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penis It had to be done

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I use a fine flat file to sharpen mine, it works well.

Gratitude

If paid for on a credit card take it up with the card company.

First ever truck was a Datsun 620 pickup, done me proud, but like all Datsuns ended up rusting away.

We run an OKI 5650 colour laser that has had silly amounts of paper go through it, it's run on compatible cartridges, the only problem with them is initial start up time, costly OPC belt changes, and their size. We also run a canon ip7250 with refillable cartridges which work out about 50p per refill, that one is used for any graphics as lasers can get costly to run on intense graphics

I have been thinking along those lines, they make pretty good guarders apparently. I use a mixture of a whole load of different methods atm, but more is always better. But it only really works of coarse if you live next to your yard.

Somewhere on the North Norfolk coast, overlooking the sea.

we had something similar, the bars were fairly substantial but would only take a couple of minutes to cut through but you would only need to cut one off to free the whole thing, the bars are the weak point though. Perhaps something like this ?

We are not allowed to own anything like the type of guns that are allowed in the states

I made a post about this the other day in one of the stolen threads. We done huge amounts of research into what was best for us after doing a test with Tracker. The Tracker plant or retrieve were pretty good options. there were several things that made them stand out from the others, firstly GPS/GSM/VHF signal, then it's ability to monitor what is going on with units if you have several machines are parked together, so if one gets tampered with the other units inform Tracker, the ability to allow machines to be ring fenced so if they go outside of a specified area during the working day it notifies Tracker, VHF detectors fitted at ports, and the mesh system was pretty impressive, there was loads more that all added to the chances of you getting your kit back more likely than others we looked at for the price, also they bring it back to you if they find it which saves the hassle of sorting it yourself, GPS is too easily and cheaply blocked. I sound like an advert for them , but do your homework before jumping in with any of them. It also depends how well the unit is fitted and hidden. Edit: I also used to get the monthly stats from Tracker on recovery rate and was quite surprised how high it was compared to what was stolen.

Sorry to hear about this, it's completely gutting. Not good at any time of year. I hope you can get back up and running soon I don't want to derail this thread, but here is some info I have after some pretty extensive research and a trial with Tracker that may be of use to others. We found a GPS tracker gave such an intermittent signal once you put it inside or conceal it within large amounts of steel that it becomes pretty worthless, also they need a constant power supply or at least recharging every few days, as they don't actually last that long once they transmit a signal, the test unit we had was only picked up 3 times in one day but we had traveled a couple of hundred miles that day. A combined GPS/VHF was a much better option, you need some seriously expensive kit to find or block VHF and it can still transmit through steel which is ideal for stuff that ends up in shipping containers, but it still needs a power supply, from memory I believe they needed charging every few days, and if the battery went flat it was an engineer out job. There is/was a GPS/VHF unit out that if you have several machines parked next to each other with them all fitted and one is tampered with or turned off the others send a signal to tell it has been messed with. You could spend serious amounts of money on it and there is still no guarantees you would get your kit back. This was a couple of years back and things may have changed a bit since.

That one was lifted on, but only just. We had several big ones like that, the biggest had to be straddled on.

Knuckle boom or straight boom crane, timber crane ? From when I was looking for one to mount on a trailer, it had to be a knuckle boom. Hiab didn't really do much for 3500kg in knuckle boom cranes, Fassi and Palfinger do a nice range, very good quality but very nice prices and heavy compared to others. Bonfiglioli, Pesci, decent value for money with decent lift to crane weight, I ended up with Bonfiglioli which are about the cheapest but the main reason is the best lift to weight ratio out there, not the best build quality though, but that said we have put some huge butts on with it. There are other makes out there but bear in mind you need a fairly narrow folding crane if it's going on something similar to a transit, and bare in mind you will have a crap payload once the crane is on, my Bonfig with the extra framework weighs in just under 600kg, I would imagine if you could find a truck with one fitted it would be cheaper than buying one and having it properly fitted, buying the pump and the body altered. Our next trailer will have a Pesci fitted to it I reckon.

Builders bags come in a multitude of sizes, all our bagged stuff states bag size on the website and we tell customers when they phone to order.

Sounds like someone in the council was bored. You can sell it how you like so long as the customer gets what you say they will get. And I would imagine if you added 1m3 "bag" then you have covered yourself fully. You sure this weren't a bored competitor having a laugh ?

Indeed it is him mate, a man I have a lot of admiration for, there aren't many people who worked like he did to build his first house. I haven't seen him about for a while so give him my regards when you see him, would be good to catch up sometime.

I prefer to stay out of these types of conversation, but I have found there are differing types of gypsies. In general the ones who park up by the side of the road and shop car parks are trouble. However there is a very large number around our area (and eggs isn't that far from me) who are decent honest people, are settling down, and understand that it isn't a very clever idea to crap on your own doorstep, they have good businesses and have worked and still do work bloody hard to keep them that way. I have had the pleasure of dealing most of these and have to say they have been some of my straightest customers I have dealt with, in 30 odd years I have never been screwed over by one of them, in fact it was one of them that helped me by lending me kit when I started out as I was struggling to buy all the kit I needed. There is good and bad in everyone.

I wouldn't and don't give a crap so long as the rent is paid and it's looked after, renting out is a business and i don't turn anyone away from my normal day to day business either.

That's an impressive piece of kit and workmanship.

Easy enough to do if you can get the bits at the right price. I recently sold everything you needed.

I thought KMR wanted way to much for my dropside Jon I ended up building it myself. But they do make some nice bodies.

KMR will do the body but you need to make it into a chassis cab first, so need a rear bulkhead, rear window section and truck cab roof, along with a few brackets to attach them with. Generally can be found on ebay.