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  1. william127
    Very good point- I have been using the same independent Land Rover dealer near me for parts and the odd repair for 10+years. I was recently doing a suspension change one Saturday with my mate on his defender. At 12:40 in the afternoon- 10 minutes after the dealer officially closes- we sheared a part. I got straight on the phone, told them what I needed, "no problem Will, I'm just leaving but I'll leave you one behind the gatepost. Pop By whenever to sort the money out". i told my mate who's truck we were working on, he always buys his parts online, he was gobsmacked! You really can't beat that kind of service, but if you don't have a local dealer then what can you do!
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    Unloading a trailer at the yard a few months ago
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    We hired that model from time to time ten years or so ago, it was ok if the blades were sharp but useless if they weren't! my little Hyundai is so much nicer to use and I'd say all the other similar priced ones would be similar, with the cs100 types better again? still not the easiest thing to move on your own, but doable.
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    A thumb and a ripper tooth is an excellent start for handling timber for a good price. Mine has handled hundreds of tons of timber and dug out countless stumps. a rotating grab will be better at handling timber but a thumb is cheaper and you always have it with you.
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    I had some brackets fitted to a spare van vault this morning so I can pick it up with the digger. Should make a handy site box.
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    I have the Hyundai chipper. I like it, it works for my occasional use- maybe once a month. It works well and I like using it. I will say that I got it incredibly cheap as my mate is a Hyundai re-seller, so that was a big factor! Parts supply(only service parts and blades) has been an issue, but it is now sorted. Build quality is fine for the price. There is another make, I think it's lumag? That sell a very similar model with a directional spout and that would be very handy! I have also bought the Hyundai stump grinder, but I haven't used it yet. If it is as good as the chipper I will be very pleased, and I don't see why it won't. A cs100 must be a better machine, but it's also 3 times the price, which one is best for an individual/business is a how long is a piece of string question?
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    Well it's back in! We dropped it with brute force and a trolley jack, put it back in with a hoist through the passenger door. Id say that it is twice as easy as a defender box change, although the big wheels and suspension lift helped with access underneath. We did it in a couple of sessions, but I think 2 of us could do one in a morning, having done 1. Boxes work lovely now, and a new custom made pipe has made the power steering finger light
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    Getting this beast back on the road and finding that the usedgearbox/transfer box is the slicked I have ever had and that it sits at 70 comfortably and a new pipe has made the power steering feather light! merry Christmas to me!
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    I can definitely reverse a trailer and I have to disagree! Sometimes there just isn't room...
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    I like my 461 so much... that I bought another one I would certainly be interested in trying a 462, but it would have to be far, far better for me to buy one before the 461s are dead. I would also want to wait a couple of years after it comes out to allow any teething troubles to be sorted..
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    I have had a couple of 3.0 troopers, brilliant trucks if the recalls have been done and you look after it. If you use bulk bags rather than cubic meter bags I'd have thought you could easily get one in the back of a trooper commercial. This would be handy as it is depressing and eats into the profit having to get out and put away a trailer for 1 bag! I know, because that's what I have to do at the moment. i would keep the trooper, get a 10x5 ifor Williams, ideally tipper, but i have hardly ever done tipped loads so it's not essential in my mind. If the funds and space allow I would also add a cage sided ifor Williams p6e for tight access/ single bag deliveries. My one is my most used log delivery method.
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    I'm more than a little jealous as I have had both those and sold them but the hardtop defender I have now is much better for my work and I will get another ifor tipper early next year.
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    This looks to be an identical machine but with the highly useful addition of a swivelling spout- I wish mine had that!
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    It will chip up to the size it says, but if that was the bulk of your material it would take quite a while to get the jobs done. It should be fine with 5 hours a week but I can't tell you how many weeks for! At that rate I reckon your hours would overtake my hours in a couple of months, but if you look after it you will soon have earned your money back and started making some.
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    I have one, can't fault its performance for the cost. Its not the highest quality by a long way but it chips well, the blades are reversible and cheap, it will happily throw chip to the front of a ten foot trailer and 2 of us have easily taken it apart to take it through a house. Theres a little bit about mine in the last couple of pages in the wee chipper thread. its definitely more of a machine for an owner operator than a machine for anyone to be chucking stuff through.
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    Unfortunately I am now full till Christmas with a fence that I should have done a month ago but I was badly let down by the manufacturer of the panels- I was told they would ship them within 2 weeks, it's taken 6 its now not going to be easy, enjoyable or most importantly profitable now im not even keen on Christmas, it just makes a pointless deadline to things. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up on some mechanicals over the holidays, I've got 2 Tractors and a Toyota in pieces!
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    My main advice would be don't buy a brand new truck- your figures of buying one for 25k means that over the 4 years you have it you will loose more in depreciation than I have in the last 12 by running older vehicles. Let a big company take the hit for the depreciation, you are in the enviable position of being able to bide your time and shop around for a good buy. I would want to spend maybe 6-8k on the vehicle and maybe 2k on converting it to my needs, but I'm sure that others would want to spend 10-15k buying, but that's still a saving! i would also consider buying one that has been a flat bed rather than a tipper, then converting it as it's might well have been treated a bit better!
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    Well the boxes are out, was fairly straightforward to do, I've never used the socket UJ so much though! Just got to get them back in now
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    Cheers, had a normal mk3 10+ years ago, moved on to defenders but always had a mk3 shaped hole! Probablem was the price, I could never go back to the mk3 as I need 3.5ton towing capacity. Saw this for a reasonable price, had to have it! Even if I had to drive 800 mile in 20 hours to collect it. It's a monster off road and when I get it sorted it will be a be a great second truck.
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    I will, this is just my go to forum! cheers
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    I can't stand hiring, the money I know my dad has spent on hiring over the last 30 years makes me shudder! which is why I now own a mini chipper, stump grinder, big saws, digger, trailers, quads, whacked plate, etc etc. once you've spent on hiring that money is gone for good! I can get back some of mine when im done with the machine. getting back to the topic, when you own a machine, you find ways of using it. Even if it's for 5 minutes a day, it's making, not costing!
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    I will be changing the gearbox and transfer box on my mk3 hilux tipper soon, has anyone else done one? Any particular difficulties? What do you have to remove in the cab to do the job? Roughly how long should it take? Ive done loads of defender boxes, but never on anything else. and a few pictures of it when it worked! Thanks in advance, William
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    I'm sure you are completely right about where it was made. If I have a problem with it, I contact my supplier, who deals with the importer, so in theory that's straight forward. In reality the importers have been useless, as apparently the machine is too new for them to have service parts available! Although this has been improved recently and we got what we needed. at the end of the day, I only paid £1200 for it, it works well, parts are becoming easier and it's only a gravity fed push along machine so there's not much to it. With sharpe blades, (reversible and about £40 a set) it makes a very good job of reducing material into a usable product. Would I have it as a frontline machine for a tree team? Of course not! is it a money making/saving tool for me on my own as a landscaper? Definitely
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    My little Hyundai chipper got its first service and blade change yesterday morning, then off to work. I had all The chipping done and a nice load of chippings spread within a couple of hours of getting to the job. I really can't fault this machine for what it cost, so much so that I have bought the matching stump grinder
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    I cannot stand using a wooden handled splitting tool now I have been using the plastic handled x21 and x27 for a year or two. Apart from a manky old hatchet for roots I only have fiskars axes now. As for their splitting ability, since buying them I have sold both my log splitters, so that must say something! I have used the husqvarna axes and definitely preferred them to wooden axes but nowhere near as. Good as my fiskars. Although the husqvarnas look like they would be better for bashing wedges, if that's important to you.

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