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Anybody want a cherry picker before we weigh it in?
difflock replied to adowning7's topic in General chat
Should be easy to work on/at and cheap to fix, if only brakes. -
Ah Sorry, but since "we" in NI pioneered the "Multi Agency" stop. Being Police/R&C/VOSA etc etc (and erm now Revenue and Customs Surely:001_tt2:) I take it for granted all agencies ud be present. regards, Marcus
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VOSA have been very active in the Province this fast months year or so. First they focussed their attention on the HGV operators. This past weekend they were busy in Bushmills and Ballymoney pulling Chav's for lowered suspension/tinted windows. I was informed this morning that they have also "went to town" on a large local Silage Contractor. Tractors and trailers in top notch condition, BUT the alledgedly "DONE" him/them for running on Red diesel. Regardless of the Agricultural nature of their work. They were/are purely operating a Commercial undertaking "for hire or reward" Therefore must operate on Clear diesel. marcus
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mini digger operating weight. oh and bateson trailers
difflock replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Large equipment
We are currently getting a 7500kg beavertail fabricated. To carry 4000kg (for a rubber 3500kg tracked 360 + buckets/attatchments) I had to, and with some difficulty, emphaise that I would rather risk a few fatigue cracks after a few years use. Than the coach builder build in extra-over steel/aluminium " to be sure". At the cost of essential/critical payload. Any product will have a design life, and any product requires routine inspection and maintenance, so why should this be an issue? Any fatigue cracks should therefore be picked up, and especially easily noticed during loading/unloading operations. Anyway our vehicle will never see a dual carrigeway let alone a Motorway, only be tootling about withing a limited area, and prob not doing more than 10,000 miles per annum. And will, forby, be subject to 6 weekly inspections by an accredited outside independant HGV garage. marcus -
I cannot remember the detail, but in about 1992 I was ordering a "gross" of sommat. (That being 144 to you young-uns.) Yvonne the lovely but slightly ditzy lassie who processed the orders managed to order a 144 gross, well, nearly, until the director who signed the orders spotted the mistake. I really, for the life of me, cannot remember the product, or what in 1992 would still have been sold "by the gross".
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FIREPROOF only NOT burglar/scumbag proof With cordless angle grinders and 1.0mm cutting discs, ANY mild steel structure is way vunerable. Bit like my fully approved firearms cabinet. A word to the local locksmith 3 to 5 mins with a cordless drill, and 3 No "high-security" locks were bypassed. Scheesh! PS Consider Geese, one can always eat them at Christmas too if they prove to be slackers
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Think big! Consider removing existing shed and bunging up one decent coherent (steel framed )unit. Agric spec steel type SHOULD be cheap/affordable. Steel/tin roof and timber clad walls perhaps. How tight is your planning likely to be. Will the neighbours be likely to "grass" you up I like sheds btw. One can never have enough sheds, or big enough sheds. Photos please. Marcus
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How legal is the front mounted chipper? In respect of road use that is. m
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A battery powered "Hover-skirt" perhaps, & be really kind to the floors. Nice work btw. What is it though, guessing a glorified a wheelbarrow for the humengeous cash collections of a Sunday perhaps?
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Cough, discreet, cough, Are ye !"£$%^& blind! To quote from the origional post "which is a rescue and she cannot catch" m
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Combat Ladders - MOD Sales, Military Vehicles & Used Ex MOD Land Rovers for Sale :lol:
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Looks just right to me, needs the length to make effective use of the weight of the tractor out front. Anyone know what the winch was rated at?
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Very nice healthy chock full of wildlife woodland around Chernobel. Sans humans. Tells a sad story unfortunately. About the effect of humans on the natural environment. m
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Nice to see the gearbox direct drive, also leaves the PTO stub a better height for modern high HP tractors. Is it not a bit high for older smaller tractors though? I presume the supplied PTO shaft has a slip clutch built in btw? The Krpan I bought has the PTO stub FAR too low, even for older tractors. marcus
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Nice looking pups there, I take it the Sire is known? We are currently considering a Mastiff type bitch, to bring balance to our mongrel "pack" But having watched the 2 Daschund cross pups grow up (currently 13 months old) together, and chew lumps out of each other rather than shoe leather. We ud rather get 2 pups. But then we ud have 2 No. 50kg Mastiffs. Ooops Sorry, did not mean to highjack your post. Really just jealous of such a beauitful litter of pups I suppose. m
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Tom, As the gentleman on Axmen, so elequontly expressed it "Ye caint fix stupid". And the inspection regime is a nonsense since virtually any sign of wear gets kit written off. even though there will be a factor of safety of 5 or 10 in the design and manufacture. Which should allow for some reasonable wear surely? But hey to be sure to be very very sure, replace it.
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Actually, I would rather you hadney told/showed us:crying: It does look rather sore. Keep ye from picking yer nose though!
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No idea either but; The drawbar shape/configuration looks professional. Nice to see the brakes and lights as a seperate item Are the lights LED though?, an absolute must for trailers BUT Watch the tare weight /gross weight and what payload is left. Very very easy to make them too heavy, then a pig to tow even when empty or lightly loaded. I do see he is, I think sensabally plating at 3000kg, which keeps a wider selection of pick-ups fully legal to tow this trailer.
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Cant really offer a "back-to-back" with the equivalent Etesia. Another brand I would generally "rate", but I cannot get my staff to take to them. I had an Etesia out on demo for a few days prior to buying the Viking. Just no interest from staff after a few very desultory "trials" I do however reckon that the Honda mowers are overrated. m
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specifically MB 755 KS - 21? self-propelled professional mower with blade brake clutch Interestingly, and I think, significently, Viking only offer 0NE professional spec lawnmower. Unlike other brands that offer a whole pleortha of alledgedly "professional" mowers. And the Viking offering does exactly what it says on the tin. marcus
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Sniff, telephoto lens at work! (the "foreshortning" effect) An a bit o reasonable flying forby.
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(i) What is your timber source? (ii) Is it likely to be secure over the 20 years? (iii)What is the max recommended size for your 180kw/hr boiler (& I know for my wee boiler one requires to be fairly rigid about size, smaller is definately better) (iv) Is there potential to source forestry "rounds" of the 100 to 150mm dia, season for longer, and burn unsplit? Because I am guessing that 100 tonne per year is unsustainable unless sourced from commercial Conifer forestry (v) If this is possible consider simply cutting to length and bundling in nom 1.0 m3 round bundles strapped with Polyprop, for stacking to season and ease of onward handling. I could see the advantage in mechanising that particular operation. Offload artic timber truck straight into racking and no manual/hands on contact. need more details to offer any useful advice though. I am significently better at "imagining" than doing. Marcus
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Funny enough . . . I am eyeing up the very densely coated Rottador, who suffers in the heat. Thinking a Racehorse style clip. OR short back and sides. Not sure how he will react to the clippers though.
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very very impressed with all these commissions 7th. Beauitiful work. Marcus
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I suspect they may be insurmountable problems with the concept, due to the ratio of the 1.0m length to split diminsion of say 100mm/150mm. One would need very carefully selected timber to allow it to be AUTOMATICALLY reliably split to these diminsions. i.e. will there be knots? Or one will simply get a pile of misshapen lumps and kindling. The other issue is the length of the logs being fed into the splitter. 3m to 5m I guess, is it really worth it for 2 to 4 cuts? Better use a fast manually operated splitter, with a well thought out set-up and mechanical handling at both ends. When I split my 1.0m billet lengths I am constantly assessing where best to split, this after cutting out the worst of the knots. And it is still very difficult to get reasonably regular sections to efficiently stack. btw. I do appreciate you may have a supply of German/French type straight Beech logs, as opposed to my Shitty knotty/bent/twisted Lodgepole Pine.
