wrsni
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Terrible scenes over there, absolutely heartbreaking, and I suspect as usual that the BBC are only scratching the surface compared to reality. Some truly shocking stuff over on the British Farming Forum as to how this situation has come about, and it's not all due to the weather! However, an admirable act on your part sir!
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R40 is actually a 4 stroke oil, never was meant to be used in a 2 stroke but road racers found they could jet a bit leaner with it without seizing so the GP40 which Castrol produced for 2 strokes got overlooked in favour of it. It's main drawback was in wet weather when the moisture in the air reacted with it causing the throttle slides to jam open! Castrol then developed special additives to go with it and make a more user friendly oil but retaining the anti-seize properties of the castor, which wasn't easy as it's a vegetable oil, and produced A747 racing oil which is still the most used racing 2 stroke oil to this day some 30 plus years later. Oh, another characteristic the 747 retains from the R is it's ability to go off very quickly!
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That's actually a very fair point. I remember a guy who was in the shop a couple of years ago and just about to leave, turned and asked "saying as I'm here anyway" if I had a drop of oil would do a chainsaw or was all my oil "too good"! Even in my line of selling there are loads of examples of companies putting their same product in different packs with different labels (and pictures!) just to keep the customer happy!
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Which is exactly what I done yesterday with this. Should have it here early next week if the forecast weekend storm doesn't stop the boats.
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My understanding is that while that can be the case with API specs, this was the whole thinking behind the Japanese setting up their own testing and standards system as they wanted something much more reflective of the actual performance of the oil.
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Even the most basic scooter is more heavily ported than a standard chainsaw and while they might rev slightly lower revs aren't actually as important as piston speed, and given that most chainsaw engines seem to be heavily over square the scooter oil will be more challenged in that area too. I'm all for good quality oil, but there's no point paying extra for an oil of the same spec and expecting it to be massively better just because there's a different name on it. Since posting I've had a quick look and some of the Stihl oils are FB spec and some are actually FD spec!, so again at the risk of seeming pedantic, some of the Stihl oils would indeed be better than the Comma but some of them would in practice be little different. But I didn't see any particular types of Stihl oil mentioned in the thread so I doubt if that's a defence in this case!
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That doesn't surprise me, I've been reading up on them a bit and they seem like a very decent company. There is now an FD JASO spec but not many oils capable of meeting it apparently.
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I was just trying to illustrate the point (probably pretty badly!) that chainsaws don't present that much of a challenge for the two stroke oil blender compared to the other stuff he has to keep right. I suppose I was also a bit pissed that some people were dissing the oil at the start of the thread when in reality it would probably do as good a job as the Stihl oil that they cream their pants over, JASO classification is the same after all. Did they even bother to look up the spec of it before commenting. I'll probably stand accused of being a bit pedantic but this is a pretty good forum and I think it's important to be accurate if you want it to stay that way.
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Are you sure about this as I've had several car mechanics recently say that if you were buying a secondhand diesel car you'd be better off buying one that had been run on red than most of the stuff on the forecourts. I mentioned this to a couple of oil suppliers and they both agreed that red is probably as good diesel as you'll get nowadays as it's considerably less tampered with than that destined for road use. That having been said a wee drop of decent two stroke is unlikely to do any harm, certainly is the additive of choice when somebody is running a diesel engine on paraffin.
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tractor trailer reccomendations circa 8ton.
wrsni replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Large equipment
Don't know how widely available they are over or whether they'd have exactly what you're after but you just won't do any better than Kane. I bought a new 14 tonne dump trailer off them a few years ago and worked it seriously hard for about 4 years when contracting and it never done anything but impress me, probably just about the best piece of new equipment I ever bought. Also know lots of silage contractors running Kane trailers and they're pretty much flawless. If you get Noel on a good day he'll probably even sell you one directly. -
Japanese Automotive Standards Organisation Look for the JASO spec of any oil, it's the best pointer as to it's real world capabilities.
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I've stick, mig and gas. Even though I mostly use the mig if I were to have only one it would be the stick. Cheapest to buy, cheapest to run, easiest to use across varying materials and thicknesses (just buy whatever number of whatever type rods you require) and once you're on to the way of it you'll never be beat no matter what you're at or where you're at it.
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The torque is highly unlikely to be running off the hydraulics, certainly not the case on anything else as it's always ATF in them. Torques are always sluggish when cold and until you're used to their characteristics you would think there was something wrong, get it well warmed before trying to ascertain it's condition. 50B was an excellent digger in it's day, probably ahead of JCB during the 70's and early 80's, took the 3CX for them to catch up. Parts price (if required) likely to be the main issue.
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Hardest working definitely, would be quite difficult to think of any more truly productive use of small two stroke engines. Against that, two stroke oil has the advantage of only having to do it's job once whereas a 4-stroke engine oil or gear oil for example has to stay there and work over and over again. So longevity is something that the two stroke oil formulator doesn't have to worry about. But highly stressed, sorry not even close. Also proven by the standards of the oil sold for them. Not having a go at Aspen or it's products by the way as it's actually the sort of thing I'd love to be selling.
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That would be a lot of tramping! "Team building" weekends perhaps?, those eejits will pay for anything, even puddling clay.
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Might be a bit scary costed over 3 acres!
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"Undemanding" in 2-stroke terms.
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Japanese standard gives it an FB which means it's about average. But to be fair I think Stihl 2-stroke is the same so probably fine for something as undemanding as a chainsaw.
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Might be a problem there! Realistically, you're not going to make much off the land. Your best chance is to think about setting up some sort of project ON the land which may develop in to something. I've about 40 acres, if it were that easy I'd be minted!
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It's called "passive engagement" to give it it's correct title, front rows engage and bind before the shove goes on the theory being that it's then more about the power of the shove itself as opposed to who could time the "hit" best over the past few seasons. Refs were actually a bit slack on it this past weekend compared to how they've tightened up on things at club/provincial level, maybe they were giving the packs a game apiece to get used to each other before clamping down. Usually allow one reset before at least a free kick to one side or the other.
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Not that you'd know going by the coverage afterwards! Honestly, what is it about the English and sport. John Inver-bloody-dale sitting spouting afterwards about how England would take more pleasure from the game than France, how does that happen when they LOST????? It was a great game of rugby from two great teams but come on, a bit of credit to the French, especially for their winning try which was an absolute stonker by any standards.
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Bad luck lads. :lol::lol: Allez les bleus!
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In my time I've also owned a 434, 674, and 574 and got plenty of work out of all of them. Also owned a couple of Zetor Crystals, first 4 wheel drive tractor I owned was a 5745, only ever had one Leyland, a 255 and it was a right little beast, pulled a six ton silage trailer like you'd never believe. So I've plenty of experience of other stuff,but I'd never knock any of the older Fords or Massey having used them myself but more importantly having seen the shocking amount of work that people have got out of them in the past and in some cases are still getting out of them. They're so highly regarded (and valued) for good reason.
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The basics of your thread are spot on but that's not fair. Yes, you'll pay considerably more for a Ford or Massey but against that it'll hold the money and you'll have no bother getting it back as and when you wish. Also, parts are very plentiful and cheap. Speaking from experience (I've used all of them!) Ford 2,3,4,5000 and Massey 35,130,135,148 are all terrific little tractors and have proven themselves well capable of huge amounts of work over the years. Definitely should NOT be avoided at all if you are lucky enough to get a good one. I speak as a current IH 454 owner!
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Very interesting to notice the contrasting reactions to this same story on the British Farming Forum. I suppose the completely differing views of a common problem maybe help to explain the mess and sadly maybe also why it's only destined to get worse!
