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Ny Stihl dealer worth their salt will source those parts for you. TBH its probably hardly even worth shopping around for price.

Old chest freezer? I am fairly sure the arb association will allow it, so ought to do the trick if secure enough.

I try not to do any lol!

I reckon it would be a right giggle. Its obviously not aimed at serious off road (if ANY off road) or work, its a concept car FFS. That one with surfboards welded to the roof is great. Id have that one even though i cant surf lol!

I am sort of with you here Steve........but I still loath land rovers, albeit that is pretty funky.

To be fair you cant expect everything for a more 'price orientated' machine.

If you want to know the realities you need to speak to these guys or these guys.(ask for Shaun, tell him Tom Pugh put you in touch) The first is where info is kept on every landrover ever made (they were the only people with whom i could check the serial number on a transfer box for example, including Land Rover Limited) and will give you the absolute bottom line about GVWs etc etc, heavy duty chassis :sneaky2:etc etc. The second bunch are my garage who have worked on every conceivable variant of land rover out there over the last 48 odd years. (BTW I am assured that there is no such thing as a heavy duty chassis on the civilian market, nor has there ever been, and that the difference is in the brakes and suspension between the 3050 and 3500 variants.) All LWB land rovers have salisbury rear axles a standard. Uprating brakes and suspension is a piece of p155. replating can be done by VOSA, or just see the guy on ebay who sell the rivets for vehicle VIn plates....he sells blank plates too. For many years 130s (or127s as they used to be known and still are 127" wheelbase) were plated as 110s. I am worried about looking like too much of a geek now so i will shut up.......

Shame you arent closer- i have about 10 loveley straight almost knot free sticks of it in my yard, about 18-30"diameter! I will probably mill them if the chainsaw carvers dont get to them first!

:lol:maybe they do..... Anyway i never mentioned the green ovalled crap.

High range is taller, low is the same, so pulling away in firt you will require more revs. Other than that it will bolt straight on etc etc.

Thanks Stu.

I had a hilux, which althoug quite reliable was not man enough for this Job IMO- I bent the chassis. I have been fairly impressed with rangers, but they are (like all of what you are looking at) pretty much a car with 4x4, and like all the jap stuff, prohibitively expensive on parts- which are apparently very hard to come by, and woefully poorly built-These problems only become apparent in harsh conditions though. Basically unless you are going to really really beast your truck then any of them will be ok. If you want to tow alot of weight then forget all of them though, likewise if you want premium off road performance.

YOu are basically correct Alex. Pinus rigida is often cited as pitch pine- a pine common in north america, however as you say it is an umbrella term that covers many resinous slow growing pines, from which pitch, or tar, was easily extracted. It is actually tied in with the whole stockholm tar thing. That too is a slight misnomer though, as much if not all stockholm tar originates NOT from stockholm. that is simply the point of export, and such was the value and deman for pitch for sailing vessels that the industry was very lucrative and widespread. It originally wasnt called stockholm tar, but the barrels it was in bore the name of the town/ area that had produced it. In the mid 1600's the king of sweden granted @the wood tar company of north sweden' sole rights of export, from the then growing port of stockholm, hence the name stockholm tar, regardless of where it actually came from. By the 1700s the cost was very high and the british colonies in north america were encouraged to make as much as possible. anyway, it spread aceross america, which kind of leads to how lots of varieties of pine come under the term pitch pine. Boaties and chippies I have met who refer to pitch pine seem to accept it as close grained, slow grown pine from scandinavia which is relatively knot free, regardless of species as far as i can tell.

Sorry to hear you have been having probs with your 200 Theocus. What sort of problems are the commonest?

I did once, but it was really awkward to get back on- it kept wanting to fall forwards- and it isnt light like the small round ones on TW or Greenmechs etc. I had no need to though other than that one time so never did again. It wouldnt have been too hard to cut it below the clamp and get a fabricator to hinge it for you though. There is so much heavy steel plate on them that almost anything can be done to them.

Cool . You learn something new every day. Esp on this forum:thumbup:

Get to site, set up and then before climbing I will have a bit of brekkie. Generally carry on until i get hungry unless its a biggy when i will come down at about 1 ish. If its not a climbing job then i aim to stop at around 10 and around 1pm, but my groundy is like a machine- he will just eat on the go. I think he gets bored if we stop or something, he seems to have an aversion to breaks!!

Elm superb when always wet, as is alder. Not good if drying and then re-wetting. Oak is VERY durable, as is chestnut, but I have a feeling the tannins will affect the fish negatively. As agg says- try and avoid concrete atr all costs if you can, it will drastically reduce the life of whatever timber you use. In fact whatever agg said was bang on TBH.

When you say brown oak what do you mean exactly? IME any oak can be brown- it is the effect of either minerals of fungal attack which cause it, and provided there isnt actually any breakdown in the timber it is species dependant, the same as if it wasnt brown, if you get my meaning. TBH the pics are4nt or the best in order to ID the log. Could you clean the end up and then take another pic, which isnt quite so exposed maybe. From that pic I am leaning towards the likes of turkey oak- if it is oak at all.

In fact TCD if you feel strongly about things like that you need to get rid of your mobile anyway.......:Coltan, Gorillas and cellphones

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Loved my 620i. Best small chipper i have EVER come across. But then again i did fit a 32hp deutz to it. I have a 935i vermeer now, but regularly pine for my old 620. Superb, basic, well built easy to work on machines that will go on for years.

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Im with _tc on this one.....

Thats a long way to go for a job lol!