tommytopsoil
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Keep an eye on it in case it pushes all the grease back out of the hole straight away - the little spring and ball in the top of the nipple acts as a one way valve to keep the grease in there. Tom
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Daleside Welding, Kirkby Lonsdale John Metcalfe, Crook Probably your best bets. Whereabouts South Lakes are you?
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Lithium complex grease is exactly that chaps. It can be dyed any colour of the rainbow. There is no difference. What you must watch for is the spec of the grease, not the colour. We stock 12-14 different colours/grades of grease at any point, varying from just over £1/tube to over £20/tube. The point being however, grease and oil are cheaper than steel and if you use a known brand you will certainly get what you pay for.
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Fuchs Reiner. There is no other way.
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Rottweilers. Big ones.
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Timber haulage South Cumbria/North Lancs
tommytopsoil replied to David Dobedoe's topic in General chat
+1, all good outfits with plenty of experience. You will get sorted between them. -
To the best of my knowledge the A-C version was a re-badged Milwaukee, not the other way round. Atlas-Copco bought the Milwaukee Electric Tool Company in 1995 from it's second owner - third if you include the founder. Sold about ten years later to Techtronic who also own AEG and Ryobi. Milwaukee does seem to have hung onto its heritage and quality though.
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You mean the impact driver screwy thing or a 1/2" drive impact gun/nut-runner etc? If the latter then they won't look at our Snap-On guns but I must admit they are very good considering the weight, or lack of it.
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Milwaukee were sold by Atlas Copco in 2005 I believe. Now owned by Techtronic.
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There's only one van. Get a Sprinter.
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As plant fitters/fabricators on the road and in the workshop we get through a reasonable amount of cordless power tools and have tried most makes, Hitachi, Bosch, DeWalt, Makita, Metabo, Snap-On etc etc. We currently are on Milwaukee 18v and I must say the drill is the best cordless I have ever used. The power, chuck and build quality are just unreal. The 1/2" impact gun is a fair tool too and the batteries are getting better with use but I think the Snap-On gun still has it licked. Milwaukee drill is just awesome though. We also have cordless grinders from Milwaukee. Good kit.
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Does it feel fuel related? Or does it just stop dead when it cuts out?
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Thoughts are with you both, may she make a full and swift recovery. Stay strong.
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Turret and bolster height probably as critical as anything, along with knuckle projection.
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I'd be interested in the tooling if they need re-homing...
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If you swap your Ifor for new every 10-12 months the resale is such that you can practically have a years maintenance free trailering - or maintenance free trailering forever if you keep swapping. However, if you want a decent trailer, Brenderup are worth a look - they tow like an absolute dream. GE/BJ also of good quality.
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I would say that was very much dependent on the man holding the stick.
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Hi Pete, would be keen to see some pics, also - whereabouts are you?
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Hi all, I have a customer looking for 4 used wheel chains to fit 600/50-22.5 tyres, if anyone thinks they might be able to help him out please get in touch or DM, many thanks
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Nissan genuine parts are night and day from spurious ones, don't even hesitate, just get the proper ones. They'll do you another ten years then...
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As a general rule, fully retract the bucket cylinder and have the top of the grapple 'flat across' like in your second picture. Fit the brace arm into the lowest position hole on the bracket and tack the bracket to the dipper. Drop the grapple off, fold her round and weld up. As the bucket cylinder is fully retracted during the set-up process, you cannot then over-crowd and damage the brace arm. Your hitch is particularly deep however and has quite a step-back in the pin centres - I doubt this has been accounted for in the design of that particular grapple. As mentioned, the safest way would be to direct-mount and move the bracket into the appropriate position, however this is likely not the most convenient for you so I would suggest trying the above method first. Your main problem does seem to be the lateral distance between front hitch pin and dipper end pin though.
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Nice to see Swampy made it into the photo for the big hand-over!
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Don't let the enviro gang/rspb catch you 'releasing all that carbon into the atmosphere'... You'll give them heart failure :001_rolleyes:
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We've put Keruing low-loader boards through two and three at a time and she barely blinked. No experience with oak. Hardly a machine of great finesse, but if you want the job done then it certainly seems to do it.
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This will be fine if you hang the grab off a swing-link on the end of the boom and fully retract the bucket cylinder. Otherwise a change-over valve with a switch on a joystick to activate. It looks like you have no auxiliary circuit so I take it you are already thinking of using the bucket circuit for one of the services? If so then just run a line down the boom from the offset for the other as Matthew says.
