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You have to read Jons posts as fast as he wrote them. If that fails re read and imagine a somerset accent. If that fails wait for the next post for more clues . We all have the time otherwise we would not be on a forum

It took a good few days to get rid of my back ache after we changed the mattress. Everyone is different and you can't tell just by laying on a mattress you need to sleep on one. If you go the pocket sprung route the amount of springs is not the be all and end all you need a good quality spring otherwise they fail after a year or so. A good brand of bed spring is calico.

Put some 4x4 tyres on your land rover

I will try to find the report I might be doing them an injustice as it was 6 months ago. Well worth having a good read of the John Ryan site. Memory foam mattresses can be very hot in the summer. I think they may be like marmite. I knew it was our old mattress because i slept on a Hypnos bed at a premier inn and my back was much better but the Hypnos mattress never struck me as anything special

I am sure which did a test within the last year and the tempur mattresses came out as rubbish the £1600 mattress was the only one to fall to bits during the test. I went through this problem about 6 months ago crippling back aches. Bought a middle of the range pocket sprung from John Ryan. If nothing else read their web site it will give you good knowledge. Ours was £1100 and I orderered with out even seeing it due to their money back guarantee and their good reviews. Ours is superb I would go back for another when our 10 year guarantee runs out they can do the mattress in two ratings my wife is slim and I am well you know less slim

My first 300 disco had the cambelt changed at the right time then the head went between 3+4. The next 4 discos we run them till the cambelts snapped normally well over 100 k. We then stripped the head off checked for piston damage relaxed a few valve train parts ( can't remember if they had push rods ) Most were sold at 4 years with 260k on the clock and most of it towing. The engines are very good which can easily be checked for wear once the head is off measure the bore and check for a lip near the top of the cylinder. You could do a compression test on the good cylinders before you strip it. The water pumps and p gasket behind them were crap so we often just changed them at 60k saves cooking a good block. We could spot an early pump failure the belt starts making lots of noise and if you look the water pump pulley is out of line with the rest. Over all a good engine but likely to crack the head especially if you tweek the fuel pump and the radiator is not 100%

About £200 for a complete 2000kg one £350 for a 3500kg one. Sometimes it's worth it for the new hitch damper and tight tube also quicker to fit.

After 30 years of getting grindings and dirt in my eyes I know buy those proper expensive orange goggles from screw fix£14 . If I work under vehicle I wear the open spec type goggles. My eyes have been dug around too much and suffer infections to easy now. I always wash out if I get dirt in them even tap water is better than doing nothing. I am about to try sustain eye lubricant expensive but good reviews. Look after your eyes and put some thought and money into the right ppe.

I think we all got off lightly. I was reading the disco forum yesterday about the premium sound system I had occasionally would lock up and freeze. If the display, the cd changer, the amp and a few cables fail the bill will be in excess of 5k. I was thinking £400 would be a killer what happened to the days when you went down halfords and spent £99.

Sounds more like an injection/sensor/egr problem. With head gasket normally the radiator pressurises and you can see bubbles comming to the surface. Oil in the coolant water in the oil and overheating problems loss of coolant and constant water at the tail pipe.

It sometimes feels like you are better of at home feet up in front of the fire and let someone else have all the grief. But where is the fun in that so i guess I will be out with my 1000 kg trailer within 33km trying not to do anything rewarding tommorrow.

I had new bfg mt on mine never felt like it was going to get stuck and drove well on road as well.

How old is the hilux is it double cab.

Boulders did a complete tipper conversion with high sides for our hilux and that cost about three and a half four years ago. I would think a simple chip box would be about 2 k. You could try making one with glasnite sides like the ridgidge bodied trucks you can hire but I would think it would be heavy.

Can you not import them from fuel wood. I think Richard has spent over 20 years developing them and getting them right I would imagine less hassle than producing your own.

I have been told if you can afford it the kubota is the only one to buy. I had a Kawasaki mule years ago and felt it was crude and badly built.

At times I run with about 16 trailers. I have new ones, serviced ones and not so serviced . I would not trust the hand brake in reverse on any of them they simply don't work. If your not confident your chocks will hold don't un hitch. We don't use the hand brake in the yard as when left for a few weeks the shoes will bond them selves to the drums especially if cleaned new or well serviced.

Mine are sealed for life

Trailer handbrakes when trailer could run back wards down a hill are not good. Loads of caravans have gone over cliffs as well. We are on a steep hill and a few years ago we un hooked an ifor tipper and pulled the handbrake on and watched it disappear half a mile across a field.

One thing I was looking for was 4 wheel steering especially in tight spaces. I have had tele for 15 years and can't get on with a loader on a tractor or a pivot steer machine. Once you get used to it I don't think you will go back. You can stack bags at the back and still get them out first. If the access is too narrow you can boon out and still grab the pallet or bag. Tele all the way

You got one in the end then. I probably seen it advertised where did you buy it what sort of money and are you pleased with it. It looks like it has good vision over your right shoulder with boon down which is a big thing for me saves running over the odd hatch back someone parks in the way.

Put moisture meter into it to confirm one way or other. I had some oak rotten on the outside that made poor firewood. If I am going to have a problem it's normally with oak.

I decided against this years ago and went the 13 hp Honda route about £5 a day in petrol. By the time you have run £10 in red through the handler and run the service hours up glazed the engine you then find you need the handler to move the bags of logs.

You sound like me when in the super market I am not interested in 30 % off or bogoffs. I want to know how much per 100g or 1000g. The stores bombard you with info red labels and deals so with in 10 minutes you have brain overload and just put things in the trolley zombie style. They know when they have you beaten when people buy 3 for £12 or £3 ea. also putting stuff in the trolley that goes out of date in the morning.