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td5 can be remapped or chipped for a power increase, mine goes well, even on 35,s and on original transfer case.

im running a 2015 dodge ram. took it to 110mph once on private land , scared the hell out of me lol. not the right vehicles for higher speed! nowadays im getting old so slow is fine! Though the commercials are manual and im getting used to a auto. as said getting old!

if they are as light as my old vitara they can only manage 500kg unbraked,

Well each morning recently its rain, didnt think we'd have a pandemic but it happend .

Depends, to be honest I find it crude compared to.my defender , but they are remarkably comfy , can go fast ... I mean ive had 80 out of ours, but also id say they are good for going up on motorway as well. Td5 and the the fore runners to it are only good for 70 top whack unless u change transferbox and then there shit for towing .

aye Stubby, 70odd years of waking up in the morning,, and not regretted a single feckin' one of 'em.

Looks like it was pruned very heavily about 4yrs back and sent up a load of growth then has not being touched since. Id thin out that growth back to the same prune points and then also shorten some of the the longer ones. Also it a bit all on top and bare at the sides so leave some stuff to full out the sides

yes i read about the tow limit but recommendations is more like 900kg for safety. But all the other things sound good to me coming from a large american doublecab Though it does have every mod con going where as the jimney barely has a radio thats from this century from the pictures ive seen!

Spring Aparently .

Unfortunately he is right, it is a slow painful death, I do remember going to a local hospital with a regular cough for a chest x-ray and the people to the left and right of me were late thirties to early 50s. I was only 19 at the time , but does make you think . And regarding suicide ive a dim view on it mainly due to my history and also the people left behind like children. The only good thing about the big C is you have time to say good bye. That said I had a freind who found a cancenogenic lump on his chest ,I did the usual shit of reassurance that things would be fine .... next day he died of a massive seizure. No one knows of whats around the corner.

Yes to all of the above, remove dead or crossing branches plus do the reduction over a few years. The only other thing is have a mind towards making it easier to pick the apples and bring the fruit down to safe ladder height. Pruning apple trees is pretty personal. As well as the pruning described above, I'd maybe just cut back one or two of the big trunks per year. I'm on year three of doing exactly this to two Bramleys apple trees. The trees have survived, yes fruiting has reduced because you don't get apples on new growth, but I don't mind that.

I own a jimny and a defender, I take out the jimny because its capable , easy to park ,and the new ones dont have back seats so quite a bit of space in there, plus also it won't get stolen , spaces aren't expensive nore is road tax. Complete opposite for a decent defender, spares are costly , it probably will get stolen etc . Jimny can tow 1.6tons legally .not tried ours yet. Equally jimny can get out of a tight spot and spins on a sixpence , great for narrow drives .

That piece looks like a fairly consistent curve to it, if the chimney has been lined recently too large to be a typical 6" liner. I am assuming you have a baffle plate in the stove so unless you found it above the plate, it is not a chimney part. Never seen chicken bones do that... I guess the rest of your fuels are regular things, nothing like plastics or whatever. Yes let us know what you see when you look inside, a curious one.

If you are planning to take a fir bit off go slower an over a couple of years else fruit trees will send up a lot of new growth to compensate - 20% sounds about right. I would start with looking at the crossing over bits taking out anything touching another branch then step back to take a look, see how much you have taken off with that. Also while you are there anything that is dead. If it was mine the next step would be to take it down a bit from the top and bring in some of the longer horizontal ones (the thinner ones going left to right in the first picture) and leave it at that for this year. Next year see how it responds, what new growth it sends up then have a look at clearing some space and opening it up a bit. However some apple trees thrive and produce good crops with a more closed in centre.... opening it up might produce fewer larger apples - I know my boys prefer many smaller apples though.

Oh I completely agree, seens the police are useless , however in this day and age you will get someone stab u in the back by filming it... the stuff you could get away with you cant and because the police are biased - ie all this so called mental health shit, or they came from a bad home etc means that the police are geared up to protect the criminal, including the justice system and prisons...there the worst as the moj are so scared to be sued by a prisoner that they will bend over backwards for them. Nothing will change until u get rid of the human rights shite. Maybe then il happily get involved but unless my life's in danger , I couldnt be bothered .

Hi All With the soon to be here tax change for pick ups what are those of you going to do as a replacement? Ive a crew cab pickup but the additional tax will make it not viable to keep. Its used predominately for pricing and the odd tow when i hire in platforms or tracked chipper (probably 10 time a year if that). I have a personal family car so it doesnt get used for family duties. Im stuck in the mind set that if im going to get a useable van for work (like stump grinding) then it needs to really be a bigger van. A mid size (MWB) transit for example looks to me like a bandit sg40 would really struggle to fit in. Let alone a connect or courier sized one. So a small vehicle thats a lot easier for day to day traveling about. So then i can look at the commercial vans. Toyota landcriser, defender or even a suzuki Jimney. I am actually leaning towards the Suzuki as its a lot cheaper, smaller etc. Down side it doesnt tow much compared to the bigger ones but then again i have 2x 3.5 vans so they can take over that duty. Part of the other reason for thinking about it now is that come close to the time wont the market collapse as everyone comes to swap out to avoid the deadline. Where as now the values are probably pretty good. Just seeing what the rest of you are thinking if in the same boat. Cheers

You need me on that wall , you want me on that wall !

Irreavent what saw it is then ! Well sorted . 🙂

When you say recent install, was a new full steel liner used? If so this becomes a fully sealed steel unit where its impossible for foreign objects to get in. A DIY-er or cowboy might snag or break the liner, but that's pretty unlikely. Tell your wife to stop burning chickens! The moisture and fat will cool the flames and produce a horrendous creosote which will damage or shorten the life of your stove. Also the smell outside must be horrendous!

All solved by cleaning, she is running great today. Yes Stubby it is the Farmertec.

We need bad men in this world to do the tasks others can’t or won’t do.

Is this a genuine 372 or a Farmertech clone ?

Hi guys, hope everyone is doing well. I looked at a few pruning topics but couldn't find anything that really answered my questions (although I did pick up a ton of good info). Some friends of mine have this mature apple tree in their garden which they love, it provides them with a good crop of cooking apples every year and is a feature of their garden. They want to prune it which I said I was happy to do but I just want to get the balance right. My plan so far is to open up the middle a bit, remove dead and crossing/inward/vertical branches. Is there anything else I should be looking at? Some of the shoots are fairly chunky now, should I be reducing their number or focusing more on smaller branches/shoots? I'm looking at removing about 20% of the canopy overall. Thank you!

It was pretty culturally insensitive of him to interrupt their traditions.

OK thanks I understand now. If its squirting only when the chain is moving, my guess would be there is nothing wrong here just excess oiling, which you could turn down. or oil is too thin. But always worth checking. Sometimes the bar or faceplate can get dirty or dented allowing oil to leak out in strange places. Normally though oil would just leak downwards to the chain catcher area You can make a paper copy of your bar to check the alignment of the bar hole? You could run the saw gently without the bar off to see where oil emerges from the body of the saw. The risk is that the clutch flies off, so I do this outside, pointing in a safe direction and after the saw is warm so it doesn't require much revs.