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  1. gensetsteve
    If anyone currently needs kindling we have 2000 bags of bone dry neat kindling ready to go. I can deliver 500 bags over the bridge at a keen price but need to charge something for transport. As people have said kindling is well worth doing along side logs bricks coal and fire lighters. I think it will get busy for people on here in the next two weeks the supermarkets and sheds will hopefully start to run low and the cold snap will get people burning. : Happy new year to every one and good luck for 2017 ::thumbup:
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    Had mine about 12 years and no regrets. Amazed mine still goes the amount we have towed with it.
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    The best prevention is regular servicing and re grease bearings. But just for belt and braces I often jack our trailers up and spin the wheels any binding or rumbling it's taken of the road and repaired. If you put the hand brake on and of and hubs start binding it's probably the brake cables corroded inside. The biggest cause of stub/bearing failure on trailers not used on slipways and salt water is binding break shoes. The covering on brake cables is very thin and stone chips allow salt water in. I tend to change brake cables at 4 years as a service item . £15 for a cable is a lot cheaper than a hub Assembly at £200
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    Great info thanks people I will have a look at that camera. I went up last March and the weather was fantastic . It was raining down south and I was on the mountains with sun tan cream on.
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    Thanks for all the advise I would like to go to the alps but my son needs his first adult passport and you can't express that. Your right about the oil being good ballast. Last time it went used all 5 litres The deciding factor for me is rav is more fun and as you say does 40 mpg LC does 20 but need to consider the safety side. I think it's easier to drive a small car in snow than 2.5 tonnes of dead weight even with 4 wheel drive. You can slide the rav 4 on demand and know exactly where it's going to go. Big 4x4 will jest go where the ice takes it.
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    Thinking of taking teenage son to glen coe in the new year for bit of snow boarding / skiing. I have a 2wd rav which I love driving even on long runs but if we hit snow ice on the road would it be ok with winter tyres. Or should I just take the Amazon and suffer 1/2 the miles per gallon but at least we have allterrains and 4 wheel drive.
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    If I had 3 phase I would be tempted but I would need to run the generator and we struggle to keep up with the single phase kindlet anyway.
  8. gensetsteve
    I have a lister diesel powered stick welder traile mounted. At least 250 amps possibly more. I think it has 110v as well. Looking for £750 if anyone is interested.
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    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
  11. gensetsteve
    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.
  12. gensetsteve
    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.
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    Always makes me cringe when I see people un hitch caravans and push them towards a cliff using the hand brake to stop them
  18. 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.
  21. gensetsteve
    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
  24. gensetsteve
    Hi Sam sorry but we stopped doing logs about 4 years ago. Just concentrate on kindling now.
  25. gensetsteve
    Will have to have a look I think front centre and rear difflock. Definately rear because I see the actuator recently.

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