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Logging Equipment up for Auction this Wednesday
LeeGray replied to woodland dweller's topic in General chat
Always the same at auctions, people go daft. Seen stuff go for more than new before! Never goes that way when your selling though eh -
I find variety is the best thing for me and I try to do everything myself where possible picking up new skills and experiences as I go. If I priced my time at what I charge customers I’d never do anything other than quite boring, repetitive stuff and be very unhappy. I much prefer to be self reliant and that comes with motivation of its own. Obviously massive mortgage helps when the boring but well paid jobs are on!
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Good roof rack would take plenty of weight, I was thinking of building a half length one for mine. Handy for odd bits, carrying fuel and mounting some work lights, but to be honest you could just put them in the boot easy enough and put tools in the back seat and foot well if needed
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If you’d have been close you could have taken it for a day to try it out. Don’t be tempted by a diesel, there either expensive for repairs for the V6 or V8 or dog slow for the td6. Things to look for are full service history, ideally few long term owners, gearbox oil change done despite meant to be a lifetime sealed box. Look for something without a tow bar, most have the factory fit frame and harness and you can just add the hitch and socket straight into plug in wiring harness. Check the mot history, some I looked at had been clocked...one of them twice! Radio faults..everything electrical is connected via central computer modules and radio faults usually signify corrosion in the system. bits not to be worried about..suspension, air bags and height sensors are cheap and easy fit, brakes as above, leak in the boot..the seal goes but again cheap and easy to sort.
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It’ll pull anything in high box on any slope I’ve come across, one hill farm I work with a digger or other machinery of similar weight on regularly the Isuzu could get up in low just, the 90 struggled without spinning the wheels low box diff locked and eventually killed the clutch. The range just drives up in high box and even changes up as it’s going despite having 6t plus pulling back down the hill. i use the low box to keep the speed down otherwise before you know it your doing 30mph round the fields. hill starts are a piece of p**s with the auto box too, it’ll hold the full weight then just tickle the throttle and off it burbles. Its why I keep banging on about them, they really are incredible and I can’t believe people are put off because they’re ‘so expensive/thirsty/complicated’ when they’re not if you look at depreciation and real cost of ownership.
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12-15 mpg clocking the mileage properly between fill ups, computer can be a bit generous . I’d imagine probably similar usage to you I.e. leave it running on yard whilst loading/before towing, no motor away miles, up and down dale, bit of low box work in the fields. Does 25mpg on a motorway run quite happy but I rarely use it like that.
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L322 vogue, don’t bother with lpg as it’s just another headache. Few pics below, not bling at all and no one ever says oh flash, charging too much etc it’s spent most of the time towing stuff like that, and the boot capacity.
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Not sure how much standard obd reads, I’ve got a Hawkeye which is a good set up for resetting most things. Happy to help if I can.
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What’s the problem with it? Have you had it plugged in for diagnosis? If you were near I could lend you my reader but opposite end of the country. A lot of the time it’s a simple sensor and plug and play replacements normally cheap.
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4.4 bmw is the one I’ve got and really like but some like the jag engines.
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Petrol v8 Range Rover with a good roof rack would be perfect for you Matthew. Cheap as chips to buy and keep on the road, even if you kill it’s engine or gearbox you can sell what’s left and not lose more than a grand. I’ve had mine coming up two years and it’s the cheapest actual cost motor I’ve ever run for work and I’ve had new Isuzu and Nissan pick ups, new and old defenders, discovery, traffic, primastar vans etc
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Hi Alan Are you you looking for specific species? Do you want green or seasoned? Whereabouts are you?
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How many buttons/rollers etc must that have on the joysticks! Bet it takes a hell of a skilled operator not to get tied in knots with it, just to get your head round what it can do must take months in the seat. Looks an awesome bit of kit.
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Can you not just stack them in the wood and get someone to move them when you’ve got a load? Be a lot cheaper and easier than buying, tax, insurance, mot another vehicle
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Even big smelly dog, even I don’t want to get in the truck when my old labradors been farting in there!
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If someone came to my yard and started threatening me or anyone working for me with a knife they could take what they wanted to be honest. And I’m a licensed firearm holder with guns within relatively easy reach. Hopefully the tracker/data tag/whatever security on the machine would get the machine back to me, if not the insurance would pay out and I’d try to be a bit more vigilant in future. Then sit down have a beer with the wife and kids that need me not to be dead or maimed!
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Service leaver looking for work in the Teesside/NYorks area
LeeGray replied to stevejnr's topic in Employment
You’ll be a joy for someone Steve, that listing is a hell of a lot different to the usual either ‘well I just want a bit of work here and there until I can afford a trandit and chipper of my own’ or ‘my mum and dad said I have to get a job and I like axe men on tv so’. I’m sure you’ll find something, good people are hard to find. Good luck. -
+1, top welder and rtech are good to deal with. Anything with a three year warranty for that sort of money is incredible value.
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Sounds like tough conditions with the cold for sure. When you say the dark isn’t a problem is it because it’s not black out like it is here or do you use masses of lights? Was wondering for example how does a brickie or farm fencer get on, same issues. I’m struggling to anything outside here in Northumberland by 4-5pm depending on cloud but luckily have plenty of stuff to do with the lights on in the workshop or butchery etc. When the chap on the radio was talking about it it was dark here and I was thinking f**k I couldn’t do anything out there without the machine or yard lights on never mind start swinging a chainsaw about 60’ up a tree. Only been to Copenhagen, never rural and never more north so don’t have a clue.
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Any jobs going?
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£ is a strong motivator I guess. Tough work though, I’ve done 12 hour nights before and found it hard going even inside. Mind hardest bit was driving past the pub everyone else was in at 8 o clock on a Friday night on the the way to work.
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Do the days feel long? I imagine constant darkness outside must be hard going on your head.
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After hearing on the radio yesterday about a place in Norway where the sun has now set till middle of January I was wondering how outside workers get on. Does everyone shut up and just enjoy the time off, workshop projects etc and make the most of the endless summer days or just muddle on with lights, proper set ups for night working? Find it fascinating that this happens not that far from us. Any experience?
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Very useful that, thanks for sharing. Wish I’d done similar when I bought my new machine rather than relying on what I thought the other specs were but probably had forgotten.
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30k towing miles in 6 months, shit that’s a lot of hours driving!
