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  1. gensetsteve
    with salty sea air and the odd handful of sand thrown in.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. gensetsteve
    I put 8 one cube metre bags of kiln dried to 14% softwood on my trailer which weighs 1000kg mt . The trailer is near 3500kg when loaded. I would say a 0.7 tonne bag full of rain wet beech in January when you are tempted to push the boundries of "dry" will weigh at least 350kg.
  11. gensetsteve
    And thats just the td5 move on to a d3 or 4 and you can times everything by 10
  12. gensetsteve
    I bought a 20 litre bucket of paint off ebay and noticed the seller had a negative because the courier scratched the can. Damned if you do damned if you dont.
  13. gensetsteve
    I think you are all right including agrimog. Question is as individuals what can we do about it. I always felt the best training came from the older employees nearing the end of there working life and keen to pass on their knowledge to the next generation. But lots these people have had enough of the stress and taken low paid, low stress jobs which dont actually pay much less.
  14. gensetsteve
    I agree just bought a vito in white no air con 3 years old mint condition. everything shiney and well speced on the forecourt was twice the mileage and price. They stick an extra 10k on the pickups for the chrome and carpets. When you bash a colour coded bumper it has to be sprayed. A black one just screwed on.
  15. gensetsteve
    would be ok if you could come to some arrangement and take you processor there and process into bags. The first pic makes the stuff look poor but there is some decent stuff in there. I have had worst from certain wood merchants
  16. gensetsteve
    As small businesses I think we give large companies credit too easily. They send us plenty of forms to fill out rems etc. Return the favour and make them work for an account and while you are about it pay the small fee and get a credit check on them. I find alot of small firms just open an account without any details and then raise an invoice with 30 days what happen to by return post ?
  17. gensetsteve
    The mk5 hilux double cab with the d4d engine on a 52 plate was a good vehicle but only tows 2000kg. The mk4 was heavy on fuel.
  18. gensetsteve
    Unless the engine runs like a watch walk away. Make sure it has good service history. The loom and fuel reg are almost service items cost about £90 ea and take an hour to fit. Our td5 was good but I think we were just lucky
  19. gensetsteve
    After 22 years running my business my used generators go out with an up front straight forward comprehensive warranty of 30/30 30 yards or 30 seconds whichever comes first
  20. gensetsteve
    We had this problem in 2009 no credit in our direction and large companies taking the mick. Answer cancel all accounts and only leave the ones open to regular spenders that paid on time. The customer is lucky to get 30 days credit. if they go over we can either close the account and they pay pro forma or credit card or we can offer a finance agreement by a 3rd party where we get commission. I doubt I will make many friends in business but then I am not in business to make friends.
  21. gensetsteve
    That does look cheap. I have a ms180 but its only useful for cutting up pallets, hardwood sleepers, telegraph poles and roots basically gets all the rubbish jobs because its a cheap little chain to replace. I would imagine even cutting 5in sticks will be painfully slow. my ms260 is slow enough.
  22. gensetsteve
    NFU want £525. I seem to remember someone saying they had co op which was less than £100 a year.
  23. gensetsteve
    What sort of price should I be paying to drive a jcb telehandler on the road.
  24. gensetsteve
    I think I would look at a 4600 ford or similar with a cab not the smaller fords which are made under licence by the japs we had one and the rear windscreen was £475. A big little tractor
  25. gensetsteve
    Yeah Porton Down is just up the road you should see what I got on my forehead

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