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  1. More dead elm......
  2. I've bought loads of plates over the years from ebay/amazon, I've never once shown any paperwork (it would take me long enough to find the papers!!) All the plates I've got are fully road legal with BS numbers, suppliers details, font, sizing etc, delivered to your door for £10/£15 a pair. Yes the suppliers are supposed to ask you to send in a v5 and id. I was once stuck and needed a trailer numberplate for the following morning so I just ran one up on the vinyl cutter, you can get the official font online, I didn't have any reflective yellow so it was daytime use only Any proper criminal will be making the plates themselves, or use another criminal friend, so there's no records. Or just pinch them off a parked car, save on the ££
  3. To buy numberplates all you need £10-£15 and whatever reg you want put on them.
  4. I had a parcel delivered from the stove shop there, via ebay, so the sender was Penistone. I know my local courier well, he was asking if it was some sort of phallic device in the box
  5. In a dick strawbridge book there was pictures of a little solar dryer, basically a bit of tin painted black, an old window, and a cupboard. Would love to give it a go for apple slices, don't know if it would work well in the north of scotland?
  6. The dropside Nugent trailer I've got is built like a tank. Lots of nifty wee features like led lights as standard, sides that don't rattle, leaf spring suspension that doesn't rattle when empty, handy flip up tie down points that don't fill up with muck, etc. Not used one, but the Nugent plant trailers I've seen in the flesh look really well made too.
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    K Wallace

    Free drop site for woodchip Cash paid for logs/timber, by prior arrangement. Hardwood & softwood Good access from the A835 for rigid vehicles up to 8 wheeler Phone me in advance
  8. I would want to buy this one purely for the video on the listing, the guy is hanging off an overhead crane, chinese narration, and a weird eminem asian dance remix in the background Robot tondeuse à gazon RC télécommandé à essence, Machine de coupe d'herbe pour le gazon agricole avec pelle à neige | AliExpress WWW.ALIEXPRESS.COM Achetez malin, vivez mieux! Aliexpress.com
  9. I did see this recently, bargain Tondeuse à gazon/tondeuse à gazon télécommandée, jardin avec lame de neige | AliExpress WWW.ALIEXPRESS.COM Achetez malin, vivez mieux! Aliexpress.com (don't know why aliexpress links show on here in a funny language)
  10. I've used ice crampon things on my boots before to strim steep banks. It's a horrible job though, so easy to injure yourself. It's one thing to get paid for doing it, but if it was your own land find another way round it. Small livestock, or a robotic mower, some of the husqvarna automowers will cut steep banks. Inverness castle banks and the river banks are very steep and full of rabbit holes https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.4757904,-4.2263103,3a,75y,28.76h,103.56t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZEbaFIo63Ny0GDbrVeVt2A!2e0!5s20220301T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en-GB They used to be done by a flymo on a rope, but I think there was an accident. I think it would be hard going on your back too. The last I heard they were going to buy a remote control mower. I think they've had a few different machines, probably on various long term lease arrangements that keeps a salesman in a job https://www.pitchcare.com/news-media/plan-to-save-cash-with-40-000-remote-control-mower-at-inverness-castle.html
  11. I've seen people selling the magical "cubic tonne" which is neither a tonne nor a cubic metre! "tonne bags" can come in any size you want from 0.5m3 to 2m3 Someone who sells firewood part time had me in to split some big logs for them, it was probably half softwood half hardwood. I saw the same logs advertised on gumtree/facebook etc a few weeks later as pickup loads of hardwood......
  12. Husqvarna 28" battery powered with a backpack battery
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    Jokes???

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    Jokes???

  15. Interesting, I've never heard of this. If you look it up on youtube there's videos of the "workers village", which seems to be hundreds of portacabins and containers in the middle of the desert
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    Jokes???

  17. Just to update an old thread: After 4,200 miles of hard use (going flat out, carrying weight, and climbing hills), whilst halfway up a 15% hill and carrying a load, the motor started making a horrible grinding noise. You'd think it would be bearings or something mechanical, but it's actually electrical, possibly related to the hall sensors or wiring. I'm sure it would be fixable, but to get the bike back on the road as fast as possible it's easiest to buy a new wheel with motor and just swap that over. The chinese supplier Yose Power now has stocks in the UK, so it only took a few days to get the bike back up and running. Also at one point a couple of years ago I burnt out the original controller (ecu), I replaced it with a higher power one from aliexpress which also has a light function, so there's hardwired front and back lights, running off the main 36v battery, and switched on/off using the existing buttons on the handlebars. Dead handy if you end up being out late, and don't have to think about taking lights and spare batteries, just flick the switch like on a car.
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    Sidelines

    Cheers, the only thing I've heard against them is they're more fiddly, and taking them apart with a spanner when shit covered is slower. I did once lose a set of universal ones down a pipe, a friend then came out with a lockfast set and lost his down the pipe too! So the pipe was getting dug up anyway by that stage
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    Sidelines

    I can hardly ever be bothered selling stuff, I would rather give it to a friend for free (if they'll actually keep it and use it). But if I ever do put something on gumtree I don't put a phone number on, or sometimes I will go back to the ad after a couple of days and edit it, adding a phone number. There's some people who spend their life trawling through the latest adverts posted, and offering rock bottom prices, hoping they will get a bite. Half the time they probably don't even know what they're making an offer on!
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    Sidelines

    Here's a question for you eggsarascal, do you prefer lockfast or universal drain rods
  21. Needed to steal the image off google streetview, here's a big fuel station that sells both petrol and diesel:
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    Jokes???

    In a fit of confusion Diane Abbott has just resigned.
  23. If it's got tits or an engine*, it WILL cause you problems *"engine" includes electric motors Could just be a dodgy connection or something, put it in for repair, if it's got a warranty, even better?

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