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  1. nick channer
    ditto.....
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    hi mike.. congratulations.. 38 hours.. thats serious time in labour.. hope both are ok..

  3. nick channer
    ford TW15 if you could afford one.. if not a 7910 or 8210.. theres a 7910 on ebay that looks reasonable.. with forestry guards etc..if you buy it right it'l still be worth same in few years.. we bought a ford 8630[newer version of TW15 with power shift gearbox] for 9 grand 3 years ago.. its still worth that now..
  4. nick channer
    was a red one... on ebay the photo showed it full to brim with split logs and half tipped in air..
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    if you look on platin certificate it will tell you full train weight... take the gross weight off the train weight and thats what the truck will tow..but i think most you can tow without hgv is 7.5 ton gross [i may be wrong]
  6. nick channer
    you could also have trailer with both air and hydraulic brakes.. we got a big 16 ton rear discharge muck spreader with both.. dependin what sorta money you wanna spend a ford 79 or 8210 are both good tractors [79 is exact copy of 8210 with down rated pump, quick turn of a 13mm spanner on top of pump and youl be pushin up to 130 hp].. trouble is with older tractors like that is there considered classics now and collectors will push price of any low houred tidy tractors wether its ford john deere massey etc..
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    i dont think it can be done.. but you can buy a small device that fits on back of tractor very easily ... it works off tractor brakes and somehow converts it to air.. beauty of it is it can be taken from one tractor to another easily.. click on portable hydraulics to airbrake converter unit and have a look..
  8. nick channer
    yours looks lot tidier than my 52 plate did... if you look at bottom of your high cap body.. its sittin level with bottom of your chequer plate... when its a tipper it'l sit level with top of chequer plate.. less than few inch's as you'l see... and suprisingly even with the wheel arches and area where diesel filler pipe is, hardly anything gets stuck in body when tippin.. if the tub was boarded out with all the right angles etc nothing at all would get stuck.. all you'l do is put extra value on your landy by convertin it.. i'l send u a pm with my no..
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    he'd do it in day... he had mine for 2 but only cos i went down route of usin 2nd hand pump and ram and ram was to long so had to source another... after 3 weeks when i found out how cheap new pump and ram were i replaced both [earlier post i said you'd get ram and pump for £100.. sorry, meant rams 100 and new pump is around 200..] if its a high cap you've got i'd do it in a heart beat.. i bought a 57 plate 90 when i sold mine and i'm thinkin of pxin mine for new or nearly new high cap to do same with...
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    yeah still used high cap tub.. sorry never had any pics... you would never no its a tipper.. the body sits about inch and half higher than normal... he charged around £600 to do the work with all steel to build sub frame included.. if you got a 2nd hand tipper pump and ram thats all it'd cost... although to be honest you can buy brand new 12v pump off ebay with wanderin lead and good new single actin ram for around 100.. so for less than a grand its tippinj with all new [guaranteed] parts..[which is what i did]. i paid 6000 for 52 plate 110 high cap with 90k on clock.. put good set wider wheels and tyres on it to handle better [£450] paid £100 for ifor top off ebay and sold it 6 months ago for 8 grand.. and people still callin for it occasionaly now.. they all say same.. they like fact its still original lookin..
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    i had a 110 high cap and very easily converted the exsistin high cap body to a tipper.. put an ifor williams top on it and made perfect chip body.. could take top off in secs if i needed to use it to deliver logs.. my mate did all the conversion at reasonable rate so if you wanted it done let me no
  12. nick channer
    my 52 plate has done nearly 200.000 miles.. was 6 months old when i bought it... still on original engine and drives no diff to my mates 55 plate with 80k on it.. its just had its 2nd clutch in it.. replaced dual mass flywheel for solid one when 1st clutch was changed, several starter motors and alternators but thats it..it got bit rusty 18 months ago so resprayed cab and put good 2nd hand body on it.. when i think of the loads its had on it over its lifetime it amazes me how its still going.. we've processed and sold nearly 400 ton firewood this winter and every load has gone on it.. 1200 miles a week i was doing in it in 3 weeks up to xmas and its done same since i had it... i'm gonna have to change it soon and just hope next one is half as good.. got my eye on an 06 plate with 50k miles on it...
  13. nick channer
    8210 is only 10 hp more.. 7810 with the right tyre/wheel combination will p..s all over it.. 7810 is smalle and more manouverable.. dont get me wrong 8210's are good tractor but 78 better... and 7810 is lot better model than the newer 7840.... lot less to go wrong and easier to fix if fhey do..
  14. nick channer
    we had the 76 and 7710's which were 103hp and replaced them with the 7810's.. bit less hp at 100 but pulled lot better being a 6 cylinder.. we had one on big terra tyres all year round for fertilizin, ring rollin cultivatin etc.. awesome tractor.. that tractor in my avatar is 190hp and does pretty much same work as 7810's used to.. diff bein a 7810 brand new in 1988 was less than 20 grand... a 100 hp tractor new now is at least 40 and one in my avatar nearly 60.... its a joke when we 're gettin same money or less for ton wheat than we did in 1988...
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    ha.. i had a lovely silver one.. was only couple years old when i bought it.. replaced it with an 8210 at time.. wish i still had it.. they make a fortune and it was mint... we had 4 7810's when they first came out.. great little 100hp tractors...
  16. nick channer
    havent got an excavator one but have a vermeer SC50TX and a R28 predator also on tracks and i'm very close to london..if i can help let me no
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    unimog

    nick channer replied to tree fella's topic in Arb-Trucks

    so why did we pay an extra 5 grand to have 50 k boxes and air brakes if we cant use it.... theres not a tractor manufactured now that does under 40k anyway..
  18. nick channer
    mood i was in he's lucky thats all he got... best thing is he called my mate who charged him 120 to clear the brush..
  19. nick channer
    ahs have sold the wood chip side to stobart..
  20. nick channer
    doesnt have to be dry.. need a good base to store it on though..
  21. nick channer

    i no beirton well.. good mate mine lives in aston abbotts... and another in wing... if i need a hand i'll see if your available then

  22. nick channer
    regular customer calls the other day.. wants an old conifer stump cut down so he can concrete over top of it...... i said your sure it can be cut down low enough with chainsaw.. he said yeah will be plenty low enough and he'd do it himself but his saw isn't big enough.. anyway.. my lads were going right past his rd few days later so said we'd call in and do it for £40.. they went there and cut it down lot lower than they shoulda done.. blunted chain on stones etc.. then customer says it isnt low enough and refused to pay... they called me and i had big row with him explainin it needed stump grindin.. which he wasnt prepared to pay any extra for... needless to say with the abuse i gave him and the truck load of brush he later recieved on his drive way i wont be workin there again.... all over £40....if i'd a stuck to our £80 min charge he prob would a said no and saved lot hassle
  23. nick channer

    you actually in aylesbury.. or outside...

  24. nick channer
    didnt think of it as doing on your own... hour and half 2 men....
  25. nick channer
    not the ones i price against.... and even so still only hour or so job... i priced little bay tree this mornin... prob 12-15 ft high in marlow... heavy reduction to get more light into there conservatory.. wasnt fussed if we did it or not as bit mission gettin brush out told em £140+vat.. they'd already had 2 other quotes.. £220+vat and 235 no vat.. thought my price was over top... lads fitted it in this afternoon started at 3... back in yard by 5..we have min charge of £80 as do most other tree boys i no round here...

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