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  1. Dont know how that happened Bob
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    Great looking truck but where do they get 4.5 ton from? Its got to be a tad under 2 tons as it sits there so are they saying you can dump 2.5 ton on the back axle which is the only place you can put it ?Thats going to be 3.5 ton on the rear axle with BFG tyres and1 ton on the front. Spurlain that one to vosa at the side of the road . Maybe 4.5 ton mam Bob
  3. Its was black , I have some 40 year old photos of it somewhere. Not quite sure how to get them on here other than taking a snap of the photos . I will have a dig about in the week and see what I can do. Bob
  4. I ran a Autocraft Cobra for about twenty years, it wasn't as leery as the one Stubby posted but leery enough to scare the crap out of any unsuspecting passengers and me ,it was only 6ltr but knocked out about 550hp with gobs of grunt. Great fun but totally impracticable, you cant leave them anywhere and it gets tiresome having to answer stupid questions everywhere you go. I dont think mine clocked up 10,000 miles in all the time I had it. Bob
  5. I cant see the problem with being VAT registered even for domestic work, it only affects the likes of Mrs Miggins and she is unlikely to jump ship just to save a few quid. VAT should only make you around 10% dearer overall. Bob
  6. I have had failures in aftermarket blades and sent them back to the seller for analysis, on both occasions they have been lost or misplaced and despite chasing them up never had an explanation or refund. On both occasions the knives exploded through the chute and thank god there were no injuries. For this reason alone I will only by genuine blades, not saying it can’t happen to genuine blades but I have never seen a failure in one. Bob.
  7. Have my guys been working for you on the side ? Bob
  8. What do you think is the most important issue in arboriculture today? Ridding the industry of the never ending money grabbing schemes dreamt up in the name of compliance. HSE in arb was the governments brainchild, they should certify and implement the audit's. Bob (SMAS)
  9. A mate bought a Chinese 4 ton single phase two post lift about four years ago for about £1200 , its only for hobby use and he has had no issues. I got a used Stenhoj off the bay of thieves for £650, thats only needed a set of belts. Bob
  10. Got a deal on ten units , got Faac at the yard and there must be a hundred gate cycles a day , they have lasted about fifteen years and only just given up . Bob
  11. You would probably like the one we have just done Mr @Commando This is a completely self contained unit ( Mick Dundee)with the photocells, keypad, gate hinges, motor mounts, camera pole and everything else built in and concealed. Basically just dug it in and put the gate on with no further set up needed. All cables etc between posts run in the buried box section thats keeping the posts in line. One gate with two Faac rams, all electrics are 24v. Bob
  12. If the drive thats there is of sound make up I would scarify and roll what's there., then top off/roll with the bare minimum of dressing. Nothing worse than driving through a sea of stone and it never stays where its put. We use a guy that has what looks like a mini mulcher on a small sit on machine that planes off existing dressings, makes very easy work of relaying existing build ups. I will dig out a pic of his machine. Bob
  13. It can be done with conventional gate automation running off truck batteries, an inverter and a solar panel. Good for about twenty gate openings per day if you get it set up properly. Bob
  14. I was following a transit this morning that had two pallets of turf on it, I would have thought about 2.5 tons on there minimum. All looked about right because it obviously had HD springs but I noticed the bulges on the tires at road level were touching each other, that`s a blowout waiting to happen if it were on a motorway or dual carriageway for more that a few minutes. Bob
  15. Ian Hampshire runs a tracked mulcher and more importantly knows how to drive it , he is also one of the few old school good guys that knows what a days hire means. https://www.ukfisa.com/membership/membership-listing/ian-j-hampshire-son.html If you get stuck and can wait our tractor mulcher will be in Haslemere in August for about two months. Bob
  16. I suppose all this hinges on who your buyer is, where we sell to will only pay on a weigh bridge ticket, we are lucky as there is one a few hundred meters from the yard.If the haulier is the buyer you may end up with the short straw, the on truck weighers only work accurately on level ground and that's a rarity in most woodlands. I know skulduggery goes on but there is little to nothing you can really do about it short of watching them load and following them to the depot. Bob
  17. I think more weight is lost in the stack waiting for it to be collected than goes missing, they seem to be getting more unreliable. I can feel a new timber trailer coming on. Bob
  18. I think you are referring to the big nut that's on the end of the shaft that retains the bearing housing, that's a normal thread that's best undone with a nut gun. When you have removed this and the small bearing there will be shims in there used to space the assembly for correct anvil clearance. If you are changing the front bearing there is a way of setting it up to avoid axial loading which will knob the bearings in short order. For that you will need some 12mm studding. Bob
  19. As above. If its still struggling to turn over you will need to eliminate the chipper side of things from the engine, drop off the drive belts ( two minute job) and then try and start it. If it starts you need to look at the rotor and bearings, pop the chute off and check the rotor is not bound up with chip, if thats all clear you need to be looking at bearings. Bob
  20. Mike I would be very surprised if the lads on here couldn't diagnose the problem and point you in the right direction in less time than it takes to drag it off to someone for repair. Post up some of the symptoms. Bob
  21. If its only 100 mts you may as well buy ready made, for large quantities there would be a huge saving making your own and the discount on materials spirals. A simple fly press and tooling for the slots/holes ,a crop and you could bang out 100`s of meters of it a day. We made a load to match some existing , its not hard. Bob
  22. Cant see what the issue is, slab is already down and its the renovation of what was an existing building. Pound to a pinch of salt that's on an old os map somewhere. Bob
  23. Thats choker chain territory. Bob
  24. Two days in and wondering why I never bought one thirty years ago, aside of the obvious its so much easier looking through drawings and specs on a desk rather than a car bonnet.The lads will be fighting over this, I can feel another unit coming on Bob
  25. My choice of chipper would hinge on distance from the nearest decent spares stockist, for us its Timberwolf/Rayco only because we can throw stones at Greenplant from here. Over many years they have provided an excellent service and I dont think I would swap brands unless they did. Bob

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