john432
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire
Chatting with a friend,I said why don't we do a kind of "Scrap heap challenge" and knock together a lime spreader. First thoughts were to cut the top third off an old Slurry tanker, fit a kind of moving floor in the bottom,and some discs on the back and away to go!. But too much thinking and planning ,we are going to end up with only a drawbar from a collapsed Star tanker as the only salvaged scrap.
We decided that we needed big wide wheels for flotation, so thought the best route was the Russian 28.1x26 type tyres, but a bit of searching on eBay got me a pair of used Michelin 750/65R 26 tyres off a JCB articulated shovel. Got a 10 stud lorry trailer axle from Jenkins in Felinfach . This was my progress a few days ago. Had the steel delivered yesterday,from Dyfed Steels, four gearboxes have come from Kramp, and bearings, sprockets, hydraulic motor valves, floor chain and fittings etc have come from Granit, who have kindly given me a trade account.
We decided that we needed big wide wheels for flotation, so thought the best route was the Russian 28.1x26 type tyres, but a bit of searching on eBay got me a pair of used Michelin 750/65R 26 tyres off a JCB articulated shovel. Got a 10 stud lorry trailer axle from Jenkins in Felinfach . This was my progress a few days ago. Had the steel delivered yesterday,from Dyfed Steels, four gearboxes have come from Kramp, and bearings, sprockets, hydraulic motor valves, floor chain and fittings etc have come from Granit, who have kindly given me a trade account.