Rich2484
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It's actually serious. Looked it up when I heard it a while ago. Get a speeding ticket in one and you get free membership to the club.
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Now this the bit that has always bothered me. Can't drive a car without a full license. Yet a tractor and trailer that easily weighs more than 20t, and let's face it, will turn into a death machine wrecking ball if it runs away is fine on an L plate...... Just goes way beyond my understanding..
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Get free membership to the JCB club if you do that. I have always tried but bottled it. :lol: Plus I reckon 35 is more than plenty in a machine that size.
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Depends on the brake set up. But I have driven a fastrac at over 30mph easily. Got near 40 as that's what it could do. But with air brakes the limit does go up. So long as the trailer has air aswell.
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This is getting very common for the metal that's in them. Now you have to work out if it's going to be cheaper to do an ins claim or get it fixed yourself.
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Voluntary work and ins is an absolute nightmare. As it's voluntary there is some aspect of hurt yourself and it's you fault. But hurt someone else and it's game over. There are so many restrictions and red tape in place you will get a huge headache. As the lifeboat is voluntary we do have ins, and as voluntary it does mean we can get anyone off the street to come and go out on a shout if we don't have enough. Anyone can take command of the boat aswell. But this all comes at a price. Sort out ins and say you are volunteering and the cost will go way up. Just the way it is. Good luck and would be interesting to hear the results.
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Wind blown doesn't count as it's on the ground. And a machine can get it. That's what I used to do anyway. Use the forklift to pull it out and load it onto a trailer.
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Don't worry about reverse lights as they are not part of an mot or legal requirement for that matter. The disco has been like it since I got it. Have to hold the gear lever over to illuminate them.
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Use a piece of wire and run a new earth from the earth points. Sounds simple but I have been caught out by a worn or bad earth plenty of times. Spend ages chasing wires and checking them. My first point. That and a good voltmeter.
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That's it. Just jumps every time it fires. But these ones don't have twin wheels on front. He used to show them but not for a while now. There his retirement fund
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I have no idea. But it's really old, the owner has 5 field marshals, he restored every one when he was a bit younger. The starting is as follows. Turn engine over with cranking handle. About 12 times to circulate oil. Remove old cartridge. Turn engine to tdc, insert new cartridge, hit with hammer on cartridge holder. BANG and away she goes. Loved the noise. But strangely still had the butterflies in my stomach before it started. Here you go. [ame] [/ame]
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On another note. I'm in need of a brake handle, bolt bushing. The metal part that goes between the bolt and the handle to allow the handle to move. It's for a 026 saw. Just asking before I go ordering just this one bit. If I needed anything else I would order it with them.
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After a morning of stihl hedge cutters and 026 saws I was about to go for lunch right after I greased up the backhoe. Until. I got asked to help fire up one of the field Marshall single pot tractors. It's being used for a christmas thing to tow Santa. It hadn't been started for a year apparently so may be a bother. Yeah right.... Tuned it over on the crank to get the oil circulated. Then removed the old starter shell. Turned it to tdc, new shotgun cartridge starter in place. One wack with a hammer and away it went. I love these old tractors. A single thump thump thump thump on tick over. Ran perfectly. Now just another 4 to start and a few other makes.
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I never will. Not these ones anyway. Fordson majors, the old white and red masseys. And a few more.
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Thanks bud. I enjoy it as I don't always have saws or mowers in there. Sometimes a tractor will be there when I turn up in the morn with something that needs doing to it. So I can jump between the small tools and the tractors when I get bored of the tools. And when I say bored I mean "frustrated" :lol:
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Now that's an idea. But id o believe there is a fav tv girls thread..... The bench thread is very good. Always a good laugh, but we do have laughs on other threads in the chainsaw forum. It has taught a lot of people things that would otherwise not be told. And has saved a lot of saws from the scrap pile. Always a good read. And normally my first port of call when I log on. I always look at the today's posts aswell. I sometime have to search for the bench thread as it doesn't always show up.
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Urm. Ever so slightly.... At a very rough guess I would say, 40m long, 20m wide and a barn height. Big double sliding doors and a huge pit running half the length. Got to admit it's what I've got to work in and any machines that go in are ok to work on. It's on a sort of "do the odd job for the farmer" type rent. And that's normally sitting on a digger for a couple of hours, or like this morning, digging around a drain stop tap to replace the round drain over it. Also got a big container for storage of the saws and push mowers.
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one 026 nearly done. just need a brake band. a wessex tractor topper stripped, cleaned, new bearings and belts and painted up ready for next season. made a start on the 35x aswell. started stripping it down. also looking at a ford transit high top. the gearing is very low ratio and is screaming at 55mph. so been told a diff from a mini bus will gear it up a bit so its not. looking into this one as im not overly sure. and a jcb backhoe to look at, loss of power and fuel. diaghrams in injector pump is the first port of call. so not much to go on a bench but plenty to take up space.
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To be honest I think she will do most from home. I will just leave a list and some details. See how that goes. I can talk to customers at the workshop as it gives me a break and some tea time. At least I won't have to spend any time on the phone ordering parts.
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Ok so now I'm sort of getting a bit busy I'm thinking of bringing the other half into the work. Generally I'm finding it harder and harder to talk to customers, answering the phone, sorting parts and ordering parts. Just not enough hours in the day. So (I know garden kit done it) but has anyone else done this and how difficult did they find in training the other in the process of the work. Talking from a tech side of things. So ask her to search for a part, order it, and also talk to customers about the machines. I know she won't be able to help out as much as I could in explaining things. But still better than me running around and not getting the tools in and out. The stihl ordering for parts is easy to use, so no problem there. The problem I have is I'm not a good trainer and get stressed easily. But I am finding all the running around is also knackering but means nothing important gets done....
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Sorted mine. Low oil level. Many thanks to all those who posted. Rich.
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Too much going on. Three 026 saws. Ride on is in. And a couple of mounfield mowers in. Also a salvage pump off the lifeboat. It's our main and a spare is on there, they couldn't be bothered to find the issue so I said I will look. They wanted a new one. Its got a loss of compression and after a look the valves where sticking open. It's a diesel single pot yanmar engine. So re grinding the valves and replacing the crank seals.
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I thought that. Plus you would need a digger anyway to fill the huge hole in.
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:lol: But think how fast the poo will fly down the pipe. Those dreaded floaters will not know what hit them h:001_tt2::lol::lol:
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What honing tool do you lot use. I have a couple but for Diesel engines. They are far too big for a chainsaw pot?
