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  1. GA Groundcare
    The problem I see (and happy to be corrected) regarding small chippers on tracks is that something pedestrian moved is generally more manoeuvrable than something on tracks, shunting it around a customers lawn for example. If you had to get say the length of a football pitch I bet I could get there quicker pushing a CS100 than tracking a gravity fed style tracked unit. Obviously they come into their own on tougher, wet, boggy, steep ground where pushing is an issue. However if its a big job then you'd want a proper tracked hydraulic fed wood chipper on site. So really, the tracked gravity fed wood chippers which there are plenty of manufacturers offering only have an advantage if you're in boggy ground with narrow access? Pretty niche situation for the money spent?
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    Re tank cleaning, has it been fully drained, cleaned, dried and refilled with good diesel? Majority of engine issues are fuel related. Those Kubota units give very little trouble.
  3. GA Groundcare
    Which model EVO are you looking at? Petrol or diesel? Built well, will match the performance of the competition, get one out on demo and see for yourself
  4. GA Groundcare

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  5. GA Groundcare
    If its an older Jensen with the forward reverse on the stop bar this won't be the case. Can the OP get some photos of the forward / reverse valve block and operator controls?
  6. GA Groundcare
    Try out the GreenMech EVO 165 Diesel, Weighing in just over a tonne it's built like a beast for a 6.5" chipper. Get the TimberWolf and GreenMech dealer to bring them out on the same day or same time!
  7. GA Groundcare
    Don't run it with the flywheel housing open!! Would check hydraulic pump belt tension, is there a speed valve fitted? Probably located on the forward / reverse valve block. If so, is it seized? If it turns is it actually turning inside or just the plastic metal cover? Hydraulic oil level, hydraulic oil condition? If the stop bar activates the rollers forwards and reverse, remove the rod between the valve block and the stop bar. Then operate the forward / reverse directly at the valve block? There is three detent positions, reverse, forwards and stop. These three positions should feed nice and positive and not sloppy. If it works fine testing at the valve block your problem is on the connecting rod. There is a ball bearing that slides across a knuckle. This knuckle can wear and the detent be between positions causing slow rollers. Elmstar are down in Newton Abbott. They know Jensen products well.
  8. GA Groundcare
    Funny you say that, just assembled a V8 actually! 305hp should sort the job out...
  9. GA Groundcare
    Mother Gaia. She's a dab hand at EFI.
  10. GA Groundcare
    Believe it is heading back to the mothership.
  11. GA Groundcare
    Sorry, only just saw this. Show was pretty quiet however we got a few leads, couple of demonstrations to do and possibly sold a new PTO machine. It did help that our premises is only 45 mins from the show ground, therefore knew quite a few end users walking around. A few exhibitors who had travelled across the country were not very happy at all. Poor advertising in advance for the show itself and £17 a pop to get in doesn't help. We would rather be charged a little more for our stand and it be free to enter...
  12. GA Groundcare
    Are you completely sure the docs you signed are the what you were quoted? Was there a part exchange involved? Very unlikely for the finance bank to just forget. Usually the deposit is taken within a week of signing the documents.
  13. GA Groundcare
    Confor kit prep this afternoon in our workshops...
  14. GA Groundcare
    Is the control lever which operates the valve block getting full movement? You want to be checking this at the valve block end.
  15. GA Groundcare
    If you want to hear from people you've not spoken to for a few years. Buy yourself a car transporter trailer and let it be known on Facebook.
  16. GA Groundcare
    We have supplied 4 sets of brakes to hire outfits this year, sometimes with wheel bearings too when the hirer has driven with the handbrake on. Cannot confirm how successful the hire shop has been claiming those costs back.
  17. GA Groundcare
    Generally hiring out kit which you use yourself isn't a good combination. It may seem like a nice little money spinner but if its hired out on a Wednesday and you need it for a job on Thursday, but it comes back beaten up, broken or even just damaged blades then that's a problem. Or if their job over runs and need an additional day or two what happens then? If you're busy on a tree job and you have a machine hired out separately and it doesn't start, feed rollers wont go around, or generally breaks down how can you attend. Folk have a fairly short expectation time in regards to attending a breakdown or swapping the machine out if they are paying for hire. Hire only really works with dedicated hire kit.
  18. GA Groundcare
    Not sure how you could quantify that theory really. So many variables.
  19. GA Groundcare
    No, as with hollow grinding the grinding stone is facing the blade. The curve being created by the roundness of the grinding stone. You can grind TimberWolf blades and we grind plenty of them. We have ground the hollow out before now and flat ground them. Takes a bit longer on the first grind. Some folk reckon hollow ground performs better than a flat grind, personally struggle to see how it makes any noticeable difference, especially as it's the back edge.
  20. GA Groundcare
    We generally fill to the bottom line of the sight gauge. That way, when warm the oil is nicely in the middle.
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  22. GA Groundcare
    Reminder! Confor show is next week folks.
  23. GA Groundcare
    Our Isuzu D-Max had a software update on it's first service. The first thing a new iPhone does when setting up as a new phone is an update. We are able to check engines and install a software update if there is one on these engines
  24. GA Groundcare
    No, I was just knocking up a quick summary of fault finding on an engine like this.
  25. GA Groundcare
    It is a Briggs diag tool and you need the portal access for the system. We separately have an OBD fault code reader for our vehicles.

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