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Not so, the carriage of goods is restricted to a forestry or agricultural undertaking. This would not include the carriage of arb waste or timber from a domestic job.

What figures were they using? Our dryer aimed to move 1 litre of moisture out of the wood for an input of 4MJ of fuel. We estimated with further capital expense it could get as low as 1.5MJ. There was also a trade off with heat energy (cheap) and fan power for circulation (expensive electricity).

Amongst other things it must have full suspension in order to go more than 20mph on the road lawfully.

As I understand it if the work is agricultural, forestry or horticulture you may still use red to drive to the site in an agricultural tractor. The only issue is if you haul anything to or from the site, when it becomes transport and is subject to all the rules on operator's licence, goods vehicle licensing and tachographs as well as needing DERV fuel. From HM Revenue & Customs "I have a gardening business. I use my tractor to cut and treat the grass, get rid of weeds, cut hedges and perform tree surgery. I take my tractor on the public road to travel to and from where it will be used and I also go on the public road to reach the outer parts of the trees and hedges. Can I use red diesel on the public road? Yes, cultivating and managing gardens is horticulture and so your tractor would be on the public road for a purpose relating to horticulture."

Problem was lack of step by the heel for the spurs to locate

probably anthracnose, are there lesions on the shoot?.

Yes that's the firm, owned by the co op and we too moved to the Stihl green boot when they came out.

They look like the ones specified by FC and made by the CO OP. Wore out a good few pairs.

County Commercial Cars were an old fashioned firm with an ethos before the era of "just in time" I suspect they held large stocks of parts and the later tractors built were only using up these parts rather than being new production.

Yes they were cheap to run and frugal on fuel, I'd reckon on extract and load two artics on about 25 litres of gasoil. Remember the first wheeled ones derived from the crawler and were skid steer only. In my early days I used to exchange letters with one of the Tapp family and spoke and visited Dave Gittins when he bought the firm (out of receivership??) At the same time FC were developing an all hydrostatic articulated skidder which Roadless put in production, its manoeuvrability seemed a bit pointless. I was looking to hybridising a hydrostatic drive to give some of the attributes of a forwarder and enhance the skid steering with the aim of also using it for mulching. On the braking: the basic machine weighed in at 4.5 tonnes and the brakes were fine, Tom Osborn had some with goose neck dumpers which imposed a lot more weight so he equipped some with external disk brakes. I always fancied this conversion as my 1124 has nearly a tonne of grapple loader on the roof, half a tonne of bomford blade on the front and 0.6 tonne of double drum winch. This can be a big problem in high traction conditions if you don't remember to stay in no lower than third.

I agree and it's only hard on the brakes if they don't lock. It is also only of academic interest when you are tushing a 50ft log out or pulling a trailer with 2 bays of pulp. My first was 10 years old when I bought it in 1978 and was still working, if a bit battered, when I stopped, it currently awaits a bit of TLC as it's needed on a windblow job on a mates farm in Hampshire. The second 1974 model is working in semi retirement with farmer Rod and I hope still running and the third 1975 model festers in a field near here but still runs fine after years of forestry work. They all look like wrecks.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.