Tom D

As Steve says, I bought his Atlas, it has served me pretty faultlessly since and has been worked extremely hard, including being loaded with big lumps by machines. I ticked Ifor on the poll however because, I think the one drawback of the atlas is the quality of the steel itself, the build quality is fine, as good as an ifor, and or course all the parts other than the chassis are the same as an ifor anyway. But the Chinese made chassis and tipping body are showing signs of wear, well abuse really, I think an ifor would probably have fared better. The galvanising is probably not quite as good either. Would I have another Atlas? Yes. will my next trailer be an atlas? maybe... but if an ifor came up at the right price..

No, There's a digital readout in the tractor, its never been past about 70degrees I think. And that is after driving with the oil to the crane engaged by mistake. Under normal use its fine...

Some good suggestions Dean, one interesting thing I read a while back: the average Deer rifle puts a huge spin on the bullet thanks to the rifling, an amazing 180,000 RPM.

If it was mine, personally I would tow it with the nav, make sure all lights and number plates are in good order and go for it. I have been driving trailers for 22 years and only been pulled by vosa once.... If you are worried about the brakes swap the axles for some indespension units or similar, should cost under 2k for the whole lot. My brother has a 6 wheel steering drawbar trailer that he imported from germany, it has at least 8m of load bed and another 2 in the drawbar, so it must be 10m long, he tows it with a disco4. not had any bother...

It would be far cheaper to modify the mill and then tow it with your nav. Looking at the pic, simply chop the deck just behind the rear axle, then put a hinge in, just fold it up for transport. If you then slide the head over the axle you should be able to keep the nose weight sensible. If its a yank / canadian machine its probably heavy built and would easily take the modification by a good engineer. Trust me, running any ag vehicle on the road means long distances at max revs foot to the floor, so unless you get a vehicle with low hours / miles you are asking for trouble. and a low hours low miles mog will cost you £30k and up which is 20 times more than it would cost to modify the mill. Edit: why can't it be folded, I know some good engineers who I bet could do it...

I wouldn't bother, mine seems fine without it, never had any bother..

No. LOL Unless the V8 is tuned with racing cams etc then definitely no, unless its the 4.6...

On holiday last week, Furlo gorge italy, wasnt supposed to be on that bit really...

For an open Hitch such as a blames I believe that 10mm is the minimum and for a closed hitch like most of the others 8mm is the minimum, so long as the WLL is acceptable. Since in a rescue situation you may have the weight of 2 climbers on the one cord then with a safety factor of 10 you really ought to be looking at an MBS of 20KN or there abouts for an open hitch and 10KN or higher for a closed one.

I hate trainers too Mark, but these are good Trespass, just a mesh all round really, I use them for any summer hiking, kids stuff, and great for wading in rivers, the beach etc....

Anyone tried it, the outer is the same as the green as far as I can tell but the core is poly as opposed to spectra, so maybe its slightly heavier, but that won't really matter on a prussic. Any thoughts, its a £ cheaper per meter so if there's no real difference I'll just get the red stuff...

One was a rope access trainer, but not specific to arb work, very good though, they had moved as far away from the EFAW syllabus as they could in order to give us a course tailored to our work.

Today we had X-treme Emergency training in to put us all through our EFAW+F What a great course! no classrooms, no powerpoint presentations, just loads of hands on useful stuff. They came out to our yard and we sat on a few logs for the "lecture parts" though there wasn't much sitting around, we went through various "real life" simulated accidents (which included fake bones sticking out and spurting blood, still quite shocking when you don't expect it!) and covered everything from lymes disease to suspension trauma. A really thorough and useful course, as opposed to just some H&S box ticking that is what many other courses that I have been on have been like. If you actually want to learn something rather than just "get the ticket" I would highly recommend them. X-TREME EMERGENCY TRAINING exists to facilitate professional, practical, concept-based training in first aid and pre-hospital care for rural, remote and wilderness groups Reasonably priced too, as you pay for their time, so numbers don't really increase the cost, just team up with a couple of other local firms and it will easily cost less than £50 per man.

I have some clarks ones that have lasted a wee while......

I make my own ammo these days, but the best factory stuff I tried was federal fusion. It's expensive though..

7-08 is a .308 necked down to 7mm, its .284 in old money. There's no such thing as far as I know as a 30-08. The names of new cartridges are sometimes taken from the parent case that they were made from, so the 25-06 for example is a 30-06 necked down to .25, 25 being the caliber and '06' coming from the parent case. I shoot deer and foxes with mine, velocity and recoil are virtually the same as the .308, but it shoots a bit flatter thanks to a narrower bullet.

Yes, got a savage HMR, a Sako75 whig I got rebarreled in 7-08, and am about to take delivery of a Tikka 590 which I have had rebarreled in .20 Vartarg...can't wait.

Lefty eh? Looks like a t3, is it?

We have both the 261 and the 550, both have had problems, clutch bearing on the 261 and software on the 550. That aside I think the 550 is the better saw, on performance anyway.

You running parallels then Steve.. How do you find it?

Big tree, what was it?

My granddad's classic regarding ugly women: "you don't look on the mantle piece when you're poking the fire."

I see, never used to have to do that, thanks Tim.

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We have been but not on this section, there's a few ton that we have dropped in the last week. Its surprising what that wee winch will do, I'd still like a bigger one though, I'll get an 8 or 9 tonner to go on the valtra at some point.