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  1. Gareth Dalzell
    Uniform dating.com?
  2. Gareth Dalzell
    Our landy,s parked up. Towed a Jeep of the top of a drift yesterday with the tractor, he,d surfed up on top at an angle into a 3ft drift. Tried pulling him gently without success, so had to take a couple of runs at it and snatch him off. Wonder is his chassis still square especially when the towing eye was off to one side:001_rolleyes:
  3. Gareth Dalzell
    Ok, it,s looking like a long day trying to dig ourselves out.....again. Lucky i kept the drift of one side of the lane or we,d be locked in completely. This is the view to the left, the start of a 50m plus drift and the road to the right has a drift about 30m wide and 2.5m deep
  4. Gareth Dalzell
    Nptc units (the old name for the cs units as we refer to them as) are now classed as qualifications thru the city and guilds qualification framework. And if I can pre-empt your response, yes I agree I thought they were simply a cert of confidence like a safety test. So yes, if you have units I guess you would be entitled to call yourself qualified.
  5. Gareth Dalzell
    Very heavy snow and severe drifting. 5ft drifts in our lane and approach road. Dug it out this morning about 7am then drifted back over. Dug it back out again around 2pm and now badly snowed in again. The wind is wild up here on top of the hill. Just had a massive lightning strike somewhere close by, lite the whole surrounding fields up. Might have been the neighbouring radio masts or wind turbines across the hill, I,ll see in the morning. I,ll get the tractor loader out again tomorrow morning and go again. Funniest part of the day was clearing the road ahead of the council snow plough and then watching it get stuck trying to follow me up the hill.
  6. Gareth Dalzell
    Its available in handy sizes and it doesn,t show up dents and marks the same as a plain sheet of metal would so it looks sharp for longer.
  7. Gareth Dalzell
    Sorry all my suppliers are not local to yourselves. We used a local engineering company to cut and fold ours One thing I would say is to get the tail door plated as well, otherwise when you've a load of chip in it, it will be loaded all towards the drawbar end and makes it very unbalanced on the nose. We did the same to our 10x5 and now you can level out loads and make the trailer more balanced - and legal.
  8. Gareth Dalzell
    Don,t forget to drop an email to Alistair in case he doesn,t come back to this thread. Just a thought:001_smile:
  9. Gareth Dalzell
    Got the light guards fitted that Mr Blair put up for auction. Excellent job, very solid and easy fitted. Maybe I should have put this photo in the overloaded thread:blushing:
  10. Gareth Dalzell
    I,d have torched it by now. You,re very patient and methodical in you diagnosis. Good luck.
  11. Gareth Dalzell
    Contact the police, and report the assault but ask not for any further action to be taken at the moment. Traffic management wise follow your chapter 8. One guy as the site operative and another as the supervisor. Nothing wrong with red/red stoppage. (The assault was the driver hitting your operative or was it a RTA I,m not sure)
  12. Gareth Dalzell
    You just got your butt out of the way of the Tottingham Road Station bus in time.
  13. Gareth Dalzell
    I nearly bought a diesel tipper one a few years ago. Arranged a demo to tie in with a meeting at Stoneleigh. Very impressed with it for the size, as you say a great eye catcher. The main uni in Belfast uses one in their maintenance department , battery power ticks all the Eco boxes:thumbup1: Have you got any further with your battery dilemma.
  14. Gareth Dalzell
    Is it a brand new spring you are putting on. I find the springs loose tension after a while and once they pop of a couple of times we just put a new one on and it solves the problem.
  15. Gareth Dalzell
    If that is a 350 model you probably have about 400kg of a pay load left if you are lucky. Nice toy though, might get one:thumbup1:
  16. Gareth Dalzell
    As Paul says plus add in lost days due to weather, breakdowns and the F factor and you'd be better basing you calculation on 45 weeks (225 days) a year max if you're doing good and closer to 40 weeks (200 days)if you're not running well.
  17. Gareth Dalzell
    Maybe it,s just me but - I didn't think that was a terribly bright thing to do. It could so easily have been a massive fail we were watching. Going up steep grades is one thing, going up a ramp against a block wall - no!
  18. Gareth Dalzell
    I know this is an old post, but if you ever drop back in and are looking for chip give me a shout. We,re based in belfast
  19. Gareth Dalzell
    I,d go for the 10". I have the rear handled version with the 10" bar and at anywhere near full depth it hasn't got any spare power. With the 10" bar it,s a cracking little saw. One other thing, you need to approach every cut with plenty of rev on. It has very little grunt to "catch up" otherwise.
  20. Gareth Dalzell
    Don,t feel we miss out on everything in Ireland - sure didn't we have the husky mafia travelling roadshow a few months ago doing their infamous two for one offer.
  21. Gareth Dalzell
    This could so easily have been another theft thread - very relieved it,s not. Massive emotional spike. Glad it ended well.
  22. Gareth Dalzell
    An alternative one this. Felling a 6m concrete lamp post. Diagonal cut across the square section post to retain the two opposite corner steel reinforcing bars as the hinge.
  23. Gareth Dalzell
    If he is an employee of yours and is on your hmrc declared payroll then it may be allowable. A quick call would sort it out for sure.
  24. Gareth Dalzell
    You could use one of those pictures as the front of your company Christmas card.
  25. Gareth Dalzell
    Got to be Shleisling, we've two and can't fault them. Buy it while you can with the price of the new ones making them hard to buy, there may be fewer coming onto the second hand market over the next lot of years and a lot more of the less expensive other makes.

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