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  1. gensetsteve
    130 k on the clock. Lots of Toyota petrols had a fault in the naughtiest they had holes drilled in the piston skirt which blocked up and the piston wore prematurely. Toyota were still replacing engines under warranty at 7 years old . I paid £350 for the old girl last March to drag trailers round the yard but loved driving it. When I had key hole surgery on my knee I could drive it weeks before anything else in the yard. Never seen smoke from the exhaust even under hard acceleration
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    A question for tcd if I may. It's not for me you understand it's a friend an 02 plate Toyota petrol rav 4 1800cc. Has the oil burning problem and uses 1 litre every 500 miles. Come mot if every thing is hot off the road and the cat is still working it passes emission test easily. Is there an oil that would help it pass I was thinking a low sap diesel oil for Diesel engines fitted with PDF even if was drained shortly after as I don't think it's good for drive trains in older motors
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    Yes that is an extremely good idea. Listening to the amount of people who have packed in I don't think half the machines would have been bought if they had tried first. The actual putting the logs through the machine is only half the job.
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    173.3 hours not including loading the finished product. Toilet,coffee,fag breaks 👍🏻 Or £23 per hour but in reality you make £15 an hour until something breaks down then it's less
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    I am saying nothing it might tempt fate🙊🙊
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    If any one wants sawdust nr Andover hampshire. Let me know I produce at least a dustbin full an hour of clean dry untreated pine from a circular saw. I had someone taking it to make briquettes but they shut the business.
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    May be that should read my trailer only needs adjusting every 18 months because it's not loaded to full capacity. I don't run great mileages but always loaded to near capacity and mine always need adjusting before 6 months and often replaced within two years. The other thing we are very hot on is replacing the cables on every service if the outer covering shows stone chip damage. The cables are cheap and when they get seized the shoes stay on cook the drum shoes and bearings eventually leading to to the wheel falling off
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    Your probably right I will check a few of ours out over the next few days. I am guessing it does not take much wear in thevbrake shoes before the travel on the handbrake becomes to much to be effective in reverse. Either way there has been many reports of modern caravans running away over the last few years.
  9. gensetsteve
    Always makes me cringe when I see people un hitch caravans and push them towards a cliff using the hand brake to stop them
  10. gensetsteve
    I have never owned a trailer even the new ones where the hand brake was very effective in reverse. Don't rely on it I have a feeling the hand brake is only activatining the trailing shoe.
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    A good way to look at it and I would imagine the ranger is a better drive and easier to get spares for. My 100 series LC are long lived but not without their problems and the price of parts is often 5 times as much as discovery especially if you run the new v8 landcrusier no easy answer and much comes down to luck.
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    We can make them to order and we have the bags in stock.
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    A very well built and engineered truck. Proved itself to be about as tough as you can get unless you go Lorry. That truck must have a non turbo low state of tune straight six lump. In the landcrusier with turbo and intercooler you get 205 hp which is still no ball of fire by today's standards. But if I was going through jungle or over desert the vehicle would have a Toyota badge
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    I have towed big generators around for years. Had discos and amazons for more than 20 years. An Amazon from around 2005 would be ideal for you but it's not a pick or commercial and will cost you tax wise. The defenders disco 1 and 2 were ok for pulling 2500kg but 3500kg was just too much on a regular basis. The disco 3 and 4 is up to the job and is as good if not better than the Amazon but get a bad one and you will throw £6000 a year keeping it on the road. I don't think there is an easy answer because if there was I would be driving a new one and changing it every 3 years.
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    Diesels run hotter than petrols inject at very high pressures and are full of electronics 3 things in my book that don't go well together. I bought a petrol rav 4 a year ago goes like stink does 40 mpg and you don't get covered in stinking diesel when u fill it up because it's 1800 petrol. And I forgot to say unleaded is often 10 p a litre cheaper
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    Hi Sam sorry but we stopped doing logs about 4 years ago. Just concentrate on kindling now.
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    Will have to have a look I think front centre and rear difflock. Definately rear because I see the actuator recently.
  18. gensetsteve
    I have a LC Amazon with auto box regularly put 3500kg behind it. Never needed to use low box the auto box has plenty of meat inside it to move trailers about. The landrover system is not great because even with difflock in one front wheel spinning and one rear wheel spinning you are going nowhere. Sometimes you just can't beat a difflock. I hate abs traction control with a trailer because sometimes you just want to keep the momentum up and get through suddenly the brakes cut in and leave you in a muddy hole.
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    Producing kindling like mad if anyone needs it. Just added a few more pics to our Facebook page which you can get to by clicking the link on the bottom of this post.
  20. gensetsteve
    That's useful info that's exactly the truck I had in mind because it looks a bit more capable than the rest. I looked at a 926 but I discounted it as I can't travel up rows of pallets and dumpy bags. A tele handler lets you reach into all sorts of places.
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    I have a 1986 525 with little wheels on the back. Getting too old and long in the tooth yard is forever getting smaller. A 751 bobcat with forks fast and wiggly but can cut things up badly. An allterrain 1 tonne lift brinkman britruck kubota engine lost its compression years ago and a pita to start from cold but does 80 % of the work in the yard. Your right there is no such thing as one forklift and you can't have too many
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    I would like this but it's lots of money
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    I was looking for a tele when a couple of members on here said improve the yard and buy a normal forklift. The yard is not looking bad now but we are on a slope with scalpings . I would imagine some forklifts are better on loose surface than others. Are big wheels better than small etc ?
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    My local forklift dealer had a load of nice Nissan trucks. I said my previous one was a ball ache in cold weather and they said most are and it's normal. Start and run on tick over for 5 minutes before reving it once warmed up they are ok. Bobs advice above is spot on.
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    I am always amazed how much people pay for 2nd hand 2 stroke chainsaws considering 2 minutes with the wrong mix in or badly tuned and your in for a £300 repair bill. For a second hand saw would need to be half of jones price or ex demo mint I would want a third off. I am looking at exdemo merc sprinters year old with 700 miles on the clock and they are nearly half price. Brand fire new with full warranty would be the way I would go. Saws are not fitted with hour meters so you have no idea how much work they have done. Most of my kit looks like new but some of it has done a lot of work just not thrown about.

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