Craig.

4 hours ago, Mrblue5000 said:

Hudson or Porter perhaps, tuffmac maybe.

Thanks, they dont ring a bell, I seem to recall it being three letters, like abc trailers type of thing.

I meant to go back, but forgot.

I give DJB a call when I get 5min

I think it was on the DJB stand? there was a lot of Brian James trailers, also there was another make of trailer, I'd not heard of before, an Irish manufacturer, I think. 

Did anyone happen to get the name of them? 

There's no mention of back dating this to current licence holders

I believe they are considering basically going back to how it was before, pass car test automatically getting the +E (trailer), and being able to do C+E (artic) test straight off, not rigid first then artic.

@Justme I guess you all ready have, but just in case there`s a consultation you can comment on.

I`ve seen pre stressed concrete panels, like you use for silage pit/shed walls used length ways over the top of a weak bridge, to get timber trucks across.

On 25/06/2021 at 18:22, Khriss said:

That. 

Petrol lead still exists in London air 22 years after ban

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Up to 40% of lead in airborne particles comes from the legacy of leaded petrol, researchers say.

 

No suprise really. K

Ref lead in london air, Someone said further up that some av gas is still leaded, and before this bug Heathrow was in the top 10 worlds busiest airports plus the 5(?) other airports, could be a source?

On 08/05/2021 at 18:58, Baldbloke said:

The seller did turn up to show me how to start her, but he wasn’t any more successful than me.
He said he’d never had starting issues, never had to bleed her or use the enrichening slide that is built within the fuel pump, even on frosty mornings. A brief spin up with the throttle pedal trapped with a piece of wood was all that was needed supposedly.

Maybe I’m too trusting but I do believe him and think some shit must have been dislodged on the 50 mile trip home on my hard sprung trailer. I’ll follow the ideas over fuel delivery gratefully received from you guys and try to see if I can discover the problem.

On some, where the fuel pipe comes out of the tank, it is screwed on to a larger fitting screwed into the bottom of the tank. This larger fitting sometimes has a filter on the inside which often gets overlooked.

1 hour ago, spuddog0507 said:

A lot of people are thinking Arb work is Horticulture ? i understand it that it is not under the same unbrella as Horticulture ? Horticulture is growing plants,trees.shrubs for food use i,e fruit n veg, i have read a lot on the use of red diesel in the last 12 month as i have just spent a chunk of my hard earned cash on a project that is to be used for both extracting timber and transporting timber back to base from with in forestry work,  for the said project to be taxed and insured as agricultural and run on red diesel is fine for what we are going to be doing with it, but if i was to go to a arb job and remove the timber or Arb waste as it is classed with the said project it is a total different ball game then and i would be a long way from being leagal, The lads who run a tractor or unimog for Arb use and have it taxed n insured as agricultural and run on red diesel and think this is fine, just have a proper look at what is permitted ?, from what i understand is the only time a tractor or unimog working in Arb and can be taxed n insured as agricultural and be run on red diesel is when it is working on roadside trees with in the highway boundry, for general arb work they should be taxed n insured under general haulage and run on white !! I did post on this site a few month back about i guy i know with a Unimog and some one ran in to it when it was parked up at a job and he is up shit creek now with DVLA (taxation class) VOSA (roadworthiness of the Mog) Customs and excise (fuel duty) HMRC (frauding the government) and Greater Manchester constabulary so far its cost him about 30k and it aint finished yet, so is red fine in arb work,

While I agree with you about tractors etc, maintaining a tree in Mrs Miggins garden and using a diesel chipper could be classed as horticulture (one definition  Horticulture is the art of cultivating plants in gardens to produce food and medicinal ingredients, or for comfort and ornamental purposes  )

Sorry to have quoted swinny, as it confused thoughts on the matter, my original reason for the post was to say this fuel reform will effect almost every one in the pocket. 

21 hours ago, swinny said:

Yup so whats people winging about? 

 

Tree's are covered under horticulture. The tree's in agg land etc Storm in a teacup from these pussys on here

Agree with swinny, it not going to affect arb use. 

But, look around you there wont be many products that wont of had some thing that`s has used red diesel along it route to you, in the short term its going to increase costs.

Plant used in quarrying, house building, road repair, container handlers moving/loading shipping containers of tat (and good stuff), forklifts unloading these containers loading/unloading trucks, fridge trucks delivering food, and plenty of other things. The cost will be passed on.

On ‎10‎/‎03‎/‎2021 at 23:37, Martin du Preez said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is it though?? A 7.5tonner is only a down rated 10 tonner. Get a nice sized hiab on that.

After a while it just becomes to much of a headache trying to keep up with transits, they become a bottle neck, you’re always overloaded and it’s unfair to ask lads to drive them over loaded all the time.

 

 

 

Only some of them.

Take Iveco for example, a 75e something v`s a 80e something, the latter is a factory down rated 10 tonner, or a heavy duty 7.5 tonner if you like.

Most 10-12 tonners are not much bigger than a 7.5, some can be based on 15 tonne chassis so a bit wider again.

9 hours ago, GLynch said:

I was slightly worried about this but I live birmingham/Bromsgrove way and not heard of this coming into play anytime soon 

I was kinda thinking if I could get a solid truck for not too much money I could just run it until it packs up on me 

 

 

Was supposed to be this year, looks to have been pushed to next due to covid. 

It can be done using a phase converter.

A static one would suit smaller machines, a rotary one would be better for a mill.

My Dad has a Peugeot Partner van, and uses Riken winter tyres on it, good in snow/winter (obviously!), but also seem good on grass, light mud, and in the wet. He leaves them on all year round and they don't seem to suffer excessive wear in the summer months.

I believe Riken are part of Michelin.

Riken Snow | Riken

PASSENGER-CAR.RIKEN.COM

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12 minutes ago, Moose McAlpine said:

 

I don't think your O licence needs to be attached to where you store the vehicle, you just need to have a dedicated place to keep it.

 

Lots of tippers and cement trucks are franchised contractors who keep their trucks on the site of the company they're working for.

Your operators licence will be for you as the operator, and state where the truck is usually parked, this is your operating centre (exceptions think of, left a garage for repair/driver having night out), not have the licence at the yard, and take the truck home at night parked in the cul de sac.

The operators licence will need advertising in local paper, and will state the operating centre address, I think the council are statutory objectors, and will be notified when you submit your application. 

If you don't own the yard where you park, you will need a letter off the land owner agreeing to let you park there (there is a template letter with the application packs). The franchised hauliers will have permission off the quarry/concrete plant, and this is then there operating centre.

On ‎16‎/‎12‎/‎2020 at 20:31, htb said:

You can tow a heavier rated trailer than the plated tow vehicle, just not to max payload. You can only tow up to the plated weight of the tow vehicle. There used to be a thread on here with a letter from Ifor Williams explaining this fact.

 

VOSA Letter.pdf

Sounds like the priority valve needs a little bit of adjustment, its giving a bit to much priority to the aux line.

I was reading about them on fords website the other day, I think the basic `trail` is still 2wd with a limited slip diff and a bit higher ride height, 4wd is an option.

A basic option would be a pressure reading off the tipper ram, not so accurate, and needing a uniform load each time ( a heavy weight at the back would have less pressure than if it was at the front), larger trucks have weight cells under the tipper pivots and ram mounts, never seen them on a 3500kg, guessing due to the size, weight, and cost of them, axle weigher measure the deflection in springs/air pressure/ gap chassis to axle, usually calibrated by the installer, but can give a reading for load and axle weights in kgs.

If you have a weigher fitted, and got a bit carried away loading, and happened to get stopped, you have got no excuses.

A cheap idea, is measure from deck/wheel arches to the ground/ centre of wheels with know weights on, to give you an idea (waste of time with HD suspension/air). 

Once we get a higher % of electric vehicles, so less fuel duty going to the government, do we think the government will look to get it back another way?

A separate tariff for charging vehicles, pay by mile, something else? 

Try jacking a front wheel off the ground, to let the transmission unwind? Or both a front and back wheel up, with the hand brake off, other wheels chocked (be carefull). 

19 hours ago, Big J said:

Very useful. Many thanks! The JCB seems to be coming out top on flow rates, but I do need to check pressures. 

I'll make some calls on Monday and try to expand my knowledge on the topic. Because it's a very small machine, I'd be limited to small heads. The Jobo ST50 combi would work well here, having roller feed for cleaner timber and stroke feed for the crappy stuff. 

I need to explore a few more first thinning blocks in the area too to determine what the average ground conditions are like as that'll inform the base machine choice, should I go ahead.

I seem to recall @LGP Eddie saying about lower working pressures on a JCB machines, with regard to tree shears on them.

It is perfectly normal.

I think the last tachos that you changed manually between drive and other work where about 1990, since then they have been called automatic. The first automatic ones still had a paper disk, and record drive when moving regardless of what they where set to, but reverted to the selected mode when stationary. The next automatic ones, where around 2000ish, still a paper disk, but a drawer slid out to put the card on (sometimes called CD player type), they recorded drive when moving and defaulted to other work when stationary. Digital tachos from around 2006, had a quirk that could change the mode, with the ignition being turned on, eg your on break, and turn the ignition on to open a window, the tacho would change to other work, this feature could be altered by a tacho centre, But still changes to drive, when moving, and other work when still. 

Early digital tachos record a minute driving, even if you have not driven for a full minute, (in a queue), later tachos work out the times on the majority of the minute, and the minute before and after it, eg in a queue stationary minute 1, minute 2 drive 29 seconds, minute 3 stationary, the machine will record 3 minutes other work (stationary).

Just go by what your card/tacho head says, regarding driving times and breaks.

On a VDO head if you press the down arrow, it will show your driving times totals, and current activity times.

Driving time and other work counts as the same in regards to WTD. 

A self seeded ash had been growing at the side of our yard for a few years, got to about 15` tall, and about 2"dbh, last year we suspected it had ash die back, with a scar on the main stem. This year below the scar came into leaf normally, but above it was poor with some branches dead. I cut and burnt it this spring, but today just happened to notice some quite vigorous regrowth from its stump, if it was ash die back, will the regrowth be infected from the original stem?

Sorry if its been asked/answered before.

Guessing you mean to tip it electrically? Looks like the is a socket (black to the right of the sticker on the front box in the picture) for a wander lead, probably only three pins, live, up and down, should be able to make some thing up, or buy from M&E. A new fob from M&E, but guess you need the receiver as well (paired?), a winch remote kit from ebay may be cheaper.

Or if all else fails, the hand pump on the front!

Sad news, condolences' to his family.