Re: Liner Roughrider, gearbox problem
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:05 am
So, if I have diff problems, I just go digging for old Transit stuff?
Sounds like a good idea, though I prefer no diff problems. I just want this dumper to keep working.
I am trying to do a little drainage job in my small garden.
At the top boundary, I have a tiny little drainage channel off the hillside above. About two feet down is a clay base, but on top is just "sinking sand". Elsewhere, my garden is just clay, and a very fine, sticky clay at that. I was fool enough to disturb it before it rained for one week, and now my little JCB 801.4 is down to its upper return track! I am trying to remove the sinking sand to lower down the garden, and replace it with more clay. When I move one dumper load of sand, it take 10 minutes to help empty the load with a small shovel.
When I take a dumper load of clay up to the top, it takes me 30 minutes to spade it out. At just a few months short of 70, it completely kna****s me!
When I finish that part, I shall get in hardcore to make good the sloppy clay area, then I have a biggish drainage channel at the back of the house to complete. Only then will I be able to start my 30ft X 10 ft wooden motor bike shed. I will be able to get concrete around to it (inaccessible now), lay a base, and then get somebody competent with wood to build the shed. Meanwhile, the planners look on!
Les.
Sounds like a good idea, though I prefer no diff problems. I just want this dumper to keep working.
I am trying to do a little drainage job in my small garden.
At the top boundary, I have a tiny little drainage channel off the hillside above. About two feet down is a clay base, but on top is just "sinking sand". Elsewhere, my garden is just clay, and a very fine, sticky clay at that. I was fool enough to disturb it before it rained for one week, and now my little JCB 801.4 is down to its upper return track! I am trying to remove the sinking sand to lower down the garden, and replace it with more clay. When I move one dumper load of sand, it take 10 minutes to help empty the load with a small shovel.
When I take a dumper load of clay up to the top, it takes me 30 minutes to spade it out. At just a few months short of 70, it completely kna****s me!
When I finish that part, I shall get in hardcore to make good the sloppy clay area, then I have a biggish drainage channel at the back of the house to complete. Only then will I be able to start my 30ft X 10 ft wooden motor bike shed. I will be able to get concrete around to it (inaccessible now), lay a base, and then get somebody competent with wood to build the shed. Meanwhile, the planners look on!
Les.