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My late father was a session player ( rent a drummer ) Jazz and big band . Back in the day they could read music and frowned upon skinbashers in pop groups There were always premiers set up in the spare room. Two of my brothers and one sister have musical talent but unfortunately for me no musical genes were passed down I blame him for my strange taste in music like Clyde Stubblefieds Funky drummer and Maceo Parker [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame]
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Placement of these is important. Regs say visible 360 degrees, on the watering bowser the cab mounted led was slightly lower than the filling neck of the tank on the back so they made us fit an extra beacon on the rear. Some transits would have the same problem if fitted with a chip box. Bob
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This diesel vs petrol thing is not rocket science. Modern diesels running under full throttle use roughly the same air fuel ratio as a petrol at around 14.1 , the biggest difference is at idle or low revs when the petrol is still running roughly 14.1 air fuel ratio but the diesel can be as low as 150.1 . A diesel can be in stop start traffic for hours and use virtually no fuel whereas the petrol will drink gallons of the stuff. This is why folk with a light foot that dont rev the granny out of an engine can get these mpg figures. GM v8 6.2 diesel at idle has a fuel consumption of a third of a gallon an hour, see how long a third of a gallon will last in a v8 petrol at idle. Bob
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Brilliant The difference is she has been given the chance and stepped up to the task so good on you StihlBen. Bob
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A position for a full time machine driver ( 3ton 360, dumper, trenching machines etc) to work along side our landscape guys. Tickets and cscs needed. Bob
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I know two lads that have owned the tdv8`s, one sold his to buy a new one and is now looking at getting rid of it to find another v8. He reckons that his old V8 was a much better vehicle, the other guy that has one will never part with it , nobody could give a vehicle as much stick as this guy does and its held together well. Its always got an overweight trailer behind it towing at excessive speeds . they really are a stonking motor. Bob
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Slow down Jon , everyone likes your posts and thinks your a star . Sky was only making a light hearted suggestion that you should not post up pics of your daily "log" ( dump, crap sh1t ). Bob
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We need a Mendips Thesaurus or someone thats worked on the enigma code Bob
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Many a Grockle never made it back from down there:fight:
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Brilliant idea, why add weight if there is an alternative. Has it stood up to the arb beating? Bob
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Took a ride out to Horsham to watch my boys at the motocross, ate loads of dust and came back. Bob
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Weight distribution is the biggest problem with these trucks and others like them. A few tools in the locker and two people in the front is the front axle up to its max weight, this means trying to keep all the weight/payload firmly on the back axle. A lad I know got pulled with one of these and had to get a taxi home from the weighbridge for one of his passengers before he could leave.There was nothing in the back either it was purely a few tools in the locker,the locker itself, the front portion of the tipper body and the passengers that put the front axle over. A transit type truck is much more forgiving as far as weight distribution goes. Bob
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Kinell I am having another senior moment. What I meant to add in the above post was the cherry picker has two circuits with different flow requirements, the winch and the hoist. The flow requirements for the winch are a lot higher than the needs for the hoist. For the winch it needs to be in 4th gear and on a rev, if you tried to use the hoist with that flow it would flick you out of the basket. Hence using the gears to reduce oil flow. Bob
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If you are somewhere near right on pump size with a Landy PTO you have the choice of gear selection to increase/decrease pump speed without having to rev the engine too high. On the cherry picker some of the lads use it in third gear at idle and others choose 2nd gear with a bit of a rev. There is a window of adjustment there as long as pump max rpm are not exceeded. Bob
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You can lower the pto shaft on the mog with a banana box Bob /attachment.php?attachmentid=182746&stc=1&d=1432502576/url]
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Thats the way to go Mick, I never did anything with my mini tractors and over the years they have taken a proper beating at the front. Bob
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On the breakages side and forgetting the whats best argument for a minute I think intended use comes into play. A 3/8" drive 19mm socket and ratchet thats trying to undo a seized solid nut or bolt is going to break, this becomes 1/2" drive territory . The same applies to the 1/2" drive with a seized bolt on a towbar using a 24mm socket, if its not going to undo with reasonable force you need to move up to 3/4" drive. We have all done it:blushing: and then bitched about quality, properly used even the modern cheap stuff will do for in the field work. Bob I try to keep the kit I carry down to bare bones but you just end up with it all in there anyway so its sockets sets from inch drive down and spanners from 50mm down.
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The cage is work in progress and just add bits as and when I get time , had a mad five minutes on it and took the tubes round the arches to protect them . That should stop this happening, thats the third set of wings on the old one It needed some weight on the front so I stuck a hydraulic winch on it with a deflector plate under it made out of inch thick road plate doubled up, I think its all up at about quarter of a ton of extra weight. just the front to mesh in now. Bob
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Eurocarparts are Knocking these out cheap this weekend. MASTERPRO 90 piece 1/2 and 1/4 drive tool kit
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What are you buying at the arb show then thanks
aspenarb replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
If I go this time I am taking a friggin wheelbarrow, I bought so much clutter last time my arms were falling off by the time I got back to the truck. Bob -
With respect most accountant`s make very poor tax adviser`s. Tax consultancy and accountancy are very different professions. If you have long term plans that involve purchasing yards , buying kit and some sort of pension you really need to speak to a tax consultant. Bob
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Would a PTO chipper realistically fit on a landy?
aspenarb replied to GTS's topic in Large equipment
What your mate was on about was the fixed speed control of a stationary engine vs a road engine. Landrover got round this by fitting an external unit made by Iso Speedic that was belt driven, the hand throttle went straight to the Iso unit and through internal governor weights the unit kept the engine at those rev irrespective of load. This effectively converted the Landy lump into a stationary engine. Notice the two arms on the unit , one from the hand throttle and the other goes to the pump. This one is running an underfloor welding unit. The same unit could be used to run a chipper no problem. Bob http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=182611&stc=1&d=1432320878 -
There are outfits that have secured deals with couriers that make buying and delivery painless. These days I think you need to stack them high and sell them cheap. Briquettes or bagged logs sell like this, the briquette seller has shifted 1400+ bags at the sharp end of £20 10kg Quality Kiln Dried Wood Logs- Coal Alternative Fuel for Hotter Burning Fire | eBay 36 x Burners Fire Logs Eco Heatlogs Wood Briquettes Burner Fuel Heat Firewood | eBay Bob
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We have a scanfield boiler and all I used on that was a 20` length of 300mm steel pipe. It was heavy wall mild steel, its been in for twenty years now and outlasted my mates fancy twin walled stuff that cost him a fortune. I will take some snaps of it. £200 from the scrap yard down the road, fabricated my own fittings from the same piece. Bob
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We are doing some landscape work and need to get these banks planted with something that will take in the chalk/clay, not something that will take over the whole bank but with enough cover so as not to see the bank ,preferably reasonably maintenance free. The banks are raked back and are about 12` tall at the highest point. We have a free hand in this so any suggestions ? Thanks. Bob
