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Breakdowns!!!

Is anyone else's life being ruined by breakdowns at the moment!I've had 2 strikers breakdown not big problems but enough to stop me.And then I bent the lift arm on the big mower and had to take the whole front end off to get at it and fix it !!Hoping for a better week this week.

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  • Yea, I had the big end go on the van. About another week using a fiat doblo cargo!! It's a struggle!!
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    • Could you have not get a refurbed one to fit then send the old one back?
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    I've had pretty consistent battery problems recently, its going at the end of June though for hopefully an Iveco Daily SWB.

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    Strikers should say strimmers by the way!!!!
  • I was mowing one day when I saw a wheel laid just where I had been. It belonged to my Honda self propelled mower. The axle had split where the axle fastens onto the body. It had come loose and had rubbed for sometime before it split.The cost to repair was expensive as it meant taking the rear axle off with the gearbox which had been going anyway. 

    It got used for spares and a new one ordered. Lesson learnt from that day, check equipment over at the end of each day!!!

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      Hahaha, that must have been a comical moment, ooo that wheel looks very familiar, hahaha
      • It was not funny at that moment, a few choice words said, but then a week later an old dear ran over my stihl blower (orange/white coloured-how that was not seen). I could not believe it when it started, yeah lots of scuff marks, but heck! She asked what the problem was as I swore!!

        • Client did the very same thing this afternoon and tripped over the blower which was in the middle of the driveway, It wasn't even his driveway but next's door and he came to tell me he had the key for their side gate. Nothing else was around!  Luckily he rolled as he felled and wasn't hurt.  However we all do need to be mindful, I had one client who tried to skip over a strimmer and landed badly and ended up in hospital for six weeks.. She still thanks me for helping her and waiting till the ambulance arrived. I'm just grateful she didn't think wheres there a blame there is a claim!!

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    Hell, this time of year if something is going to break it will break at the optimum time to cause you as much hassle as possible, no amount of checks or servicing will avoid this, lets tally up breakages so far the spring, 1 x Hayter pro (sabotaged), 1 x strimmer dead from dumb ass pikey driving over it, 1 x hedge cutter broken, 1 x Iphone dropped from hedge( lesson learned do not try to answer whilst cutting a hedge) , egr cooler went on truck. Touching wood that's the worst out of the way and now I can crack on for the summer, trasfering over to Pellenc kit next spring anyways so all my kit has to do is last this year :-)
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    My Etesia Bahia shredded a drivebelt today - meant finishing off a lawn by hand!

    I would estimate that we have spent in the region of £3k this year so far servicing and fixing our garden maintenance equipment not to mention the cost of keeping our small fleet of vehicles on the road!

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