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Just to be clear, that's a 6000 mile annual mileage limit and not a £6000 annual premium?
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Very, very, very marginally maybe if you’re wrapping flat bar round something as opposed to punching the eye. With the gear of the last 150 years though, easier square. Likewise strong enough steel to not have stress risers at corners (which you could very easily avoid by chamfering the punch anyway).
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Yeah, that. The thing I was trying to tell you might be wrong with something of yours a few weeks ago. Because I’m obviously the one to offer the other one advice on hydraulics out of the two of us.
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A JCB telehandler of my acquaintance had similar. A roving mechanic had put it down to a pressure vessel balancer/equaliser/something the last thing I knew. Black steel bulb about the size of a pint glass that lived in the machine’s armpit. Replaced and it worked but, for a reason I can’t recall, I’m not 100% convinced it was just that. I’m back on that telehandler at the end of the month. It won’t have changed. It was two years ago I was last using it and it won’t have had an oil change in that time, probably ever. Let’s see if I can remember how to do it. I did write the bloke a long WhatsApp message of instructions (for his own machine, at his request) but no guarantee that’s still visible. My life would be easier if I could bloody remember bloody anything but here we are. I’ll take spanners.
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Why are tool eyes rounded/oval? Square cornered makes more sense at every stage of production.
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Aye. If they go on without making you look like an idiot. And don’t leak. And don’t cost fifty quid each. I’d trade handiness for that. For me, how I work now anyway. Aware you’d be less slick on a building site, picking up drain covers with a tilt rotator one second, dustpanning gravel, picking up forks to move a pallet, picking up a powered brush, then putting a whacker on etc etc.
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I was thinking the other day how unnecessary quick connectors are for me. I’d happily use a spanner.
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Hence curious what doobin means by it.
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How should one take an implement off, bleed it and store it?
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Throw the auxiliary lever with machine off. I’ve found it’s more often pressure left in the implement though. Crack those and get used to storing them in such a way that they don’t exert push/pull on rams. I have to make sure I shut my grab fully before storing it on its knuckles or its own weight shuts it harder and builds pressure.
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Never owned one or had to maintain blades, anvils, belts etc but from a user’s perspective, I wholeheartedly agree. They don’t just work. They go as far as putting a smile on your face watching the infeed pull and crush. What’s easiest to maintain stuff like that on? “Old” Timberwolf 150 “New” Timberwolf 230 Schliesing whatever it is you have
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Mick’s such a pro that his backup chipper is a Schliesing.
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I’m on your side, dear. I was mocking the mad Russian.
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Interesting. Arbtalk remains a broad church.
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My house isn’t nearly as tidy as the allotment. I’m not remotely joking.
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Still have two chicks. Bought some crumb. Seem to be coming on quite fast. They go for a half hour walk outside with mum. One did get picked up by another chicken a few days ago. Chaos ensued. Mum fearless. She’s so far squared up to the geese, the other chickens, Sailor and me to protect them.
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You have a distillery!?
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He runs a Schliesing, the calling card of the amateur…
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No chance. Too frantic noting time, participant number, failure to sound horn, poor road position and excess speed. And they were coming in groups. I should have left a camera running to help.
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I’ve been in a bad mood from a miserable earache since Friday afternoon and did not enjoy getting up early to marshall a classic car run. Did someone a favour though so worth the effort to keep the milk of human kindness flowing. Now waiting for a VW Tiguan to collect the paperwork from me, which he wants to hurry up with because I’m almost out of coffee.
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This is getting ridiculous.
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I must get to the bottom of this. Have asked a few drivers and never got enough convincing enough and similar enough answers to commit it to memory. I think knucklebooms have a different naming/sizing convention to stickbooms. Possibly what you describe is a 100 tonne metre knuckleboom. I’m sure I’ve read something about stick booms (or maybe even some other type) being measured at 2.3 m (or some other, relatively precise number) out, presumably from the centre of the slew ring. So a 60 tonne stickboom would lift that at 2.3 m out.
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tl;dr It's lovely. He thinks its western reputation is western propaganda so western people are happy to pay to invade it at some point.
