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scraggs

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  1. Looks well I need to get both of mine in for MOT, not sure what I am doing bike wise this year, but I think the 851 will probably have to go
  2. 6BTA is supposedly a rock, currently considering putting one in a landy And appears to have plenty of parts availability
  3. Just don't try taking the cabstar off road, they get stuck on a tarmac road. Canters are nice trucks, recently missed a real nice one sadly, very good weight carriers.
  4. getting really nasty here now Trucks parked either side of the gates to stop them blowing out. Beer and loud music drowning out the howling outside Will access damage in the morning
  5. Just opened a couple of bottles of homebrew Muntons fruit cider for her And a better brew Czech pilsner for me.
  6. I bought a new drop plate for my landy recently and it came with one of the single pin plates like in your pic, I keep finding that in my mind I don't trust it and swapping it for the twin pin one off the other truck Do you find it bangs a bit as there is a bit of play compared to my twin pin ?
  7. it pays to buy a decent well known brand imo, reassuring to know you have the best when towing. I quite fancy that auto hitch though.
  8. My only memories of whisky are dropping of the Christmas bottles of bells to customers and farmers we dealt with, then the biggest farmer we dealt with invited me in for a drink (I only drank rum) and he had none, well bells whisky was the most vile poison I have ever tasted, but it was one of those situations where I really didn't want to be unsociable and boy could he drink. Older and wiser I would just turn the offer down now, I would never want to go through that again it's a bit like throwing up on southern comfort, you are guaranteed to never touch the stuff again I'll just stick to my rum.
  9. Those are self priming but generally not a great flow rate, the cone impeller ones from honda and wacker have decent flows and self priming, admittedly they are pricey but I would worry about running electric pumps in a flood situation. We found that if you have to start putting head on the cheaper submersibles they don't like it, the flow rates drop dramatically and they become quite unreliable, but I doubt head would be a problem in this situation. Although I am high up if I have problems I have this to fall back on
  10. scraggs

    pump

    From the album: bike

  11. proper trash pumps don't need priming
  12. Guess you won't be using them again. Did they say why they were in bits still ? I would be more bothered that you have all the parts.
  13. If you don't know by now there isn't much hope
  14. Erbaurer or Ebara ? Ebara are good pumps, we have one down a well during summer feeding a reservoir and it runs 24/7 for at least 6 months and it's never missed a beat.
  15. If it was me I would be looking at a small petrol trash pump, dearer but will have a much bigger flow rate for if you need it and you can slow the revs to match the output of whats flowing in.
  16. Is the generator going to be powering other stuff as well as the pump ?
  17. That's not good, hope it works out ok for her
  18. We roughly go through 16 c/m a year if it's cold, going to be less than that though this year I recon.
  19. Nice unit but far too much weight on the drawbar imo
  20. not read the whole thread but a to the top of the page button would be good
  21. Well I have just got back from a decent trip out delivering with the truck and trailer and I am chuffed with how it handled, no roll and no sway, one of the best towing set ups I have driven (apart from the gutless 300tdi). Ended up with terrafirma tf011 +2" HD on the rear with the assisters inside, but I had to turn a bit off the top assister plates to get them to fit ok, it is pretty hard when empty but I can live with that, the truck didn't drop by much at all when we loaded it and it was just light of 3500kg and had the trailer full aswell.
  22. I have had a few over the years, good reliable machines, we hire them out and they rarely need more than an oil change and blades changing, it pays to keep decent blades on it, from a time factor the time decent blades save far out way the cost. Second hand they generally command a decent price So far we have always had the C8 but when we replace next time we will probably go with the C10 although a lot dearer
  23. You really need to sell that project to me As said before when you posted them pics, that is one cracking lorry.
  24. You could look into muck grab cranes which are similar to timber cranes. I took the rotator and grab off my crane as it was just too slow, generally much bigger ram bores on standard cranes because of the higher lifting capacities which also slows everything down. I would imagine the reason for so few 3 point linkage cranes is the stability testing would be a knightmare, put it on a different tractor and it would need retesting.
  25. scraggs

    trailer3

    Its a bonfiglioli 3500l on a 146 ifor tri axle A very handy piece of kit Regards Keith

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