Dean Lofthouse

I just rent the bottles Ed I've got the original invoice which is 2008 Oxygen size E (small) £44 per year Acetelene size K (small) £44 " " Argo shield for mig size X £51 ""

No Tom it is for welding...that and stick were there well before mig was ever thought of Lighter guage stuff

They work quite hard during season and the rest of the time I do a bit of pigeons, but I just like to keep them really fit through summer when they tend to pile on the pounds. They are 7 and 8 years old, if they dont get excercise I cant feed them much and I feel as though I am starving them, so I feed them as normal and excercise them loads. They've just been out again down the wood with me. If you want to get in with a syndicate, there's a bloke called Winnie from the market weighton area, he organises days where he needs 20 guns which split into two groups stand one walk one. He advertises in the yorkshire post or something and might get 15 people so needs other people to make up numbers sometimes, if he has your number he just rings you to see if you want to fill in for the day which is good if you dont want commitment. Someone on here must know him. If your really interested I can get hold of his number for you if no-one on here has it. Just pm me your interested and I'll dig it out when I see my mate

No idea on the legal issues, I have a set rented from BOC, I would imagine the only thing stopping you from keeping them at home would be your house insurance

Perhaps some of that money should go to the damage caused by football hooligans instead of people having to pay for it themselves out of their insurance . Town centres get wrecked when "old rivalries" play, cost can run into hundreds of thousands, which should come out of the two clubs coffers, not our insurance pot.

England hasn't got a hope of winning or getting anywhere near winning. If they can't beat the Yanks who didn't play football at a game of football that has been played in england since time began then there's no hope. Sack the lot of them and start again, they're just a bunch of over paid, over valued thickop's that would have otherwise been on the dole had they not got into football

Is the wasp in the first pic rolling the leaf David ?

I love that bit.. Is that Qualified as in, been in the job 2 minutes but got the paperwork Or qualified as in 30 years experience

I think it is true Lorry. I think plenty of excercise is the key to happy dogs, they are quiet as a mouse at home, calm and relaxed. Then when out they go into "hunting" mode and are mental but obedient. They are the softest dogs on the planet, but hard as nails when it comes to getting into cover such as bramble, the bigger one will gladly die to retreive a bird, I have to really keep an eye on him. Last week they both saw geese on the other side and jumped up on a 3ft wall, before I could blow the stop whistle they had both gone over, it was 10ft on the other side and had run down the ivy to get down. It took me ten minutes to get them back over

Just been out to look at the label, which there isn't one and pulled the posts up ( not been used for 2 years) and the locks are seized. Took me 5 minutes to get round the locks so unless they have updated them I wouldn't bother with these. They were expensive I know that. They locked up into place and went back down despite being full of water, cant be too bad. Forget them if you live in a clay area or dont have free draining land. I would dig a test hole 3ft deep, leave it, if it fills with water dont get the buried type because eventually they'll knacker up. Here's mine http://www.barriersdirect.co.uk/categories/134-stainless-steel-telescopics/products/537-rhino-stainless-steel-telescopic-parking-post

Got some on my drive Jon thats been there 10 years and still work ok. They are round chrome posts that drop down underground, I'll try and dig out some info

Thats why I gave up drinking Dave, my tolerance level for alcohol went down and after giving up drinking my arrest rate went down too..

Sorry ! What did you say....? You'll have to speak up a bit young man !!

Got up this morning 5.50am, down to the canal car park with landy, got bike out of the back and set off on my usual 7 mile training run for the dogs along the canal. The canal in places runs along side a river. One of the dogs spots Ducks on the river and decided to go fetch and dissappears. After an hour of, Panic, anxiety, Brambles, bruises and thousand curses, I found him still in the river one mile downstream, chuffed to bits with himself. Then to top it all when I got back to the car park there was a carboot going on. I got a rollocking of two OAP's for nicking "their" spot and then another rollocking off another OAP organiser for parkng their in the first place as the car park is not to be used "the second sunday of every month" as these lot use it for charity fund raising. Well I do apologise madam, next time I'll put the defender into helicoptor mode and "hover park" !!!!

I was going to let him carry on David and then start calling him Billy until he realised, now you've ruined my game

Tested this one on the drive Rob and it was picking up individual reinforcing bars 6 inch deep, so I'm optimistic. What I was meaning with yours is if you look at a metal detector, it's easy to convert one to exactly the same setup as yours and depth of detection depends on how much you want to spend, the dearer the better. Cut off at line x Move control box down shaft and move rubber handle onto straight bit of shaft.

Any takers ?

Came across a little hand one on ebay described as "Untested". In other words not working. I bid on it and got it for £4, worth a look at I thought. Got it and sure enough, it was a non runner. So had a look and found the on off switch on the circuit board had fallen to bit so, desoldered it, araldited the peg back on and hey presto, a cheap working detector. The red arrow shows where I've aradited the on/off peg back on the switch, micro surgery when you look at the battery at the side for size comparison I'll give it a run and see how deep it scans later. BTW, those detectors that Rob D uses are simply cut down full size detectors All you do is move the console down, the shaft, cut off the rear handle and move the hand grip onto the shaft and you'll get one half the price for doing it yourself.

Learnt everything myself. Most things are just logic. The problem with todays mechanics is they dont repair, they just replace. Same thing again, they told me my throttle pedal was goosed and was £500 to replace. I had a look and a micro switch needed adjusting, 20 seconds fixed Just a thirst for knowledge is what most people need

I can still run rings round Toyota Technicians, they are useless without a computor. They told me my turbo was knackered on my 3 year old Toyota Amazon and that it would be around £2.5K to fix I asked if turbos regularly went on amazons with 30k on the clock. "No" They said. "So would you suspect that a sensor is faulty rather than the turbo seen as the car is running perfectly fine" He just stood there like a numpty. Turned out to be a loose connection, which I found. Just one of a catalogue of laughable incidents with toyota techs, problems they have mis-diagnosed which deano diagnosed properly with no computor

He's down Halfords as we speak having the baby seat fitted

Nah Bolt, thats rubbish mate....I've hit quite a few modern day things with an hammer recently and got em goin again

I'd have sent it to him recorded delivery, just to make sure he got it

Who's st george anyway, didn't he slay a dragon or something ?? Times move on...lets have another flag to represent england and let the chavs have the red cross

It happens all the time in nature.. a young maturing dog gets a whiff of a bitch on heat and will go all out to get to bury its bone, even challenging the alpha. Simon nees to reaffirm his position in the pack otherwise his missus could be in the firing line.