armchairarborist

Before anybody fits another new starter. Just buy the kit for £6 the starters last for ever but the contacts in the solinoid wear in no time. The hardest part of the job is getting the starter off. A new starter in a couple of years will be doing the same thing. Before anybody starts praising the jap crap just remember its a japanese starter motor and fitted to alot of vehicles all doing the same thing

mine don't

cool castle, we did a job next to a shed once:blushing: how the other half live eh?

Ed, Ive just seen your disco avatar:scared1::scared1:

 

Is that yours?

no i was just amused by the pic as its a similar colour to mine, i think its a pic taken from a french film, looks scary doesn't it? have a closer look IMCDb.org: 1990 Land-Rover Discovery 200Tdi Series I in "Voyna, 2002"

i just looked again and its blue and mine is green oops

it can usually be overhauled, i pay £40 for mine to come back rebuilt and painted, there should be someone who can do it locally for you.

when its this cold metal contracts/shrinks slightly and in your case lets water out, when the metal warms up it expands and the leak disappears, unfortunately i can't tell you which bit of metal it is thats leaking, try shining a torch up from underneath next time it happens to find where it is, it could be something cracked or just a joint that needs tightening or a new gasket. the squeal sounds like your fanbelt needs tightening, hope this helps. Ed.

i'll check what mine is in the morning, its so big it only just fits in the box under the seat and will start world war three if required, im bad for leaving the lights on overnight so a big battery is essential, if you aren't using the motor much then pop a solar panel trickle charger connected to keep it in tip top condition.

Sometimes help can be a bad thing,yesterday my work mate decided to push me up every hill on the way home about three miles,trouble was he used the mog to do it,first job today was to bend the back of the cabstar back into some kind of shape,thanks Chris.

hahaha a car was stuck in a drift in blizzard conditions lastyear and the driver asked me to help, i said i would so long as he would agree for me to push him out in the disco,(his 4x4 suzuki swift was sat on a foot of packed drift), it gave me great pleasure to assist and i laughed all the way home at the two disco bumper turret sized dents in his tailgate, he was so happy as he had been there 4hrs:thumbup: guilty? not really, time for another log methinks, this is the tailgate beforehand:001_smile: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QKHSHguQZY]YouTube - holme moss at midnight,[/ame]

there was a lot of ice on this job, a neighbour smashed his 4x4 peoplecarrier into a tree on the driveway, spot the 2 arbtalkers in the last pic:thumbup: ah only 9 phonelines under the tree in pic 1&2

a job we did in the centre of wakefield the other week, we turned up in a blizzard and 3inch fell during the morning, couldn't see the climber all the time:001_smile: nice easy job with ONLY two phonelines:thumbup:

take some heavies and go 'lean' on them, we have a company policy of making a point of confronting loiterers, taking photos of people can really upset them if they are up to no good:001_cool:

Either Goose and what ever i hit between here and Scotland

mmm pedestrian..delicious:thumbup:

now i've just shelled out on a 395xp as a christmas prez... for my self:001_tongue:

 

just discovered that a 390xp is 6.5hp and a 395xp is 6.6hp not the us and aus 7.1hp

now can anyone shed some light on this as to what i need to do to get it up to its designed 7.1hp?? otherwise i should have saved £60 n gone for the lighter 390xp

thx

its exactly the same just we use bigger horses in this country:thumbup:

ooh just noticed its snowing here too, oh well lets write the rest of the year off then:goodnight:

what is a three bird roast? and you are not really going to have horse are you????

not this time but i have had plenty of horse when i was younger:thumbup: mmm horse:thumbup1:

recieved my fungbook today, thankyou very much Hamadryad:001_cool:, working my way through it already and learned a few new bits straightaway, this ones getting read cover to cover:thumbup1:, oh which of my photo's was it?

Gutted for you matted too many of these posts lately. Regarding the chipper going missing while the lads were in the back garden, since reading all these posts I've bought a chain and lock and chained the chipper to the van.

how you going to stop them nicking the van though? my insurance dude rang me today and told me he heard of a chipper/chip truck driven away by theives while brash was being chipped..! never leave keys in guys and use chains/locks on the steering wheel:thumbdown:

sorry to hear of your entec being nicked man.

got my karma two days ago when an old lady flagged me down and wouldn't let me go until she had given me a tenner, i took a whitebeam down for her lastyear that her late husband planted 30yrs ago as it was throwing roots up all over the lawn, she was gutted about losing the tree but was made up with the view she hadn't seen in 30yrs, i got a bit of the stem turned into a sweet bowl by a friend and dropped it off for her a couple of months ago and she flagged me down to say how all her relatives couldn't believe i gave it her for free.. im still wondering what to spend the tenner on, yeah probably diesel:thumbup:

Horse this year I think.

 

Never had horse before, really looking forward to it.

nowt wrong with a good old horse steak:thumbup1:

theres a ms660 on ebay, ends sunday but shh don't tell anyone

:drool:thats way cool

imagine the fuss they'll cause if they ever find out stoves get hot!

yup, you still get points for either on a test though..

when i was 16 my boss acquired a 72cc honda trike, my dad made it very clear that i shouldn't buy it as i was saving for my first car, anyway here it is in my possession a week later:thumbup:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI4G5MfGJ3s]YouTube - We Are Klang Horsey Dance[/ame] saw the girls with the horsey heads on and remembered this, mini series called 'we are klang', brilliant

Canny mate is that running on a little Honda engine too?

before and after, i know its two horses less but to be running on red its worth it:thumbup1: