tinkering over Christmas

[jcb4cx]

did a bit of maintenance over Christmas ,new cutting edge's welded on to teeth ,new (second hand) front tyres, new bushes in quickhitch and dipper ,tipping link as the old driver was allergic to grease
a little soldering to a wire on the forwards reverse stalk ,as it lost 3rd and 4th just before christmas ,it had become trapped in the cowl and worn through
fronts had lasted 3000hrs
and a wash to finish it off

just need to sort the breaker out now ,works very well but is badly worn
cheers graham[attachment

[Nick Drew]

Nice work with the cutting edges Graham

Nick

[Neversweat]

Nice pic of a tyre Bruv You got our steam cleaner then - Bit short on gritting money this week then

Steve

[bigkit]

Well if the gritting slows down he can use the backscratcher to clear the ice of the pavements with those nice refurb'd buckets seeing as he cant get the grit to reach over the kerb!

[Neversweat]

Well if the gritting slows down he can use the backscratcher to clear the ice of the pavements with those nice refurb'd buckets seeing as he cant get the grit to reach over the kerb!

You'd have thought he'd give the front bucket a coat of paint as well

Steve

[jcb4cx]

nick the buckets needed doing desperately ,as the edge on them was way to small they were all rounded off ,except the 3ft ,which was too narrow and left a big gap between the plate and the buckets edge which made scraping up shingle a long process
i put new side cutters on ,but did not have any for the 9"
bigkit you will be surprised how far i can get the salt ,especially when the little buggers throw sodding great snow balls at me
but we get told off for salting footpaths

yes Steve went and borrowed it today ,put my name on that cattle truck too if it comes up
its been nice to have a break from gritting
cheers graham

[bigkit]

Blimey Graham...............so Aunty Ada can slip and break her leg on the path......... but wanky Crispin can take hi Beamer out!

Well I suppose the ambulance will be able to get through to Aunty if the roads are clear!

[grant]

Nice job on the cutting edges graham out of interest do you have buckets with teeth aswell?I got 3 new tyres a few weeks ago the last ones lasted 2 years doing a fair bit of roadwork i'am meant to be getting another new back one as the machine is lop sided

[jcb4cx]

Blimey Graham...............so Aunty Ada can slip and break her leg on the path......... but wanky Crispin can take hi Beamer out!

beamers they are candidates for extra salt

Nice job on the cutting edges graham out of interest do you have buckets with teeth aswell?I got 3 new tyres a few weeks ago the last ones lasted 2 years doing a fair bit of roadwork i'am meant to be getting another new back one as the machine is lop sided

i have some brand new metric radial michelins for the front i purchased from ebay ,i put the second hand fronts on so hopefully they will wear out together now front and back ,and if my boss gets some metric radials for the back ,i will sell him the fronts ,unless someone offers me on them in the mean time

tyres http://www.michelinag.com/agx/en-US/products/product_detail_pages/XMCL.jsp

cheers graham

[grant]

They are good tyres I had the xmcls on the front of my 3cx they lasted well I now have 3 Michelin power cls they only put one on the back so I have 1half worn protector 18.4 26 and one new Michelin 480 80 26 now the front bucket doesn't sit level digger is due a service soon so think am getting another one then