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I didn't know that, Once the engine was off none of the controls did anything and the check valves kept all the rams locked so I'd just wait a minute. As I said the problem was hydraulic lock on the allbutt grab more than the machine.
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Link? I've only used the Dowty, quick fits with a teat like protrusion and the flat faced drip proof ones, these latter are the hardest to fit IMO.
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Yes that de pressurises the tractor hydraulics ( but JCB controls don't do this as they are electro hydraulic controls so engine has to be off and time allowed for oil to drain) but the oil is locked in both sides of the grab ram so if someone has disconnected it with the engine running or if the oil trapped has pressurised by change in temperature it has to be bled off a tiny bit. The drip free couplings are worse at this, in the good old days screw on Dwoty couplings over came a certain amount of pressure.
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No I tried that. Only way round I found was to switch JCB off and leave for a few minutes and then bleed a bit of oil out of the grab connector, there was too much pressure to push the centre of the quick connector in. I did wonder about jacking the grab up and down but it was easier to lose a bit of oil.
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IIRC there was a partner where some of the exhaust flow could be diverted round the front handle to heat it.
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But they paid out and you didn't have to fund the spurious claim for whiplash. So how much in real terms did it cost you when you changed insurer? I pay £350 for comprehensive insurance but haven't made a claim, if I had a £1000 claim against me it would take me 5 years to rebuild my no claims history, my premium would have to rise to 550 before it would hurt me financially not to go through insurance.
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Fork and Grapples | Albutt attachments materials handling These people took over from my previous supplier, they're to Peter's hawkfork design and I did buy one for the JCB telehandler and it seems fine, it's a pig to connect up the hydraulics even with quick connectors if there is a temperature change from when last used.
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Makes good sense, keeping the auger vertical was always a problem with the 3 point linkage. With the steering angled and the boom out a bit juggling the forward reverse and boom to keep it vertical must be much better. Why didn't you use the track motor with its reduction gear and the auger drive direct to keep everything in the same axis?
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I had no intention of retiring at 65 but things conspired to make me feel I had to. I still feel fit and active and sensible enough to work, I can do most things I ever did , just a lot slower and for less time on the physical side, no loss of performance on admin and management. Until I find something I'm busy with DIY at home. Now for any 25 year olds reading the thread a bit of advice: it's hard to predict how things will go but your retirement age will be 68 you need to be putting 10% of your wage for a private pension that's worthwhile, I didn't but can afford to defer mine for a few years. Nowadays you don't need to get ripped off buying an annuity and there are far more choices in investing your pot. I have some old workmates who didn't make their class 2 NI contributions and it has cost them dear, I maintained a full record of NI payments and as a result I get the full state pension and it is a blindingly good return on investment. -
You don't necessarily need a separate tank as you can combine the flows via one way valves unless you are intending for the second pump to be very much larger than the 3-4 gallon per minute linkage pump. Have a look at an old Mconnel PA44 (if any still exist)which ran in conjunction with the linkage pump and no separate reservoir. Generally the tank should be around 1.5 times the flow per minute, it also should be taller than it is wide with the return flow to below the reservoir minimum level. A separate tank has the advantage you can run on straight iso 32 hydraulic oil.
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Damn right! A MUST READ.
openspaceman replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I'm not in the trade now and didn't realise that, Stocks at roadside for over long does tend to be poor management in responding to change in demand but sometimes it was just used by the brokers as a no cost buffer. Yes and that becomes a difficult call, worse when there were some 15 thousand of us in the supply chain, we hand cutters were laid off first when a firm had their own harvesters as finance was harder to switch off. -
I bought an ex lease fiesta diesel of the same age with 60k on the clock so similar to you. Took out a warranty for 2 years for £300 and made an£85 claim on it 1 month before it expired, fingers crossed for the future. Nothing to stop you advertising it on Ebay to get an idea of it's value.
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Yes you need the exact match. I posted a query about a pug 206 on here a while back, I had got an engine from a newer model with only 40k miles, the fitter replaced it and it all seemed fine but wouldn't run. Turns out whilst the blocks and gear are all the same on the 206 and fiesta diesels there was a variation on where the cam position sensor was mounted. Fitter had to change all the mounts from the old engine to the new. There were still problems as when the turbo had failed it sooted up the DPF and EGR which added to expense.
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I forgot I actually had a BMW 520 D engine rebuilt for £2500 because it was only worth 500 quid with a blown engine and that already had 237k miles on the clock. The manager ( who had had it from new) liked it still so took it as part of his leaving package. As to DIY; today I have fitted a cam belt twice on my wife's car (because I got it one tooth out first time) took me about 5 hours and the fitter would have done it in two.
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Long ago if you used a wireless connection with simple POP e-mail and SMTP then the password was sent unencrypted and anyone on the network could read the password using something like wireshark . This may still be the case.
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Damn right! A MUST READ.
openspaceman replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Not really, the timber brokers. like Euroforest, and owners also lose as they often also get paid over the weighbridge. It's just bad management as it means they don't have to tell people to stop producing when they have nothing else to do. It's the reason I always preferred to load flats because if only one came in at least I could go home early. -
Damn right! A MUST READ.
openspaceman replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
?? That was Dougie who also wrote "the Gael" used in the promontory scene in Last of the Mohicans Uncas -
I must have inferred something wrong from what Breezeblock had found then. I thought top high speed was with both pump outputs controlled by a pressure operated diverter valve.
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It's a shame; one of the managers at the old firm wrote a 61 plate off last summer but the insurers have the vehicle now, it was only cosmetic damage. I'd hold out for a engine off ebay for ~400 or less. I have done the same successfully with 2 08 fiesta, transit connect, pug 206 and put a new engine in a 60 plate transit with 100k miles.. On any of them the parts, like gaskets, timing chains etc would have exceeded the cost of the second-hand engine. I did have one hard-working fitter of the two to do the work though.
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So oil from both pumps is getting to the track motors at all times?
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Damn right! A MUST READ.
openspaceman replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I happen to believe that to be true. I agree about "holier than thou" attitudes from HSE and other management that have chosen a career path that puts them beyond any responsibility from actually doing the work, but then I also cannot stand Jeremy Paxman's sanctimonious and arrogant way of presenting the news or quiz programmes. -
Yes when travelling but presumably the conveyor is not used when travelling?
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I don't quite understand that but think you are describing a power or torque limiting protection. Both pumps run the motors when the going is easy but if the load gets high one pump bypasses to tank whilst the other pump is able to run at higher pressure but only its flow. Power being flow times pressure.
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Damn right! A MUST READ.
openspaceman replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
It was the same before harvesters, that's one of the reasons the FCA was formed but it got hijacked in the early days and Donald Maclean has had to pick up the pieces and get it going again. -
On the Holders I ran a string round a pulley from a yacht to pull the hand throttle off and just used a string to the stop control on the Ford. Why not drain the oil, warm it to working temperature and see if the water settles out? You could use a water absorber if it settles as a layer, else decant it. I wouldn't boil it as this will do the additives no good.
