Machinery Photo/Discussion Thread

Reggie. wrote: »

Not when buying in the north. The northern sellers only want a registered vat number for thier accounts. The registered person will be buying nothing so no money to explain.

Revenue don't care with vat across the border as they weren't going to get it anyways. Now VRT is a different story

What's to stop you using a VAT no. from an invoice without the owners knowledge so

Reggie. wrote: »

Not if the machine is purchased up the north only if purchased in the south.

I suppose once the machine never features on the books as an expense so to speak it never existed in the first place.
Out of curiosity what does the retailer in the north do with your vat no. to justify not charging vat is it just to much hassle to confim it from revenue in the south.

Bullocks wrote: »

Lads , I'd say ye are pretty brave using someone elses VAT number and especially brave to let someone use yer own number .

That'd be my thinking on it too, just curious about the loop hole thats apparently there and obviously taken advantage off

Reggie. wrote: »

It could well have stopped at this stage but I remember there was a restaurant on the way to the north one time and lads would stop off on the way and use the vat no off the receipt to use aganist the machines. I think at one time 90% of machines had this vat no used

Jesus we've a great little country

Say my name wrote: »

I reckon that's the neighbour trying to protect his Citroen Ds that wont start with his bodyweight.

Still a stupid thing to do from both human beans.

kevthegaff wrote: »

Tractors radiator blew, it's leaking at the top where the plastic meets the steel. Could I have done damage to the engine block or gasket. Was agitating at the time, water was very dirty that came out

Did it run for long with no water before you coped it?

kevthegaff wrote: »

Not sure as smoked up like mad (could have been the water on the engine) when it started smoking maybe 15 seconds. No smoke before that. Engine oil looks ok, brown clayed water all over the engine and battery what ye think

Fifteen seconds I'd say your OK. If you stopped the engine as opposed to it stopping itself? The brown is just a sign that the coolant was due a change!!! Get new rad and chance her on.

Lads don't realise that mixing tanks is very hard on a engine. Flat out revs and no air flowing around it to cool it from driving iykwim

Waffletraktor wrote:

All rads go brown/gunky eventually as stuff corrodes deposites, engine block prob wants to be flushed out to clear sediment and presume a new rad?. It's more if the engine got hot and did damage. Which you don't know until go looking.

I turned the fan seemed ok, and checked oil that looked fine. Put my finger to air breather and didn't seem bad

visatorro wrote: »

Lads don't realise that mixing tanks is very hard on a engine. Flat out revs and no air flowing around it to cool it from driving iykwim

Would you get the same power from an agitator if you ran it on 1000rpm shaft ticking over as 540rpm running high revs?

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

Would you get the same power from an agitator if you ran it on 1000rpm shaft ticking over as 540rpm running high revs?

Not sure about 1000. I use 540eco. Tractor at 1500revs.

Reggie. wrote: »

Where does that come into play with mowers?

The same. Alot of power hungry work is completed with tractors that are just above the minimum hp required. Agitating for instance 90-100hp agitator being driven by a 110-120hp tractor.
Mowing,10hp/ft general rule of thumb, 10ft6 540 rpm mower being driven by a 120hp tractor in 1000rpm PTO. Hit a hill or wirey crop and you'll bring it to a standstil,it doesn't have the back up in torque when its at half/two-thirds of engine revs.
Now put a 160-180hp tractor in front of it and it'll have enough grunt to pull it through.