swinny
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Ha you Git 😂 I actually went back to see if I'd typed that 😂
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Touch wood I haven't really buggered too many hoses. Usually get shafted at the local ag place for that. I see what your saying though. Can do them of an evening ready to go next day rather than rock up at 8am... wait for ages and come out with a pipe at 8:30-45 to then have to fix and or get to site.... Times money and prefer repairs in house 👍 bout 2.5k for the machine isn't it then hoses and things on top
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Just looked pa6 course with a local company, 282 quid.... that's Inc vat I think also
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Christ that's expensive.... sure it was only 200 quid ish when I did mine few years back like
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What a week all fairly mild in fairness. Got to site machine wouldn't start to get it off the trailer... found a broken green corroded wire. Quick bodge for the day and back at it. Nearly bogged machine down, got out of situation to find track had come off idler, no grease gun or jack etc on site! Managed to rough arse it back on with a ratchet strap and a pick axe we found on site. Yesterday the chipper cut out on us... ALT on the screen.... quick look shredded alternator belt. Middle of a field 😂 Jase at greenmech tech sorted me some numbers out to get one sorted. Always snaps or rubs where the numbers are! Managed to go get one from gsf in local town thankfully and back at it! Makes me wonder how the hell folk get on who have to wait for someone to come out when machines break down etc must waste full days at times
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I ended up having to go to a funeral not long ago for a lad who was maybe 28 ish, left a little lad behind. Madness. Belting chap the guy was I think a lot of everything is who you surround yourself with.... I can't be doing with negative folk, the doom and gloomers... it rubs off on you. Surround yourself with nice folk. People who get up off their arse and go do stuff. Go getters. I gave up going to pubs etc folk just doing the same old week in week out. Winging about boring shit If you never change owt nowt changes
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Spotted this beast on site the other day riding this leaf till the winds died down. Thinking it was size of a 50p
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I wondered where this thread was. Crap at using the search function. I bought this old trailer on a whim to go behind tractor. But smaller than I wanted for further down the line but can always get another. Someone had been front loading it and squashed the front corner down. Put lots of strength and beefed it up where needed. Can easily take my 2.6t digger and tracked chipper to site on it in one go now at least
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Old ex army ammo box? I use them for battery boxes on my machines if needed 👍
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In fairness this is what you first learn within your first years after leaving school and starting works. It doesn't get any better
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This is what I have on my dewalt and is being a right pain at the moment.... like I say only seals on an oring and it blows them out now and again.... thinking of taking mine off and throwing in the scrap!
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Grease guns are a pain.... I have a normal manual one and a dewalt battery gun. Dewalt is only good if the fitting will easy take grease..... sometimes it won't grease the nipple but then use a manual gun and it takes grease fine! Try a new end on your gun first.... I bought a fancy quick grip type one for my dewalt but it's started to be shite and it spits the oring out now and again which is what it seals against. I'm going back to a normal grease gun end soon!
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They look good 👍 I once had magnetic trailer lights on a lead, put them on a bouncy tractor trailer and yes you guessed it, came off and smashed dragged down the road to or from site 😂
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I looked at a job at the weekend, customer made a big fuss about the works over nothing really. 2 sections of conifer hedge to reduce nothing special. They then said I was the fourth to come to quote for the works... I thought ffs 😂 not sure if I can be bothered putting pen to paper
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Ohhh I've certainly buttered some fields back together a month or two ago 😂 left very messy at the time but recovered fine
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I Like that! Sometimes you've to be crafty to get through the day Few times lads working for me shrug shoulders.... machine not working yet not checked owt over. Loose battery terminal on the teleporter other week. Easy stuff and I was away in seconds. The lads would be there thumb up arses waiting for someone to come fix it
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lot of folk cant listen to a machine or feel it when its not right. Dont get me wrong some stuff is down right abuse but in this line of works, everything gets battered every day! during the course of its work. Hard work on the machines so the person using needs to be up to scratch
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Flat tyre day before loading logs then the grab got a bit beat up loading this last trailer 😂 Will be a mix of welder and plasma cutter on the grab so it's back in fettle for another beating soon 😎
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Buy a used Ifor Williams GD85 (or similar) - what to look for?
swinny replied to jayw's topic in Arb-Trucks
I personally wouldn't buy a gd ifor new... not good value and poor trailers! I ran a gd105 years ago cage sides. Bought new. Was OK for a small machine but with weight on from logs etc it used to Bob and weave behind truck.... awful thing on crappy single leaf springs. I run 3.5t plant trailers for a long time now. I actually stumbled across a small lt85 last year and bought it aswell. Caged sides, only 2000kg trailer though. Light and easy to move about, easy to wiggle along side truck and chipper to throw logs in etc. Mint little trailer. If you don't need to move machines everyday I'd go for the dropside range -
Can always double up the roll pin woth a smaller one tapped inside the bigger one
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I would have thoughtnit should have a hardened roll pin. You'll snap that soft 8.8 bolt
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I used to do that, up Scotland and all over. I once bought a van off ebay in Southampton, unseen. Figured it cheaper to fly down so me and my dad flew down 65 quid per person, met the guy at air port. Paid up and that Was that. Checked and topped up engine oil, bought some doughnuts from Morriston and filled it full of fuel and hit the motorway 😂 Got back fine. Tbh I can't be arsed now.... seen a couple of chippers I'm interested in but they're all down Surrey and London ffs.... I'm not going down there this week to sneak a purchase in before end of tax year. Sod that
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It's not really in my work ethic to stand around and do **************** all.... couldn't lower myself to that level. I'd crack up
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Ifor Williams Trailer Jockey Wheel bent Need advice on how to disassemble
swinny replied to cjdg's topic in Maintenance help
Exactly. Cut the bugger off with angle grinder to make easier to remove. Throw in scrap and buy a new one -
Always good to service first and think the guy will. Problem with bigger chippers is the throw force.... can't half make some mess. With my current bandit, chip bounces off headboard when empty then bounces off chip and out when filling 😂
