Unimog Club UK
General Topics Forums => General Banter! => Topic started by: casto on February 18, 2013, 08:58:47 pm
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Yeah I know what you mean. Think I got mine just b4 prices went up. I bought my mog from there and she wasn't advertised with links or pto but put an offer in for her. Sell u mine for 9k lol
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I'm on the Atkinson site every week. Get their newsletter email too. That £15k refurb job looks lovely but at £15k it's never ever going to happen. I recon I could push myself to £8k, and that would be pushing hard! £6k would be better! With a 3 point, PTO and 3 way tipper body that seems to be asking a lot lately. Go back a few years and you could get all that and freshly tidied for £8k. As fast as I save the prices are going up! ::)
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To be fair even if the cab is rough its still prob salvageable. I had no foot well when I started :D have u been on the atkinson site?
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yeah, they are strong, but anything mounted to them has to be 3 point mounted to allow flex (hence immense axle articulation) , otherwise the chassis can crack, generally behind where the chassis strengthener is where the engine is mounted.
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Don't get me started on my truck lol. Well my chassis pn the mog is still like new even after years of salt and snow. Pitty the cab wasn't the same :'(
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9mm thick?! Christ, that isn't designed to break any time soon then!
I used to paint old engine oil on the back half of my landy chassis whenever I had a bit floating about - Land Rover have a built in design feature that does the front for you.... Seemed to do the job very well in the time I had it.
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it also helps that in the early days they recommended spraying your chassis with old engine oil, not very environmentally friendly though :)
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Cause the steel is 9mm think! ;D
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I'm thinking I'd like to avoid anything that's spent it's life covered in salt! How are the mog chassis for rust? It seems the cabs go, but I've never heard a bad word about the chassis? How come?
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I'd put money on it being like mine was. The doors are showing the signs.
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notice the way they havent taken a pic of the back of the cab, probably rotten where they normally go.
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Yeah apparently half of leeds shut down lol.
It's a cheap mog to go snow blowing or a show piece. For a normal working mog its a bit stong on price lol. Then again, strip it and sell the bits off?? Then do all the stuff I've done to mine :o 8)
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Right time of year to sell it though, snow cutter and all that ;)
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I'm not in the best position to judge but I think they're asking a bit much for that one. Certainly for me it has nothing on it of use and it's not cheap!
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Yeah there is another sexy snow blower on eBay at the mo. It's nearly 10k though and prob needs a decent amount of work doing to it.
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casto didnt you say there was another one for sale somewhere?
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I think we may have just found the new official name for these silly snow blower type cabs! :P
Oh and pictures are good. A mog is a mog after all - no matter how ugly the cab is it beats anything I've ever owned!
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ooohhhh, stick some pics up ;D you know you want to :P
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Lol I recon I would be able to put my head over the din plate as the cab is so far forward lol. She looks good with the mud guards on her now :)
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That maybe true but there are a lot of good points as well. :)
true dat, spacious, and you can see your dim plate easy when you get one ;)
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That maybe true but there are a lot of good points as well. :)
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The ugly cabs have them :D but I don't think any other 900s do, but if you find one post it on here :)
Found one!!! My mog ;D :o :P
haha! nice try, yours is an ugly cab :P
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The ugly cabs have them :D but I don't think any other 900s do, but if you find one post it on here :)
Found one!!! My mog ;D :o :P
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Speaking of which we brought a 1300l home once with the lights and gun turrert and everything and we came over the crest of our hill with the lights on and siren on and me stood out of the hatch shouting "schnell!" ;D :P
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The ugly cabs have them :D but I don't think any other 900s do, but if you find one post it on here :)
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If I manage to get one it will most likely be full of ammo too. I recon they'd make a perfect mobile high seat to shoot from on flat ground! Is there such a thing as a gunner turret in the roof of a U900? I know some of the 1300L's have them...
Well the only u900 I know that has anything like a gun turret is my escape hatch :P
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If I manage to get one it will most likely be full of ammo too. I recon they'd make a perfect mobile high seat to shoot from on flat ground! Is there such a thing as a gunner turret in the roof of a U900? I know some of the 1300L's have them...
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they usually turn up in housing estates! its amazing how many times weve bought parts and when we go to collect them theyre in the middle of a housing estate and they open there garage door and its full of mog bits! :D they always have really good stories to tell about mogs as well :)
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I was working on a tree today and accidently covered next doors car on dust from the chipper. I court the neighbour and said sorry about the dust. He didnt mind much then turned and said 'i haven't seen a unimog for years'. Turns out he used to drive them in germany full of ammo :o its funny where mog drivers turn up! :D