Mobile Fitter based near Bodmin Cornwall

[stephenmenhen1]

Hello, just joined and thought I'd post this thread to let anyone local to me know that I offer a fully mobile Agricultural & Plant fitting service in Cornwall based just outside Bodmin. I specialise in classic and vintage machines but do work on most equipment from servicing to engine rebuilds and I also have the facilities to manufacture hydraulic pipes, I am planning to hopefully have a mobile set up and I am always looking for more customers due to just starting up after leaving working in quarries to follow my dream of fixing machines full time (also the fact I'm rubbish at advertising). 7 days a week and I turn up when I say I will. if you're not satisfied with the job I'm not.

 

[Bri963]

Hello, just joined and thought I'd post this thread to let anyone local to me know that I offer a fully mobile Agricultural & Plant fitting service in Cornwall based just outside Bodmin. I specialise in classic and vintage machines but do work on most equipment from servicing to engine rebuilds and I also have the facilities to manufacture hydraulic pipes, I am planning to hopefully have a mobile set up and I am always looking for more customers due to just starting up after leaving working in quarries to follow my dream of fixing machines full time (also the fact I'm rubbish at advertising). 7 days a week and I turn up when I say I will. if you're not satisfied with the job I'm not.

welcome Steve, and thanks for the introduction. I Look forward to your postings (pictures or it didn’t happen) and hope business takes off. Unfortunately I’m in the very north of Cambridgeshire so couldn’t afford your travelling time, plus I repair my own fleet of one micro excavator and wacker plate.

 

[JD450A]

Can you make steel pipes for classic plant, and do you have a workshop or just mobile?

 

[V8Druid]

welcome Stephen, good intro boyo ....
good luck with the biz start up ...
spent 35 years working for myself and can be bloody tough at times -
too busy is worse than being quiet, more often than not -
can't keep 'em all happy -
be honest with your clients on time scales - it's better appreciated than not turning up when you say you will

 

[stephenmenhen1]

welcome Steve, and thanks for the introduction. I Look forward to your postings (pictures or it didn’t happen) and hope business takes off. Unfortunately I’m in the very north of Cambridgeshire so couldn’t afford your travelling time, plus I repair my own fleet of one micro excavator and wacker plate.

Thanks, yes it would be a little bit expensive travelling to cambridgeshire to change a spark plug in a whacker plate . Ive always wanted to go upto the cheffins machinery sales up there.

 

[stephenmenhen1]

Can you make steel pipes for classic plant, and do you have a workshop or just mobile?

I cant currently but I am looking into it as I need to make a few for my Hiab and thats the sort of thing I'd like to add to my skill set, I'd imagine its the same as making brake lines just larger. I'm mostly mobile but do rent some ground for my classic machinery collection of 7 tractors and a chaseside super loadmaster but the shed i got only has a 6 foot high door and not much space to get anything in. Once I can afford it I would lpve to get a workshop as I've spent my entire life working on stuff outside and it does get old sometimes.

 

[stephenmenhen1]

welcome Stephen, good intro boyo ....
good luck with the biz start up ...
spent 35 years working for myself and can be bloody tough at times -
too busy is worse than being quiet, more often than not -
can't keep 'em all happy -
be honest with your clients on time scales - it's better appreciated than not turning up when you say you will

Yes had one already that was questioning my capabilities even though he only wanted me to take a head off a leyland 4/98 not exactly a difficult job but oh well. I try and be as honest as possible and turn up when I say as when I was in the quarries the dealership would say yeah be there today but then might turn up a week later if your lucky. So far I've been licky as not had too many people wanting me at the same time but I imagine (and hope) it wont be long before that changes

 

[JD450A]

I cant currently but I am looking into it as I need to make a few for my Hiab and thats the sort of thing I'd like to add to my skill set, I'd imagine its the same as making brake lines just larger. I'm mostly mobile but do rent some ground for my classic machinery collection of 7 tractors and a chaseside super loadmaster but the shed i got only has a 6 foot high door and not much space to get anything in. Once I can afford it I would lpve to get a workshop as I've spent my entire life working on stuff outside and it does get old sometimes.

We can be friends.

Do you want a Wain Roy 300 backhoe

 

[stephenmenhen1]

We can be friends.

Do you want a Wain Roy 300 backhoe

Look at that better place to spend the day than my chaseside is currently

 

[JD450A]

Look at that better place to spend the day than my chaseside is currentlyView attachment 71353

Is the Crystal up for grabs? Iike them

 

[stephenmenhen1]

Is the Crystal up for grabs? Iike themView attachment 71354

No no no no no none of my tractors are for sale that ones undergoing a '3 month restoration' that started 3 years ago got a brand new engine block and crankshaft sat in the shed for it, it's quite a rare one 10111 and 40k box full ppwer steering and duncan cab, is that a 12045? Ive always wanted a 6 cylinder one dad had a chance of a 16045 didnt get it and regretted it since I wanted to give him a hiding when I found out and a bray Nuffield. I will get a 6 cyl one day as need something to tow my International TD9 about.

 

[JD450A]

No no no no no none of my tractors are for sale that ones undergoing a '3 month restoration' that started 3 years ago got a brand new engine block and crankshaft sat in the shed for it, it's quite a rare one 10111 and 40k box full ppwer steering and duncan cab, is that a 12045? Ive always wanted a 6 cylinder one dad had a chance of a 16045 didnt get it and regretted it since I wanted to give him a hiding when I found out and a bray Nuffield. I will get a 6 cyl one day as need something to tow my International TD9 about.View attachment 71355

Yes mines a 12045, came from Bob Partridge at Wadebridge/St Merryn. Shes a brute and also undergoing a 3 month restoration (From 3 years ago).... Aka in my shed in bits. Just going to pay one of my mates to do it over winter.
I'd like a 8045 really, or a 8011.... I need a linkbox tractor

 

[stephenmenhen1]

Yes mines a 12045, came from Bob Partridge at Wadebridge/St Merryn. Shes a brute and also undergoing a 3 month restoration (From 3 years ago).... Aka in my shed in bits. Just going to pay one of my mates to do it over winter.
I'd like a 8045 really, or a 8011.... I need a linkbox tractor

Think there was a chap up camelford way selling an 8045 possibly in bits. Got some nice old kit there sort of stuff I'd have if I owned my yard. I got bit of a thing for drotts and scraper boxes bugger knows why never had anything to do with them grandad had a b100 IH and a dozer not sure what model and had the original JCB hydradigger based on the Fordson Major, got an affinity for ADTs aswell especially a25c volvos probably because that was the first truck I drove, would love to start working on crushers and screeners just something about them.

 

[Bri963]

Looks like we’ve found another scrap magnet. Between Steve and Rory they’ll soon have all of those West Country hedges cleared of old machines.

 

[1RB]

Look at that better place to spend the day than my chaseside is currentlyView attachment 71353

Nuffield nose cone in the bucket

 

[TiltyShaun]

Welcome to the forum and good luck with the new venture.

 

[stephenmenhen1]

Looks like we’ve found another scrap magnet. Between Steve and Rory they’ll soon have all of those West Country hedges cleared of old machines.

Whats this 'scrap' you talk of? I like to think of it as cool stuff from the past, now where did I put my thwaites tusker think its under the brambles somewhere

 

[stephenmenhen1]

Nuffield nose cone in the bucket

Yes got three Nuffields a universal 4, 4/60 and a 6 cylinder 1060, love the things rather those over a Fordson Major but wouldn't complain to own one of those aswell. Would like to find a Nuffield winching tractor one day preferably with a Hesford

 

[Bri963]

Whats this 'scrap' you talk of? I like to think of it as cool stuff from the past, now where did I put my thwaites tusker think its under the brambles somewhere

I cut my teeth on old stuff from the past, except at the time it wasn’t that old. First bits of Kit I operated were a McConnell backhoe on the linkage of an IH 434, Bonser LS55 rough terrain fork lift, and a B100 Drott. Plus a good few tractors that are now collectible.

 

[1RB]

Yes got three Nuffields a universal 4, 4/60 and a 6 cylinder 1060, love the things rather those over a Fordson Major but wouldn't complain to own one of those aswell. Would like to find a Nuffield winching tractor one day preferably with a Hesford

I’ve got a 10/60 with the gate post wrecking half shaft still intact, been sat years but water got down the exhaust & would love to put a 6 pot in her. I was toying with the idea of trying to shoe horn a v8 Cummings into it, my dad has one in an old D series sat in a hedge row that needs cutting up. I used to have a Nuffield DM4 with the belt pulley. I’ve just bought a MF 165 because a customer sold his land & didn’t have any use for it so I’ve got it to take up space & come out once in a blue moon. You can never have to many tractors