Lancs Lad
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If there ever was a vosa magnet ...
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Stroppymonkey
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Someone on here needs to do it sometime. Its only expensive because its not mainstream
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Brendan
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Due to the archaic rules probably less hassle to go fifth wheel setup. Not every has a yard and that's before a lot of people needing to do driving test for larger vehicles plus trailers.
I'm still cautious to them being legit to run without an o license of any form. Currently a couple of mini artics for sale for 20 and 25k both sprinters with trailers
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Stroppymonkey
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Brendan
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That's a very long trailer but can't help thinking it screams "pull me"
hiluxman
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Weve always had cat minis. Right from 2002. Never had any issues with any of them. I didn't buy a cat mini when they were wacker neuson machines as....basically it wasn't a cat and if I wanted WN I'd of bought one from WN.
The new machines feel robust and are nice to operate.
Storrsy
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If you buy a cat badged Wacker you only get 1 door and instead an opening window- if it's the Wacker it's 2 doors and no windows to open at the sides. They're superb machines those wacker Cats, dad has a 2.4t and its a strong and smooth machine.
Contractor not far from Rory has gone Cat for much of their fleet- I bought one of my Taks of them, seem to like them but the 13 ton is only a year old and already gone back under warranty as the paint is falling off.
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DaveDCB
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To be fair I had CAT wacker built 301.4 and it was a great little thing, bonus that I have finning less than 10 miles away rather than a random pop up wacker dealer - which is what they always seem to be!
hiluxman
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I'm not pulling the wacker nueson diggers at all. I like them, good machines, infact I almost bought one last year.
It's just back then I didn't want to pay cat price for what wasn't a cat.
Furniss
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Bah ...its no good back tracking now - only special people in every sence own Wackers.
Storrsy
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From what I've seen of the Wackers the bits that count are done really well. Some of the features on the smaller mini Wackers are a bit naff- almost a bit eastern bloc in feel but those models are at least 10 years old now so probably need a bit of updating anyway
Hg2702
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No fancy gizmo’s or electrics Matt , be right up your street on the moor
JerryRtilt
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Furniss
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Yep ...your in
hiluxman
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I still think my jcb 8025 is great...what club do I belong to 
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
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Stroppymonkey
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Isn’t there O-Licence exemptions for recovery/distance from base? Not my area but think I recall reading something about it
Furniss
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Silence decendsI still think my jcb 8025 is great...what club do I belong to
Lancs Lad
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Correct, tacho as well iirc. Of course if you have the police contract I believe you tend to get other "privileges"
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Smiffy
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Yes but by far the most popular exemption is the John Deere one. This carries many other exemptions aswell such as the use of ratchet straps. Red diesel allowances and the use of weight restricted roads
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