Alister, What you will find is your inner coller opposite to the one you have removed is probabley rusted, What you need to do if you have no proper hydraulic press is to hang the whole thing up on a chain block after first removing the road wheels and spray in plenty of release oil with the thing tilted down so the release oil will run into the coller area, leave for a few days. Get a plummers gas bottle and heat up the coller for a while.
Clamp the square part of the cross tube in a large vice and with it still supported on a chain block. Put your road wheel pins back in and get yourself a 6 foot plus scaffold pole and start rotating the whole thing on the cross tube back and forth. Once it starts to turn carrying on rotating it in a anti clockwise direction, between rotating it you can attemt to tap it off the cross tube with a large copper mallet.
Once you get it rotating it will come off, this worked for me. I have just made up three new collers as like you had to chisel out the outer ones.
All the best kevin.
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