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Gray git

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  1. But your 1st will always have a place in your heart. Just got my 1st back ridiculously cheep to be a bit of a rebuild project. Get some pictures up when you can.
  2. Aerosols will cost you a fortune, never used the pump up thing. If you got a aldi near you call in and have a look as mine had some decent size compressors for sale at around 70 quid and a full spray kit box of stuff for about 20. You won't need a huge compressor tank as your not after a spray shop finish so won't matter if pressure drops a bit or you have to stop every so often to let it build back up. Also very useful for other things round the workshop like cleaning saws etc
  3. I've a landy nd if I did that I'd have nowt left to spray onto 😉 A good steam clean is best just to remove anything loose. Painting it is a pita as you will never be able to get everywhere and the bits you miss will also be the bits where salty Road crud will build up and eat a hole.
  4. Get yourself a disposable overall with a hood and cover every bit of your self you can as guaranteed you'll end up covered in it as well! Big decorators sheet on the floor under the truck and basically what Craig said. It's a messy job but worth it.
  5. Gray git

    New truck

    Might know of a nice 110 tipper coming up for sale with brand new body on it if you want the details and want to stick with the landy theme.
  6. Me two, thought it was ott for the job but when I did nearly a 800 plugs in a day no worries, filled up the tank and clipped a sig flask full of aspen onto my belt, bag full of plugs and off I went. Actually used the drill lots for all sort of thing even in the yard for drilling big joint peg holes in timber or on mettle when I can't be arsed to run extension leads out for just 1 hole.
  7. This might be better than Ian http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=281806447495&globalID=EBAY-GB&alt=web
  8. The Meikleour Beech Hedge(s)*(European Beech =*Fagus sylvatica), located nearMeikleour,*Perth and Kinross,*Scotland, alongside the*A93*Perth-Blairgowrie*Road, was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband, Robert Murray Nairne on the*Marquess of Lansdowne's Meikleour estate. It is said the hedge grows towards the heavens because the men who planted it were killed at the*Battle of Culloden. The*hedge*is noted in the*Guinness World Records*as the tallest and longest hedge on earth, reaching 30 metres (100 ft) in height and 530 metres (1/3 mile) in length. The hedge is trimmed once every ten years, and can be viewed by visitors all year round.
  9. Side of that road 👆
  10. On a turntable, you forgot the turntable! Only available in black or very very dark grey. Led lights like my forst and reversing lights.
  11. Must be a popular place to stand and take photos.
  12. Would like to see it with colours like 1st pick and guess this is what it looks like cut.
  13. Well a good clean down and some jb weld splodges in and smoothed over on Wednesday night, left to harden over night. Used it yesterday and today and so far seems to have held absolutely fine. Managed to push a bit through the hole then flatten it out a bit at the back so hopefully that'll help seal and hold it in place.
  14. It's got shrek ears :-P
  15. I'd say horse chestnut from those pictures.
  16. Close fitting round neck as traps the air in for insulation and cool down warn up by removing adding layers over it. Got some fantastic Marino one's but needs to be proper cold to brake those out!
  17. Eddie that's probably the most intelligent relevant posts I've seen on here for quite a while!
  18. Not long that's for sure! As long as they run long enough to turn a decent profit and pay to be renewed it'd be reet
  19. I guess if they are running constantly for 3 years under load imagine what sort of milage that'd be in a car.
  20. Been on arbortec boots for 4 year now on 3rd party and never given any pain at all, I am on gecko s so they are a wider foot plate to spred it out. The boots do take a bit of braking in mind so they will soften with use.
  21. Worth a try for sure, thanks peatff.
  22. Waa waa waa Should have guessed by the white stick 😜
  23. Fantastic tune from a brilliant album, definitely 1 I turn to for a headphones on chill out music hit Sorry for the derail
  24. But they are skilled workers with lots of training and expensive gear aren't they...... Well at least that's what a lot of customers perceive up here still if you get my meaning. Between being lumped just above a farmer with a saw for logs we struggle with a lot of flare up company's that don't last luckily coming from army leavers starting up without a clue undervalueing the work. Don't get me wrong we do OK and have some very good clients who value what we do and are willing to pay proper rates but unfortunately not every day. If i was to start paying 2 lads 35k each a year + holiday etc I'd have to double my work load which would need more men so more wages so more work etc etc I'd also have to become the boss I don't want to be counting ever minute of brake times start times, chasing people out the yard to avoid overtime, no more we're finished at 2.30 let's go back to the yard and sharpen saws nd was van's it'd be onto another job quick quick. I've worked for companies like that and got paid for it but it's not sustainable.

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