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  1. Matthew Storrs
    Can't see any fences apart from near the house? Just fell a space nearer the bottom of the garden then the brash can be dragged down hill. If the trees are 14ft wide that gives a fair bonfire space.
  2. Matthew Storrs
    Reckon you might break more than a few eggs to make your omelette here:laugh1:
  3. Matthew Storrs
    Or fell the first few and use the space as your burn site- so you don't need to faff about with turfs. And tracked barrow or muck truck for getting timber out- quids in. In my experience, if customers are dubious about fires, they soon change their minds when they see the price difference!
  4. Matthew Storrs
    Beat me to it. Hire a micro digger(ideally with a thumb if available) and a muck truck scrape off turfs carefully with grading bucket- have the mother of all fires- use digger to spread the ash (over the site of the tree stumps?) then relay the turf gentally tamping with the grading bucket to bed them in and level them. The timber could then be shifted with the muck truck.
  5. Matthew Storrs
    Yes that's right
  6. Matthew Storrs
    Fantastic chippers, used one for 5 years on unimog u1000 and aside from blade sharpening it never went wrong. Then I bought one myself to run off a 70hp tractor which was a good combo even at the lower HP. On both the ones I used you had to use the stop bar with large timber as it had no no-stress control- brash was rarely a problem even with 70hp. Beautifully basic chippers - parts were fairly dear when I needed to repair my own once but shouldn't happen too often with good servicing.
  7. Matthew Storrs
    Nothing wrong with the hilux idea- as far as I see it that would probably be my no 1 choice of all the available pickups at the mo (LC aside). Plus i really like the crimson red colour they do it in:laugh1: Someone mentioned that the double cab isn't 3500kg but I'd most likely get either single cab or extended anyway. I may have the defender a while yet- but it is starting to get abit worn altogether, and the list of things becoming wrong with it is increasing. Plus it's not family friendly in the slightest which I will need from a vehicle before long when I have to look after my daughter more.
  8. Matthew Storrs
    On a more 'local scale' I though the latest series of The missing on BBC was pretty good. I really liked sons of anarchy, Breaking bad,, Dexter and walking dead. Couldn't get into game of thrones myself
  9. Matthew Storrs
    Never mind Mark think of all inappropriate boyfriends you will want to box with
  10. Matthew Storrs
    I did think it through, and your just repeating what I said anyway. If a child loses his father early in his life that is bad luck, if a kid never knows his father as Its a one night stand or father abandoned family that is not a situation I would advocate either. In this case it is pre ordained, and I'm telling you now if Jagger was a women the majority of the population would agree with me, I feel sorry for the kid that he will lose his father when he is young, if a kid has never known his father he doesn't know what he is missing and I would feel for them too.
  11. Matthew Storrs
    You have a good point- I guess selfish may not necessarily be the right word, but just feel for the kid, he's more than likely gonna meet grief earlier than he should.
  12. Matthew Storrs
    Except his father! Sure, it'll have all the money in the world thrown at him to try as a compromise but it will always be just that. Even a young father can die when the kid is young and that is an unfortunate but in this case it's a given.
  13. Matthew Storrs
    If a woman managed to have a kid at this age then everyone would be saying it's a selfish and unfair on the kid- personally I think the same in this instance. But there we go.
  14. Matthew Storrs
    Yes, that is a shame. There is the 3.0l TDv6 option, which I assume is what they also put on the disco.. I dunno, seems nothing is an ideal vehicle. I just want a beastly tow vehiclcle that is reliable. Everything else plays second fiddle to this.
  15. Matthew Storrs
    Yes, a nice example, on the face of it it looks like cheap power with comfort thrown in, depends on reliability I guess- that's where it could all become hideously expensive.
  16. Matthew Storrs
    Ah, screw that idea then!Dont want the hassle or expense, And I was just starting to think I was getting somewhere...
  17. Matthew Storrs
    Ok, so new line of thought, I'll keep my current defender for general rough and tough pickup work etc, towing 1.5t digger. Then have a seperate vehicle for towing my 3 tonner, but also that is more family friendly too. Plenty on hear seem to be running discos but what about the Range Rover, looking on eBay and the like you can pick up a mid 2000's RR vogues with V8 lump for quite keen money, that'd be good for towing 3.5t right? I know they are thirsty but as I said before most of the time it's 10 mile journeys to work so shouldn't be too much of a killer if it only does 10 MPG? Cheers for all your input- all helpful
  18. Matthew Storrs
    Could be unfortunate for any unsuspecting sun bathers down below:laugh1:
  19. Matthew Storrs
    Not keen on the new defenders really, it's not just that they have a small engine, but IMO the new defenders are almost the worst of both worlds, they still have all the dated land Rover 'features' and no improvement in fit and finish yet they have added a modern electrickery engine which I won't be able to work on myself. Plus if I'm getting something that new I must as well get new and get the benefits of having warranty and I can look after it from new etc. Jon, which areas did you think the LC was beefier? I really couldn't see much in it when looking at axles/propshafts steering rods etc. The back end was better than Landys dreadful rot attracting rear crossmember. A new land cruiser is 200kg heavier than equivalent single cab 110 defender. Considering the LC has bigger engine and steel bodywork as opposed to aluminium, there can't be much more metal to it than the defender?
  20. Matthew Storrs
    That was what I thought too. I know I had a trailer for my old tracked chipper. The handbrake was excellent when forward but once I unhitched it on a backwards slope and it ran away with itself. Ever since even with my new Ifors I always chock now if I have to unhitch on a slope.
  21. Matthew Storrs
    This is what I love about my defender, if I need a part it's down to my local Land Rover parts place and they have it on the shelf, it doesn't usually cost the earth and I can nearly alwAys fit it myself and I don't consider myself a mechanical whizz. The LC no doubt has a fantastic engine but when I looked under one at the APF I didn't really think the chassis or running gear looked any heavier duty really than my defender. So it would have to last at least twice as long as a defender to justify the price tag and the rust would get to it even if it could.
  22. Matthew Storrs
    I was under the impression though that the trailer handbrake is not entirely effective if the trailer is going backwards? In which a brakeaway cable isn't really a fail safe. I'd have though a suitably rated chain between the trailer and vehicle chassis would be a safer bet, even if it's not in the 'rulebook'!
  23. Matthew Storrs
    Is that a spring lock quick hitch? The springs lose their 'spring' after a while and can cause sloppiness too? Is imagine you could get a new spring from Geith. That and building it up with weld should give a fair few years of life. Mine is in a similar state- it's now a poor mans tilting hitch!
  24. Matthew Storrs
    We don't give each other anything at Christmas, so no chance of getting it wrong:thumbup1: We both reckon we have enough stuff in the house, don't need any more and would sooner put the money towards a holiday or something Waiting for the Scrooge comments now!
  25. Matthew Storrs
    And on hard standing it's nice and easily to manoeuvre about by hand. On mine I have the separate ramps but the lights were really badly positioned and ended up cracking on the ground when I drove the digger on- other than that they are fanatastc well built trailers and the beaver tail is a nice touch.

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