aspenarb
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I don't remember a single time when we have had to deal with a customers insurance company, removal costs and provisos go direct to the client, the bun fight with the insurance company is theirs. Bob
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Stop and let someone else go in first, use that dipstick as a dipstick. Bob
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Yep! Cost of the ULEZ/LEZ system was always going to have diminishing returns, with folk slowly shifting to compliant vehicles it will get to a point when the returns are so low the same tech will transfer to pay per mile.The motorist will always be a cash cow no matter who runs the show. Bob
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Still going🤣
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Lots and it hasn’t missed a beat Ruben, the thing just goes from job to job. Could really do with coming in for some love.
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After reading a few reviews I bought this 4000amp gooloo for about £100, model number GP4000. It can wang over a tractor engine for a surprisingly long time. GOOLOO GP4000 Jump Starter GOOLOO.UK GOOLOO flagship jump starter power bank; 26800 mAh with 4000 A peak current; one button back on track.
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Massey side guard fell off and got mulched, may have lost its newness. Bob
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Looks like one of those standard weld on filler necks Chris. Might take one of those caps that pulls down with a key. https://www.dieselcaps.co.uk/3471/filler-necks-mild-steel-filler-neck-40x45x30mm-diesel-fuel-cap/8789
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It depends on what you are doing Bill, a rake and hydraulic thumb on a machine can group up/load brash much quicker than just a grab/rotator.Grab/rotator is a great tool if everything is ready to be grabbed. Bob
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Just about any type of grab on a small excavator is useful.I once knocked up a hitch bracket for a small grab on a three ton machine, it grabbed off the breaker line and it swivelled but never had a rotator. You kind of adapt to whatever is in front of you. Bob
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LG still out there doing its thing, raking out and burning rather a lot of Gorse atm
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Its a twin pump on these chippers, one section of the pump does most of the work (the feed rollers and one tracking motor), the other pump section is only ever called for when tracking. You could easily eliminate the pump by swapping the pipes over on the pump, you may need to snip off a few cable ties but it would be a quick and easy way to see if the slow track is then on the other side of the machine. Bob
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The best hire is the non mechanical stuff. Heras fencing, RPA/Z protection gear, tm signage/lights, ground boards,welfare units etc. Count it out and count it back in, for any losses or damage charge new for old.The Heras can go out for months/years at a time. Bob
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Its only an old clunker of a thing but it does a good job.
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I think of the hollow ground as a knife and the flat ground as an axe, the hollow ground are better on stringy stuff. I converted an old mower grinder, the grinding head can rotate on the upstand to do both hollow or flat ground.
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I got these about twenty years ago, mainly for the stretch boots on battery cable crimps.
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There was a thread on here recently about doing battle with replacement HT caps. These hellerman mini boot stretchers are the nuts, cant get any easier than this. Link Easy to get orientation right before releasing.
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Cut an old wheelbarrow tyre in half. Bob
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Yep, but only on here a few times week since the place turned so facebookish. Bob
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If you are running a few vans, trailers, chippers and plant its worth kitting up to do some of your own tyre repairs/changes. Not talking about fitting new sets, just repairs and changes. Older s/h tyre machines are cheap, one below was only £250, doesn't take long to recover that when you have three guys stood there looking at a flat tyre waiting to get out of the yard. These bead cheaters are also cheap and take the grief out of bead seating, about £80
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Needs must and all that.
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That, said it would probably cope with blowing out saws. Bob
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I bought one of those cheap 12v pumps to run the air solenoids/actuators for some pto equipment in my service truck. Dont think it would live long running flat out.
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You need to look at the max run time on any of these compressors, some are only good for about three minutes before needing to cool off , something like the tmax is good for forty five minutes. The latter will cope with inflating tractor//truck tyres and pumping up a decent size air receiver without melting.
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London work is about to get very expensive,its a bit of a logistical nightmare at best and about to get a lot worse. That ulez creeping out to the m25 is going to change things. Bob.
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