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    Dealer back is always important, we have an LG importer in Portsmouth and everything seems to be next day, phoned through for a door glass at 3pm and it was at the gate 8am the next day. Even the service engineers are next day, not so sure how they fair up with service and spares backup elsewhere in the country. Bobcat seem to have got their act together in recent years, had a play on @doobin ‘s latest toy a few weeks ago, we’ll speced machine and again with decent support/ backup from the manufacturer. Bob.
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    It’s been very well behaved to date, new tracks were only about £1,100 for the pair and they were delivered to the site next day, only job/mod I have done to it was extend the fuel inlet pickup pipe in the bottom of the tank. The original hoovered everything up from the bottom, it now has about a gallon capacity as a sludge/crap/water trap. It’s not really Chinese , they have zf hydraulics and kamatsu engines. I will buy another one in the near future. Bob
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    There is nearly three times the power of a 6" chipper under the hood of a Landrover , there is no reason why it couldnt be sorted out properly to equal or out perform a tow chipper. Most PTO chippers need tinkering with to get the best out of them, an example of this is a lot of guys run 540 rpm pto chippers at 1000rpm and then turn the engine revs down. Once you get it right they are good, not many are fit and forget. Bob
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    You can get a pto to the rear of a landrover quite easily, they used to make a box that reversed rotation and stepped down the speed to make it the same as a tractor PTO ,this bolted to the rear cross member and gave you the pto spline, weak point is the clutch plate hub centre which needs beefing up. Engine speed is then controlled with a speedic unit to maintain correct pto rpm. I have a few kits in the shed, I will take some snaps. Bob
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    PTO will work on a landrover but not on a side plate gearbox PTO like on the jap 4x4`s. The landrover PTO comes straight off the back of the transfer box and if its run in 4th gear the engine is directly coupled to the PTO without using any of the gears (4th is 1.1 and only coupled). The type that run off side plates of gearboxes max out at about 30hp and thats for a truck box. Bob
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    Yes, back up to speed. Bob
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    That would depend on how long you have been running, most start ups would take a minimum liveable wage to allow a business to grow. If you are still on this ten years down the road something's probably wrong.That said even when established drawings still need to be a realistic sustainable amount. Bob
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    The best tools for repairing internal threads are the ones that start at the bottom of thread, you then expand them and turn them out. Trouble with starting at the top with a conventional tap is the danger of overcutting. Bob
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    Steels up now , last concrete pour on a mezzanine floor .
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    An ibc is like a lighthouse to the great unwashed, if it’s static in the yard it’s better to go bundled with a lockable compartment for the pump/nozzle. There is a guy in Findon that just bought a shed load of ex hire bundled tanks in various sizes, these are already lockable with hand pumps etc already built in and he is selling them cheap. I will try and find a link. Bob
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    Those half barrels Mick Dundee knocked up are good for day to day machine filling, no mess. Bob
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    This site has always been really slow to navigate from this end since the revamp but always worked until recently, its not been reliably accessible for about a month now and is still timing out. Bob
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    A container is only as wide as the truck that delivers it, if the container goes down there wont the truck? Bob They are all the same width.
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    They are made from snowflakes Khriss and are churned out of colleges up and down the country. Bob
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    As a one off and away from the yard I can see the sense in a small saw/big tree but to go felling with a small saw is just hard work. I had to winch a load of roadside Chestnut in the other day and one of our sausage jockeys thought he would fell these with a small saw. It was painful to watch, he set the gob at waist height and he was backwards/forwards sorting the back cut for an age, hinge/holding wood was all over the place. Next day they bring the felling saw to reduce the stumps , we now have dozens of ugly chogs to clear off site that could have been in the stick earning a few quid. Waste of fecking time in my book. Take a big saw, cut them low, job done Bob
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    Most of the kids these days cant get a big felling saw started unless they bring their mum along. Bob
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    An 880 with a 6` bar can be a small saw on trees 15` diameter at the base. Bob
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    Its worth looking at the tilt beds, all the other trailers seem to be a one trick pony., Feck the ramps.
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    We revamped a washed out 1k long bridle/footpath for HCC about ten years ago, the original was just an impassible quagmire for six months of the year. We installed drainage down both sides and in places where there was no run off we extended the grips off into the woods, timber edged it and put in 100mm of recycled 20-50mm crushed concrete (washed with no crap in it) filled up to the top of the edging with 20mm lime stone , all of this was compacted and then we topped it off with 0-3mm fines (basically concrete grit). We were recently doing a site clearance close by so I had a stroll down this path, still spot on which surprised me given the amount of horses that use it. Bob
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    On a job thats prepped by others they will price their levelled finish on the understanding what they are laying tarmac on is exactly right (regulated), to them 10 tons of tarmac will do X sq mtrs so if they get to the end and they are short its down to you.They prebook the tarmac/haulage at the plant and cant always get more at the drop of a hat so a shortfall could run into another day. A guy I know had to stump up another 5k on his drive. Bob
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    There is a bit more to surfacing an old farm track than just throwing down tarmac, it will need edging, drainage regulating and compacting prior to tarmac, get the regulating wrong and you could end up with a bigger bill on the measure. The tarmac is the easy bit and a road of 450mts would be less than a days work for a proper outfit, the last one I was involved in was £25 sq mtr, that was for a 20mm dbm base laid at 70mm thick and a 10mm topping at 30mm thick . We had laid all the edgings, done the drainage and regulated the surface. All they did was rock up with the tarmac laying machine and roller, supply labour and the tarmac. Bob
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    Edged like that gives a tad over three metres width, if you register with one of BR`s reclaimed materials depots you can tender for job lots of these. Can be as little as £3 a pop, transport kills it a bit because they weigh about 250 ish kilo`s a piece so you can only get about 120 on a truck. I counted over thirty reo bars in one, the concrete used must be a bit fancy because they are granite hard. Bob
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    Concrete sleeps are cheap and easy to lay, perfect if the drive is in constant use and you need access over it at all times. Bob
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    We have put in quite a few loading bays, without over engineering it I would go for a light scrape off and lay out a small section of membrane. See the first truck of hardcore back in and level that out, watch what the ground is doing as the next truck backs over the hardcore and adjust to suit. Drainage is key and the hard standing will need a ditch all the way around, too easy to overthink these things and go overboard, it may well be ok with a foot of hardcore . Also important to top off with clean stone , crushed concrete is full of glass,nails and other crap. Bob

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