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In that case, JLR Plant & Machinery advertised a 2011 TW125 for £4,300 ex vat a few days ago. Serviced and new flywheel bearings.
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A bit different on tracked machines as they have run for that long but not necessarily chipped for that long as can spend a fair amount of time just getting themselves to site, downside is a worn trackbase can become very expensive very quickly if your unlucky! Indeed, the track base looks pretty good on this one, tracks are nearly new and the extension booms feel pretty tight! The usual tell-tale sign on a SafeTrak of worn or out of adjusted leg extensions is they sit in a nose nose dive position towards the operators platform.
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We part exchanged a CM220 road tow chipper earlier this year with 3400 hours, we carried out a light service and it was sold to another tree surgeon. It was still in pretty good shape. For a road tow 2,000 hours would be fairly high, most 6-10 year old tracked machines we see in have 1250-2500 hours on and if maintained well, they are completely fine still. They are built for it in my opinion. If we hire a road tow chipper to a domestic tree surgeon, they may have a full hard days work but the chipper will often only come back with 1 or 2 hours on the clock. However, tracked machines in a commercial environment usually get turned on first thing and then run for 7-8 hours in a day.
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I have a 2017 GreenMech Arborist 130 for sale if that's any good...
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We have a 2009 used GreenMech Safe Trak 19-28 Mk1 on ebay at the moment. Its a px and we have run it up and all seems to work fine. I would let it go for 8k inc vat for a quick sale. I shall email you now... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2009-GreenMech-SafeTrak-19-28-Wood-Chipper-PLUS-VAT/264360856573?hash=item3d8d228bfd:g:pM0AAOSw3JNdAlpZ
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Not worth the risk. Genuine TW150 blades are cheap anyways. As said above if you have a failure and fitted genuine items to factory specification then the chipper manufacture will take it seriously.
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Local customer to us has a newish 215. Seems happy with it and from what I have seen good performance / throughput. We sharpen his blades but they are mega expensive to replace...
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We have found that once the spring has "settled in" it can often do with a tweak up. Usually at about your hours. If you can put your hand on the spring and rattle it then its definitely to slack. As Jase says, tension just so it starts to stretch.
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Definitely price up and demo some other brands too. with the euro how it is it makes the Jensen an expensive buy... For example a new GreenMech Arborist 150 or TimberWolf TW230 would be around 15k net plus vat brand new.
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Devizes. You can buy it for 2.5k plus vat if you fancy!
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We have a cs 100 you could hire but would need to collect from Wiltshire.
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New retail is GreenMech. We service, maintain and blade sharpen for all makes and models. We retail our used part exchange machines opposed to trading them out so a fair amount of “prep for sale” on all brands.
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Cant help but disagree with your theory I'm afraid. When I demo a GM one of the points I will cover is not cutting the Y pieces and the letter box opening helps get odd shapes through. Never see hydraulic motor shafts snap. I have had the motors jam up with an awkward piece of material but no harms ever been mechanically done. Simply reverse, flip material and have another go. Personally I don't think there is the room between the feed rollers and flywheel for material to spring back so aggressively, the base of the Y piece will have already started to be chipped and said Y piece collapsed. Looks more like there is no load protection on the shaft once it got jammed up then the weakest link failed?
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We had this on a TW230 last week but on a road tow. Remove the belts again, does the engine start up? On the one we had in the flywheel was heavily blocked mulchy crap. The starter would turn the engine /flywheel over but not fast enough to actually start up. We removed the panels to give access to the flywheel, really carefully removed all the built up debris in the chip chamber, turned the flywheel over with a bar, removed more debris until we could turn it over by hand. Re fitted the belts and it fired straight up. We then noticed no air flow coming out of the discharge chute so stopped the machine, removed the chute which was blocked up solid, un blocked it and then all was good.
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Hello, Does anyone have a used / non working / spares or repair Husqvarna 3120 XP they’d part with? Doesn’t need to run, just needs to be complete. We’d like to mount one in our showroom up on the wall. Thanks
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We have a used 2011 14hp CS100 in good condition. We would let it go for 2,500 plus vat. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2011-GreenMech-CS100-14hp-Wood-Chipper-PLUS-VAT/264182938924 Beauty is that you will be using one of the best small chippers and when you decide to replace it in years to come you'll get 90% of that back. We know customers who have bought them right and made a profit on the back end!
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Haha! Guessing the area flooded?! opposed to the machine falling into the water? We just sold a new GreenMech which is being mounted on a boat. Hopefully it'll stay a bit drier!
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Extended cab pick up “back seat” tool box ideas.
GA Groundcare replied to GA Groundcare's topic in Arb-Trucks
That seems pretty tough! You could say any van that has home made racking in the back, so every tradesman has a modified van. Our insurance broker came and visited our premises, looked in our service vans, has seen the racking in them. Our policy is a trade policy, it states any equipment owned, or we are in possession of (customers machines) goods in transit, towing etc. You get the feeling / impression of a blanket you're covered for everything, but probably very different If we crashed our service van fully loaded up, towing, into the side of our depot ?? -
We did a set the other week as the splined boss had stripped. Welded nuts to the bolt heads, the heat penetrated nicely into the bolt, removed with a socket directly, new boss fitted, blades sharpened, new bolts fitted and back together all within a couple of hours carried out by our 18 year old apprentice ?
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A specific used one or a new one? Kubota 34hp, good strong flywheels, premium pumps, motors etc. They are a good uncomplicated machine.
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Hello! We have just bought an Isuzu D-Max extended cab and where the mini back seats are we want to build in a tool box / proper storage area. Anyone done this and have any inspirational pictures? Or know where something off the shelf that suits can be purchased? Doesn’t have to be specifically on a D-Max, any King / extended cab will suffice ?
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I think you are right. Stereotyping here I know and just using this as an example, your average 20 year old woman can’t afford to buy a new car outright. However she can afford £99 a month. So she gets a brand new Fiat 500. It becomes three years old, she’s given a price of 5k to buy it which she doesn’t have. But she can afford a new Fiat 500 at the latest offer price of say £109. Completely backwards logic but it works for her. Doesn’t work for the overall economy when multiplied into the millions. I think that’s why if you listen or watch car adverts lately. Audi, BMW, Land Rover etc they are solely pushing approved used, two years warranty etc. A crash is looming. ?
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Indeed, so many folk get sucked into "I can afford those figures per month" but actually have no idea on the mechanics of the deal they've just signed too.
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Go to the main dealer of said product you are buying, build a relationship with them and they'll give you great after care when you need it most.
