openspaceman
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If you look at the two highland bear cranes on the County thread http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/74770-county-tractor-i-want-one.html#post1123111 You will see the first one must have had a similar problem and the cylinders have reinforcing rods. -
anyone use dremmel tool to sharpen hedge cutter blades
openspaceman replied to smudge1's topic in General chat
I use a dremel with a tungsten burr but don't do contract work, just a few friends and family hedges -
I think this is what we know as a cleaving break, use a drawknife to do the peeling. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7zvzpJfl0k4/TrpKmorrGvI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/kSf9igmpQK8/s1600/liz_oakframe_03.jpg
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Hard to say without seeing or knowing loader model. The only real check is to fix boom at mid travel and then disconnect each cylinder in turn and then pressurise one end, if oil comes out the other then the piston seal is leaking.
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Seems unlikely as that should only keep the grease in, if you are losing oil it will be one of the set 27 to the left off my picture and I could only isolate it to two diagonally opposite cylinders What loader is it? These seals tend to be standard hydraulic parts
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That's what I suggested but the fitter says they are too worn and being hollow are bowed?? Anyway apart from this the Jensens are still good. I wonder if more aggressive rollers could be fabricated.
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FS460 Gear head "twitching/spinning"
openspaceman replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Maintenance help
Yes the casing on my 360 cracked so the bolt didn't tighten. I added an appropriately sized exhaust clamp U bolt but I imagine public sector would have to replace the head. -
Just took this from my manual which is Cranab. It's a job I have had to do twice, first when bolts 26 broke after several years of abuse. By then the threads on the cylinders were also stipped/corroded where they screw into the kingpost so needed reinforcing. More recently a seal had failed because the bores were damaged on one end after the first incident.
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On our work there often is no big stuff to put through. I'd like to experiment more but the firm I do work for is down one forst and the other is in high demand. No one wants to take the Jensens out now because the rollers don't feed that well now, they were old when I started so I'm not sure if its design or wear and tear.
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That "so far" sounds a bit ominous. I don't get the opportunity to work them for long periods but the trash build up opening the rollers is aproblem I hope it gets sorted soon with a recall but I hear the workshop is flat out so this may take a while. My gripe with the tracked one is the lack of tie downs, GM 1928 is an example of good ones.
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Stainless cable ok for winches?
openspaceman replied to Timbermcpherson's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
p I thought 316 stainless had half the tensile strength of high tensile steel. It has lower fatigue strength as Bob said and interestingly its higher friction leads to higher wear as the wires mutually chafe. -
If it is modern and has an obd2 port stick it on ids reader. Passive anti theft system will show if this is stopping it.
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Our flat bed crewcab transit weighs 2.1 tonnes with driver and fuel so it should be easy. A panel van has a better payload if you can slide it in.
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Both the suspended floors have ambient air beneath them and this is taking heat away. The delta T across the floor is room temp-outside air temp. The solid floor connects to the whole soil depth beneath it so the delta T is room temp minus soil temp at depth (say never less than 10C). As time goes by the dry soil beneath the slab reaches an equilibrium and no more heat goes downward.
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Was that the one that turned over when driven at speed around a roundabout near Dorking?
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That makes sense Or 4 stumps if the pulley-sprockets are worn . BTW I was quoted £800 for the big Carlton polychain.
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Maybe but for a young man it makes more sense to go for the full C+E as it costs about the same.
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I've never understood why they use those polychain belts, I'd have thought vee belts would take the shock loading better?
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I thought radon needed to be ventilated? My take would be it is do do with occupancy period, a building only used for a short time needs to heat up quickly so low thermal mass. A building occupied most of the day needs a stable temperature so can have a long time constant, typical when using underfloor heating with polypipe embedded in the concrete. Underfloor heating tends to feel more comfortable at a lower overall temperature.
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It's only a small component that attaches to the bar so easy enough to replace, if a little annoying. The mushrooms (palm switches) are a disaster, it wouldn't be so bad if just the domes could be replaced but you seem to have to replace the whole switch (80 quid from GM, 40 elsewhere). Mk 1s start on the button, mk2s seem to need quite a bit of churning over. The advantage of the safetraks is where they will go during normal running but this is becoming a bit moot with ALO working rules.
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I finally got around to looking at it again and indeed it was the spark arrester blocked as predicted by you two. Much too noisy for our work left out so I burned and blew it clean. Never having come across them before I'll keep my eye out for this problem. A darn sight easier to fix than taking the frame apart to look at the carb which turns out was a waste of time.
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This is the idea behind the recent Datatag roadshows for Stihl. Saws get an rf chip, microdots and a barcode sticker. The hope is Stihl will manufacture the saws with the chip embedded. Then any Stihl saw without the barcode will be checked if found.
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I thought Freddie Gear's dad made these things from lorry half shafts when they were converting matadors. H&S didn't like them because they weren't retained if something snapped.
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Turkey Oak (any uses apart from firewood?)
openspaceman replied to wisecobandit's topic in General chat
It's very dense and has a high water content (ideal to sell fresh over a weighbridge) as it is an oak it is slow to dry. It has a high sapwood content which is very perishable so will start rotting in the stack. Like other oaks it is not very exciting on an open fire. It has a high tangential to radial shrinkage but was known as wainscot oak when used (quarter sawn??) for interior work. Much of the older stuff I felled was too shook to mill. -
Cockspur thorn?
