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Carefully cut the bearings off with a grinder. No point spending loads of time removing bearings in one piece that are knackered. If you've "modified" the taper lock bush, chuck that in the bin with the old bearings also. Check the drum is true, no cracking on either the drum or the housing. Refit your new bearings, new taper lock bush and jobs a good un. Set the blade - anvil gap with the setting tool provided by GreenMech. Double check the anvil - blade gap on both blades rather than just one. Should be about 2 hours work in total.

Mason Wood Chippers are probably your best shout.

Classic Pete Bags

We are in Wiltshire and yes, Dyson has a good name for local employment.

We have a used rad here. If you can email some photos of yours i will see if it is the same. [email protected]

Its certainly important to have a few tricks up your sleeve!

Something we have recently started doing, if the inner race is stuck on the shaft is to use a flapper sanding disc on the grinder to grind down the race. It is easy to spot the moment the race goes wafer thin without marking the shaft. Then just tap it off. Much less risk than using a cutting disk to slit through the race

Shafts are screwed together. Although sometimes damn tight. Bearings can be knocked out and carefully knocked back in with a vice/soft hammer/big socket.

Depending where it’s collecting there maybe an update for this.

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Great show again. Thursday was steady. Friday was really busy. Saturday was quieter than expected. The early afternoon rain pretty much knocked it on the head.

It is the same machine with less power.

Nice, what did you go for and where from?

Certainly get an EVO 205 GreenMech on demo. Kubota power. Good infeed and throughput.

Predator machines were stickered up Laski stump grinders made in CZ. Ben Burgess were the distributor of Predator grinders previously and have now gone direct to the Laski factory.