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    Kioti EX50 parts needed

    Being the pot-metal "gubbings"(is it a clevis?) that connects the bowden cable to the valve block(i.e. down at the valve block) for the loader. Cyril Johnstons are telling me I will need to order the entire cable assembly. But the failed component is a screw on easily replaceable part so I was...
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    International BTD6 for sale

    Happenstance I came across this, see link https://whitelabel-2.globalauctionplatform.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/wca/catalogue-id-witham1-10000/lot-31671be5-1751-4793-9e3e-a9a600f385d8 No idea of condition or value, merely a "heads up" . cheers marcus
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    Any downside to buying a 125mm angle grinder rather than a 115mm one

    Because I am about to buy a metabo 18V cordless, and was focussed on the 115mm size. But for the exact same price I can get a 125mm one . . . marcus
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    digging a 20m by 50m pond?

    About 600mm of dry peat over stiff clay, stripped peat simply to be levelled over the adjacent fields, the underlying clay to be dug out to build a bank around, so no clay being re-located or carted away. Is it worth hiring in a 20 tonne digger, for the extra reach? As opposed to the usual 10/13...
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    Comments?

    https://imgur.com/gallery/sd2a5E8 As above found on imgur
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    DB 1490 electrical problems

    Having recently fitted a new battery and heater plug a week or so ago, yesterday evening, after working for about 3 or 4 hours, smoke started rising from some of the wires leading to the ignition switch, I figured a short somehow, & got the offending wire pulled away from its neighbour, at which...
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    A poverty spec export model, or what/why?

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-HOLLAND-FIAT-M100-CABLESS-MEGA-LOW-HOURS-100HP-4X4-TRACTOR/401493800683?hash=item5d7ae536eb:g:e4EAAOSwp7tahc4w
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    Now!, be nice, cos I got DB1490 gearbox woes

    Having replaced the rollpin in the top-cover a few times, and being aware of the signs of its impending failure I "knew" it was due replacing again. Except when I drove it out, it was 100% intact, unlike the previous ones which came out "in bits". So I guess?, she will require splitting for...
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    Most suitable farm digger

    Being now retired with some longtime neglected (& wilfully neglected by me) ground to lick into shape, & not concerned about transporting to the other wee bit of an outfarm. For Mossy ground, cleaning sheaughs, fencing, loading & moving & levelling hardcore to pave roddens (being raised peat...
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    Most effective machine to excavate a pond, 100m by 50m

    With surplus spoil(peat) to be piled at the far end, and left to naturally regenerate Birch woodland. I imagine a Dozer, with a 360 to tidy up the akward bits, the likely contractor favours 360's , i.e. no Dozer (even though he got a recently retracked D6 sized Komatsu). 1.0m(ave depth) deep...
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    A magnificent leg of N. I. lamb last night, & finished cold for lunch today

    Anyway, quite perfect meat, AND significently subjectively better, from memory, than our last leg of lamb, which was NZ sourced, both via Sainsburys. Not as fatty as the NZ Lamb, smelt better while cooking, made a nicer gravy. PS The proof of the pudding was that I ate it, both hot last night...
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    Back to Basics, the unbreakable 1490

    see photo, I hope, right-ho, kinda worked, my first attempt to images off my 15 year old camera, on this laptop (rather that at work, where all was configured for me by IT a good No of years ago, so! begod there bes life in the old dog yet!) The larger image, below, I had already re-sized, the...
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    best way of finding/defining a crack in a steel hydraulic pipe

    The nominal 15mm OD pipe from the pump to the valve block, is cracked somewhere near a bend, "pissing" oil upwards, but only when at maximium pressure (i.e. when the PRV is working) I had thought I had "near-enough" found the leak location, but v hard to properly see while "in-situ", and I...
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    What 2nd hand 360 Excavator?

    Anywhere between 5 and 15 tonne, pref on steel tracks/long undercarriage. For general Agric duties, mostly cleaning sheaughs, and perhaps handling timber(conifer) for firewood. I dont mind high hours, since I would not be racking up a lot of use. Zero brand preferences. Be working in Moss. mth
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    Anybody want to volunteer the correct hyd fluid for a Kioti EX50?

    Reddish in colour, Hytrans perhaps ? I will be trying the recently appointed NI dealership tomorrow, but to be sure, to be sure .. .. .., somebody on ere will likely know. cheers mth
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    Reinforcing a Rodden to withstand limited, and weather dependant, tractor based access only,

    A long title, but I got from a minimum of 600m ( & up to 1500 m ) of undisturbed peat rodden that I wish to improve, for a well shod tractor and trailer in dry conditions, or rather be prepared to avoid using when too wet. Peat about 3m-4m deep, mostly reasonably dry, but undulating, with a...
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    trailer tyres for the Moss

    I am in the process of purchasing a tipping trailer, I can get a 7' by 13' on a single axle with 500/50/17's. Which I reckon will be fine. But another supplier is pushing tandem 400's as being better(but heavier& more expensive, obviously) Only for footering about with limited crushed hardcore...
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    A &M Engineering, St. Clears

    Anyone dealt with them, or choose to vouch for them? cheers mth
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    Looking for a "wee handy" loader tractor, 2nd hand

    To piscle about, on a hobby basis, mostly cutting/stacking firewood as the land is all "set", but 40 odd acre of windthrow forestry to clear for firewood. I got a very well tyred 4WD 1490 DB, a forestry winch & a suitably sized forestry trailer for extraction, but need to mechanise the yard...
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