Matthew Storrs

These are great pics. So I think the general synopsis to my original question is that yes they are worth it on anything bigger than 2.5t, don’t think anyone has posted any pics of anything done by smaller machine.....

Who speeds up when they get a snake on! ?

They closed the A38 on Haldon hill two weeks ago- we came up past on opposite side and a large hiab was fishing a Caravan out of the woods!

Yep last Friday a year ago!

Oh this is a conundrum I have yet to solve- exactly the same as you Dave have a single cab 110 hicap which is brilliant as can lye 6ft posts down in the bed and being wide plenty of space for wire/tools or whatever. But then there is literally sod all space in the cab! at the moment I’ve solved it by having a landrover discovery as a tool carrier and temporary family car as have left one rear seat in and shelved the rest for tools, and the 110 is used far less regularly for fencing/pickup work. The way I see it apart from the initial purchase cost I’m better off running two older vehicles, as tax/insurance for both is the same cost as for one newer vehicle. Plus it’s nice having a backup if one is not behaving itself and relieves the stress of having to fix it in a hurry for the next day etc. Having run the two together it would have to be a superbly designed/ultra reliable vehicles to make me trade the two in for it- and I’m just not sure one vehicle can ever do it all....

Thanks Eggs, that’s kind of you. We will see what comes up local- to be fair only really just started looking with any seriousness and not in too much of a rush. I’d certainly travel for the right dog though.

Good input, yeah we aren’t in a mad hurry so will wait till the right thing comes along. Think we are quite set on a cocker probably as nice size, good temperament, intelligent etc, and the ones I know aren’t yappy.

Yeah 600-800 was about what I was thinking they went for, but can’t find many ads under £2k at the mo- except in Ireland ?

I did wonder- someone with 6 pups looking to make £12-13k out of the litter seems a little unhinged to me.

We loved our Collie- but boy what a neurotic mess he was! Had to be busy the whole time, he’d literally spend a whole day barking at a rock and scrabbling it from one end of the field to the other! He wasn’t quite right from day one to be fair, but good natured and was superb around our toddler.

? lovely girl- yes we’d love to rehome one- would sooner give money to the charity and give a dog a home.

So after about 2.5 years not having a dog since our collie is no longer, we have been thinking about getting another, and a cocker spaniel seems like a breed that would suit us well. What would you expect to pay for one. Any adverts I’ve seen are mostly over £2k or so. Is this normal?

Water coming into greenhouse and primary school playground That wall In the far corner is 6ft high to give some idea how deep it was, an hours rain - it’s mental.

Phenomenal rain here, I’ve lived here (probably wettest area in southern England) for 10 years and never experienced anything like it. Only an hour or two of rain- but pub, primary school all flooded, primary school playground about 4 and a half foot deep of water.

Doesn’t this all depend on context, turning up to a job in a tranny and just have it sit there all day then one tip at the end of the day is quite different than multiple tips backing and forth.

That’s impressive. What did you do with the arrisings? The site looks very clean afterwards...

Oh no ?. I met felix in 2013 when he bought a digger off me . Very sad to hear this.

Nettex Myti-Fencer Strainer from Chelford Farm Supplies WWW.CHELFORDFARMSUPPLIES.CO.UK The Nettex Myti-Fencer Strainer will strain any type or gauge of wire, including... i find the Myti bar pretty good.

Was that the draper one!? If so utter junk!

Without proper tools/techniques, it’s hard to beat the just using a pull lever against the strainer post bar and staple off, Leave it just the staple holding the tension until your happy that the wires are all equal tension, and then tye the wire off around the strainer, so that if the staple slips it won’t go slack. Personally I like to pull my wires in the middle with monkey strainers and then tye together with a knot or gripple.

Yeah, good way really, although on long strains pulling netting with quite a few turners pulling together in the middle seems to get a nice even pull at either end as your only pulling half the netting at one go essentially.

My Tak is 2790kg. I run an ifor GH1054. On paper it’s all legal- in reality, bollocks is it!40kg Quick hitch, , buckets, fuel, 70 litres worth of hydraulic oil in its tank, mud in its tracks, tool box full of spanner’s, stuff in the cab etc etc. I do what I can to mitigate the situation- ie I will take all buckets and attachments along to the job first in a seperate trailer which is fine as most jobs are for a week or two anyway. If it’s a little job I take my 1.8tonner as it’s far more convenient for towing around with all the other bits and less stress on the tow vehicle etc.

I’ll wear a Buff if I have to go into a shop, is this applying to pubs too? Might make pint consumption a little awkward! ?

... and often wider track base so actually more restrictive getting through tight spots. I can’t understand them myself, all 3 of my diggers are full fat and never really felt the need for zero, I tried my poatknocker on a same weight zero and it couldn’t even lift it at full reach without the track lifting- hopeless!

Yes! But only way out. The defender had got though it earlier but then broke up the top vegetative surface in the process - and once your down to peat it’s game over! Your from Ireland(?) I don’t need to tell you about Peat! ?