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LGP Eddie

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  1. You wouldn’t get much of a 110 for 45k either! Serious money on offer to let them go when they land too. Haters always hate, nobody puts a gun to anyone’s head to buy one, and the perfect vehicle for everyone’s needs simply doesn’t exist.
  2. I’m getting rid of two LandRovers to go into one that’ll hopefully do pretty much everything in one. Despite everything you read, they’ve never done me much harm over many years, and financially have always been sound purchases given the residual value.
  3. Well I’ve bought one, but if I’ll ever see it is another story!🤷‍♂️ It was ordered last summer, due very late December having received the delivery date and requested to be 2022 registered and delivered first week in January. We are currently in absolute limbo as to its delivery date, and apart from being told the rear view mirror with rear camera built in is no longer an option, that’s about it! As to why I’ve purchased one, it’ll do everything I need without the bulk of a 110, and I only require two seats. I would have purchased a standard 90 with seats, but how LandRover got this rear seat disaster to final production I’ll never know? Apparently quite a few in the shooting circles have cancelled them, as quite literally you can’t get the seats flat and there’s a big aluminium hump in there too? Fantastic to drive, but I’d bet there’s actually more useable space in the rear of my current 90 than the new commercial, and you can easily reach through, where the new one has a huge bulkhead that would be serious work to remove. Eddie. 89ED7C6B-F5A5-4703-9D0D-A726C45C3DFF.webp
  4. Done loads of knock downs, full houses and parts of them for larger extensions to go back onto. Quite simply you don’t just knock them down you deconstruct them and an excavator with selector grab and a decent operator is in reality the cheapest thing on the job. Put your efforts into the sorting of materials, salvaging scrap, copper, wiring etc, and when it comes to timber if it isn’t rotten and you can de nail it ok, then save it. It’s absolutely incredible how valuable bits of timber are on builds, from just making some profiles to dig the footings, to propping, shuttering, fencing etc etc. I don’t know the regs over there, but here you at least need one skip through the system as some waste is always expected and that’s often a lot of insulation and plasterboard that’s a complete nightmare. It all depends on what’s going back as to the prep before, but getting any services back to the boundary, establishing site supplies for electric and water, and ensuring any manhole or remaining foul or storm water drain connections are well marked and protected. This is vital if the original footings and original manholes have to be grubbed out too, as you can get amongst it unhindered. You have a readily available tip for the hardcore, it used to be a balance as to send the material away and buy back in or crush on site. Always make certain the hardcore pile is absolutely spotless, if it’s going off site and the companies can see it’ll go straight through the crusher, then good terms can be negotiated, with return loads of their crushed if space available and the material of good enough quality. I’ve done it every which way from literally loading the hardcore of full houses straight into 8 wheelers, to putting full houses through a crusher bucket on a 6 tonner because access was horrendous. Had a play with many different options over the years, and all have their place. Eddie.
  5. I have an EMA one from Sweden, very light and excellent quality, it’s for my JCB JS145 Long Reach and was bought mainly for an odd project that involved sweeping mulched material off slopes which it coped with easily, but is always handy for tidy up duties. They have a top arrangement that is head bracket/fork pockets, and I’ll be modifying it to include grab pockets, as they’re always useful. I use something larger and more inexpensive on the Liebherr!😂 Eddie.
  6. More like two boxes in the van door and all old head torches for those who’s don’t work or have forgotten them!🤦‍♂️
  7. Headtorch is an essential anyway, I’ve settled on Ledlenser in a few forms and very happy with them. If possible get some lighting on the Chipper, the Forst can have an additional light tower, but not huge expense/hassle to rig something decent up given the advances in LED lights these days. These Milwaukee tower lights seem to be getting popular, and are easily carried/setup, which is what you need given the nightmare of terrain Rail can provide. Bit of a random video clip I edited, but you can see a couple of the Milwaukee cordless lights in action here. Eddie. IMG_3503.MOV
  8. You missed out Europe, they would go up against Ufkes, Bandit don’t really come into it, their tracked offerings in this type machine are cut to waste. Going to be a proper sort out with white diesel as things like this Ufkes absolutely sip diesel in comparison to a Tractor setup, and as you’ll now be looking at class 1 licence and operators etc to drive the Tractor up the road, so in many instances you may as well low loader something like this in, and throw an 8 tonner on with it for more versatility.
  9. Perhaps won’t have the longevity of a Bandit, but who knows? Seriously well finished all round and an absolute pleasure to load with everything from round to grab fulls of absolute shite at the end of the job. I wish they were matchsticks, but I was dropping them and I can vouch they weren’t! The TM190 sounded gorgeous amongst all this fancy stuff that rolled in. FullSizeRender.mov
  10. This rocked in and could take a fair load! It’s a very impressive chipper, best I’ve worked with so far in this class, incredible what it will pull in. IMG_3090.MOV
  11. Been an eye opener to load the new Ufkes 962 of the Tree Brothers, some chipper, incredible performance on anything thrown at it! For scale that’s a New Holland TM190 shunting that trailer. IMG_3092.MOV Eddie.
  12. Try Richard Sanders at Total Trees, that’s his patch.
  13. I was literally like a JCB stick of rock in the day, local to the Factory and grew up fascinated with them. My first experience of a Case, was the 580SK version, as pictured and it was huge news when the guy purchased one on the doorstep. Literally a few hours after it was delivered, a couple of cars pulled up from JCB, boot full of freebies, help yourself if we can have a look around the Case! This was fitted with the Cummins engine, absolute revelation to the Perkins we were used to. It used to have it’s oil done every 250hrs, and it literally never changed colour. The big serpentine belt, tensioner and water pump with a just couple of bolts was simply unheard of! Did 500hrs, then unpick the seals and give them a tweak for a few more revs, made all the difference on the road. Good machines, fast and powerful.
  14. Cool photo Thanks, different (better) times.
  15. This was the first ever new machine given to me as an operator and I really did look after it. I can still see it now, I walked down the site and stood looking at it wondering why all the windows looked like dark tint. The only giveaway that caught my eye first was the the air filter pre cleaner plastic bowl was gone and the paint all off the lid. Opening the door revealed the full horror, but opening the flip forward bonnet to see the engine with bits of metal melted was unreal. It was a battery lead short where it passed out of the battery box, according to the report after. The engine bay was lined inside with aluminium covered foam and it must have literally burnt like an oven until it melted the dash and was able to come to through into the cab. Front half of the cab was melted, but seat untouched and back half of the cab was totally untouched. Real shame it was a great machine, but fair play the owner hired another straight in as a replacement, and said order whatever spec you want from the Case dealer as a replacement. I had a full spec Turbo version, which at the time had the Greg Cab JCB’s totally licked.
  16. Brochure is now out, gives away a couple of metres of reach to a conventional zero tail 14 tonne tracked unit, but is heading for 40k in travel speed. Load chart isn’t the worst and a GMT 035 TTC on a short jib would work nicely if you could get the geometry right and sorted for travel. Really nice size unit. https://eu.doosanequipment.com/media/download/22871
  17. Yeah very little point in them building something we wouldn't be allowed to use to its fullest potential as a road registered vehicle I don’t think that was the issue, very difficult concept to upscale and keep the same stability, as the footprint is the footprint, you can’t just make it half a metre wider like a tracked version.
  18. Yes absolutely, be interesting to see what the load charts look like on it. Certainly would make a very versatile carrier machine. Sadly the larger Hydradig concept got cut, as it would have been literally perfect for such applications.
  19. Been a steady drip feed through the media on this really nice looking Dx100w Rubber Duck available now from Doosan. A real handy size and it’ll take a bite out of the JCB Hydradig for certain. Could make a great bit of kit for roadside stuff.
  20. Sadly I haven’t any images of when I first started out on machines, that was a 2 wheel drive JCB 3cx with no Extending arm. Promotion to an old C registration 4wd non turbo black cab Sitemaster and finally given my first new machine a Case 580sk non Turbo. Sadly this burnt out, and it’s replacement was a Case 580sk Turbo in this image. Took me an awful lot of years of operating for others to be able to have a shot on my own.
  21. Obviously I used to load the Ifor, but I was utilising Grab Wagons back then and a lot of work was barn conversion stuff where you literally just had to get stuff outside for larger machines to take over and materials back in. I just go where the journey takes me, I’m shite at business and not that great with people, but I can get by with kit.
  22. The Hinowa was great but just needed the tip angle modding a bit (I never got around to it) as you end up giving them a jolt to get the last bit out when tipping. If you zoom in on the engine, you’ll see an additional downward pointing silencer box. Best mod ever, just a simple Mini silencer box from the local exhaust place, it totally transformed it with the noise reduction. Be a nice Log Splitter platform if you could pick one up cheap enough.
  23. These setups have always been handy and good enough earners. My setup all fitted on a 10ft ifor tipper and was one of the very first hi tip tracked Hinowa in the UK. It would still be a decent enough setup now.
  24. I really rate the 1390’s as a great size, takes anything you really need to chip, and a cone splitter can sort out the odd bits after that. Drums will keep going to the almost death if you have to, I’ve been on Rail shifts where literally you’d think the last hours worth got burnt not chipped, but nothing ever took any harm. Trouble is the latest engines with all the crap on literally need unbolting and putting in storage, whilst you lump on a proper engine for your own use and swap it back when you sell it. Some fancy stuff coming through now from several manufacturers, but can’t see them standing the rest of time like a B’dit.
  25. I’m in Chedd, so literally a stones throw away. I was done in Bath for my Defender as it’s a commercial, and I would assume it’ll be the same in parts of Stoke. I believe Fenton/Joiners Square will be in, so a small thing like nipping down to Gunn JCB would add £10 to the trip. Just have to plan better, and you can get a lot delivered for £10 these days. Had a quick look, basically they’ve been given 60k grant to look into it, they have to bring something in to meet their obligations, and it’s seemingly a Victoria Rd corridor and the town centre. The idea they have “most businesses here have newer vehicles” is of no use if their Customers don’t!

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