Mike Hill
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Yes its pathetic how the green movement changes its ideology on a whim. Over here now that we have a grumpy Russia over the border the government suggests every household has at least one fossil fuel vehicle incase Russia takes down the power grid. Six months ago they were looking forward to banning fossil fueled cars by 2030. They even mandated lead free bullets for the Army. Shame they didnt work but hey at least they wernt polluting.
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Norway mate
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It looks decent underneath. I think I will take it.
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I will have a look under it tomorrow. It just got a new MOT but the chassis condition will make or break the sale.
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I have the option of buying a fairly tidy Defender station wagon. 2003 TD5 150,000 miles on the clock A few rust bubbles on the bulkhead. The guy is asking £15k Am I mad for considering it?
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Threaded the needle with this one. Had to stand on wedges driven into a high stump to get around the back of it. I am looking pleased because I had to ditch the saw and flee when it started to go.The saw made it out ok. I couldnt climb these oldies because the clients wanted the understory as a screen and the neighbours wanted more sun. Felling big trees through understory on a rocky face above the sea is a mugs game. But it does make you feel alive.
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While you wrote that I was paid a small fortune just to think about Trees. My brother was paid £600 a day just to suggest that I think about sawmilling. People even pay me for my bad ideas,they are worth more than your good ideas.I dont really need this job or to enrich your forum with my writings. You owe me thousands Bullman.
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Is this the thread where we boast about how much we are worth? Because if it is,I have probably cut down the biggest trees for the most money, as well as felling the smallest trees for the most money. I have a Unimog and a Valtra with a crane and chipper.The Valtra cab gets a bit small at times due to my swollen head,but thats ok because no one is as good as me. Log off everybody,I have won.
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Had alot to do with over the counter " diet pills" and cheap cigarettes too.
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Volvo is like a cult over here in Scandi. I thought they were rubbish untill I had one. I have had four landies, still have one back home in NZ for hunting. I grew up in them, on them and under them but when Jap 4x4s became affordable my Dad bought one and never looked back.
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Your getting scratchy. Its a SUV with a landy badge on it. Great! You like it, I dont and I expect more from an off road vehicle than you do.Its really nothing personal, it just wont do what I would expect from and have done with a landy.
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How far could you drive yours with water over the top of the bonnet? Would you leave it stuck in a river overnight with the current flowing through it. Winch it out the next day and drive it home? Tip it on its side, pitch the tent, sort it out in the morning kind of thing. Sorry its a poser truck imho.If it makes you happy thats excellent,if it suits your boots even better. Your getting less load space than a 4x4 volvo estate and probably less reliability.
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I think it looks aweful. Might fit the bill for the "Green Wellies & Tweed Brigade", but Land Rover has had its day as a viable off road vehicle.
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One thing I added on my first two yank wagon's were temperature gauges for the trans.My new wagon has one fitted as standard.The biggest killer of autoboxes is heat,either directly by the tourque convertor buning up from people towing to heavy or just residual heat from a long pull and then they get to the job and turn the wagon straight off. On most Auto's the transfluid gets pumped though a matrix in the rad,and then through its own rad at the front.On my 6.5 I added another cooler as well.When you get to where your are going and your trans temp has gone over 80 deg plus,let it idle down for ten minutes.Another thing to think about is keeping your trans fluid clean,debris hold heat. Apart from that,I can't imagine towing daily with a manual these days.
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Good Heavens! How terrible! NEWS ALERT: Ukraine ‘obliterates’ Chechen special forces column with 56 tanks outside Kyiv and kills top general DENNISMICHAELLYNCH.COM The DML News App offers the best in news reporting.
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Climb up it with a big saw and box cut the stem out from the fracture. The stem will fall straight down and might dislodge from where its hung up.
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A Russian Warship side swiped a Norwegian freighter and sank it. Not much about it in the news. Norway responded by frowning. I can see Russia hasseling Norway, its not like NATO is worth anything and if Trumph gets back in the white house he couldnt care less about Europe and nor should he.
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I wonder how long before Russia starts flexing on the Norwegian Oil fields? There isnt much Europe can do about it.
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Back in 2000 I knew a girl who went onto work for the UN. She ended up being involved in de-mining projects in Africa.She was put in charge of purchasing some heavy equipment and didnt know a bulldozer from a low loader.Once she seriously asked me if I knew where she might source 12 Komatsu Dozers from in the UK because she felt that the price given by the usual supplier was "a bit high". The price was $200,000 USD per unit for used D61's.The same tractor could be bought in the states for about $40K. I asked her how they planned to move them from the port in Mosambik to the area's they were needed . "Oh I dont know,I guess they will drive them". -
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Electric winch for me. 5000lb Warn on a Jensen 530. If you tip the chipper on its side,a hydraulic winch is no help.
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I felt that!
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If a Cow trampled one of my familiy to death. No words could describe my Angus.
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Ship building?
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It may have been an initiation ritual that was lost on him because of his white privilage? He might have been expected to steal all their dogs and flyer their caravans in return in order to display his acceptance.
