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Personally i think the problem of the driver shortage stems back to the 90s when the driving licence was altered, first of all it cost every one more to to get to the stage where you could drive a HGV, Back when i past my driving test in 82, you could pass your test on a monday morning and then jump straight in to a 7,5 tonner and tow a 4,5 tonne trailer, , many lads i know including myself where chucked in to 7,5 tonners the day after we passed our test, some then went on to wait till they where 21 and then did a class 1, From 95 when the changes came in who wanted to spend there money on doing several different tests to get to where you could get a few years prier with very little expence ? I dont really know 100% how it works at present. but its just like a lot of other things we have in life it has just been a money making scam set up by who was in Government at the time, Tony Tosser, There was no foresight in to what was going to happen years down the line and supprise supprise here we are, as others have said it is nothing to do with brexit or coming out of the EU it goes back much further, Talking last night with some one about driving licences and he said that i should have a photo driving licence but i havent, i still have the pink and green paper one, and again when the photo licence was introduced it cost you £20 and i believe you need to renew it every 5 years ? so thats another way of getting money out of us, if we think about it if we renew every 5 year and pass our driving test at 17 and we drive till we are 82 thats 13 driving licence renewals at £20 a time and how many people have driving licences ?, At the time when the photo licence was introduced how many people where sucked in because it was new and they just had to have one !! i just said F _ _ K em they gave me a new driving licence with a expieory date on and thats how its staying till i go in the nursing home,, we are just getting ripped of today with shit loads of stuff we dont even notice. Holiday tax, insurance tax and quarry tax its mad,

Garage/garden centre/pet store had a crate full in where all the BBQ gear is about 4 wk ago and when i went for my dog food last wk i asked about them, said he sold the full crate in 2 days, 120 at £5 each and been asked dozens of times since if he had any more,

Next thing you will be telling us you had your shorts and your Take That vest top on 😂😂

So what did you do after lunch ? 😂

Read the reply back to Markj on page 2 please, and i have just seen the photos this morning, so sorry no media shit mate its first hand from the white cliffs of Dover

Dinghies they all add up and put more strain on our all ready stretched economy and services, My cousin was down south house sitting about 3 wk ago, and one day she went for a walk along the cliffs at Dover, she said we are not being told about all the Dinghies coming across she said there was dozens of them, now she aint one to get wound up about things like this, but what she so did wind her up more than i have ever seen her before, she all so added if i had not seen it for my self i would not of believed it, so she went back for another walk on the Friday and same again,

Well just watching news Night and it seems if you have got loads of money you will be only affected slightly !!! This country is going to be in such a state if some one dont get a grip and take responsabilaty for some major **************** ups, some from many years ago, some from 20/30 years ago and some that we have now, No nationwide rail network like we had, so every thing moved with lorries today by road and a lot of roads are not fit to drive on ?, but now a massive driver shortage, fuel supplies running out fast, Air pollution/climate change has finally been noticed even thou it has been mentioned 10s of millions of times since 1972,,,, moved fast on that one didnt we but there is a big world meeting next month so all that will be sorted out, To many Dinghies coming on to our shores at the moment, and they will all be given houses and some finance, but paid jack shit in ??? BUT its cost £1000s before them people off the Dinghies have reached the top of the beach with dozens of coppers and imigration officers there, if i or you need a Police officer you cant get one for about a week, ?? A few questions i would like answered are, where has all the money gone that should of been spent on our highways ? where is the money being spent that we gave the EU ? Do we really need HS2 ? could the money be spent else where like on some of the old branch railways ? One diesel train will move a lot of weight for a fraction of the fuel used by lorries to move the same weight ? Do we really need all the government backed and funded organisations that seem to either mean nothing or do **************** all and just hand money out to them who all ready have money ? Finally i am now convinced after today that Borris is a lying T - - T, !! I am just glad i wont be paying much of it,,, I dont give a - - - - what any one says about this bit, but there is only 2 politician,s that have been in my lifetime that i think have spoke any cence, Enoch and Maggie,,,, the rest, well think what you want to think,,

Is that turn left at the roundabout, then right at the lights, then 2nd on the left 😂

Might go quicker now ????

Be a millionair this time next year then Rodney ,,

How much is there ? What timber is it ? How much is it ? Get a list and some photos on and then people can see what there is ? You only have to sell it once !!

Nice one that J a bit rough tho, i bet its one of yours 😂😂, We all do it and say it was some on else,s, One below was done by one of the lads on a farm i shoot, 3 saws later and still had to push it over with the loadall, One thing i have lern,t over the years is that any tree on a farm, cut it at 4.5 - 5ft above ground level as it will contain many years of fencing wire,

Hi i have a hired a pedestrian tracked dumper in now and then over the years sometimes for a week at a time, Never had any problems with them, but thats just like any thing else, its how its maintained, if just hired out and not given the once over it will go wrong at some point, we have had them on hire when we have been clearing windblown and just ringed the timber up ready for splitting, loaded dumper skip and away, run them some days for 9-10 hrs and moved some serious amounts of wood in the day with it and all been fine, saved our arse a time or 2 in the past with one of these when its either been to narrow or to wet for either quad or compact tractor to get in,, I think JCB have most things on either 0% or very low finance at the moment as there is 2 new diggers, a double drum roller and a Fast track appeared in the yard next to mine,

I Take it this is the big Oak log you have been on about ? Thought it was in the middle of a field ??

The Manx frame was originally a single front down tube that was called a garden gate frame due to it flexing in corners, Rex mcandlles was asked to design a more rigid frame that the Manx engine would fit in to, he came up with the Manx Featherbed frame and how that got its name was from Harrold Danniels a works Norton rider at the time, he went out testing it and when he returned to the pits he was asked what it was like, he just looked at pit crew and said its like riding on a featherbed,, and that name has stuck with it, Norton raced the new chassis at the TT in 52 with i think 4 Nortons in the top 6, so not bad really, they then went on to dominate the world championships, with the likes of Geff Duke, Bob Mc who was the fist man to do a 100mph lap of the TT course in the 50s some 70 years ago, If you zoom in on the photo you will see that the rear subframe is bolted to the main frame hence why they got called a bolt up back end frame, Norton had great success with the chassis and decided to trial it in some of there faster road bikes, so they made some in the same Jigs as the Manx frames was built in and they sold well, the bolt up back end frame was made for the road bikes from Oct 53 - Feb 55 so not a long run really, from Feb 55 they had a welded back end to speed production up and the design was changed slightly as it was many times later, The Tube used was all Reynolds tubing but the Manx race bikes got a higher grade steel than the road going versions, and as you say is correct, Norton would only sell the full bikes and not the engines, and yes they were fitted in to race cars and there was a lot of Manx frames that ended up with a Triumph engines in them, when i went to buy the one i have i noticed the bolt up back end and stood there hoping the frame number started with a M but unfortunatly it was a J , after buying it i did a bit of reserch on the frame (very ltd internet info back then) so i had to ask the old boys i knew about it, some i visited and was asked many times is that a Manx frame, one old guy i knew worked for the Norton works race team from the mid 40s till the end and he was the man who made all the alloy tanks for all the works race bikes, i have a brand new 5 gallon hand made Alloy tank for this bike made by the said bloke, its upstairs in the wardrobe in a box wrapped in bubble wrap, its a true work of art, I hope this is clear for you to read and makes sence but unfortunatly many Manx and featherbed frames have been written of over the years and to find a good original frame is now getting hard to find, i bought several back in the 90s as they wernt that sought after then, i had about 8 once over but sold all but one now but, when i paid from £70- 150 for each frame and sold them for £500 it wasent a bad investment really, If i can find a photo of a mates Triton i will post it, Its 56 with a 820cc Puma Westlake motor fitted and its a genuine 140mph + bike,

The Triton has a lot of history with it, the bloke i bought it off was in Melton Mobury, he bought the bike new in 54 as a Dommi 500 in Brighton, he got married sold the bike to a mate and moved north, he then bought the bike back some 40 yrs later minus its original engine, at this time the bloke had become involved with the CRMC classic racing motorcycle club, he aquired the T100 motor and fitted then continued to build as is in the photo, The bike has done track days parade laps etc, i have some timed lap printouts some where with his best lap at Donnington being around 80mph and there is a certificate for a lap of the IOM at the manx GP with a time of 89.7 mph,, I have a fully rebuilt 740cc motor with all brand new internals to slip in it one day, a lot of the younger lads i know with bikes think its just a piece of slow old junk ? until they look round and see that your still there with em,

Might be of interest to a few of you, its something i bought back in the 90s as more of a investment than to ride, but it does put a grin on your face when out on it, 1954 Triton, the frame is one of the very first Norton featherbed frames and according to frame number it is about 7-8mths in to production, this frame would of been made in the very same jigs as the first Manx featherbed frames where made in but mine will be heavier tubing, Engine is a 1952 Triumph Tiger 100 500cc lightened and balanced crank, big valve head and race spec cams this is coupled to a Triumph Slick shift 4 speed gearbox and geared for 110mph as it is, Norton long Roadholder forks, Manx swinging arm, Borranie alloy rims, Norton twin leading shoe front brake, 5 gallon tank, clip ons, rear sets, Coned open megaphone exhausts, Bike goes very well stops reasonably well and corners like its on rails, its a absolute dream to ride, Day light ride only as no electrics at all only the mag for ignition,

I take it you have bought one of the new Stihl MS170 injection turbo models then 😂😂

I was watching a old episode of Till death us do part, with Alf Garnett the other night and there was a quote in that which i pissed my self laughing at, he was on about voting and he came out with , they have to vote Labour because they cant spell Conservative, that did make me laugh, but we need to remember what the country was like when that program was made back in the 70s,

Thats me now, i look at every thing and where it,s produced, i would sooner pay a bit more for something that is made in the UK, even beer i have given up with the big commercial brewers and now just support the local smaller brewers, and there is some top class real ales about now,a days,

simple, just avoid it as i here its not good in small engines, i know of one or two who have had problems with saws this last wk or 2, just buy the V power or Ultimate and you wont have any problems,

Can hire you a fast road tow log splitter 😂😂😂😂

Yes there was a lot handball unloading, The said load on the Wagon was for the water board, fencing posts for a pumping station some where on the outskirts of Carlisle, the concreate Co my dad worked for did a lot of water board stuff, and he tells me most of the sites where small and remote and they might of had a dumper and a mixer on site and that was it so all posts unloaded by hand, Back then every one just got on with it and did,nt moan about much not like today,

I think they did offer him something like that but he had had enough driving by then and they wanted someone else in the garage maintaining a growing fleet so he took that job instead,

That confirms then what i so the other day on the A59, 8 or 9 arctics pulled up for a brew or a butty and all where 50+, Photo added below is back when a lot of young men wanted to drive a truck, photo was taken circa 1962/63 of my Dads wagon a 1958 Dodge 350 loaded with concreate posts for a water board job near Carlisle the morning after, back then it was nearly a days job doing that run as we have to remember there was no M6 back then so it was from just north of Preston, pick the A6 up and through Lancaster, Carnforth and Kendal and then the long hard climb up over Shap fell on the old A6 not as it is today, down in to Penrith and then on to Carlisle, That run today would take about half the time as compared to back then and its not the trucks its he road net work we have now, He drove till the early 80s but the company he drove for was changing every thing to arctics and he only had class 2 but he got a chance to go on to maintaince,,,