Dean Lofthouse

This one at about 40mph takes about 3 artic lengths to stop

So far this week on my defender 130 I've: Put a new engine in, A new front axle New shocks all round New discs all round New calipers all round New pads all round It had loads of play in the drive which was cured by the front axle, it bounced around abit which was cured by the shocks, to stop within a reasonable distance it took me standing on the brake pedal. When I looked at the brakes the fronts weren't brilliant, two pots were stiff, the rear discs were only contacting on 75%, one of the rear pistons was seized and the other side hub seal was leaking wetting one side of that disc. New brakes all round, I was expecting the landy to stand on it's nose. Exactly the bloody same!! The only thing left is the master cylinder and servo. I have checked the servo by disconnecting the vaccum pipe the connecting it with my foot on the pedal and the pedal drops. Anyone else had similar problems or knows of a master cylinder upgrade. The brakes are attrocious, even with no weight on.

Your thinking again Dave

As anyone come across antwhere selling these. They are your standard 1/2" square teeth but have a locating slot cut into them. They are out of my "snapper stump cutter" which was one of five imported from the US

In an earlier post I told Skyhuck that when me and my brother were 3 and 5 respectively we demolished a house and said I would explain in another thread. We used to live in a three storey house and our bedroom was the attic bedroom, you know the one with the chimney breast that sloped diagonally across the wall. Me and my brother decided it would be a good thing to pick out the pointing from between the stonework on the underneath of the chimney breast with teaspoon handles. How long it took us or how much we dod I can't remember because I was only three. We ahd enough of that and retired to bed. At approximately 3am the whole chimney breast including the chimney on the roof and part of the roof came crashing through the house demolishing the whole of the three floors. When rescuers got to us we were sat up in our beds covered in black lime dust, none the worse for wear. Luckily no-one was injured , but the house was unrepairable and had to be demolished, the council had to find us emergency accomodation. Just one of the things me and my brother used to get upto. Apparently we were the children from hell, my mother said.

Now that I can believe

Seriously, it was difficult to keep a straight face, this guy was obviously used to working to the thou. I must admit though, my hedge is quite well trimmed and it's that dense on top the dogs can walk along it without their paws going through.

I'm in, owt for nowt.

Me and my brother demolished our house, I was three and he was five. The council had to rehouse us. You can't find stories like that in books !! I'll divulge on another thread

We'll post details a few days before to bump the thread up, but if I remember correctly, last time it was 10am

I know quite a few coppers, two of them firearms officers, one of them was involved in the menezes shooting. Speak to any "decent" copper (and you'll find their are plenty about) and you will be told a tale of severe frsutration that they can't get out and do proper coppering because of paperwork and red tape. You stop someone in the street, to search you have to fill in a long form and give them a receipt then fill in paperwork at the nick. There are many decent copper out there that want to do a good job but can't....... and that is from someone who did nine month in Armley prison for beating up two of them I'll explain.... I witnessed them beating up on a two lads, so instead of just witnessing what I had seen, daft arse Dean give them both a crack and asked them how they liked being punched, it ended up with about 8 police cars attending and all hell breaking loose, it also resulted in threats to me for months after, they even came out in civvies mob handed looking for me. I never got chance to plead my case or say what happened as my barrister said if you plead not guilty and get found guilty you are looking at 3 years. I am one of these that will help anyone and hate to see people getting hurt or bullied, it can go against you sometimes though. I actually got away from the scene and was arrested 2 weeks later when they found out who I was. When I was being escorted by the custody seargent through the underground tunnel to the courts, he congratulated me and said I had made a lot of coppers in that nick happy, it was well known that these two coppers liked to dish it out and it's about time they got their comupance. I was beginning to feel really bad up until that point and his comment made it all worthwhile, if you can look at it that way.

Lol, yes, thrown away = wazzed

We are embarrassing as a cricket team David, if I were in government, I'd fund them and make em practice 20 hours a day 7 days a week till they got it right

I use them on redirects, only cos I have them and when they get past their sell by they'll be wazzed.

I've used my specailist enhancing technique once again Dave to reveal the answer. It is infact a cricket bat

The barstewards had only put the line up two days before, right through, not ove some leylandii I trim every year. I was tucked inside the middle of them cutting my route thru with the h/trmmers and there it appeared

I like the second one, with the dog going, "what you lookin at dad"

It is... and the 4th is wearing the fifths socks, dirty scratter

It was slightly akward in that you fastened one end up then had to drive 1 mile round to the other side of a drop and a hedge to do the other end.

The first and third are of the same tree

I know people are all for themselves nowadays and when driving for example, won't let you out of junctions etc. But today, I was driving along a minor road, traffic was slow and I noticed a Police Transit, 3 policemen in it waiting at a junction on the right wanting to turn right. There were 6 vehicles ahead of me, 4 turned right into the junction were the police van was coming out of, non let them out, when they so easily could have done so. It was obvious they were going somewhere to a job, but you can guarantee the person who called will probably be a selfish barsteward same as these that didn't let the van out and will complain about how long it took the police to attend after their call to them. Bugger me, if it didn't happen again farther on to an ambulance and it was me both times that let them out. The easier and faster these vehicle get out of junctions and don't get held up the more jobs they can do and lifes they can save. The last thing we want is for emergency vehicles and their crews wasting time sat in traffic.

Use one of the rotary laser levels and cut them at night

I once had to use a laser level to reduce the height of a privet hedge for an engineer

When you get a builders band line out to cut the privets straight

If that's the case then they should ring bt and ask what they charge. I have received a bill for £400 for putting a telephone line back up it took the engineer two hours. £100 per hour for a pair of ladders and a screwdriver.