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Whats everyone paying monthly for insurance and who are you with?
doobin replied to Excels1or's topic in Insurance Forum
Just renewed my public and employers liability with JCB at just under £100 a month. 2 employees, incidental demolition, tree felling up to 30m. £250k of machinery cover is considerably more expensive at £250 per month. Two small vans, two pickups (one a tipper) and two 3.5t tipper trucks are on a fleet policy, any driver over 23, Fleet and Commercial sorted me out at £215 per month. Highly recommend them as brokers for fleet policy, JCB are also great for plant. So all told £565 per month. -
Whats everyone paying monthly for insurance and who are you with?
doobin replied to Excels1or's topic in Insurance Forum
Regardless of the cheap Swedish insurance, that sounds like you were getting shafted for insurance here. No way a forwarder plus some tools should be that much. -
That's it exactly! Doesn't help that it's badly balanced to start with, the axles are dead centre.
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You want a big butt to carve a bench out of or planks to build the bench from?
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The reason it’s ‘easier with more axles’ is that generally multi axle trailers are longer. A better way to say it would be the longer the trailer the easier it is to reverse. to tie in with what you and @difflockjust said- my ten foot tri axle trailer is a pig to reverse anywhere other than a concrete yard. It’s short yet tri axle. As the wheels encounter a tiny bump, the pivot point shifts wildly and the way you were aiming the truck is suddenly no longer right 🤣
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Is that up at Chiddingfold? Japanese knotweed in one corner?
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I was gobsmacked when driving through NI and seeing the size of the holes being dug for turbines, and then the ebar cages awaiting concrete. I turned to the missus and say, if those things only last twenty years, I'd be surprised if you get back as much energy as you expended building the darn thing! Had a google at the time, apparently the lifespans of the turbines are turning out to be less than claimed. Surely offshore turbines, mounted on driven piles, where it doesn't matter if they fail eventually, are a better bet?
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What happened?
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They must be dead straight! I envy you, sounds like good sawlogs.
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Thats an absoloute piece of cake to reverse compared to a single axle 'tip run' trailer behind a LWB Transit. The trailer is 5x the length of the short wheelbase lorry- everything happens nice and slow and you can always see the trailer in the mirrors. With a transit and 750kg trailer, those dimensions are reversed (pun intended!) and you can't see shit. My brain can reverse absoloutely no problem, but the best wagon driver in the world will struggle with a 750kg trailer lots behind a transit when they can't see it in the mirrors until it's nearly jacknifed.
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I’ve not been asked but I’d definitely charge a premium. Oak that straight and long is hard to come by and would make two sets of 2.8m posts.
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A days processing (mainly splitting) with our dog of a tractor and processor combo. Out of one barn and into the other plus a truckload for the customers house.
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Simply not the case with the small twitch trailers being discussed here, unless you are putting them behind a Fiat 500. Much better off being able to see the trailer through the rear windscreen over your shoulder.
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Finally fitted the lap sider.
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A cube of dry wood is 400kg tops. It’s not a truck for aggregate, it’s a narrow truck to get down driveways with a cube of firewood and to help out around the farm. if he had any money he’d have bought one like mine 🤣🤣
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He’s going to try it for a bit as is. Towball a pain but with reverse camera not too bad. He’s not an idiot so will be careful to load anything heavy over the wheels. It’ll be getting airbags soon. At the end of the day it might look odd but it’s no different than any recovery spec transit. fitted the tipper pump yesterday evening (nice strong bit of chassis handy where I plated it up where the body was rotten 🤣 All works, which I didn’t expect given the condition so bonus 👍🏻👍🏻
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Budget tipper! Ranger with knackered tub, Landy 109 tipper in surprising solid nick. Had it on and safe enough to drive in a morning, it wants a few bits doing and the power pack connecting but much easier with it on the body. The plan was to cut it down, but it’s three inches short of the 60% of wheelbase overhang rule and holds a perfect cube so my mate wants to keep it as is.
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Will look dog rough IMHO. Sleeper ends vary by 10mm, much better to use a neat post or angle iron to hide the join. Will they be able to see both sides then? What's the purpose of this wall?
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Someone 'dealer' on FB was listing a new 750kg unbraked ifor with cage sides for £2400 plus VAT the other day. That can't be retail- surely they are just trying to price gouge?
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On my alpine (Antonio Carrarro with very similar looking spool block) the 'position' lever is simply a spool lever connected to the linkage rams with a float detent on one side, power up the other and neutral in the middle. Even if in neutral it would still float to an extent due to the single acting rams.
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The accumulator I would say is for 'soft ride' when carrying heavy linkage mounted implements. All tractor linkages float in my experience, whether through being single acting rams or having a float setting built in to the spool. The knob could well be just a flow restrictor to stop heavy implements from slamming down into the ground when you lower the linkage, almost all tractors have this in some form.
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Trailer prices will be following digger prices back down shortly. Make sure he doesn't overpay. What kind of trailer is he after?
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You just drop the flail on the ground and drive. Draft control is for automatically lifting a ground engaging implement such as a plough up a little if the tractor is struggling.
