PeteB

As a yoof, I spent a fair bit of one summer on an archaeology dig and still find finding stuff fascinating! It was hard graft, really interesting, fun and entertaining being with a bunch of like minded volunteers. Mostly quite well balanced and educated people and I'm still in to that kind of thing now. We shifted mountains of spoil over the period on a roman site near to Oundle. Long days with little or no breaks, 7 days per week as volunteers but with all the learning and help you needed on the subject. Really surprised at how much stuff came out of the ground - bones of animals from ritualistic burials, skeletons, pots, coins, jewelry etc and at some depth too! I had a chap working for me years ago who was the other end of the scale in that he was a treasure digger, not interested in the context, only the value. He had pots and pots of finds at home, mostly of little value but I would not have trusted him with any gold etc - he did not see the point of getting permission either. He was the sort to give detectorists a bad name.

supply and demand! I got it and you want it! "Bish, bash, bosh, gimme your dosh!"

Unfortunately, if the thieving scum want your asset, they will go to extraordinary lengths to get it! With the tools that are available to them and knowing that the punishment does not the crime, your asset is always at risk.

This is going on ebay soon enough. I got a slight repair to do and a good clean and sharpen and she will get listed! New in 1997 from Charles Hill's and used on several jobs before I started working for GreenMech in 1999. Apart from a couple of jobs for mates, she has been sat in the shed! Works as she should and comes with another chain which is new but a different length.

I didn't realise for many years that the 'H' symbol is actually modelled on the fore site of a rifle on a barrel! Links back to the armaments division.

Just to quash a rumour given out in Scandinavia, the GreenMech Evo 165/45LE is available in all of the region! We have never switched off from supplying anywhere but the rumours that have been banded about by some irresponsible twerp in the Scandinavian trade are false. While we have engines and while we are allowed to supply, we will do. Please feel free to pass this message onward via your own channels. Anyone who says differently is being dishonest, and personally, I would walk away from anyone with that kind of sales technique!

A 1999 project? A few other people will have had the steel out of her! She should run a cement mixer okay but why? I wouldn't bother with a flail, I doubt she will have the power or flow for that. Stick to what they were designed for imo.

If you got spare and the deadline approaches, you an build the chassis, register the serial number, and carry on to fulfil the build. To have that level of stock will need decent cash reserves and space to store the part completed units. I think that we are in that position.

exothermic reaction? Seen bales or straw and hay go up before now. Back in the day, my woodchip pile caught fire on a hot summer day, possibly caused by a fag end or spark from the fire. We let it smoulder for quite a bit before the tractor scooped that section out and tossed it on the fire heap.

That's a good Landrover! Years back, an Uncle had the first LandRover delivered to Hereford and Worcester. I used to drive it about his farm as a young teenager, it taught me how to double declutch and gave me my love of the brand! I have had seven different models, inc the current weekend dogbus, a D4. The others were a Series 2A LWB, 110 V8, 127 Crewcab, 130 Crewcab, 130 Single Cab and an LSE RR. GreenMech got me a FreeLander van as a tow tug which did well too.

A mere 129 for me! 57 at the moment and 1948 Austin 16 hot rod!

That dont look good or cheap! Best wishes going forwards!

On a trip to Sicily a couple of years ago, we had a walk around the World Heritage Site, Akragas near Agrigento. Pretty awesome place and deserving of it's status. As we walked back up the main avenue linking the two structures, I picked up a couple of cones from one of the pretty huge Cupressus trees. Back home, I let these dry out and shed the seeds. I gave my mother half and i had mine in and out the fridge for stratification. She bobbed hers in a pot and one took. None of mine did! This it now.

Hopefully!

Ha, just to blow the old oil and dust off! Son brought the washer yesterday to replace his two year old one that died. He got the washer to clean my drive of old oil splats from his bloody car!

Just putting on ebay!

I put it on ebay this morning!

Apparantly, if you have an older unit that blows up, and they are still available, then a new one can be fitted or the old one can be rebuilt if the parts are available. It applies to new chassis numbers going forwards.

We foundsome remote fobs that were a miserly £25 each rather than some £75. Might be from some far off land.......

It is a question that I have asked and what are the penalties? Then look at the recent things with VW and I think Mercedes-Benz and their testing and published figures! I think if a manufacturer committed these offences, they would loose so much credibility that they might struggle in business going forwards etc. One may say, 'it didn't leave the factory like that', and get away with it. But engine suppliers might take a dim view and refuse to supply further units as it'd drag them into the argument and they are risk averse! I too think that some petrol engines are less good at emissions and it may be that in time, they too have a new set of regs to adhere to with convertors and stuff in the exhaust system. Who knows....

The basis is, some current engines cannot be detuned to run clean - the Kubora 1505 run in previous TW/Forst blah blah blah cannot be ran at 35hp any more, it has to be 25hp. To get 45, fit a turbo, but it runs dirty, and cannot be reasonably detuned to 35. S9 it gets binned To make them run clean, they have to be precision instruments and have help, all of which increases cost to the pocket to make a benefit to our lives and those come after us. Some people will accept the changes to the costs and power and adjust their own pricing to suit and others will run the cheaper petrol engines but have to accept that they run differently. These changes have been forced on us all because off the evidence of climate change and the need for those that are able, to accept the change.

We still have 45hp turbo diesel engines for use and will use them while we can. We are also looking at DPF units for tier 5 usage but the cost so much more for no perceivable gain. Other than environmental, which we should accept as a plus! We will fit that 45hp into the 165 for massive power in a 'small chipper while we can.

Roo having a kip! Looks like the end fell off the mop!

Fizz having a kip through the thunderstorm, big dog Woody (GSD) goes mental at thunder!

Blame the French health and safety! As well as the stop buttons and the push stick, they were trying to get hand feeding banned at one point! This is about the only time a 'Standard' has been binned before the replacement has been agreed, written up and implemented!