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Yeah last year- shouldnt have been in the tree in the first place.....electric wires live below. The tree was a medium sized (70') radiata to deadwood and remove a couple of limbs, but I allowed the wires to really get to me and bottled it after lunch. Went back the next day with a clearer head and better plan and nailed it. Was it at Escot matt? It must have been scary as for you to bottle i would have thought!!

Got me some LEDs.....seemed to be doing quite alot on road recently..and I washed it last weekend before anyone says it dirty lol!

Trust. They do fleet too. Speak to cameron.

I find this astonishing, and can only assume you bought abused models, or were unlucky. I have yet to meet anyone who deals with landrovers all the time who has a single good thing to say about the Td5. However, in the world of hard working defenders (imerys clay pits in st austell- almost certainly the most punishing environment in the world for vehicles) the 200tdi is seen as king of reliability. I run a 300tdi and it will pull my rig at 70+ all day long, with a roofrack and oversize mud terrains, loaded with chip a towing an 9" vermeer chipper!. I test drove a Td5 hicap a few years ago, and when empty it pulled very well, with an empty 12' ifor behind it it was a gutless P.O.S.

Tom Pugh.

Seend timbercutterdartmoor a PM as he often has saws for sale!

Have we met? Is it stuart Thorne?

No no no you are all wrong- including you rupe. What you want is a long line of trampolines placed opposite the trees, and as you fel a tree it will hit the "trampodeck" (thats a registered trademark BTW before any of you get any ideas) and bounce right out of the site and you could then reverse a bicycle powered chipper up into your LDV-transit and with the help of twenty oompaloompas you would have the job done......but under no circumstances am i going to give you any idea as to whether i have a unimog or how much i would charge you if i do have one.. Does that help Rupe? Will someone please give Rupe a price- he really doesnt need to be told how to do this job FFS:001_rolleyes:

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Good question- I regularly ask myself the same thing....

Spoken like a true disco owner:lol: To a degree yes, but you dont have a salisbury rear axle, and the gearing is slightly taller for running on road....so you do seem to lose a bit of power, although the top end is better for on road cruising.

Although 4000kg is 500kg over weight, a defender will pi ss that. I reckon i am barely ever under 6.5-7 ton with chip box full and towing the vermeer, and I have been on the weighbridge at the quarry at over 8 ton many an occasion. No bother. Touch sluggish up the steeper hills, but you dont buy a defender for speed lol!

Ok- i have a landy, as most of you have seen, and have had hiluxes which were mickey mouse. The reason i said hilux was that the poster only wanted to tow 2200 kg. IMO there is NOTHING that will come close to a defender other than the commercial landcruiser that isnt available over here. Kat1e...get a defender, they are the best out there. The detractors are generally those who cant afford a landrover, or dont understand what it means to really work a vehicle.....if you do to a ranger/ hilux/ l200 etc etc what a landrover takes day in day out they WILL fail very quickly, and NONE of them are as capable off road, as they are designed primarily for on road, where as the defender is designed primarily for off road. You will pay more for a defender than anything else of the same age and condition, and thats for the reasons I have stated, but parts for land rover are VERY cheap. Good luck, as this will repidly descend into yet another thread of land rover versus all the others, as all these threads seem to nowadays.

Would that be tino's mate? Where are you based stu?

Hilux?

Any Honda dealer of mowers etc etc should be able to get that exhaust, and if the control box works still then its very possiblt that a loose contact could be the problem. Ths is the joy of chippers- they vibrate soo much very little survives!

I have had about 36000 miles out of my mk1s on the front and they still have about half their tread left, and the mk2s look to bew doing the same. BTW I am usually loaded up, weighing approx 3.5-4 ton (oops!) and towing a 9" vermeer chipper.

Yes to both. The wear is phenomenal.

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They certainly used to be launceston based....

Yes- its the dogs danglies. DO NOT BOTHER with ANY other off road tyre, they ALL pale into insignificance in comparison. They are VERY hard wearing, and the best off road tyre short of the likes of simex which cant really be run on road. The only people who disagree tend to be those that havent experienced BFG muds. (i have tried almost every off road tyre- budget and otherwise- in the last 20 years, and wouldnt touch anything other than the BfG MT)

G90s are the shittest tyre i have ever made the mistake of fitting to a landrover. good in kuwait maybe, sh it in the mud. Get BFGs and be done with it.

Grampound. Anyway, its Launceston.....

Sycamore- used as it is naturally sterile. and the grain closes up after being hit with such things as a butchers meat cleaver. Was/ is used for wooden utensils, chopping boards, the worksurface of the dairy (befor melamine etc) i have even supplied it to a bakery as a dough table, who argued-and won- with Food Hygiene bods, due to its above mentioned properties, that it was superior to nylon etc etc. Elm I have not heard of as a chopping board wood, but I canot see too many problems. It was traditionally the framework holding the sycamore blocks together in the butchers block, as it is very evry tough timber. In time, after many washes, i suspect it would start to deteriorate a bit, as with many coarse grained timbers. It is also alot less stable than sycamore (which will wriggle about whilst drying, then often return to flatish boards!!). Not sure that taste is a concern TBH- most woods are fairly lacking in taste once dry- esp. hardwoods. Not had decent access to arbtalk for a while- Ill pm you back now Hodge!

Kernow training, redruth based (well duchy college anyway). Chris willett is one of the trainers, along with Pip Tonkin, and Alan Capel (pasty). Phone Nicky Carlyon on 01726 860 204, who is the organiser.