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Hi folks No experience of heavy plant but I've been asked by a guy on the island to help him with an issue on his dumper. Everything works on it but when he turns the ignition key off the engine doesn't stop, unless he gives the dash several heavy thumps and that doesn't always work!!.... Can...

We have a small (domestic) solar array on our roof. I need to change the company I get FITs from (soon before I have a stroke or something with the high blood pressure). We set up with SSE about 8 years ago. They moved us recently to OVO. We had no choice in the matter - all the SSE accounts...

Hi I got the rebuilt hydraulic pump and lift cover installed,started the tractor after installing a 3500 psi pressure gauge on a port on the diverter valve. Initially the pressure rose to 3200 psi but fell back to a constant 2100 to 2200 psi on maximum pressure....is this normal for a 165 mk 2...

I've just gone to lift my mower to cut sileage and it's got half the lifting power from as before, it won't lift the mower into its up right position. How big a job in time is it to fit a new pump into the gearbox, I don't want to give up on getting the sileage done. They're not cheap I've got a...

Hi folks, I'm a bit stumped, can anyone help. I'm trying to remove the pins which hold the lower link arms of the three point linkage to the rear axle lugs. There seems to be nothing holding them in as the drillings which might have once held a threaded pin are empty. It doesn't look like the...

Hi folks, we have a sixteen acre croft in the Inner Hebrides of generally good permanent pasture where we keep four acres to make haylage, the remaining twelve is for thirteen mule ewes and one tup along with three beef cows and annually born calves. The three cows leave the croft to be bulled...

Hi folks, we have a sixteen acre croft in the Inner Hebrides of generally good permanent pasture where we keep foir acres to make haylage, the remaining eleven is for thirteen mule ewes and one tup along with three beef cows and annually born calves. The three cows leave the croft to be bulled...

Can anyone point me in the right direction for getting a good copy of a workshop manual for my tractor? I know i need both an engine and another manual to cover everything else. I have seen ones but they only go to 1986 and this tractor is a 1998. Thanks Hubert

hi, I'm starting working on a Massey 240 1998 and it needs a starter motor as it just clicks but doesn't turn the engine. Battery is fully charged and pto and gearbox interlocks are not activated. I have a choice of a Lucas TVO one made in India for £130 or a genuine Massey £223 both delivered...

Folks what's the best way of making a loader stand for my Mil master loader which doesn't have one....I don't mind setting aside an area of the croft for a permanently concreted in one....i don't have help so I have to do the coupling and uncoupling myself...

Hi folks I have an eye on a Millport power loader off a 135...would it fit my 35? Do you think the internal hydraulic pump would cope or is there an external option....seems to work fine on the three point linkage lifting silage bales