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That's perfect regards the blades, cheers. 

Is there anything in that manual regards the computer settings?  

Can anyone assist me with my schliesing 220 PTO chipper?

- Knife gap settings.

- Setting up the control box to my tractor.

Thanks in advance.

Dan

Just in the process of taking out a big old hunter stove, it was also used as a boiler for the house if anyone wants it?

£600

They came...... Everyting okay he just asked if when we are loading and unloading to keep the noise down... lol..

Jcb is in it's new home round the side! Obviously I need to retain the walls and top with some decrotive stone it'll be sound. 

Cheers again men gor the help! 

2 hours ago, spudulike said:

Interesting post as I had to look at this carefully when I started up my business from home.

 

Firstly, if you ignore it, it will get worse and is likely to make you look guilty so talk to them, be polite and be open, no hiding vans round the corner on the day of the inspection.

 

From what I learnt (you can look at your local councils web page) , councils to determine there has been a change of use to a property will be looking for: -

1) No excessive visits from your customers or deliveries or pickups.

2) No blocked roads with excessive customer parking of vehicles interrupting neighbours access. 

3) No excessive noise from visitors or running the business - milling in a residential back garden for instance!

4) No excessive smells from running the business

5) No advertising boards outside the property

6) No change of structure to the house or land to accommodate the business - having a four pillar hydraulic ramp, inspection pit and cars parked up and down the street will be a red rag!!

7) The time that anything happens for - a couple of deliveries a day is pretty average for an eBay fiend or a lady that likes mail order clothes..........etc

 

Getting on with your neighbours helps a lot but it is often not them but the neighbours neighbours or even people further away.

In your case, I would say you are OK if your wagons are only parked on your drive with nothing else going on. If you are maintaining chippers, taking the vans apart, having a load of workers coming and going using up the parking spaces along the road, it may be viewed differently. Your business yard will be a big help in your defence.

It would be good if both wagons were parked up the side of the house but guess that can't be done.

You could phone the council, express to them your current usage and then see if they still need to come out and see you. They may just need a letter from you stating your use of the property and it may go away if you don't deviate from it.

 

Cheers Spud. I'm currently in the process of digging the bank out on the Right hand side of the property to take the jbc off the front and possibly one van. I haven't got any advertisement signs up and the vans only have a small sticker on them. When I called to book the appointment the guy stated that he could not give any details about who has made the complaint but he might be able to give me a couple of useful pointers.... lol. 

7 hours ago, Ratman said:

I spotted an ifor trailer to the left of the jcb too, anyone else? 🤷‍♂️

LOL... That is normally at the yard....

8 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Neighbours do not have any say in what the place looks like and  the enforcement officer's letter is not concerned about the look. He says there may be a change of use. Use classes are apparently changing but the effect will be similar, homes were class C. Commercial was divided into B1 offices and things that can be done in residential districts B2 light industrial but I suspect they are looking at B8 storage of material and equipment in the open and this has nothing to do with whether the vehicles are taxed, insured or roadworthy etc.

 

Also I suspect A1 premises where the public visit for a service

Very helpfull i will look in to this. Cheers..

Thanks for the in put Men, i have made an appt for next week for them to visit, i will carry on as normal insted of hiding everything and standing there saying " look nothing is kept here" and see how we go. All the trucks and jcb are fully road legal and ligit so i could give them the option of seeing a clear drive however park on the road. I am hoping not to go down that route! 

We do quite alot of work for our local council and i do not intend on piss them off... I will keep you updated mid week.. You never know they might do a full review in to out council tax band and save us a few quid lol...

Just now, eggsarascal said:

That sort of answers your question, you've got two arb trucks a loadall, and lads who work for you parking around the corner, that sort of says you are running a business from a domestic property.

Yes but only for 10 min in a morning and then 10 min at tea time, we do the saws and chipper up at the yard and the handler prob goes out two times a week..

41 minutes ago, Retired Climber said:

It does look a lot like a bunch of travellers have bought a house and moved in. 

What are you trying to say.. lol... 

17 minutes ago, donnk said:

ok ignore most of the nonsense on this tread.

 

Have you made a change of use from residential to another class ?

 

Parking a vehicle or vehicles does not matter one jot.

 

If you were processing timber at home then maybe just maybe they would have an issue.

 

You have zero to worry about apart form cnuts as neighbours.

Hopfully this is the case. The main aim of the post was to see if anyone has been in a simlor situation and if there was anything i needed to say of have in place prior to the visit.

12 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

@donnk as spoken, so it must be right. Where does the loadall go?

At the back of the crew cab.

5 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Don’t think I’d fancy that plus two vans parked next door down my street.

Dont know about the legality, but why not leave the loadall (that is a telehandler right?) and a van at the yard?

Then there’s no issue.

I would love to however it would not be safe, i do live in a fair size property and along side a fairly busy road i will take a pic later when i am back.. I get on with all my neighbours so i think the complaint may have come from alother source, most of the local tree lads run pritty much the same round here so i dont think they will have a case. As for the lads parking cars only 2 of them out of 5 drive and they park around the corner. I am in the pocess of digging a bank out at the side of my house on my property to park the jcb this will kind of hide it..

5 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Do you mean JCB loadall?

Yer.

Got the council on my back as they have received a complaint regarding a unauthorised change of use - Business from home and they need to come out to visit to determine whether i am in breach of planning.

Has anyone been in a simlor situation? I just park 2 vans and a loadall on the drive and keep abit of kit in the garage most of my bigger kit is in a lock up, no wase comes back as i have a yard. 

What are they likely to ask?  Surely every self employed plumber, sparkey ect ect run the same.

Any help would be much appreciated?

Regards Dan

Cheers Spud! i havent even looked in to timing it back up yet i will cross that bridge when i come to it.. I am beginning to think that the crank oil seales may have been the start if the problem however carnt be sure. When i stripped the engine it all had plenty of oil and i only use husky HP and in the past few years its probbally only the 2nd engine thats gone.. Oh well.. Hoping the parts come today so i can start to put it all back together... Whats crack with the £25 piston?

just an update men.. I have orderd the bush from a firm called the bearingboys they did not have the exsact size however at 97p i have orderded 4 difrent ones hoping one will be perfect. I have sent for one of them 25 quid piston kits from ebay and a 8 quid seal kit from L&S as for the flywheel the woodruff key is cast in to it i will just do what spud ses for the moment a new one is £50.

If i wanted to i could swap the bearing bush for a needle roller they had some the right size it got me thinking?? lol

As soon as all the bits come i will be sure to update ohh and i will order another back pack just looking at stihl/husky.. Husky 2year sthil 1... 

8 hours ago, lurkalot said:

Don't bother putting parts in it, the cost as you say is pretty horrendous, especially as Stihl do a whole replacement engine for them and at fraction of the cost.   I have one in at the moment which has done exactly the same thing as yours, a very badly seized small end.   

Are you just putting a new engine in? if so do L&S sell them? Out of all the tools i use the blower was the las thing i though would go...lol

50 minutes ago, spudulike said:

If the top end bearing has failed, what part are we talking about?? The needle bearing or is there a bush and that has failed?? Not sure I quite understand!

Yer spud you would normally have a needle bearing but this has a bush ? why maybe as its 4mix..??

Spoken to my local dealer and they are saying you need to buy the full new crank and con rod its £280 then £90 for the piston and £30 for the seals and other bits a new machine is £460... 

The only bit that failed was the top end bearing and the piston was slightley damaged. Looks like i will hafto keep an eye out on ebay..

4 hours ago, Paddy1000111 said:

If you can't buy the bushing, you could press out the one in there and buy one the same size online. A £2.50 bushing beats buying a new crank...

only problem is it slplit when i pressed it out and i binned it... Doh.. i could take the size of the pin and the size of the hole in the crank and work it out i suppose?

My BR600 back pack blower nipped up yesterday, i have stripped it and found the problem to be top end bearing failure. The problem i have is ordering the parts as theres a couple that do not show on stihls parts diagram the two i am strugling with are the woodruff key for the flywheel and the con rod top bearing its a small ? fossy bronze bush that goes in the top of the con rod. 

Can anyone help me??

Cheers for the feedback men i am going for a jcb 530-70 it has a 7m reach.

Just in the process of buying a Telehandler could anyone tell me the lift height required to load a walking floor lorry, the one i am looking at is 5.9m lift?? Cheers