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From my experiences he would sadly find that in general a lot of people who say "I would buy one" don't put thier money where thier mouth is when it comes to the crunch. Something very satisfying about building kit like this yourself and actually getting it out there working for the first time, even more satisfying if it works exactly as planned first time, but most need some tweaking.

Very impressive would a flow valve not be a good idea to slow the slew and raise/lower ram movements a bit ?

North norfolk railway is just up the road at sherringham Got a 1940's weekend this weekend aswell I love it up around that area.

Make that 2 major points PTO shafts turn in the opposite direction to an engine aswell

Don't know about that but I have had similarish issues with my 09 ranger, and it turned out to be the fuel filter water sensor, changed the filter and it was fine, although the filter taken off had only a tiny ammount of water in it and certainly not enough that should have normally caused a problem.

And there is the next problem, I may be wrong but I have come to the conclusion that these scum are pretty fearless, to be as bold as some of them are now being you would have to be. What exactly do you plan to do ? I am not trying to be arguementative but realistic, I like to think I can look after myself but in reality what are you going to do against a group of people ?, it appears that they rarely are on thier own. It's a very awkward situation.

Bit of a change of plan after today, I took one of my existing heavy duty eight spokes in to have a tyre changed and it is warped really badly, not sure if it's the trailer work as I quite often end up at funny angles to the trailer on slopes or having to go up a lot of kerbs loaded, I have decided to go with the wolf's with 235/85/16 on the 130 and I will use the rest of my 265 tyres up on the 110. Blindo's would be nice but at nearly £200 a piece I will have to give them a miss.

I always forget about them, will have a word with him tomorrow, I normaly use britcar but all of thier steel modulars are rated at 1050kg except the wolfs. Mach 5's would be nice but I don't want to go to that sort of money.

I am trying to sort out some new wheels for my 130, I don't want to use the wolf steels as I would like to use my stock of 265 tyres, I know silverline do modulars rated at 1150kg per wheel but hunting around they are the only ones I can seem to find doing them. Does anyone know of anywhere else to try ?

I run 2 landy 300tdi's and a Ford Ranger For towing locally at 3500kg and a loaded truck I use the Landies, for the longer distance smaller deliveries I use the ranger purely because it's a quieter drive, the Ranger (09 plate) don't really like towing at it's max of 3000kg, it's ok once it's rolling but getting it rolling is what it don't like. The landies I have are great workhorses get a fair bit of abuse and tow 3500kg with the truck loaded without problems, although one has just been completely rebuilt, not because it needed it apart from the usual rusty chassis but because I want it to last a lot more years. I had one landy that was a lemon from new a lot of years ago and gave them a wide berth for quite a few years, but you get lemons in all makes, one of my new Rangers spent 5 weeks back at the dealers in total with various issues. We avoid one of the major cheap landy pattern part manufacturers and stick with genuine, OEM or other bits from the other part manufacturers and have never had a problem, yes they may need more work than others but they are easy enough to work on and parts are easily available and even the better quality parts are fairly cheap.

failing that you could look into air assisters, but they can be pricey for leaf springs

You will be needing a product tester i'm sure be interested to know it's lifting capacity

A bit too far for me to go sort it for you but if you get stuck you could have a word with Alan at task force, they are generally very helpfull for a pallet collection firm and may be able to sort it for you, number is 08704 203020

Not sure putting the weight directly on the drawbar is a good idea imo, and that is a fair bit of weight with the stabilisers. here is how mine is fitted, but it still needs to be stretched out when unloaded.

Those ones were at around 800kg Suprisingly I still have just a gnats over 2000kg payload, crane with its frame and donkey engine weigh in at around 600kg and trailer is about 850kg

Finally remembered to get some pics when I was using the trailer

I looked into putting the crane on the back of the landy but I couldn't find a knuckleboom crane with a suitable lift capacity that was not going to stick out of the sides too much. Stiffboom should be able to fit on it nicely though. There is one on ebay hiab landy

I can't even begin to say how sorry I am to hear this, how the hell can we expect them to be put off if the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Is it not possible to now bring a civil case to recover lost equipment costs ? now that they have been charged, but I suppose they own sod all, and what they do own is probably someone else's anyway.

130 300tdi chassis cab landy defender (waiting for me to build the body) 110 300tdi hicap landy defender Ford ranger double cab 09 plate The ranger is demoted to general run around and towing small trailer loads The defenders are used to pull the hiab trailer or the other trailers when loaded to the max and the truck is loaded aswell

Thanks for the ideas the trail cameras look like they may be the ideal solution

After having our red stolen from the machines for the second time in 3 weeks and along with various other kit stolen in the last year I think time has come to try sort out some security/camera system for the machines out in the field if possible. I have searched through loads of threads and have an idea or two but I need something that will be clear at night but the only place I am going to be able to put a camera will be on the machine roofs or somewhere similar, we move about a fair bit so on ocassion might be able to put it in a tree. I will need something that calls me to tell me it has been activated but also send footage to my and another persons phone aswell as upload to web storage in case no one is about but also incase the camera is spotted and stolen itself. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated, as I have really had enough of this now.

Sorry to hear, this is just getting mad now, I hope you get back up and running as soon as.

I looked into these when I was considering what to go for but the rating on the palfinger site was as below, hence why I said what I did, to get the lifting capacity I need I would have had to go for the pc3800 which is a pretty pricey piece of kit. Palfingers are really nicely built cranes though and that looks a nice setup.