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Ross, is that £23 plus VAT for roadside? Derek

Definately the place to go to when you win £160million on the lottery! Some of the kit, like the Land Rovers with the drop sides, is only available for export though. Although if you won that much you could export it to your villa abroad!!

I supplied mixed loads last year and people appreciated it as the softwood was easier to light than the hardwood. Should we not just be marketing DRY wood to people anyway?

My wife and I visited the Great Yorkshire Show at the Harrogate Showground on Thursday and had a great time - lovely weather, plenty of different trade stands (as in different to a game fair), Black Sheep Brewery bar, forestry demos and great selection of pork pies in the food hall. All unfortunately let down by the fact it took us 1hour 35 minutes to actually get off the show ground and then a further 30 minutes of queuing on the roads to actually get to the A1. It did not take as long to get back home to Newcastle as it did to get off the show ground!! Wasn't impressed - favourite chip shop was closed by the time we got back and I missed the first half of Ice Pilots!!! After 100 and odd years of holding the event you would have thought they would have the traffic system sorted by now:mad1:

That amount of money is self perpetuating - the interest alone would be four to five million a year, unless you spent really big you would hardly have to touch the capital. As others:001_huh: have said, if its not going to change their lives why the heck did they enter in the first place???!!??

I looked at the Mitsubishi Super cab (or Club cab to gave it its proper title) and decided they are not that super - the space behind the front seats is very small and the only access is by tipping the seat backs. If you fancy an extra cab pick up the Ranger / HiLux and Navarras are more useful and I would have thought somebody would be able to convert them to tipper basis.

Ha ha Tommer,very quick, you'll cut yourself with that sharp tongue one of these days. I should may be have expanded a bit more - I went to view a "stunning" Ranger in Yorkshire. Indeed it did look stunning on the internet but in reality it had two cheap Chinese tyres on the front, two different brands on the rear both of which were close to the limit and a spare that was bald. The alloys were all badly curbed and there was a thick layer of dust all over the engine bay, even though it had apparently been serviced and valeted. I can confirm that the pics show my truck for what it is..a really smart, great condition Ranger:thumbup:

Sorry to hear about your problem Joy. As others have said, when honest hard working people like everybody on here get messed about it's not nice and something that we should not have to deal with. I think Gensetsteve has a valid point - if somebody turned up to do a tree job for me in a vehicle advertising logs I would be thinking thats my logs he's selling. Just a thought for future. If they refuse to pay, go down the legal route straight away. Yes they have a £50k Discovery 4 but chances are its on finance and I would point out to them disadvantages of having a CCJ registered against them in the present economic climate, anybody with poor credit records will get nothing out of any high street bank these days. In my last months as a mortgage advisor for one, I had to refuse high net worth customers new mortgages as a credit search revealed a missed payment to a credit card, it wasnt even registered as a CCJ. So tell them if they want a Discovery 5 when they come out, they had better pay up. Good luck and tell husband not to let it get to him too much.

Ta da!!!! After nearly a year of deciding what to buy, countless hours trawling the internet, clocking up many miles viewing vehicles in different parts of the country and totally exasperating the wife......I have finally purchased my new vehicle. After 23 years of Land Rover ownership I have switched from the green to the blue oval. Although as the Ranger was built when Ford owned Land Rover I'm trying to convince myself it really is a Land Rover at heart! One of the reasons it took so long to decide was that I was mad keen to have a Discovery TD5 Commercial but in the end I decided it would not be a huge difference to the Freelander it was to replace. The new vehicle had to be a jack of all trades - a comfortable everyday car, be useful for my gardening business and for my log business, be smart enough so the wife would still get in it to go away for hols in it and to go shooting in. After three weeks of ownership I have done 1200 miles in complete comfort (although I do find the seat base a tad low, currently sitting on top of a travel blanket to raise me up a bit!!), fairly economically and I absolutely love it. It is a 2007 model and only had 28000 miles on the clock by one previous owner - it looks and drives like new and I got a cracking trade in deal for the Freelander. Enough of my waffling - 2 pearls of wisdom if you are thinking of buying a new motor: always go to view in person, the photos on the internet often make the vehicle look much better than it actually is and the sellers interpretation of stunning will often be differnet to yours; and secondly, if you wait long enough the right vehicle will come along!

As somebody once said on here, "Yes thats because they haven't actually got there yet!!!":001_tt2:

Some people are just soooooooooooo quick!!! That must really hammer your mpg Rob!

Where's pie land Dave as my friend may be interested if transport was not too much?

After 23 years of Land Rover ownership I have just bought an 07 plate Ford Ranger Supercab and think its brilliant - much quieter and smoother ride than the Freelander it replaced and so easy to drive, very light steering and you hardly need to touch the accelerator to move!! Only concern is mpg, haven't used a full tank yet but I know it will be lower than the 34mpg I was achieving in the Freelander. To be nonest, if you are buying new stick to what you can buy from a local dealer;they all come with warranty so its just down to personal choice.

I know there has been some interest in kindling machines recently so here is a BGU machine on e-bay. BGU Kindler machine, Firewood processor | eBay UK Might be of interest to someone

Education of the customer certainly comes in to it and making them realise that the best wood is dry wood. Part of the problem is the retailers selling the stoves are quite adament they must use hardwood under 20% moisture content and I know if I had just spent a lot of money with one of them, I would then be looking for this and it would take some pursuading for me to try something else. I sell mixed loads and have had no complaints - people like the soft wood because it lights easier and helps to start off the hard wood.

I could use the logs and my friend might let you off load them at his site on Number 1 Industrial Estate at Consett. He may take the chip as well but I'll check with him first.

I wonder if this is the same chip Stobbarts sell for £90 per ton?

That looks absolutely fab, well done. I keep thinking of buying a mill for the chainsaw and having a go with some oak my mates got lying around; none of its more than 16 inch diameter but I'm sure we could make some planks to make a bench or something.

Follow this link for the story of AG Rover from its designer Birth of the Ag-Rover The hi cap on portal axles was built by a guy in Scotland who ran a freight company and was contracted to haul materials up on to the hills for the construction of wind farms (I think). It was featured in LRO last year and he will build similar vehicles on request.

When I had a meeting with Businesslink last year they stated if someone turns up at your premises to work and uses your equipment they are an employee. If they use their own gear and sort out their work schedule they are self employed. So a "self employed" person turning up at your yard, working all day on your processor, using your chainsaw and delivering in your vehicle would be classed as an employee. The best way to be covered is by employing them on a zero hour contract so you can just call them in as and when necessary. Businesslink can supply a template for this type of contract. Apparently, the Revenue bankrupted a local builder who for many years had used self employed plasterers. They decided as the builder arranged all their work, he told them when and where to be and supplied the raw materials then they were employees and therefore claimed unpaid tax for a number of years. Might be useful for you to have a chat with Businesslink.

Hi Lorry. Yeah, bottom one is Beadnell and the top three are Bamburgh. We park just before the castle, walk along the beach to Seahouses for a bag of chips and an ice cream and then walk back before moving on to Beadnell. Another couple of years and I can imagine you chasing your nippers all over the beach:001_smile:

Don't you just hate it when the beach is so crowded on a busy Bank Holiday Sunday? This is in our opinion one of the best beaches in the world and fortunately it looks as though not a lot of people know about it:thumbup:

Might be of interest to some one FORD COUNTY 1004 | eBay UK complete with 10 ton winch.

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Tim, if you scroll to the bottom of this page you will see a list of similar threads which may give you some useful info. Basically, what I gathered earlier is: Land Rovers are super strong and tough but you have to repair them every weekend (thats why they an off the road vehicle - its always off the road getting fixed!) Toyotas are long lasting but underpowered and have disappointing towing capability and poor dealer service Nissan build quality just aint what it used to be and the engines on pre 05 Navarras go bang Mitsubishi - lowish mpg, poor in snow Ford Ranger - can chew clutches All Japanese spare parts are expensive, may be restricted to dealers and given recent problems in Japan may be difficult to obtain. Me - I've driven Land Rovers for twenty plus years, currently have a Freelander but need something larger so considering Discovery commercial or a Ford Ranger. Good luck with whatever you buy.