tommer9

haha. No, shes watching the telly:lol: sorry:blushing:

Not when my missus is about. She loves it, and strictly and all the other crap that is broadcasted in the name of quality entertainment. Like Ed, i have no problem with dancing, just the way that the program is run. I am in another room with the lapper to get away from it. Its pretty sad, but i find the red mist descending a bit when that sort of show is on.

Sweeeeet.LMFAO:thumbup:

Hate it with a vengeance. Cheap insulting viewing presented by self appointed experts and followed by a public who are obviously lacking in enough intelligence to realize when that tiny intellect is being abused and insulted, and the licence fee is being wasted. It is cheap TV at its worst, pumped into our living rooms whether we like it or not, to the exclusion of any sort of decent programming. dumbing down of a nation. It is on the same evolutionary rung of the ladder as big brother. As you can tell, i love it.............

Until recently had a stihl 08s with no anti vibe or cahin brake!!!!! Does that count? It didnt work though...lol

Jose, you obviously bought a nail mate. Sorry for you that that was the case, but then alot of ex-utility stuff can be very abused by guys who dont own their trucks, hence the enourmous service history you said came with it. What a lot of people dont realise when buying a land rover is that you are paying for a tractor with some on road bits put on it. Off road they are absouloutely the final word (for work that is- i refuse to comment on the girly greenlaning thing). The chassis is better than any other 4x4. The power delivery in low box is absoloutely unrivalled (except maybe landcruisers), and they are soooooooo cheap to repair- recon r380 box, 640 fitted inc vat, 1700 to buy plus fitting and vat for nissan, toyota etc. The reason that jap stuff lasts so much better is that they dont and cant do what a defender can. Most NEVER go off road. That is why they are built like cars- small cabs, car like driving position. Permanent 4x4 allows the largest towing capacity in their class (ok-landcruiser again), and the chassis is almost indestructible, unlike the hi-lux, l200 ranger things which are, in comparison very lightweight. Reliability-wise? Look after then, and they more than look after you. My toyotas have benn NO MORE reliable than my landrovers, and my mates ranger has been beset with problems from the start, but being what it is he is stuck with it as the second hand value is so low. My landrover garage has the contract to service all the landrover that the china clay companies use. Daimler-benz who own the fleet (not sure why) were pissed off that some landy's were getting the correct resale value at auction age 3 years, whereas the ones running 24hrs a day an totally abused by the workers were being scrapped after three years. So they changed to ford rangers. Within 4 months they had got rid of the lot and tried to go jap. Neither nissan nor toyota would put their vehicles in that environment as they deemed it too extreme (2 weeks for a set of brake discs, 3 days for pads in the worst conditions-lots of silica). Back to landrovers. They now understand why landrovers are the choice of Aus army, British army, extreme off roaders worldwide and countless others. Landrovers in Australian Army Service Part One by Paul Handel

Is that why the aus army use landrovers??

And youll look like youve got a mules tackle:001_tt2:

The hudson is great, almost identical to the norwood, same price too. I do think that the norwood has the edge, possibly. It looks slightly heavier built, although i havent used one, only looked one over at a mates place. Bad luck on the handler- i have to rent or borrow too. OK until our lease runs out, then not sure where we will move to. Nice bits of oak you were carting around there.

Awesome mate. I was going to buy one of them but the company had gone over to Hudson so i had a hudson instead. Looks like a great set up. That your handler?

That dolmar you turned up with at mine was a beast mate! Thanks for today, massive help. That log pile is looking pretty sick now!

Wow! I think it may be an immature specimen of something. The log is now several smaller logs in the log shed, and the fungi is feeeling rather disem(fruiting)bodied, so we will probably never know now. sorry about the awful F.B. pun BTW:blushing:

LMFAO- total class mate:thumbup: A common one on ladders is variations on "stop when you get to this rung" on the top rung. Heard about 10 variations on some radio fone in about HSE nonsense!!

Found these on the underside of a very old sycamore log at the back of the log pile today when i picked up said log. Absoloutelyno idea what it is. Smelt like a normal mushroom if thats any help?

scum scum scum.

Holding your bar against the hinge, in the gob, and using your sight lines, put the tip of the bar halfway across the hinge. Note where the edge of the stem comes on the bar- if you still have lettering/ paint on the bar great, a letter or mark will be your reference point. You could score a line in the bark from one side of the hinge to the other round the back of the tree. Then bore in behind the hinge a couple of inches above your line that you scored, and bore in keeping the sightline on the saw pointing the same way as when you held the bar in the gob (as above) until you get to the point on your bar that you marked/ remembered when the tip of the bar was in the middle of the hinge. Keep that reference point at the edge of the trunk, and keeping parallel to the line you scored, bring the saw round the tree, imagining as you go that the bar nose is your pivot point in the tree. When you have gone just past 90degrees round, put a nylon or aluminium wedge in the gap (having applied the chain brake) and keep cutting. On a large ish tree anothe wedge could be added further round if necessary. If you're really lucky i'll do a vid later......

Good call Brian, stick to your guns and put your prices up where you can.... I've gone from 75/ day to 80 now BTW Dave:sneaky2:

Cant wait.......!

dead dying dangerous. Five day notice planning stuff.

The ms181 even has them!

Worth a look- mine has spring anti vibe mount already though:confused1:

Haix haix haix haix end of story. Absoloutely love them, and on 3rd pair of protector pros. Gore tex- ace. Nikwax waterproofer- great. I sweat like the guy off the lynx ad with the fish under his arm when i go for it, but strangely my feet are nearly always dry at the ned of the day. I cant rate them highly enough.

Who are all the urchins that are hanging around. Did you just find them wandering about in cov?lol

you really realy dont want one of those poxy TD5's mate. Stick with a 300Tdi.