openspaceman

Looks good but my brochure shows the allowance for body and payload is 1548kg, how much do the craned and tipper body weigh?

I confess I haven't read the whole thread. It does seem they have got the goods and only offered to pay half the agreed price because of late delivery.

OK this is some admission of their liability to settle the debt, it means when you serve the court papers on them they may pay this amount into the court. In normal civil cases on judgement if you were awarded this amount or less you would become liable for costs. If you were awarded the full amount then you could also claim costs. However unless there have been changes in the last 20 years the rules for a small claims action differ and as long as you wait until it is paid into court then it is yours immediately as long as you do dot accept it as final payment. This is likely to feature in their claim for a lower (half) price, it could become complicated they would have to show that the delay caused them a cost, if a time was not mentioned in the formation of the contract then it's tort and open to interpretation. An therein lies the problem, the person appointed to deal with the case will have very little time to bone up on it so first impressions of them and you will mean a lot. I have never figured how a case would go right up to the last sentence of the judgement. A barrister I attended court with told me even with a watertight case there was only a 70% chance of success depending on the mood of the judge. This is evidence which you will have to prove This is rambling and hearsay It's likely to go before a recorder. Magistrates are upstanding people from the community, ones peers, who initially hear criminal cases. Do you or they hold the goods? If you cost in the stress and work you will have to put into a small claims case , forget principles you cannot afford them dictate your actions, will it be worth it? IANAL ( usenet acronym which means this advice cannot be relied upon) in fact after 45 years I find myself surprised at being suddenly out of work for the first time

Most I ever got was a bottle of scotch from our local aero model flying club. If the tree is free climbable I wouldn't have a qualm about using rock climbing rope and harness, using a running belays and a man below. Main thing is having a secondary strop to anchor in before pulling the climbing rope through and doubling it round a suitable anchor before descending. If it's dead or requires spikes then stick with a local tree man.

...and with a replacement basic saw without bar and chain coming in at £470 without all the labour. Three weeks ago I would have given the OP £100 as is just for the bits as I needed a replacement fuel tank and throttle trigger bits.

I broke one on an 028 and farmer rod on here took it for parts as the repair can be uneconomic, so I gave up . I'm surprised no one has commented yet but remember a little knowledge can be a bad thing in that it gets a bit difficult and expensive if it goes wrong. You need to know that the clutch is undone in a clockwise direction, the opposite to normal threads and you will need to stop the crank rotating. You then need to remove the oil pump. On the other side you need to get the flywheel free from its taper and then will need a gizmo to drive the two crank case halves apart evenly. There's a catch 22 here in that if the saw is valuable enough to be worth fixing I would pass the job on to someone knowledgeable and well equipped enough to do it, whilst I might split a saw of less value I doubt I'd bother to put it back together again as the parts costs can exceed the value of the saw.

Water is heavier than diesel so is that the right way around? The milky colour is a sol, an emulsion of oil and water. Have a look at one of the marine biocidal agents, it's basically anhydrous methanol which mops up any water residue in the system but you need to drain and refill first. These things work by making the filter medium repel water but are slow and over 20 quid if you want to process the drainings. http://www.mrfunnel.com/Mr._Funnel/Home.html

Too tired to answer you questions but my observation is that in alternating layers you are forcing square stacking, which with perfect cylinders would achieve 0.78 solids, whereas the same cylinders stacked on top of each other octagonally would achieve 0.91 so my guess is your stacks will contain 85% 0f the solid timber a similar sized stack laid all the same way would achieve.

This cutleaf beech seems to have had some old school tree surgery I last saw it over 10 years ago and was surprised it had survived the axe as it is only 30ft from a minor, sunken road and the bracket was quite big then. It's interesting also in that there are 3 daughter trees in the drip line, I am told by the boss they probably layered from drooping branches. As he and I were back there today felling a dead cedar I had a look and the brackets are spectacular. Closer inspection reveals the old 2" steel drains and the cavity top middle has occluded over chicken mesh to deter animals. I imagine the tree must be substantially hollow now. The house is on the market so I wonder if the new owner will be quite so laissez faire

Tamarisk? Was it near the seaside?

I don't think it would be economic; cost of piston, bearings, gaskets plus 3hrs?? of time. I have decided to put it to one side and either cannibalise it for bits or maybe rebuild it as a retirement project if I don't find part time employment, if I can take it with me.

Sold mine last month, first time without a landrover for 40 years

Stubby I don't understand that, sure it has reduced on the exhaust side and slaps around plus one can see aluminium build up on the plug, piston, head and exhaust port but no signs on the inlet side. There is a slight recent scratch on the inlet side and a "polishing" mark on the ring lands by one transfer port which I took to be from the triangle of aluminium from the piston skirt being sheared as it left the crankcase. The piston inlet side is just worn smooth from long use. It didn't go bang and despite the rings being stiff in the grooves they were not gouged and the saw actually still ran. Most I get back are horribly seized, either because someone was sloppy with adding oil to the fuel or mostly from someone tweaking mixture a bit lean, a problem I should not see with the MS261CM. Incidentally has anyone else had problems with the FS460C EM with the carb and engine management/ignition module failing just after one season, and in our case a few days after warranty expiry. The fitter told me, on the side, they had had a number refused for warranty claims which required ignition unit and carb at £250 because they would not pick up from tickover.

Yes I thought that OK Yes I'm surprised it was not noticed earlier but the guy is very conscientious, just slipped up a bit on the clutch sprocket but I can understand some reticence to change parts because it's a ballache trying to get spare parts approved by the accounts department. I wonder how long the spark plug was loose and I reiterate would the piston wear and touching the head have been the cause of the spark plug coming loose or the weak mixture from air sucking past the loose plug being the cause of the piston wear? The thing is I am not a fan of frequently checking the plug and they don't come loose for no reason, so if it hadn't been checked recently... Yes it would have been used hard which makes me think it was not a chronic problem. As I can detect no play in any of the bearings and most of the aluminium would have found its way out without getting into the crankcase I wonder. However Is it worth 20 quid for a meteor piston and an hour's time to put it together or and a couple of hours' time to run a pressure test?

Not at all, it was a good question and NJM provided a good answer, with a picture painting a thousand words. You will see if the piston skirt wears thin the piston can wobble around the small end bearing and then the clearance at the squish ban reduces.

Here's one I could use an opinion on: one of the guys brought in his ms260, which he had used for several years, as it was down on power. It was one I wanted to see as he had tried one of the Oregon 95TXL and found the clutch cover got hot. Anyway as I surmised his clutch sprocket was woefully too worn and the new chain would have been riding on the wall of the rut in the sprocket. For its age the saw is in very good condition with none of the damage I often see from being dropped down onto ballast however the spark plug was loose and when I took it out there was a build up of aluminium on it. The exhaust port had a similar grey encrustation and the piston rings were lightly seized in the ring grooves at the exhaust side. The big problem is the piston is worn away at the skirt on the exhaust side and a piece has chipped off. The bore has slight scoring at the exhaust port and there is a bright spot on the squish band on the exhaust side with a corresponding bright spot on the piston, the base gasket was intact. I initially thought play in the bearings had allowed the piston to hit the squish band but can feel no play in the bottom end. I showed it to our Stihl dealer's mechanic and he thinks the 1.5mm wear on the skirt is enough for the piston to rotate on the gudgeon pin and hit the head at TDC. Two questions: Why would the piston skirt wear so badly? The Stihl dealer says fine wood dust entering the intake builds up and pushes the piston toward the exhaust side. Was the loose plug the cause of the trouble or a symptom of the piston hitting the head? We have replaced the saw with a new MS261CM which the guy is very happy with. I'm trying to decide whether to repair with a new piston or put it back together with no piston and do a pressure check. I don't think it is worth my while replacing bearings as I have no tools for splitting the cases. Finally does the MS261 clutch and rim kit fit the MS260 as they appear to be different part numbers, as I have a spare 261 kit?

We've had that on a 362 but the symptoms described say it died after the throttle was opened then released. BTW Barrie do you manage to slot the throttle rod in without dismantling the air filter and choke rod assembly?.

If it's the same as our tracked A430 it was 9". When we had the tracked busted the 3 point linkage one looked worth having from new as it was cheaper than the repair parts.

This and not by being told by employees

Yes but we called it a fagging hook, it was necessary to keep it really sharp so stopping every 100yards and using sharpening stone gave a breather in grassy stuff. At this time of year the only benefit is to stop bracken and grasses falling and smothering the plants. Roundup was available then but very expensive and yes it will kill young trees through the bark, It was applied with an arborguard, two nozzles on either side of a horseshoe guard, one squirt, turn through 90 degrees second squirt, move to next tree whilst watching drips from the guard don't hit the crop. The most benefit is in removing moisture competition and best done pre planting by screefing, often using glyphosate, If the weed competition is grasses then cutting them actually increases their water uptake and hence competition.

No but it is defined by the EU and on the V5 so it's always going to be 75kg more than the unladen weight, or have I missed something?

Nice one johnnyboxer so it does look like hiluxes with a mass in service of 2045 will will be DPV

Thanks Rich for that I did not realise that was on the V5, I suspect that means yours is not a DPV, DPV is a combination of LGV and car so its taxation class always use to be private light goods. The mass in service bit in the V5 is probably what Johnnyboxer refers to DVSA having to refer to its DPV status. I pulled our manual crewcab hilux's V5 this morning and it's 2030kg, which is good enough for me to decide it's a DPV. Kevin will your dealer have a V5 for their demonstrator?

I've had RAC recovery for my family for quite a few years and not made use of the service for 10 years. Now the renewal has changed terms, they will no longer cover me whilst driving a commercial vehicle. What other options are there out there for a small personal fleet? It looks like one can have a business recovery at about 70 quid per vehicle which will roadside repair or relay to base for each vehicle registration, but accidents excluded. Vehicles upt to 3.5 tonnes and some doubt if they will bring a trailed implement home. What options for vehicles above 3.5 tonnes?

They were made on the site of the old Ranmore Arms around 1974 at the time there was a sawmill on the FC ground at Ranmore, now a scout camp and I think there was some association between them. Eric Buss had one at the Honeysuckle Bottom sawmill. I cannot remember much about them other than they were blue. I think it may have been one of Alan Welton's ventures, also the name Alan Poulter rings a bell in my head, I think he designed them. Richard Slatem founder of fuelwood may remember them. I think they may have done a double slabber bandsaw too. Seeing the Stenner 42 VXH?? on the other thread brought back memories, I hankered after one for producing chocks for the Kent mines when I couldn't get rid of hardwood tops, am3 pallet of chocks and coverboards was worth 55 quid and roundwood was 50p/Hft. In the 80s I was selling to 15 mills in Surrey, how many left now?