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  1. richy_B
    Absolutely fair enough though - you buy new so you expect it to be perfect. Scratches and niggles are not acceptable. I am surprised by the mole valley discount - wonder what's in it for them. On a top spec auto thats got to be £4.5 off list.
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    That's not an insignificant list of issues!
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    Jokes aside I would look at an electric transit t350 if they did one. For stop start work in London (watering contracts, basal growth, planting, etc) it would be well suited. Diesel is pretty much the only option though.
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    I have heard of increased engine temperature and boost pressure leading to premature failings of turbos etc. Hard to tell how accurate it is though. I often think (without too much of a sweeping generalisation) that someone having a remap will be someone looking to push their engine harder (acceleration or heavy towing) so not necessarily the fault of the remap.
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    The original talk was £3.5k for your old vehicle then several £k off a new 'clean' vehicle. This would be tempting, £2k is hardly worth the bother when you look at how quickly thing depreciate.
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    So fraud then. 'Creative accounting' or altering of accounts to reflect anything other than the truth is a criminal offences and would be dealt with by the serious fraud office. In this case public funds are being used to benefit private individuals. Private individuals quoted for/chosen by the council officers. This falls foul of a significant number of laws and would never stand up to public scrutiny.
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    Just my humble opinion but my experience of the USA is there are a lot of wannabee lumberjacks/outdoors men types. Nearly everyone i met outside the cities had a chainsaw and happily would get up a ladder to hack at, what is by british standards, was a very large tree. Inexperienced operators using large chippers is going to result in more casualties.
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    I can't answer why they think this but it I my experience that they do ask 'whilst you are here could you just.....'
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    Completely agree. You can't have an authoritive control over something such as TPO's / conservation areas and have a commercial interest in it. It would be a huge conflict of interests. A council would need to be to prove a clear financial seperation between the different aspects of its operations, which it could not possibly do. VAT, corporation tax, are the staff in anyway subsidised by the tax payer, can council staff employ the tree contractors to work on their own property (anti bribery etc), split of equipment purchases/maintenance/depreciation, staff pensions, etc. No way this would stand up to property scrutiny. I would email the leader of the council and copy in your MP, your local ward councillors and the leader of the opposition locally.
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    I don't think its a 'take it leave it attitude' , it is more that I've done what was agreed and you want me to do extra its going to be £xxx more. You have to be firm, if you give an inch they'll try and take a mile. We are in one of those trades where people think they can just ask for extra for nothing. Value your time, put it on your quote that extra time is available at £xxx per 15 minutes should you have anything pop up whilst we are there....
  11. richy_B
    Ah, you're probably right. Been a long day....
  12. richy_B
    I just had one on hire today. Needed a tracked machine as we were on an island with only small bridge across. Overall I liked it. The two speed tracking was useful for the longer runs. Felt stable with the tracks expanded. The chipping speed was comparable with the older models but I found the wider mouth to be useful for brashy stuff.
  13. richy_B
    I'd agree. An eye for and eye and we all go blind. You can both find endless ways to annoy each other.
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    Pretty sure my MK7 is 6t train weight.
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    I thought this - the mitsubishi fuso tipper is only 20mm higher than a standard transit. An iveco 75 for example was 120mm which would be a push.
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    If you already have a dpuble cab pickup then a transit single cab tipper is the obvious choice for me. If you can pick up a tipping trailer with high sides you will have a pretty versatile set up for domestic work.
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    Sounds like a holiday and like someone knew you would be on holiday as well.
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    Damn, that's some loss. As you said, sounds well planned, no way chancers would have been able to shift all of that.
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    No high sides. Just standard factory 'one stop, one way tipper'. Full tank of fuel and me.
  20. richy_B
    I think the steel sides version would be just over 2500kg. Double cab with steel sides has got to be 2700kg I'd of thought. It doesn't leave a lot of legal payload!
  21. richy_B
    I've driven the fiesta van and really liked it.
  22. richy_B
    These things often crop up and as I'm fresh off the weight bridge I thought I'd stick it here for future searches! Ford Transit MK7 T350. Single cab , one stop tipper (factory ally sides). Full tank of diesel and 95kg driver, no tools = 2430kg. Accurate to withing 10kg I am told.
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    My main thought - the importance of having a clear escape route so if it goes you can be off like Usain bolt. The last thing you need is to trip on some bramble etc.
  24. richy_B
    What have you got currently?
  25. richy_B
    I have an auger torque head on my 1.6t komatsu (after talking with you on here i think). I can run the small flights ok and have a 500mm one for tree planting which is ok in most soils, just very rocky grounds are a struggle. I think the stump planer would be a big ask for my machine.

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