so a neighbor asked if i could do them a favor and dig out a silt trap at the bottom of our lane that takes all the water off our hillside.
this is at 3pm on a friday so a jump in our schaeff(now terex) 3 ton and track down the hill dig it out no problem and start the 200m back up the lane to our house when a big cloud of white smoke starts pumping out the exhaust. i was only just above tick over, talking to said neighbor.
i shut it off and then it wouldn't start, like the fly wheel or hydraulic pump and stuck stopping the engine turning over.
so now got the only road onto our hillside blocked with a 3 ton lump of metal at 4 pm on a friday.
so a lot of buggering around later i managed to drag it up the lane to our drive with our jcb, the lane is the odd bit of washed away bitmac and lose scatter so it travelled ok.
got to our drive with is cobbled and it wouldn't travel, so dad had to pick it up at the back with telehandler while i lifted the front.
not very health safety friendly but it worked, except my dad smashed the door glass
so then had to get it into our barn, managed to pick it up with our forklift and position it into the barn where we could start stripping it down. all the while the misses is ringing reminding me her sister is coming to stay and not to be late oops haha
so no more favors haha
Giles
Groundworks and Equestrian specialists, prestige new builds and sports pitches. High Peak, Cheshire, South Yorkshire area.
Last week, 8.30am on Monday morning our 3 tonner burst a hose as we sunk the bucket into some footings. Good job the existing driveway was due to come up, otherwise we'd have had to resurface the driveway.
This week I jumped into our 5 tonner swung the door round to the fully open position and it clipped into the catch - and promptly smashed.
Not the best couple of weeks - although the replcement glass was only £125. I was expecting much more.
RW Gale Ltd - Civils & Surfacing Contractors based in Somerset
GB_Groundworks wrote:when a big cloud of white smoke starts pumping out the exhaust. i was only just above tick over, talking to said neighbor.
i shut it off and then it wouldn't start, like the fly wheel or hydraulic pump and stuck stopping the engine turning over.
I'd interested in what you find wrong with either the engine or pump. If you got white smoke out of the exhaust then I'd assume the engine is at fault - and now won't turn over? Could be hydraulically locked from either oil or water into the combustion chamber.
RW Gale Ltd - Civils & Surfacing Contractors based in Somerset
yeah i thought seized engine, but water was full and not hot cap came of radiator and could stick my finger in it tasted it and no oil in the water and same with the oil no water in it. had headcaskets or liners go before and you get that creamy clotted oil. well we got the counter weight off last night and i left my dad stripping it down so will inform when we know more.
my dad was saying he thought maybe piston ring gone.
dont talk to me about glass and diggers haha, i pulled a tree out with our 7 ton and it span around and swung back and crashed though the bottom glass on it, which was curved so had to replace it with a piece of percpex.
then the other day our john deere tractor was parked in the barn and we came to it and the front windscreen was smashed and there was a dead rook/crow on the bonnet. that was £220 for anew one.
edit: they do say bad things happen in threes, fingers crossed
Giles
Groundworks and Equestrian specialists, prestige new builds and sports pitches. High Peak, Cheshire, South Yorkshire area.
find that some days, disasters happen big time, always when you have to be somewhere at a certain time and your other half os on the phone saying" what time you gonna be home?" is if you can answer that question correctly
interested to hear what the problem is with the digger. How many hours has it done?
Dan the Crusher Man
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dig dug dan wrote:find that some days, disasters happen big time, always when you have to be somewhere at a certain time and your other half os on the phone saying" what time you gonna be home?" is if you can answer that question correctly
interested to hear what the problem is with the digger. How many hours has it done?
I get the train at the same time every night and have done for 12 months. get in the car and drive home. but er indoors still asks that very same question every night ....." what time you gonna be home?" One night the train was late so i phoned my wife ( as you do when you've been brainwashed ) i said " i wont be back till 8.00." Her response... " But your usually home for 7.00?" ???
I've lost count of the number of times we sell people bits for machines - new rubber tracks, bucket linkages etc. - because damage incurred whilst fulfilling a promise.
Sometimes, more understandably, someone lends his digger to another mate (a fatal favour!) who then promptly busts something, or tips the machine over in an inexplicably short time. That's kind of understandable, but why it should happen to people using their own machines to do a 'good turn' isn't. All I know is that it does happen!
Bloke who drives the JCB loadall at the main council depot loading skips and sorting waste etc managed somehow to shear the front righthand wheel right off, completely snapped the axle. Loadall only 4 months old 800 odd hours. Cue dealer from Gunn JCB and all the Bin and skip lorry drivers taking photos
Had to go and rescue another bloke who had been cutting in a valley alongside a stream on a John Deere flail, and we found him in mud over the axles. Took 5 blokes, chains and our two Iseki mowers... all in front of about 35 kids having a good giggle.
