tommer9

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Another excellent display of the Lofthouse ability. Nice job mate.

Errrr...here goes....Surely if an employee is happy with his job terms then thats all that matters?:001_smile:

Or arrest him and send him straight to san quentin.......................with any luck:001_tongue: Keep his snaffling, forum jumping ways under lock and key and armed guard.

Not as nice as your new avatar mate! :001_tongue:

Nice. Me too. I love classical music, but then i studied music at a-level. Been listening to Nigel Kennedy's take on Vivaldi's four seasons at full volume in Landy today. Mozart piano concerto no 21 in C major. Nice. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-eLzao63I]YouTube - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 - Andante[/ame] Had that at my wedding..

Haha. Behave mate. Thanks for the work:001_smile:No point in turning up and dossing eh?? Go like hell, and the day is productive and time flies. Glad i could be of help, and thanks again.:thumbup1:Good day all round i reckon.

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Cheers mate:001_cool:. Since i posted the thread things have started to look up a bit again thank goodness.

Good on ya mate. Its bad enough that people chuck crap out of the window, but it makes it even worse when someone like yourself bothers to give up theiir time to clear it up to be treated like that by councils!!

It was both. I did it on and off years ago, then someone kept pestering me to help them and the building trade among the mega wealthy kicked off down here and we got on this huge house, all cedar and huge glass panels, and loads of stinework on it. We also built a six tiered terrraced veg garden going up the side of the hill, all dry. I have posted some pics somewhere- maybe on Deans thread ages ago about a repair to a wall he did. Sorry, cant find it though.

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I do sometimes get the urge to knock on doors every now and again, two trees on a road i drive quite often have been ruined by what you described, but tbh i reckon it would reflect quite badly on me, it may seem like occupational rivalry or one-upmanship, so i don't. I was asked to somment on a wall a customer had had built by someone else which was awful, and when i gave my opinion (i won an award for my work once btw) they wee quite offended i think, as they thought their wall was very nice and had spent good money. So i don't think it is worth getting too stressed really mate.

Landys only break down if they are abused and not looked after. The problem is that their capability when loaded is leagues above any other 4x4, so they do get abused, and so they do break. People dont give other 4x4's the same stick as they dont have the load area/ offroad ability so they do not open themselves up to the same abuse. When landys break they are cheap. e.g. re-con gearbox fitted , £650 in landy, nissan d21, re-con box my mate just had, £1600 plus fitting. It was only 3 years old too! The biggest problem with landrovers is those people who have bought a nail and expected loads from it due to the high purchase price (they really hold their value) and also people who cant afford one and are bitter about it. If you want reliability get a toyota, but you wont be able to do with it what you can with a landy, as the only pick up they make is the hi-lux and it is small. You ranger will fall apart in no time if you work it hard and relentlessly off road. however, you aren't going to, so a ranger is probably perfect.

That is soooo out of order mate, what a total tosser. Fill his water supply with creosote, see if he likes it.(not)

Do you want to buy my last mastiff x lab puppy? Great guard dog!

Have a look at the thread called Land rover by jose. He is selling what sounds like quite a good landy tipper.

mmmmmmm.......... if i could get my vermeer gone before the end of that auction.......nice those bandits!!

How many times can i vote....?LOL

Before i start a " i love my landy and landys are best" argument, this is a disclaimer.... I have a landy beacuse i have tried loads of others and they werent for me. As far as rangers are concerned, i have found only one advantage, which was the puling power which was quite impressive. I have done loads of work with a fencing contractor who has one, and off road, admittedly with all terrains not mud terrains, it is awful. The chassis on the ranger is mickey mouse compared to a landy, the body is steel not ali. yet it weighs thesame as a landy of similar size- lightweight chassis. They are in two wheel drive with selectable four wheel drive and selectable lo-hi range, but no central diff lock (i think). They are great on road, and that is what they are really marketed at. My landrover garage, Mid Cornwall 4x4, has the servicing contract for the hundreds of vehicles that are used by the china clay industtry, Imerys, and are owned by Daimler-Benz on a leasing contract. They have two landys that are running 24-seven, and are totally abused. Daimler wanted to know how it was that they could buy a £20000 defender and 3 years later be lucky to get £300 for it at auction. So they bought 10 rangers. After 6 months they got rid of the lot and went back to landys. They have tried all sorts of 4x4's in the clay pits, and the only ones that survive are landy's, and the other problem was getting spares, and rot. I have had a couple of hi-luxs too, and have to say that if Toyota made a bigger version of the hi-lux pick up, then i wouldnt touch the green oval. They are bombproof. I am aiming to be fairly un-biased in this, but i would advise against a ranger if you want to do any serious off road work, they just arent tough enough imo. Hopefully someone on herewill have more experience of them and may give a better view. I think the fact that a brand new ranger is half the price of a new hi-cap defender (the basis for most tippers) says a lot too. A landy is basically a glorified tractor, and as for reliability issues, an all honesty, they are no more or less reliable than anty other 4x4 which works hard and is looked after, but they are very very cheap on parts, and there is a very good availability of parts new and second hand, which for me is one of the things that gives them an edge too. Ill stop gibbering now. Sorry.

wow. wow. wow!!!!

C'mon now, we all know that what you really mean is that one of them is you, but you needed to cover yourself if anyone recognised you coz you're a little embarrassed about it all...:001_tongue:

Great pics guys.

Yeah, those pollards down to ground level are the best i reckon.:001_tongue:

Thats exactly what i have finally persuaded him after two years, and showing him how many of his precious plants have been killed as a result of not looking after it. We have agreed on a speculative program of one possibly two cuts between september to about april-ish, then regular cutting, either 1 or two weeks- in the other months. That way i think two men could keep on top of it in a day each visit, not 14 man-days:ohmy: once a year!! Thats over 2 weeks work too!