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By the time you've broken the mudguards and lights loading it without pins, and then your legs trying to strap down an unstable load when a log falls off on you, you'll wish you hadn't bothered. Especially as you'll only get 25% of payload on if lucky. Add the VOSA fines to that and you'd be much better off finding some pallets. No forestry contractor is going to want to piss around loading a rig like that anyway. Double the time and hassle for a quarter of the product shifted. Get some pins on and it could work for you. There's an outfit from Wales (I think) that run fertiliser down the Sussex and then put pins on and take Sussex timber somewhere else. What about the end product? Are there any mills in Wales?
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On many Ford engines the EM light will come on if the fuel filter is slightly blocked. Worth a look, if it starts to trigger limp-home made then this is the first thing I'd change. Parts bingo is no fun but at least a filter is cheap and should be a regular service item anyway.
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I think you'd get more for your money with a compact 4WD tractor. Link box for the dustbins of sawdust (or even pallet forks and a pallet, then you can move pallets) plus a hitch front and rear. Using a quad for constantly shunting trailers is pretty pointless, they're not designed to put a low of traction to the ground and like someone else said, they're a right pain with hitching up and double wheeler trailers. You simply can't beat a front hitch for shunting. Whilst your quad is still being hitched up and then spinning it's wheels trying to push a 16ft double axle into a tight space, a front tow hitch on a compact tractor could position three similar trailers in a nice neat line in the same mud. Quads just aren't designed to pull trailers, this comes up time and time again.
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There's a guy in Petersfield who sorted a mates forwarder alternator recently. However, can't you just get a new one cheap from the local motor factors??
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For Petes sake mate, would you stop talking sense!
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Just go for it mate, competition is healthy.
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Stick the powerpack in the back and it is....
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For all the hassle, and the fact that it will cost white diesel to run, you're much better off just getting another power pack. You could get a second hand one for what it would cost you in bits to adapt the landy, never mind your time.
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This. Profit is not a dirty word.
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A Stihl spout on a normal 5l can works for me. Can't stand having the petrol and oil in the same cumbersome package. Combi cans were designed for loggers to make it easy to carry oil, petrol and basic tools for a long walk into the woods. Beats me why arb guys use them?
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He's not derailing the thread. No need for the thumbdown, his was a logical response and juxtaposition of a contrasting trade. A junior doctor wouldn't make what you're suggesting. Sorry, is that off thread also? I'm with Big J, sense of proportion required here.
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Why can't you see that Britax/Durite just buy the Chinese stuff and resell it? It's exactly the same stuff.
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Even if it was he's paying you to buy them. It must be a typo!
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3kg steak- £20 90 eggs- £7 Salad: £10 Mayo: £1 Bananas: £2 Cheese 2kg- £10 £50? Hell that sounds cheap. It's approximate, I just pay the greengrocer tab every month so don't really know.
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Aye, a slew has a case drain line so any excess pressure can escape. It's the planetary gearbox which suffers when monkeys as in your example get their hands on a digger
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Put a cloth over the trailer edge. A bit of spray galv is cheaper than points. If you have the grab on to transport, as I always do, then a bucket rest is superfluous in my experience.
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I just cook in on the log burner or the George Foreman and throw it on a paper plate on the yard workbench. I usually miss lunch. Hearty breakfast of 6 eggs plus fish (sometimes salad, usually cheese, either omelette or fried). Get back the the yard about four PM, have 3 fried eggs, salad and cheese or maybe a slice of pork belly in the grill. Lift weights, home at 9ish for a whole bag of spinach, a decent portion of steak, 5 hard boiled eggs plus cheese and mayo. It's a diet I've happened upon due to cost and convenience rather than some body builder program. Everything except the meat gets delivered from the local wholesale greengrocers. Eggs are a superfood, I never get tired of them. I'm feeling and looking good on it so will stick with it until something changes.
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EU court rules fatness now officially a disability
doobin replied to Wood wasp's topic in General chat
Muscle weighs more than fat 32" waist here. I'm carrying a little more fat than I'd like, but I will cut that off next year for summer. -
Wasn't meant as a personal attack. I have this thing were I really really want to help people out for some reason. I suspect TBG is the same, hence the PM to the OP?
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Looks a great bit of kit. Be sure to strap the jib down in future, a driver was prosecuted after a jib swung around and killed a pedestrian a few years ago. Also, the crowd ram can wander a bit, meaning that it won't stay tight in transport. Best to close the grab completely, then strap the gap in the crossed teeth back to the trailer edge (if that makes sense?)
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Checking in. Up to 12st 5lb (almost 80KG). Very happy though as bodyfat is about 10%. People say I look ten and half stone. Clean bulk appears to be working. I'm eating primarily a dozen eggs, a good helping of steak, some fish, maybe 200g-300g of cheese, plus mayo and half a kilo of spring onions and spinach every day,
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EU court rules fatness now officially a disability
doobin replied to Wood wasp's topic in General chat
That's the thing. You can eat as much steak, eggs and salad as you like without getting fat. Add bread, sugar and beer to that list and things go downhill quickly. The Paleo thread hasn't been updated for ages, shall we all check in? http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/training-health/67369-paleo-diet-18.html -
What are you on about, a new message window pops up when you visit ArbTalk! Surely posting your thoughts in the thread would enrich rather than dilute the thread- that's what a forum is for, other people's opinions 'PM sent' in the the thread is self aggrandising rubbish. That idiot Lyncombe Climber started it, with his super secret forestry price list. I don't care if people share or not, but if someone chooses to share with only a select few then do it privately without clogging up a thread IMHO.
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Weren't you looking to run a tractor log splitter in another post? Ringing up enough to keep that fed with an MS181 will get old very quickly.... What do you want to use the saw for?
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CBE is pointless. The standard MS181 is one of the best value for money small saws out there.
