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Good morning Arbtalkers and happy Friday 😊

Oh don’t get me wrong, it’s bloody brilliant! Very impressive low footprint on wet grass. The bounce isn’t noticeable, but it is more twitchy on the loading ramps.

That just needs some flames on the sides, and it will be perfect. Go on you know you want to 😍

I did the same Dan, then they tried to charge me extra when my Transit needed recovering, even though they’d bloody bought it for me! It took a big row with them to get it sorted.

Morning all, Odds and ends today. Collecting lowering gear from Loler inspection, couple of quotes, trying to get the older Echo 2511tes running properly. I don’t envy any of you with lots of driving on a daily basis, sounds a real pain.

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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1C5fEiwnRs/?mibextid=wwXIfr A little light coffee and phonescrolling before action. Taking Sailor to Yorkshire to empty some bloke’s pheasant shoot for him.

Oi oi then !

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Worst board I’ve ever seen, congrats Rich!

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David brown in the surgery. Head off, had to use some ingenuity as I had to get it up and then over the loader arms which are set quite high. Ended up with rope tied of one side of the roof, down the the head and the up to a pulley the other side of the roof and then down to me. Part of the problem was getting the head up and off the long studs off the block. Once off I was hopping I would see a clear reason why I had two bent pushrods on cylinder three, nothing clear cut, no witness marks to indicate the piston had hit the valves.

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Good Morning Know how you feel Doug. 500+ miles this week and It's not over. Please can I have an easy one. New site though. Wokingham. Unknown territory, managed to bypass it until today. Have a splendid weekend.

The China will be the UK’s salvation trip Mark, don’t you buy into it. You wonder why I question the wisdom of your degree level education 🤷‍♂️ What was it in by the way??.

Up and away to new machine install! Thank God it is Friday! House does seem odd without Tom here....going to Caz's tonight so living out of a bag again! Toil, Let's, Eat.

Morning all. Made it, the weekend beckons. Hoping I'll manage not to finish late tonight and the commute will be less troublesome than the rest of the week has been. Surely I'm due one easy journey? Have a good one folks.

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Seem like everything you bitch about in the UK.

Covid -yes Coal power stations-yes State controlled media -yes Mass surveillance -yes State sponsored industrial espionage-yes etc etc Freedom of Speech-Negative Democracy -Negative Religious tolerance-Negative etc etc Very amusing to see China going from the number one global polluter and seller of copious amounts of unnecessary tat to perceived saviour of the UK, I suppose in the eyes of leftards anything is more palatable than a democratically elected president. I guess that’s the save the planet trip off now then, shame that seeing as you won’t need a visa which will be an absolute game changer for so many people 😂😂

A big city-slicker lawyer went duck hunting. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the other side of a fence. As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing. The lawyer said, "I shot a duck and it fell in this field, and now I'm going to get it." The old farmer replied, "This is my property, and you are not coming over here." The angry lawyer said, "I am one of the best trial attorneys in the country and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take everything you own." The old farmer smiled and said, "Apparently, you don't know how we settle disputes in these parts. We settle small disagreements with the 'Three Kick Rule.'" The lawyer asked, "What is the 'Three Kick Rule'?" The Farmer replied, "Well, because the dispute occurs on my land, I get to go first. I kick you three times and then you kick me three times and so on back and forth until someone gives up." The lawyer quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom. The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the attorney. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy steel toed work boot into the lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees. His second kick to the midriff sent the lawyer's last meal gush'n' from his mouth. The lawyer was on all fours when the farmer's third kick to his rear end, sent him face-first into a fresh cow pie. The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and dragged himself to his feet. Wiping his face with the arm of his jacket, he said, "Okay, you old fart. Now it's my turn." The old farmer smiled and said, "Nah, I give up. You can have the duck."

As a bagpiper, I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man who had no family or friends. The funeral was to be held at a cemetery in the remote countryside and this man would be the first to be laid to rest there. As I was not familiar with the backwoods area, I became lost and being a typical man, did not stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late. I saw the backhoe and the crew who were eating lunch but the hearse was nowhere in sight. I apologized to the workers for my tardiness and stepped to the side of the open grave where I saw the vault lid already in place. I assured the workers I would not hold them up for long but this was the proper thing to do. The workers gathered around, still eating their lunch. I played out my heart and soul. As I played the workers began to weep. I played and I played like I'd never played before, from Going Home and The Lord is My Shepherd to Flowers of the Forest . I closed the lengthy session with Amazing Grace and walked to my car. As I was opening the door and taking off my coat, I overheard one of the workers saying to another, Sweet Jeezuz, Mary 'n Joseph, I have never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for twenty years