a hand full of bullet proof trucks but not any more it seems.
  17. gensetsteve
    with salty sea air and the odd handful of sand thrown in.
  18. gensetsteve
    I have a disco d4 with dpfs and needs c1 spec oil. I worked out the oil has less additives and should not be used on older diesels. And probably explains why my disco now has a ticking noise on the valve gear.
  19. gensetsteve
    Thanks for letting me know. The diesels made after 2010 are harder to modify. You will struggle to remove egr systems and smash through dpfs with out the engine ecu having a fit. Most of the stuff before 2007 will have cat rather than a dpf cheaper and easier to deal with.
  20. gensetsteve
    Do you have a Rodeo or a dmax. Was it easy to do. Did you have to programme the ecu to ignore what it thinks are engine faults.
  21. gensetsteve
    I think I have a greenmech ecm150 with a chute for chipper and a seperate chute for shredder with 22 blades. Seems to do everything we need a chipper would only be 30% of the job for us.
  22. gensetsteve
    I have a couple of bottles of proper vodka in the car in the garage and a line of ice cold cokes in the fridge. But still resisting
  23. gensetsteve
    I like a couple of tins of a night and 4-6 on a friday and saturday often 5% cider. cut it down about 2 months ago and now 2 weeks since I touched a drop of anything. In the last week I have not missed it at all. I have noticed a big improvement in energy levels and get up an go. I dont get up at 4am for a pee and although it takes longer to nod off I now get a proper nights sleep. If you think you may be pushing the boundries you have already past them. I now feel like i did 20 years ago. I will still drink in the future but cant believe the difference. I think my down fall will be cold weather woodburner and spirits.
  24. gensetsteve
    To go petrol is an easy choice now as modern diesels are packed with electronics that play up. Petrol is around 10p a litre less and most small cars now do 50 mpg. Wifes i10 is now 4 years old so far just servicing. I cant think of many diesels after 2006 that are known to be fairly fault free.
  25. gensetsteve
    I have a garden tractor that grows green verdigri nr the battery and all over the back of the engine and I suspect it drains its battery so some sort of gradual leakage to earth somewhere.

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