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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.
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my email address is [email protected] Email me and ill reply with the PDF doc.
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Parts manual? file:///C:/Users/Workshops/Desktop/Arborist%2015-23%20Parts%20List.pdf Copy that ^ into your internet search bar if so.
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That’s pretty cool. I guess the only benefit in the UK having a truck mounted chipper and then blowing it into a tipper trailer is you can carry roughly 2.75 tonne of chip on a 3.5 T towing capacity pick up legally. If not double what you can legally have in the back of say, a transit tipper.
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If you had a huge amount of work where you didn’t collect the chip you could make a pretty awesome mounted chipper setup, self contained with no towing.
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As mentioned very tricky to do without some clever engineering. I guess if you have a flat bed truck you could mount the chipper in the back of it, feed from the left hand side and blow the chip back into your trailer. It would be hard to have the chipper low enough still. A Quad Chip with its under chassis removed and bolted through your floor would be pretty cool as you would still have the turn table! Still, a tipper truck and trailed chipper is best, unless there’s a reason to why you need a tipper trailer on site?
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Must be a typo?! An 18hp can’t be nigh on 2k more expensive? You could buy a 14hp one then buy a new crate 18hp Vanguard on eBay and still have change ?
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So the machine based on the CS100 is more expensive than the CS100? With no UK dealer network to be supported by ?
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Always wonder why manufactures tension the belts outwards, pulling the belts out of the pulleys allowing less grip. Strange.
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We've fitted throttle cables to GreenMech's under warranty before now. Think its practically the same assembly.
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Unless your belts are actually slipping (you should be able to hear and smell them If so) then this won't be your issue to solving the infeed issue. The pulleys will be all polished up too. Where in the country are you. Can you take some photos of the box? We had a TW150 in before which would feed ok for a bit then feed rollers would turn slow, reverse, forward and it would be ok for another few minutes. Turned out to be a loose pressure relief valve in the hydraulic valve block.
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We would be happy to go and view / write a report on a chipper in the south of England if you found something for the cost of our labour. Just an idea.
