difflock
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And actually since someone stated most chippers run at 1000rpm. Direct drive from a slightly oversized engine throttled back to run at 1000rpm. Quieter too. Interestingly most of the serious big diesel engine manufacturers appear to be bringing operating revs down to both increase mtbf and reduce noise. Trucks excavators etc. etc.
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So classically a 7.5 tonner engine c/w gearbox and clutch. Connect prop shaft stub to PTO splines an hey presto. Might have to spin it around and use belt drive to reverse the direction of rotation. Simples, though weight could start to be an issue. Or a cast off donkey engine from a road sweeper or premix truck. Or a scrap combine engine. Generally low hours, though now usually super sosphistacted and high HP forby. Or a scrap "G" Wagen, and run the ledgendary 617 lump on anything oily. It will also last for ever.
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Sniff! Please remove somewhat mis-leading:001_tt2: avatar pic please then Lyncombe-climber:biggrin:
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Erm, The PTO housing or somewhere near on the machine should quote the required PTO rpm's. Almost certainly 540, I dont think I have seen one rated higher, and some recommend odd PTO rpm's (to UK users leastwise) of 350. Probably a tractor with selectable speed PTO, then run the tractor on the higher speed PTO at lower engine revs. I have found that if a PTO powered implement sounds "right" it probably is. I.E. for the rotary mower I tune it by ear, listing for the correct "hum" off the rotors. Regardless of stated requirments. good luck Marcus EDIT More pertinently, most tractors only reach correct PTO speeds at surprisingly high engine revs, my old DB requires 2100 rpm, I doubt any are much less than 1800, well, leastwise on the older stuff we are likely to be using to drive a firewood processor.
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But, john p, you haint got a FENDT tractor to keep, unlike some. Do keep up!
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(i) I was unaware that facility existed, and would have thought it more likely they would have been entered in an appropriate Classic car auction, by the MoD. (ii) I cannot figure how their age and low miles and storage history tallies with private ownership. So it smelt to me like these were ACTUALLY Government Ministry owned vehicles. Perhaps sourced for undercover work, back "in the day", then parked up and forgot about.
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Chevrolet , Corvette Stingray Convertible, #58089 - MOD Sales, Military Vehicles & Used Ex MOD Land Rovers for Sale Why? 006 not need it any longer. m
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Erm, another thought. I understood that the hire trade usually worked a system of term decling payments. i.e. A daily rate. nominal 3 days pays for a week. Then a weekly rate. 3 weeks pays for a month. etc. Which makes it cost effective for firms to keep stuff on hire long term. But with perhaps surprisingly low utilization. But allows the hire company to bilk poor saps like me that only ever hire for a day at a time. But then I take the full value out of the hire.
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It could be worth diplomatically asking furthur up the chain of command. Could be no-one "knows", or cares. Some bod sitting at a desk routinly singing routine invoices, only taking time to scrutinize the oddball ones. Or the hire company could be owned by the same parent company and this could be some "wheeze" to move funds sideways.
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Hmmm 3300 plus 150 for 2 ave bods plus kit and piece boxs say min 100kg =50kg overloaded already. A work of pure genius. PS A lot like the very very high spec Fire Alliences recently purchased. They came in just under the GVW/MAM............................when empty. So hey ho, fill the several thousand litre (I'm guessing )water tanks. And erm ...............................................we aint are going nowhere. Designed by a Committee I believe.
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Whistle blowers charter? Surely?
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Probably nearer the mark to suggest mistaking a weekly rate for a monthly rate. Which wouls sound a "fair" price. Ho hum! I do wonder. Though perhaps most such Council cock-ups are down to sheer incompetence. Like buying kitted out trailers plated at 3500kg and probably weighing a tad more, before finding out the van fleet was only legal to tow 2000kg But could I"£$%^& tell them. scheesh BUTin all seriousness this information should be in the Public Domain and subject to an FoI request after the finincial year end.
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Spread a rumour about the last poster in this thread
difflock replied to Pat Ferrett's topic in The Lounge
Or as was dutifully repeated in Moneydig Primary School ( near Garvagh) Thaaaa caaat saaat on thaaa maaat. My mother was a Primary School teacher way back then an thought quare an funny, her being a mair sosphistaced girl fae Maghera. -
Parcel Farce recently took from posting on a Tuesday (mid day ish) Until the following Monday. To deliver a fully tracked parcel. With Guarenteed 48 hr delivery I had opted not to insure cos, sure it was "fully tracked" Boy was I sweating. Marcus
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Extremely humbling.
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Glad to see a sensible lighthearted tone of comment from the ladies involved, and presumably glad to be alive and almost unhurt. As oppossed to the usual "blame somebody" tack taken in most all of these incidents.
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Seems our teenage Son got into a heated debate early days in secondary school. Re whether cars came with a towbar as standard. He was quite adamant that of course they bloody did. He then thought to check the facts with his dear old Dad when he got home. Our 17/18 year old daughter also asked quite seriously "Dad, what lot is it that marches on the Twelth again?" Think we made a proper un-biased individual of that one!
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Go on:001_tt2: Man up and demonstrate on the Mrs. there big boy. Who wears the trousers in your house anyway:lol:
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I still refer to his "a big boy done it Miss an run away" When attempting to trace miscreants at work. As the all smile dumbly saying in unison "It wisnay me" to which I reply with Billy famous excuse.
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(i) A local Citroen time served Indy plumbed mine in copper the first MOT. Never needed owt after that. (ii) Hydraulic pump failed in Glasgie ower Hogmany., winter o 1995. Safely, and without fuss, made it back to NI sans hydraulics, steering were a tad heavy mind. (iii) In absence of LHM, use cheap cooking oil. cheers marcus
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Sniff ! Citroen BX's were not at all high maint. I put over 100 k miles on one that I bought at auction with sommat like 96,ooo already on. Dogs abuse, house building and towing. As tough as old boots. And would NOT rust. jat m PS Good luck with the Focus byw.
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Older Galaxy-Sharan-Alhambra type vehicle. 1.9 diesel of course. Comforts of a car, the room of a van AND remarkdly frugal Ours was essentially utterly reliable for over 250,000 miles. The engine never missed a beat. I still see a few about locally that are obviously viewed as ir-replacable family cars
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Dear old Aunt Lucy, insisted on re-filling and re-boiling the kettle, to freshen up the tea pot. For this very reason. Insisting 40 year ago that twice boiled water was not as good as freshly boiled water for making tea. Which also tasted better out of a Porcelain cup, but only if the milk was poured first. This from a woman reared in a hovel in Co. Cavan.
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Useless an all that a Fasttrak is for serious draft work, in combination with utilizing the steering ram to the max on the dumper i.e. "screwing" her out. I would have thought that was relatively extractable. Those dumpers will literally bulldoze their way through some serious mud/muck. If the steering ram is correctly utilized. From an Northern Ireland farmers son perspective. From experience.
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Well! Sniff! I knew that. Jist couldnay figger the professionals could or would mistake a Pine tree in Pine woodland for an Ash tree in Ash woodland:001_tt2: So I kept looking:confused1:
