mikecotterill

I'll leave it till Monday and ring PayPal and see what his "shipping agent" has to say. Cheers mike

Rubbish, the vehicle is still yours, your within your rights if you don't want to send to wherever he is.

 

Email saying i'm not happy and am not completing the transaction and i will be refunding the money you have sent!

 

Go to paypal, refund the money.

 

Go to ebay and select to cancel the transaction, and put down reasons why.

The point I was trying to make was, say I let the vehicle get picked up by the agent, the vehicle then gets shipped to malta, the buyer then files a dispute with eBay/PayPal etc, says its not as described or whatever, eBay then find in his favour and refund the money, at worst hes got the vehicle and the money and never gets in contact again, at best he's got both money and vehicle and I somehow have to get the vehicle back. If he was picking it up I'd be ok with it. Maybe I'm thinking about it too much

Any advice much appreciated? Last thing I want is for him to somehow claim against me, PayPal refund the money and I lose the vehicle too?

Well update is he's just payed me through PayPal and added 35 quid on presumably to cover fees? Not sure, even tho I asked him twice not too pay by paypal, not sure what to do now? Is it possible to reject the PayPal and cancel? Here's his feedback list, all odd stuff?

What do you guys reckon?

Just sold this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170870004091&ssPageName=ADME:L:EOISSA:GB:1123

The winning bidder sent me this message this morning, with about 6hrs to go till auction end.

"hi mike,

what registration year is it, please give details,"

So I told him even though the reg was visible in the photos, anyway he wins the auction turns out he's from Malta, straight away I thought here we go it's gonna be a scam, so I emailed him asking how and when he'd pick it up, his reply:

"hi mike,

thanks for your e mail , informinging how iam going to pick it up . As you already have gathered i am from the island of malta. I will aproach the shipper to make contact with you on your displayed mobile phone on monday, as you well know the shippers are closed for the week end. He will come with a loader and take it to the following code NN55JR in northhampton.I shall give him your mobile to arrange collection and let the shipper talk with you. Please make sure the landrover is free from the wheel as you said it was jammed,so we dont encounter no problems for the driver. regards joe thanks"

So I emailed him asking how he'd pay and said I'd rather not get paid by paypal due to fees, so just waiting to here the bank transfer answer !!

He's got 29 feedback but that could be just 25 50p things from china? What do you reckon, and ow do I get out of it without paying final value fees and getting bad feedback?

The reason I asks d originally was because I go off reading and people seem to think your the anti Christ sometimes turning up with a steel cable. (well slight exaggeration there!)

The only videos I found on YouTube were one of an anchor failing and the second was an army recovery which seems to have an obvious flaw in the rope before recovery.

I reckon presuming the cables in good nick it's the least of your worries in a recovery

Bit of an issue in the marine world - numerous sailors and even more fisherman not with us anymore due to both wire and synthetic ropes popping.

A trawl through MAIB (marine accident investigation branch) reports should give a bit more detail, albeit only covering incidents in UK waters or on UK registered vessels. Seem to recall some more recent events reported by the Marine Safety Forum.

I'll have a mooch. I'd imagine trawlers and the like are undergoing unknown and varying forces?

Oh yes. I know a guy who has a big scar on his face from a wire rope snapping on a mantidor.

 

I've broken a steel cable on a 6.5t winch and that narrowly missed me as it came pinging back. I've broken 2 or 3 more out in the woods and not done myself or anybody else any harm. Took a big chunk out of a tree though.

The ones you broke, what was the reason? If you know? I think most breakages either occur during bad rigging of the rope or most likely damaged ropes

Mythbusters did a load of tests with a pig carcass and some big cables, worth a watch if you can track it down.

It came up I'm my searching

, can't find the video but as always with mythbusters people weren't sure how realistic it was, apparently there's a navy training video showing/describing it but I can't find that either, and some people mentioned it was synthetic rope that was dangerous in shipping, so not really any use for me.

I can't help but think that all the hype about winch ropes snapping and cutting you in hand is a bit over exaggerated and probably helps plasma type rope sales!

A subject on a land rover forum made me think if there has ever been an actual incidence of a wire winch rope snapping and injuring someone, a quick google found nothing, but I never seem to have any luck"googling"!!

I won't even eat a Snickers! That's how much ill do another one! But ask me next week and I'll remember it with Rose tinted specs! Doing a half in august. The cross bay half! We cycling there, 80 mile, next day half marathon and 25 mile ride, next day canoeing round Windermere, next day riding home 80 mile. Things we come up with at the wrong end of a bottle of Jamesons!

Sounds ace that mate very envious, makes me think I need to get out riding again

Haha would you do another? I said I wouldn't at the finish but now it's a distant memory I'm tempted again

Good luck Chris just sponsored you, I did my first marathon earlier this year and can honestly say its the hardest thing I've done, get the next day off work too!!

Course this could be completely the wrong formula to use I just found it on the net

I've only got a small pump on mine so can't say if it'll run 72lpm but using this calc I worked out at 3625 psi 13hp will run a 6.1 gpm pump

Hi mate cheers what do you mean about it being broad? Do you mean the way it spreads out? If so I reckoned it was better to spread the log apart rather than try to slice the log, if that makes sense. So the idea is the blade just starts the split then doesn't do much after.

There was a few reasons for putting the wedge on the ram, the main was it was going to be a vertical and horizontal splitter to start with but with the ram I used that wasn't going to be to easy so I ditched the idea, the other advantage I thought was it'd be easy to but different ends on it so I could have a 4 way splitter or another flat plate to make a press for bushes etc.

Cheers mike

radio 4 ran a discussion this morn where a group of 'concerned residents' where accusing network rail of being heavy handed with their tree felling on embankments. "Clearing trees up to 30m from the line, ruining the landscape, destroying habitat" etc. The RSPB had a spokesman throwing further accusations of felling during the nesting season.

Anyone done any railways work?

 

Don't have any experience in this but isn't a railway embankment a bit like a ride/linear coppice coupe. I would of thought that the short rotation cutting they do is great for wildlife. Its not like their knocking down veteran trees surely?

Where was the area mentioned on the radio?

I work for network rail, we have to check for nests etc before cutting, any trees with nests in get left alone, same with badgers etc.

If its printing poor as its not used much have you tried putting it through a cleaning cycle?

 

And I don't mean putting it in the washing machine....

Yeah that's what I have to do but it turns a 5 second printing job into a fully blown task as it normally needs a couple of cleans, uses loads of ink too.

Think I'll get the Epsom, better the devil you know

Yeah that's the one I've got my eye on. Fancy the hp because you can email things to it and it'll print, I've no use for that feature but would make a good toy hahah. Spose I'll get the Epsom, from what I've read the problem with them is the ink heads aren't replaceabble, other makes apparently have the heads part of the cartridge so you get a new head every time you swap cartridge, the obvious downside I suppose being cost, just really want something that I can leave for a month or so and it stil print fine,

Right after a new wireless all in one printer. Not a massive budget 80-100 quid, so far seen an Epsom and a couple of hp's. I've got an Epsom at the minute but it's a litt le annoying as I don't use it often then when I do it often prints poor copies. So any recommendations? Cheers mike

Have a look at my thread mate. I used a 13 horse engine, jcb 3cx ram and a flowFIT bucher valve. As far as a ram is concerned I think it's all about the piston diameter and the body diameter. For a given pump the bigger the piston diameter the more powerfull it'll be but it'll move slower, if the piston diameter is for example 2" and the body is 3" it'll return faster (I think, not 100% on that bit)

Haha we'll sort somet nearer the time

We should have a local "do"

 

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Yeah I'd be up for that.

well if its to go on a landy, forget new electric winches and buy a used superwinch h14 shaft driven running of the gearbox. will be pulling long after the electric ones have burnt out and would pull your landy apart before it stops pulling! I can't see how they could ever breakdown either as its all pretty basic principles behind it.

As the guys after it for self recovery and the odd log I think a h14 is a bit ott. Unless going through a bog how often is it going to be needed, a few times a day at most.

The h14 also has the problem of the pro hanging low unless it's been turned already. Here's a pic of a husky and a h14. I can just lift the husky with rope. And I can just lift the h14 without 😃