openspaceman

I think the position statement made in the Ifor Williams letter shown in the thread http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arb-trucks/39906-good-news-vosa.html would allow you do do this but if doing the same as part of your business and the Volvo weighs more than 2830kg you would need a tachograph and from September a CPC. I'm still not entirely comfortable about the letter although it seems to be confirmed in their https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/211965/quick-guide-to-towing-small-trailers.pdf because there is a slight ambiguity in the diagram as it says "max to trailer design" rather than "actual weight of trailer less than max to trailer design"

I suspect this is dependant on what licence class you are driving under. OK fot B+E but probably not C1+E with a 107 note if the gtw MAM exceeds 8.25 tonne

yes unless it was an agricultural trailed appliance less than 14 tonnes or grosses less than 750kg. I winged it on the basis that it was a harvesting implement much as a baler is and they don't require brakes. Planning on taking the moheda somewhere? Easy enough to weld on braked stub axles but never go round tuit

I will if someone else pays even if you nippers don't

I've got the same problem, feel very tempted to surreptitiously pull a tree onto the line to get a new line and NTE5 box provided.

We used one of these on a 35x in the stock grounds to pull and undercutting blade to keep the roots under control and make subsequent lifting easier (circa 1967)

Pressure out port is generally smaller than the in port, direction of rotation is often marked on the pump or can be derived from the serial number. Oil should return to below the level of oil in tank to avoid entraining air. Cavitation (from things like trying to suck through a long pipe) kills these pumps quickly. As has been said Dowty stopped making them years ago so it may be goosed.

It's a disc scarifier, they break through the humus/peat layer to produce a better planting environment. Often they are purely trailed and some have a pulsed ON-OFF brake to drag a slight mound forward in a dollop

What advantages over a pump up hydraulic press apart from speed?

More torque if you run through the gearbox or driveshaft. I think a single Vee belt will manage around 15hp so run a pump off the alternator drive.or redrill the bell housing to take a 2P pump with an adaptor cut off the gearbox input shaft, if it's diesel otherwise I wouldn't think it worthwhile. I've got a newly rebuilt (that is never used since it was fully done 15 years ago) peugeot 504 engine sitting in my garage which I have been considering using to drive a generator head.

Bill Dand or Percy would be the best to ask but Kim who now runs Danequip at Bordon may know.

Maize is used as an indicator that squirrels are taking the bait as they only incise out the germ and leave the rest, other rodents and birds take the lot. Warfarin is very seldom administered properly IMO, in 1974 I ran both traps and hoppers to protect a 1000 acre woodland with some young beech and was as thorough as could be. Subsequently I worked on NT and a private estate where the job was done by estate staff or the landowner and was appalled at the correct prescription was not followed. Apart from killing non target rodents it probably led to a buid up of warfarin resistance. BTW despite being of mature years I saw my first red squirrel between Skiddaw and Ireby yesterday, absolutely thrilled as despite my mother talking about a tame one here in Surrey in 1930 they are long gone. I don't dislike grey squirrel and was fascinated to see a black one in Boston but it's taking people a long time to realise their effect on native wildlife because of their catholic diet and resistance to parapox where the natives like reds and dormice are fussy eaters and reds don't seem to be building much resistance to the virus.

Doesn't rhyme but that's the way a firm I do work for do it. it's a cashflow problem and big firms have big salary bills which take preference and yes mention county court and you'll get no more work, not that that bothers me or justifies the practice.

County with 8 tonne farmi at Mayford but probably needs a bit too much fettling to get ready for 1 job as it hasn't been used for 10 years.

Looks tidier than mine, similarly festering in the garden, fired it up at the weekend and came home to find the tank dripping petrol. Mind they can only tow 1500kg and you lose both legs in a shunt.

I though it was a perverse position for them to take but probably pragmatic because of the numbers of car trailers in use rather than commercial use. If you consider how the weight limits allowed on licence classes are normally dealt with you will see this position statement is an exception to the rule e.g. I cannot get in the cab of a 32 tonne rigid even if its unladen weight is less than 7.5 tonne and I only drive it empty. Laws evolve as the needs of society change and a lot of our transport laws are common with Europe. Certain derogations from European laws are allowed in UK and this is our governments way of accommodating our practices within the European framework. As I haven't driven abroad since 1982 I don't concern myself with the differences but I expect even if you were based in Dover and had a jaunt over to Calais to cut a tree within 50km with a transit and chipper you would need a tacograph, anyone know?

I've had good service from them when replacing a fuel solenoid on gm1928

You need a tacho unless the vehicle is exempt or comes under one of the exceptions. The exception applicable to most arb work is if the work is within 50km orf base and the driver is only taking tools and equipment to and from his work. NB this does not allow a member of staff (e.g. me) to deliver a chipper and then leave. The other possible exception is if the work is agricultural, there is a position statement on the web regarding use of red diesel which implies arb work is horticultural if it takes place in a garden, but not a sports field, openspace or development site. This would need a precedent set in law if some brave soul with access and funding for a better barrister than VOSA can afford would step forward... My advice is to buy a truck with a tacho fitted (about £1200 to retrofit)

Not quite, if the MAM of the vehicle is 5.5 tonne with the 107 note you can still tow a 2.75 tonne trailer if the GTW of the vehicle allows it. Mind it's the MAM of the trailer which will count rather than its actual gross weight. This differs from what they will allow on a B licence and trailer where they consider the actual weight of the trailer, which I was unaware of prior to a posting on here a year of so ago.

Most of us with pre 1997 licences have a note 107 codacil on the C1+E reducing the GTW from 12000kg to 82500 kg

My earlier post needs editing as I didn't account for the vehicle having a MAM greater than 3500kg which isn't covered by a B licence granted after 1997 "A full B licence will cover you and a trailer up to a gross weight of 8.25 tonnes if you passed your test before 1997 otherwise you will need a trailer test and a C1 or C test to drive a vehicle with MAM of more than 3.5 tonnes"

Operators licence and the Preventive Maintenance Inspections that go with it. Unless you only take tools which you are working with you within 50km you will need a tacograph and a certificate of professional competence after September. A full B licence will cover you and a trailer up to a gross weight of 8.25 tonnes if you passed your test before 1997 otherwise you will need a trailer test.

Yes I should have said poor av as it vibrates enough to make it uncomfortable to use compared with my Huskies or the ms261s at work. The engine is isolated with 4 rubber mounts but they are not very resilient, of course they may have gone hard over the years in my garage.

So would you after a nightshift Has a track gone through the trunking. In fact from that pattern on the trunking lid is it fibre reinforced lightweight trunking? If it happened during normal running that's going to make life even more difficult getting alo clearance to use a chipper.

I have no bench but my grass is my workshop:I managed to start the sachs dolmar 114 after I posted in another thread. In the absence of a bar chain and clutch cover I have had it ticking over to get the residual oil out of the system. It runs well but with no av I wouldn't be able to use it. Anyone hazard a guess on the age?