Matthew Storrs
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The trouble with both these trucks is that train weight does not allow much weight in the towing vehicle if towing the full 3.5ton. I think that 3.5 ton is too much weight to have behind a vehicle that weighs only a shade over 2 ton if your not allowed any weight in the pickup bed. Ifor trailer brakes don,t work backwards and iv been pulled back down hills before when towing 3.5ton with an unladen 110. stick 500kg in the pickup and and its far more the boss of things. the Discovery 4 I believe weighs nearer 2.7t? so would be more suitable, but obviously lack of pickup bed might be a problem.
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Also, if your into John Grisham, have you read the painted house? I read it six years ago and still think about it from time to time!
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John Steinbeck's East of Eden is what I'm reading at the moment, half way and really like his style although still yet to work out where the story will lead. I assume you have read the the millennium trilogy by steig larsson- a must.
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Jack by the hedge, the leaves have a slightly horseradish taste to them and are nice to eat on a walk though the lanes.
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Yes a friend gave me a can of this a while back- reckons its superior to waxoyl as waxoyk becomes brittle and chips off where bilt hamber is more flexible?
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A few years ago I had a new rear quarter chassis welded on my land rover and the chap who did it painted it in rustoleum paint but two years later its all peeling off and I think it tends to trap the water beneath it. I warm up waxoy/mixed with a bit of waxoyl and spray it with the waxoyl spray can they do. Thing is with a landrover etc, most of the rust starts from the inside out, by the time you have discovered it its often too late. The landrover chassis could always do with being a few mm thicker i think.
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That's the worrying bit:laugh1:
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Derriford Hospital (Plymouth) - landscaping & architecture
Matthew Storrs replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Picture Forum
Girlfriend works there. That fencing in the last picture is an awful job- knocked up out of a load of half round rails- I'm guessing the shorter places were the offcuts that weren't quite long enough:lol: -
If its that wet I wouldn't be climbing anyway- on the ground and doing fencing and stuff I wear the military 'goretex' and wouldn't be without them, I'd never get as wet through sweat as I would getting drenched in pouring rain- I like being in a nice dry cacoon- makes the day far more enjoyable.
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Yes, this is a topic which both interests me and worries me tremendously, I honestly believe that overpopulation will be the down fall of us all.
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Cheap Earth Augers - Fuxtec
Matthew Storrs replied to Tim Stobart Tree Surgery's topic in General chat
I'm with you in that I'd rather use a bar and hand drive them in then use a petrol auger- I found the auger harder work my self. I can't however agree about doing it by hand over a tractor post driver unless your on very very easy ground, for a start with a tractor (particularly the modern knockers) you can get every thing linear up dead level and plumb, a few hits with the hammer and she's in. Even in pretty hard ground it only takes my post knocker 5-6 gentle hits to get a 4" post into depth. In soft ground i'tl do it in 3 hits, one to start it off, a good smack to get it in, then another tap or two to get it at the right height. -
The equvilent priced john Deere will have an extra 5 or 6 thousand hours on it, and I still here horror stories about all the 'big' names. Same is very popular here on Dartmoor- I think they probably make good livestock/hill farm tractors. Also the dealer is only 10 miles away, I hav had two Zetors previously and whilst some aspects of them I find very good they always seem to suffer very poor brakes and hydraulic problems plus there is always a seal going somewhere- these were older Zetors to be fair and I hear the newer ones are much better.
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Yes, I took the dorado up the road- its got a fair bit of poke I thought and nice smooth transmission. Haven't been on the road with the postknocker- dealer wouldn't let me cause of insurance purposes. The Silver seems to have massive front tyres, but the rear tyres don't look proportional in comparison. I like the fact that you sit quite low in the Dorado- in general its quite a squat low tractor- which gives a nicer feeling on slopes somehow.
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Argh, I wish I could make my mind up http://ebowdenandsons.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/SAME-Dorado-86-002-1024x768.jpg Here is the tractor, Silver is also on this site. Been dithering for the last few days but the dorado is getting a lot of interest so someone will probably snap it up before I make my mind up! I guess I'm worried its going to be too light for fencing on steep ground which I do a lot of. I can get the wheels spaced out 4inches either side which might help on a side slope. http://ebowdenandsons.co.uk/products-page/agricultural-tractors-machinery-used-2/same-dorado-86/
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Thanks for that informative post- very interested that the Silver drank the derv as that is one of the deciding factors against it, I do a fair bit of road work and find this is when tractors are at their thirstiest in my line of work. Yes, the tractor is a durado is an 86 model- I believe its the newer version of the 85. It has a tekno loader fitted which if never heard of which concerns me, looks a well built loader-italian brand. It has a mechanical shuttle. So you don't have to change gear just use the forward reverse lever, The Same silver has a clutchless electronic shuttle next to steering wheel. I tried the dorado with my post knocker (which weighs 900kg) today, seemed stable enough despite the tractor only weighing 3500kg including the loader. I think without the loader it would be too light on steep ground.
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Thanks for that, as it stands I couldn't really fault either them, the Dorando which I will probably go for has only done 1200 hours and the original tyres are about 90% so I don't think its done much work to be honest. Well impressed with the brakes, I'd say they are the best brakes I have ever tried on a tractor- even compared to some newish New Hollands Ive driven.
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Got two models I'm interested a Same silver 105 6 cylinder 2009, or Same Dorando 86 with a loader 56plate. going to be used for fencing work, I'm thinking the silver 105 maybe overkill for fencing operations. Anyone know anything about these models or the newer Same's in general. They seem good tractors and are very popular locally, quick on the road too.
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Cheap Earth Augers - Fuxtec
Matthew Storrs replied to Tim Stobart Tree Surgery's topic in General chat
Hired a Stihl auger , it was lethal and bloody hard work getting it to drill a hole and flipping annoying if it hit a rock and wrenched in to you. If got one on a digger now- that will drill a hoke 1.2m deep a minute in goodish going ground and not much longer if its harder ground. Well worth hiring one if access is OK. -
Oh no- that's awful news. I grew up with Mrs doubt fire and Jumanji, still like watching them now. RIP Robin
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Sure, but we've been down this road before, landcruisers and g wagons are not pickups in this country and you could buy two landie hi caps for the price of importing the above.
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Iv been considering it for the last year, I mainly work on my own so not at the limit but getting more and more work and thus probably going to take someone on. As soon as you have wages to pay you can't be making do with crap kit as the downtime is too expensive so getting the VAT back on machinery purchases not to mention day to day running cost is a no brainer. Most of my customers are farmers anyway.
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I'm afraid you won't get a definitive answer from this questions. Some people are firmly in the landy camp other Isuzu, Toyota etc. If you want to beast a vehicle with a load on over rough ground you won't beat a landrover, if you want to travel in comfort, have a decent towing capacity then Isuzu dmax seems to be getting good feedback....
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It may be fine- I have no idea how good the DB hydraulics are, I used to run mine of a Zetor which had very poor hydraulics- eventually ended up making a bracket so I could run it of my mini digger and it was a different machine fast and powerfull
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Make sure you DB has enough hydraulic pressure to run one otherwise you will need to get one that runs of the PTO which costs quite a bit more. To be honest for the money they are pretty good. I'm not totally convinced by the small splitting head myself as I find it has a habit of just getting stuck in the wood also as the head makes contact with the log it seems to have a tendancy to push the log off the table which is very irritating. Perhaps a welded prong on the table to hold the log secure would solve this, but I never got that far before I sold mine. In short, for semi proffesional/landowner use they are fine but if you do a lot of firewood I would look at alternatives.
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need to hire cherry picker or scissor lift devon
Matthew Storrs replied to carpenter1's topic in General chat
Weekly hire is always considerably cheaper. £120 for a day included delivery and collection. I,m not sure how you recharge them to be honest as I only ever had them for a day. Brandon said they are meant to do a days work on 1 charge but this is utter b**l*cks. The ones I had probably did 5-8 lifts up and down. The second time I demanded a full refund as it caused a wasted day until they could bring out another one and they supplied no means to recharge it either.
