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My 2007 Ford Ranger has the very annoying habit of chiming when you leave the keys in the ignition and the door open:angry: Any suggestions on how to deactivate it would be gratefully received.

50p a foot? A friend and I thought about selling them and have been quoted anywhere from £7.50 for 4 and 5 foot ones up to £21.50 for 6 and 7 foot ones.

I may have the opportunity to sell some timber I have. Its all mixed hardwoods - ash, beech, sycamore - and been seasoned for 15 months. I split some last week and it was under 30% moisture content, most near 25%. I may be able to sell some in the round and wondered what premium you would recommend putting on the original purchase price I paid last year, if any? The other option is to trade - the guy who wants my timber will be felling some hardwoods soon so we would trade seasoned for fresh, which I would then keep to season of course. Any thoughts / ideas welcome

I'm sure in a previous thread somebody stated they was approximately 90 logs in a sack barrow bag and four of these in a cubic metre - so that should equate to 360 logs in a cubic metre.

Would I be right in thinking my 2007 Ford Ranger Super Cab has side air bags and if so can any body recommend some decent seat covers? Found a few on the net but dont look too impressive. I understand I cannot have fully tailored ones because of the airbags. Any recommendations gratefully received.

There was a company called AG Rover in the eighties who built 90s on portal axles but they were not on such large tyres. I think there were only 15 vehicles built, one of which was recently on e bay.

My friend has BFG muds on his 110 hi cap - they are the only ones I have seen so worn after only 25,000 miles and the other week he pulled out of a side road to go up a steep street with the ifor williams trailer and mini digger on the back and it sat spinning its wheels...apparantly. He had to reverse past the car behind him and go a different way. When I had BFG muds on my Ninety I did 50,000 miles and they hardly looked worn in!

A 2007 Ford Ranger Super cab does it for me. After 20 years of Defender ownership I am loving the ride quality, the quietness and ease of driving. Its great having the space behind the seats as well to put your jackets, bait bag, etc in and keep them clean and dry and seperate from what you are carrying in the back. Pick up bed is deep and volume is nearly 1m3.

When I see motors on tracks like this I always picture them moving as if they had square wheels, if you know what I mean! Land Rover 2004 Defender 130 Crewcab on rubber tracks | eBay Certainly an impressive vehicle and if I had won the Euro Millions and bought my country estate I would be buying it.

Yes Steve but I haven't seen sharp implements on the arbtalk stand at shows. Its the fact I want to sell axes that insurers are not happy about - if somebody tried to split wood with the axe and the axe broke that would be product liability; if I did it and a wood splinter flew off and hit joe public that is covered by public liability; joe public picking an axe and doing injury to themselves is covered by neither hence the problem. But I will call your recommendation in the morning cheers.

Does anybody have insurance or experience of insurance that covers you for exhibiting at trade fairs, shows etc. I have said I will attend a local firewood fair and was planning on selling a range of axes but after spending all afternoon on the telephone it seems its a bit of a black hole!! If some one picked an axe up and hurt themselves with it, ie ran their finger along the blade, it is not covered under public liability or product liability or event insurance. I have tried Trust, Lycetts, Hiscox and Events Insurance. Any one got any bright ideas?

I was in B&Q on Tuesday evening and outside the store, they had nets of logs for £8 and plastic bags of kindling for £3. Inside the store the same nets were £7 and the kindling £2.99! I have had bigger bags of crisps than the bags of kindling and the log nets stated, "Produced by a local company" - I think they were based in Cheshire which is nowhere near Newcastle Upon Tyne!

I have a Palax KS35 Ergo which I purchased from Jim at Caledonian Forestry. Service, delivery and set up was excellent and the machine seems to be well made. Have been happy with it so far and it fits within your budget.

You should be well proud of that - the quality and standard of your workmanship looks superb. I am sure you could sell similar trailers to members on the site.

Actually looks similar to the revamped Toyota land Cruiser that was introduced a few years ago. I think Land Rover should go back to their routes and offer a bog standard, very basic Defender with a huge options list. The down side would be the build quality is still bad and they would charge an arm and a leg for each option.

:thumbup:Anyone interested in shooting or the outdoors in general may be interested in having a look at Arktis Smock/Parka - Country Covers I have attended a number of game / country fairs over the years and always admired the quality of the gear these guys make. When I tried this jacket on at the Scottish Game fair at Scone and my wife said she liked it, I had to buy it: she usually comes out with something like, "Well, its for a purpose!" or "You wont be wearing that when you're out with me!" Besides, one can never have too many jackets methinks. So far I have been very impressed with it. I've used it when shooting clays, general wet days (of which we seem to have had quite a few recently!) and even on a walk up Bowfell in the Lakes last Friday. It has the four outer pockets you can see, a zipped pocket under the left breast and an inside zipped pocket. All have big chunky buttons and the zips are quality items too. There is even a four year guarantee, including damage by barbed wire fences. When I bought mine the web price was £195 and the show price was £179. I notice the web price has now gone up but if you are going to the Midland Game Fair in September I am sure they will be there and probably have a lower price than the net. If you're in the market for a new coat I can thoroughly recommend it.

What make of winch is that? (I know most of them as I read the adverts just as much as the articles in the off road mags!!) Looks really good, neat installation which doesnot stick out too much.

I've recently changed from Land Rover to a Ford Ranger Super Cab and love it. Its got a large Truckman canopy on the back so plenty of dry storage space and good area behind the front seats for gear you want to keep dry and clean. Does about 32mpg and is very quiet and comfortable:thumbup:

I was talking to a guy at the Great Yorkshire Show who made chopping boards and longer ones to go down the centre of the table and he recommended anything for food use should be kiln dried.

Interesting article in one of the motoring supplements at the weekend about the real cost of running a car, calculated as the pence per mile (ppm). Figures looked at the typical motorist buying a brand new vehicle, driving 12,000 miles per year and retaining the car for three years. The calculation took in to consideration three years servicing, depreciation, all taxes and duties, fuel cost and initial purchase price but not insurance (this is dictated more by other factors such as the drivers age) and was based on the average purchase of a small/medium four/five door family car. The most expensive car to run based on the above is the...............Nissan Leaf at 52ppm.Apparantly the purchase price is non negotiable and the predicted resale value represents a £20,000 decrease, partially due to the fact the very expensive batteries will be nearly due for replacement. It doesn't stop there however, the second most expensive is the Toyota Prius hybrid at 46ppm, followed by the Lexus hybrid at 45ppm. I also remember reading an article a few years back which claimed the environmental cost of making such hybrids was three times that for a standard petrol or diesel car. Apparantley the very precious minerals required for the manufacture of the batteries are flown backwards and forwards across the globe before the manufacturers end up with a finished battery! Do the people who buy such cars realise the damage created in their manufacture? I'm going to show my age here, I recall watching a programme, possibly Panarama, in the early seventies about the fuel for the future - hydrogen. I distinctly remember watching a car being driven, parked up with the engine running and the presenter collecting water coming out of the exhaust and putting it back in the tank before driving off again. If we could do that in the seventies why has it not been developed and put in to manufacture in the following 40 years? One can only guess the oil companies have had something to do with it. Thank you and goodnight.

I think you are spot on with the above. However, my impression of wood burning joe public is he is not bothered one iota with the above. Because they can see trees all around them they think firewood should be sold for next to nothing. The unregulation of the industry has also not helped either - people have been buying by the pick up load and yet have no idea how big or how much volume that pick up will hold; so if they ring two suppliers and get quoted £70 and £130 for a pick up load they will go for the cheaper one. This despite the fact the first could be a Suzuki Carryall and the second a Ford F350 which could take two Suzukis in it load bed. The wood buying public needs to be educated....how that is achieved is the problem!

I use a guy who is a specialist with chainsaws-all makes- hedgecutters, strimmers etc based at Consett. Very reasonable and usually very quick turnaround. I'll pm you his number.

Grand Designs Australia, More4 Sunday 9pm - apparently if you enjoyed the Ben Law episode of Grand Designs, this is the Australian equivalent. Trevor Sullivan has been living in a shed with family and animals near Lake Bennett for over ten years and is now ready to build a treehouse with the the help of his mates. Sounds like its worth a watch.

I usually do all the cooking whereas my wife tends to pierce with a knife and go ping ping! She does do all the washing and ironing though. I really enjoy cooking, especially when its things I have grown or shot, but she says I just like it because I usually have a little port, sloe gin or jaegermeister as I cook. Blame me mum I say, she used to plonk me down in front of the telly to watch the "Galloping Gourmet" when I was little:thumbup:

No bother Ross, it was my mate Ian you sold it to!