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We sold it in 2000 and have lost touch with it now. Sorry.

I expect that is why Megazorb is our most popular bedding! If you think my beds are filthy come and have a look. Oh, and while you are here I'll teach you how to use punctuation.

(AKA Manorfarmdenton) Its the double H pattern. You knock the gear-lever to the left for low range and to the right for high.

@@johnfearnley7712 Ok, thanks. I have never driven truck with ZF transmission so I don't know what kind of setups they use. Sometimes there are strange setups, for example in 15-speed Fuller deep reduction range switch can be mounted on dashboard instead of locating it in main shift lever. :-)

@@A77uros We had several different gearboxes - Eaton Twinsplit, Fuller etc - and a number of trucks with ZF transmissions in various forms. We always found the ZF ones to be very reliable. One 220-36 with 16-speed ZF covered over a million K without the gearbox being touched. Re. the range-change on the dashboard, I think we once hired a Volvo F10 which had that - or was it the splitter? Can't remember! John.

@@johnfearnley7712 Can we say that double H shift pattern gives illusion of shifting 8-speed main gearbox although in reality you shift through 4 main gears twice, first in low range and then in high range? (Of course there is some gear skipping in lower gears in everyday use.)

@@A77uros Yes that's right - its 4 gears and a range-change activated by moving the gear-lever sideways. Left (when in neutral) to change into low range and right to change into high. No, you don't need to use them all, in fact I only remember using 1-low once in the 10 years we operated a 220-36. John.

Ryan - where are you? I might have some more photos and vid. - I'll look. I can't remember where I took this video, but it was my drivers in them - Gerry Brock in the 4500 and Denny Snelling in the 2500. I think :o) John.

Manorfarmdenton we are in Hemsby my grandad Ray Lawes drove these for agri tek then him and my dad bought them and traded as swift spreaders for years , that would be great if you had pictures and videos

@@ryanlawes43 I think I might even have made a video when your grandfather was driving. It was on a farm near Holt and Agritek had asked me to make a film showing how much more even the spread from the body we built was, compared with the one on the 4500 which had been modified to unload by ram with one big shredder at the back rather than the two we used. Unfortunately I lent it to John Bos in Holland and never had it back.

@@johnfearnley7712 I’ll speak with my father he may know more ! That’s such a shame that you don’t have the video, I have pictures of me in the 4500 as a child

@@ryanlawes43 I'll be interested to hear what your father has to say Ryan. All the best, John.

Whether or not you agree with me, why on earth do you need to be so aggressive! I'm tempted to remove your comment but will leave it to show how rude you are, whoever you are! I suggest you learn some manners, and not least learn to use the English language correctly!

Thank you Janet!

Come on Ian, it was January in Norfolk! :o) Wherever you went you were driving through a shower of s...e. Plus we were the only ones working as it was Christmas so it hadn't had a wash since it was up the road in December! It had regular checks and never failed a test or roadside stop. The only time I had trouble was on the A19 between York and Thirsk, when I was driving with wife in passenger seat and was stopped for routine check. I had ammonia in the trailer but no hazchem certificate - didn't need one as my wife/co-driver had one - but the man from the ministry didn't know the law and went ballistic. He was wrong and we were right though, as they admitted after a lot of arguing! John.

i doj. appoligise didn't know it was that time of year please accept my utmost appoligies I musta bn in a bad humour and took it out on yourselves I feel very humble now . on the gd side those ivecos are gd wagons hardy engines wiring could be a issue sometimes and rust byt in those days paint wasn't as gd as nowadays ,I hope your gd today take care

She got in the side the steering wheel was on. It helps to be that side if you're steering..........

The Tinemaster was a good tool and we thought we'd be able to keep it busy, but all our customers wanted a Sumo! The packer ring was different on the Sumo and although you couldn't really see any difference in the finished job, we couldn't get anyone to accept the Tinemaster. It was a big mistake - we paid a dealer £18K for it second-hand, only used it a couple of times, and after it had stood about for two or three years sold it again for £6K! Not one of our better schemes. Transporting it was a bit hairy as when folded it was as tall as it was wide, and rocked from side frighteningly. It didn't help that the wheels weren't opposite on another, the pair on one side being ahead of the ones on the other. Another problem it had was that if it was lowered right down when folded there wasn't enough pressure in the STX hydraulics to get it up off the ground! It needed larger bore rams on the wheels presumably, as there wasn't anything wrong with the STX pressure.

I think we pulled in three 100m coils altogether. My brother-in-law (feeding in the pipe - we were doing it for him) had already dug trenches where the joins were to be, so all we had to do was pull the mole into the trenches.

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Doesn't it sound the business! Rickel changed to Cummins in later models though. Do GM still make the two-strokes? The only one I have now is the 3-71 in my Chamberlain Super 90. The three-wheeler would pull a wheelie at traffic lights when empty. Gave a few cars a shock when they thought they'd beat it away from the lights.

Ha !! When one can amaze another at a stop light with a bit of farm kit, it is a good day. I believe all 2 stroke "jimmies" were discontinued. A few of them one can still get rebuild kits for, but some of the more popular configurations, the kits are pretty much gone unless you know an old time mechanic that has the right connections.

What a shame - I don't think they were particularly inefficient fuel-wise were they? Nothing else sounds quite like one in my experience, although the 2-stroke Foden FD6 that I drove in the Sixties came close! I have to agree with another commenter that the noise is a bit tiresome if you're working with it though. I also agree that having a straight pipe instead of the muffler makes almost no difference to the noise the Chamberlain makes. Re. spares, I got a water pump for the 3-71 from the States a couple of years ago with no problem.

+stuart rawnsley You're quite right! Actually I did notice when I was filming, and stopped her and put it in before she went out on the road. 10/10 for observance! John.

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Thanks. The ammonia liquor had an SG of 0.9, so 27,000 litres weighed 24300 kg. I can't remember what the trailer tare was but would guess around 6 tonnes. The 220-36 was just under 8 tonnes (I think) making the gross weight around the legal limit at the time of 38 tonnes. We loaded on a weighbridge so got the weight spot on.

The drainer makes a tube through the clay subsoil which if conditions are right is almost like a glazed pipe. Normal depth is 24" to the top of the mole, which channels the ground water into the shingle fill over the field drains. Its normally done at 90 degrees to the way the drains run, and every 6 feet or 9 feet. The metal foot (bullet) on the bottom of the blade is around 3" diameter and the ceramic expander (key ring) is 4" diameter, and its the latter compressing the subsoil that forms the tube.

This one was built in 1926 I think.

Hi John. Its the splitter. The ZF Ecosplit box has 4 forward and 1 reverse on the gearlever, then a high-low range change controlled by knocking the lever right across the gate (left for low, right for high) then in each of those 8 gears the splitter gives high and low. You don't normally need to use every gear, but I asked her to for the vid. We had those boxes in several trucks and they never gave any trouble.

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The Eaton Twin Split is an acquired taste! I have seen experienced ( on other boxes) drivers grind to a halt while looking for the next gear! I've heard it said that the Twin Split doesn't have 12 forward gears, it has 13 neutrals!