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htb

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  1. The later will impress the neighbours
  2. If you dial in a vt right it normally self tends, but it can be very fickle and changes day to day depending on how clean/sticky rope is and what phase the moon is in
  3. Steve is that a new version of blue tongue. I climb on blue tongue with hc and also on spiderjack2.1. Done a little with a zigzag but personally prefer spiderjack, maybe would like it more with time.
  4. Nope normal licence as under 3.5t, but then I'm pre 97 licence, ah the good old days
  5. No idea of the present values as got my series 1 head on at the mo
  6. Want to buy a project have a 2A or a 2B forward control looking for new homes
  7. Paid 6K for the 90 as an unfinished project. Its a 300tdi on a P plate it had been written off at 16,000 miles 18 mths old. Came with new galv chassis, stainless exhaust , new rear tub, front wings, suspension. It just needed putting together and spraying. crap load carrying but handy for shunting trailers/chippers into tight spaces, front hitch on both helps as well.
  8. That's the couriers job to knock on your door and scarper.
  9. You will soon grow out of it. We run a L/R 90 towing chipper( wife fancied a 90) and a 110 hicap towing cage sided 12x 6.6 Ifor non tipping. Suits our works well, we do mix of large domestic, commercial and pipeline wayleave clearances.
  10. You've a real talent for this lark mick
  11. Try http://www.rowenacarbs.co.uk/ for your carb kit excellent service and delivery. Phone them up with the carb number and they should be able to sort you out
  12. For plastic people living in plastic houses
  13. We did a pair of sycamore removals a year or two back, between the garden we were in there was a lane and then the neighbour's garden back of a large terraced house. In neighbours garden I could see astroturfed golf hole surrounded by plastic grass,cue wind and rain in the right direction. I asked lad I was working for do you want me to stop,answer NO from him and customer. Result was plastic turf man spending 2 days hoovering his lawn. I tried not to smile too much, you may have guessed i hate platic grass
  14. Time for a refresher course then?
  15. Yes, but easier if you take them apart
  16. but they are megabucks
  17. At least he was still alive to ask you
  18. Move up here mark plenty of big dead ones left. Put hairs on your chest or take them off in steve's case
  19. Steve, That will teach you for climbing topless
  20. For dead stuff the hinge holds well
  21. Oh you mean lopping and topping
  22. Stubby,I take it you practice the theory of go big go home then
  23. So its true then farmers are the custodians of the countryside
  24. Felco make a belt holster, or attach a lanyard to them and let them hang. Personally I just put them in a pocket.
  25. Normal for farmer pruning, our neighbor the same. Why buy a chainsaw when your subsidy payment lets you buy a nice warm tractor/ handler to do thepruning

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