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  1. MikeTM150
    problem with having grease nipples on bearings is u'll either get the user who doesn't grease or the one who over greases them. Both methods causing them to fail prematurely, often the bearing is undersized IMO and a slightly bigger ungreased bearing would never fail, but that'd up production costs and reduce parts sales (though not sure many would buy bearings from manufacturer?)
  2. MikeTM150
    when u say don't work, do u mean it doesn't fire at all but just cranks over or it fires a bit then stops of runs rough but not for long??? I can't offer any easy answers as usually a diesel will run happily with a little petrol in it, but maybe the cars injection system can't handle to 'thinner' petrol mix and is failing to operate at normal working pressure?
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    I'd never put anything in our tractors that doesn't come from the new holland dealership or filters for that matter. Simply because out of all the costs its tiny and i don't want to wonder when it breaks down or blows up wether it was the cheap oil and filters i put on!! Probably costs me £700 to service our big tractors 2 or 3 times a year (now on 600hr service intervals) but compared to the 250litre's of diesel a day it burns its a tiny cost that can cause many problems in my eyes and ultimately its not a cheap tractor to fix or be without! Fit the best and when it breaksdown you know u've done ur best to avoid it!
  4. MikeTM150
    where are you from????
  5. MikeTM150
    good point but not one i'm buying into! sorry:biggrin:
  6. MikeTM150
    personally i think they're rare because they are not what they're cracke dup to be, but never used one so can't say from experience TBH Why not buy a cheaper telehandler and small tractor?
  7. MikeTM150
    more than a bit breezy here, just been outside and nearly got blown away and washed away! Me thinks there maybe no electic by the morning but perhaps some firewood to make up?
  8. MikeTM150
    i honestly thought it was to help shed the rain from the top of the cut!!! Good plan!
  9. MikeTM150
    glad i'm not the only one to think it was bloody hard work giving money away!!! Thought i was making a meal of it but glad someone else thought it were time consuming!
  10. MikeTM150
    hello arbtalk bye bye x-factor!!! another 2hrs might even do some invoices!!!
  11. MikeTM150
    Think i've decided sycamore grows fastest, so i'm going to plant mainly ash and sycamore for coppice, plus a few sweet chesnut for something different and perhaps a few oak in a far corner for a bit of biodiversity! Ash and sycamore burn nice, grow fast and seem fairly difficult to kill by cutting them in my experience!
  12. MikeTM150
    Hi I asked similar question don't know if this thread will help you, i'm yet to plant so will be interested to see what u come up with as an answer! http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/forestry-woodland-management/35217-what-plant-coppice.html
  13. MikeTM150
    solar panels full of heavy metals.......
  14. MikeTM150
    Personally i'd definately go for the larger 3phase, three phase is much simpler to use IMO. No capacitors to go wrong and much easier to test for faults according to my electrician, also i think its more effecient on power use therefore saving eleccy!! I always have 3phase if i can just as its seems to be more reliable than single phase IME. As for matching a genny to it, not a clue as i don't know enough about the conversion factors. We run a big genny for our farm if we have power failure (500kva), all i know is i'm glad we went huge when we bought it as were using more and more of its capacity as time goes by!!!
  15. MikeTM150
    ah thats the problem when you have milking cows, rain on a sunday doesn't stop the work!!! BUt i wouldn't have it any other way!! Its only a few hours of feeding and scraping poo out. Have chopped a dead ash tree down aswell today with the 880 so a cuppa tea was in order!!!
  16. MikeTM150
    Flicking through youtube whilst having a cuppa in readyness to go back to work and found this, now its not something i'd ever try lining yourself up under the felling path of a tree no matter how large the digger!! But they obviously meant to do it! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRYN344eVZg&feature=fvwrel]tree felling badly with a digger - YouTube[/ame]
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    Ben do u use that quite quick? As we've had problems with diesel 'silting' up in the newer finer filtered tractors if we keep it too long. We had it all tested and it just comes down to this bio-diesel proportion causing the grief!!!
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    don't take this as critism, but did u actually ask how long it would last without re-charge when you hired it??? I'd be surprised if u get more than half day back but it isn't fair!!!!
  19. MikeTM150
    what they can do a key change???? blimmey u know alot more about the program than me!!!
  20. MikeTM150
    ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh oh well the end is in sight!
  21. MikeTM150
    The wife informs me i can stop moaning as it the last night of the x-factor.......what will i moan about then!!!! perhaps i'll get a go with the tv remote.......... Can't stand the program but its a good excuse to have a nose about here!!!!
  22. MikeTM150
    well as i understand it they burn the woodchip/miscanthus at the same time as the coal,, but it requires proportionally more coal to keep the temperature up. Now this may have only happened in the older type systems that weren't designed to burn woodchip at all and may be different to newer systems.
  23. MikeTM150
    personally think the first one would not be 'stiff' enough to push around the corner and the brush up the higher levels of the chinmey. But i have been known to get it wrong!!!!!
  24. MikeTM150
    'Mis' what did u say........makes me laugh they burn this 'green' stuff in power stations but it requires more coal to make it burn hot enough to generate electricity! I don't mind helping the environment, but the problem is it encourages the 'rest' of the world to produce products with less environmental care to replace what we don't grow!! At the end of it the human species has got too big for this planet already in my eye's!
  25. MikeTM150
    As a farmer i see it that it'll produce fuel and enviromental diversity until the world gets properly hungry then the governments will have this brain wave of an idea to encourage us to product food!!!

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