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I’ve seen the video of him in our local high street asking for directions to the train station - unbelievable 😡

This was done in 2009 and it was a 1999 model originally fitted with all steel body and tail lift. I cut the body off right down to the tipper body rails and fitted an all ally back from a transit onto it. Fabricated all the mountings etc, then the towbar. Found some old pics the missus took while I was doing it - none of the completed article though. I remember the diagonals I put in were really heavy angle iron, and every bit was seam welded

I did my research and this particular model, the Iveco dealer reckoned there was no way that an off the shelf towbar could be fitted - something about the anti roll bar being in the wrong place. If I wasn’t confident in my welding then I wouldn’t have made it. I accept your point though

I fabricated one from box and angle onto a Daily chassis - had it checked by an ag fitter and he said it was so over engineered and strong it would pull a house over. Not sure if it’s part of the mot test?

Even if you can get a metal blade to fit (unlikely), your machine is just not up to the job. It would be like hitching a 3.5 ton trailer to a towbar on a battery powered fiat 500 - just not gonna work. Several very knowledgeable people here have given you good answers - a lot of the guys on here do this for a living 👍

Plus spares availability will be none existant. You’ll need at the very minimum face/ear protection, decent boots, thick trousers or proper ppe. if you’ll be maintaining this area a lot the worth spending the £ - buy cheap buy twice. if it’s a one off clearance, either hire the right machine or get someone in to do it

As Steve said - those battery strimmers are for a bit of light edging around domestic lawns. I would be attacking that lot with a combination of long reach hedge cutter and a brush cutter with a mulching blade

All I can say before commiting is Hire one for a week or two first to see if you both really like the lifestyle you’ll be buying into. A neighbour spent nearly 50k on one, used it a couple of times then sold it at a great loss ☹️

Very knowledgeable and readable, interesting author in the carp world

Had pretty good seat this time - normally up in the gods 👍

I’ve seen them on the last three tours and a couple of times before that too - absolutely awesome band live! I know the lineup is nothing like the original but the musicianship and vocals are fantastic 👍

I’ve seen them on the last three tours and a couple of times before that too - absolutely awesome band live! I know the lineup is nothing like the original but the musicianship and vocals are fantastic 👍

There will never be peace in that region - not in our lifetimes or even our great grand children’s. It’s totally ingrained within their nature to hate each other. And it’s spreading ☹️

Probably quite a lot - mind you it’s lime so they might bring it back when they find out how poorly it burns 🤣

The sections that have narrowed are where they pass through the muscle wall so not suitable to stent. I’m now stuck here for at least another two days while they check the medication is doing it’s job

Thank you! Well the upshot is they didn’t do any stents as the narrowing arteries are in the wrong place ffs! They’re starting me on some aggressive medication to improve the blood flow, heart muscle pumping etc Then as an outpatient I’ve got to have an mri to ascertain whether I have actually had a minor heart attack and what damage has potentially been done. So gonna have to have a rethink on work strategies and roles, trying to take more of a back seat and supervisory position

Type of tree will help as some are more desirable than others and is there easy vehicle access, will it be down, machine for loading or rings to handball? Free or beer tokens?

I don’t remember seeing one. Only recall loads of ladybirds, biting and a surfeit of greenflies often getting into the potato salad - couldn’t tell the difference between them and chopped parsley 🤣

Yes I remember that happening on frinton beach when I was 10

Hard to tell - I’ve seen the video but not sure how to upload here?

Thanks guys! Angioplasty finally booked in for tomorrow morning - it’s been the waiting around and the boredom that’s been the hardest thing to deal with tbh. Staff have been great, food not bad considering 👍

About 7 times I think I saw them - Hammersmith odeon back in the early 80s and the last time was Milton Keynes bowl supported by Jethro Tull, another of my favourites 👍

Thank you 👍

So for the last three weeks or so I’ve been getting increasingly fatigued, out of breath with a bit of tightness across the chest, so much so that walking at normal pace for 50m saw me breathing like I’d sprinted 200m - that’s unlikely at the grand age of 60 mind. Finally managed to get into the quacks on Monday - straight to a&e from there. Diagnosed with exertional angina. Had angiogram yesterday afternoon - two blocked arteries ☹️ Currently awaiting transfer to cardiac unit to have a couple of stents fitted which could take a couple of days to a week Very luckily I seem to have avoided a full blown heart attack and there’s only minor damage. I eat well, don’t smoke, like a few beers/wine, could work all day no problems including a bit of easier climbing when I fancied it. No previous symptoms before a month ago - never imagined it would happen to me. My wife’s had 3 heart attacks, 6 stents, full bypass, femoral anrtery bypass and is often in a wheelchair so I have to be there to care for her. So please - any warning signs, don’t ignore them and think “I’ll be fine, it’ll pass” - get yerself checked out 👍

A mate has them in his freezer for the odd meal. Says they taste better shot in the autumn when their diet is more nuts and vegetable based than in the spring and summer when they predate a lot of birds eggs and baby birds