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Obviously not a Council or Local Authority operation!!

Our current collection of 4 dogs, of varying ages, and years of loving ownership, do not appear to suffer from fleas, worms or skin problems, despite not being vetted or dosed for such ailments. Merely fed on cheap dry dog nuts, and the unlimited run of a few acres of rough grassland and moss. They all sleep in our bedroom, mostly in our bed. All are disgustingly healthy, except the JR, and his current colitis is purely due to his scoffing of about 1000g(easily) of cooked gammon off the lunch table. cheers m

most excellent!

My kind of tractor:lol: PS Re poor brakes, the Military trucks produced in the USSR very pragmatically ignored Mr. Westinghouse's fail safe air brakes, and simply used the air pressure to actuatue the brakes. Lose an airline, no worries, one can still move towards the enemy, as for stopping, well Russia was a rather large country. I liked this distillation/evolution of Military thinking.

I used to enjoy the Carol service at our local Church. Other than that a lot of mostly forced, debt inducing merriment and pointless waste. Never mind the alcohol induced family squabbles. Bahhumbug indeed. PS I do enjoy a beer or wine or whiskey bytimes. Marcus Anyway, we open our Christmas present to the 2 sprogs tomorrow, a virtually untouched (other than oil heating installed) Victorian period detatched dwelling in Belfast Still got the full lath and plaster ceilings etc, etc. Previously, for many years apparently lived in by a Professor, and his Cook. So hopefully the daughter bes cooking this year.

Excellent

I got that, every bloody time, on the Toshiba netbook, I did have cause to wonder, what did they know . . .

Or "instant access" for future housing:lol: development, such development being much more easily obtained behind existing housing. I can therefore See why farmers dont want to sell agricultural land, at agricultural prices:001_huh:

As they do say "there not making any more of it" Riverine deltas excepted.

The very simple answer to that question really depends on how good a Poker player you are, permed by how hungry or not the landowner/farmer is. Plus who pays the legal costs etc. Me, I ud be looking for 10k, plus costs and this assuming no possible "hope" value. Cos once its gone its GONE. Cheers M

Cordless Grinders, Dewalt, Metabo, Ryobi Cordless Grinder As someone said, spend on intruder type alarms, or Mastiff type dogs, rather than expensive padlocks and chains, any one of these with a 1.0mm thick "plasma" disc will make fun of the hardest strongest metal. cheers m

guessing about 3tonne, and probably a bit less, since no cab. They really are astoundingly small, especially by modern tractor standards. Tracks also look reasonably worn, at least judging from the apparent depth of the cleats in the rather poor photo. Carraro is, as far as I am aware, a well regarded crawler manufacturer, after Fiat and Same. but I could be talking bollocks. cheers m

Thats my bull-bar, seriously! The bloke who had owned the wee Fiat crawler (the one that I bought) had traded it for a 90BHP Carraro crawler, to power a topper. Said bull-bar was supposed to be part of the deal, but she turned up without it. Because he kept it to fit to his new crawler! Do I need 2 crawlers? prob not. cheers m

I take it that is book-matched, but one side flipped over, looking at the shape, shakes and coloration, rather than a large double bole trunk. I think . . . our dining room would be big enough, just about. . .

I was in conversation with a local tree surgeon, who was looking at buying a new German built tracked MEWP, which weighed sommat like 3 tonne, or very very fractionally under 3000kg. To tow on a 3.5t ball hitch. Simply because said German firm supplied a special built trailer fully road legal for the 3500kg class. It only cost £6,000.00:001_tt2: (the trailer that was) That unobtainium bes proper expensive apparently. Marcus

See the wee Fiat Crawler, been sat outside unstarted since the 3rd week week of Sept, with the nowt-special battery that come in her, and started absolutly first kick yesterday in the tight white frost (Ok, so I wisnay oot o bed too early:001_tt2:) M

Buy a 40 year old Fiat, started absolutly first kick yesterday, in the frost, after sitting unstarted outside since the week of the APF show. Should Be good for the foot deep snow forby!!

If the bundle is strapped tight enough to be stable, the saw will most likely bind as the billets move under the strapping pressure on cutting. Anyway even a single phase rocking cradle cross cut saw is plenty fast at cutting billets, to simply cut to length as needed beside the boiler.Oops, and guessing no dearer than a large chainsaw to purchase, plus chainsaws not best suited to cutting dry timber. m

That MF372 is surely a trifle unusual. An import perhaps? I am not a MF fan but still kinda know the commoner older models. . . PS The 390 is missing the "T"

I like the plasters test! I do however remember (& drink was an distinct contributory infulence) being suckered into "spoon boxing" when in the TA Mess. The "gas microwave" for the Cook-tent was also a winner. m

I took a while to establish why i was going back instead of forward and visa versa. Bloody hydro pedals are arse-about-face/other-way-round compared to the long established JD 3720 tractor. So i got them changed = success. The other intractable issue is the swivel steering when using the forklift to lift closely stacked pallets, say off a lorry after heavy braking. The swivel steering makes it quite impossible to move the pallet out sideways, unless one swings in sideways "just so" so one really NEEDS the hydraulic side-shift pallet toes. Other than that a useful tool. Ours is used with an edging blade/bucket on the front (miles of Cycle paths) Plus a hydraulic drive rotary wire brush to scrub weeds from kerblines and off areas of Pavoirs (caravan park incl) Plus jibbling misc palletized stores about the depot, emptying bins in the Cem etc etc, filling sand for pitchs etc etc. Marcus PS Ours is a 640, which with rear weights and a silage grab (to lift bushs) comes in at 2080kg, so nicely legal on a 3000kg/3500kg trailer

So where do I, with a franschised dealer fitted swan neck towbar on the Octavia, attatch the breakaway cable, as there is no fixing point other than the swan neck and towball? Happen I wrap the cable round a couple of times and clip it to itself, what else can I do, not wishing to interfere with the CE approved integrity of my approved Skoda towbar? marcus

Eddie, Also look at Mitisibisu Canter 7.5 tonne, we have taken delivery of one with a full "Buaffalo" board floor, a 5.5m long body, incl beavertail, full width alloy tailgate ramp (gas assisted, quite beautifully) and a 5 tonne 24V recovery winch. And the slight weight penalty of the standard-fit automated gearbox. All of Which, after allowing 260kg for a full tank of diesel, and a Driver with a large piecebox. Gives a full legal payload of 4000kg. Which allows for a genunine 3500kg excavator, plus buckets (especially with an unbraked 750kg trailer on behind) cheers marcus

meh! whadda ya expect from a crappy Husky with an integral plastic-cast tank.

An absolutly excellent post Timon:thumbup: