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So I had some steel roof sheeting for sale, guy calls me, asks the colour and I tell him it's forest green.... I also gave him the website where you can see the colour... He asks if I would accept £20 less as he is an hour away.... I explain that I have 4 people interested and I am already selling at half price so no I would not reduce it further. He drives to me and arrives without a trailer; then he tells me that I should have advised him that it was the wrong shade of forest green.... Then he asks if I would drop the price by £20... I say no again and he launches into a 'I cannot believe that you let me drive all that way for the wrong colour and now you won't even reduce the price'.... Using every tolerant bone in my body I just smiled and said goodbye. I called the second interested party and explained what had happened and that the steel was for still for sale... He was delighted, I'll hook up my trailer and be with you in an hour.... True to his word he arrives after 50 mins with cash, I show him the goods and he loves the shade of forest green We load all 20 sheets on his trailer and we notice he has a flat..... Trailer gets jacked up, wheel off, trip to tyre centre, puncture fixed He starts to drive out of my field and gets about 30 metres..... And then.... The other wheel disintegrates.... He cannot hear me calling out to stop.... The tyre rips off and the twisted hub digs itself down into deep mud Thank goodness this was the last day of 2012 and not the first day of 2013 On reflection I'm laughing but I'm sure that during it all I was speaking fluent French Happy New year to you all on Arbtalk.... And thank you for all the great advice you have offered me..... Cheers everyone

Cheers Craig

Thanks for that

Yeah that would be a great help... Many thanks!!

Thanks for the advice.... I did think about spraying insulation foam (which I believe is much the same as expanding foam) on the underside of the tin, I have heard good reports.... I assume some of the guns spray in a fan effect?? After I priced it, it seemed that sarking/membrane was a cheaper (and perhaps better) solution? Yes... The offer from Guss109 was a kind one. Again thanks for the advice

On the subject of condensation problems with steel roofs.... I was wondering if any of you guys have tackle this? I'm thinking of removing the steel roofing, board over the purlins with sarking board then use a moisture membrane of some sort before putting the steel roofing back on. I am assuming this would eliminate any condensation on the underside of the tin? But, if it didn't the sarking would not be affected as it would be protected by the membrane? I'm interested to know how you have dealt with this? Thanks in advance

Dry stone wall

And after we finished the dry stone wall around it

Hi.... Yeah no problem.... Here it is

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Hi Craig... Thanks for that. I'll get the picture to you assuming the rain stays off for a moment??

Thanks guys..... Grateful for all the advice

I have a building with a tin roof, whoever built it didn't put the foam eaves filler along each side of the ridge. Just wondered if anyone had used expanding foam post build? Did it do the job Thanks in advance

Where can you get the Stihl workshop manuals from? Thanks in advance

or here

How about where I want to live

Thanks guys

Can anyone tell me anything about this lump on one of my silver birch trees please??

The knife is or general use but mostly gutting rabbits.... The spike is a despatch tool. I fly a female Harris hawk, she's a great pheasant and rabbit bird, she will mostly kill a pheasant instantly, but a big rabbit well that may take her a little time to kill, here I prefer to intervien and despatch the rabbit to avoid any suffering. Here's a picture of my Harris called Alys

Thank you Silky... I'm delighted with them, John (Mr Jes Knifes) really is super at what he does!!

We had a very stormy night here in Aberdeenshire.... Quite mild at 2 deg but very windy with driving hail and sleet all night.... Overall horrible!!

Well this is what I bought for myself this christmas.... I like to do some falconry in my spare time so splashed out on this Falconry set. Hand made for me by Jes Knifes... pictures really don't do it justice but it's the best I could muster. The oak handles and leather sheath are just stunning in real life

Yes.... She does look sexy and I agree much sexier than the Kubota that I have now shifted Not going for a loader.... but I have bought a tipping shovel for the 3 point linkage. We have Takeuchi TB016 now so the need for a loader is less.

Well after much research I have decided to set the ball rolling and buy one.... Order placed with Kilworth Machinery. A big thank you to Mark Parnham for all the advice and patience shown in answering all my questions during the process. It will be delivered to my door with a full hand over within a month. Kilworth Machinery = excellent customer service I've attached a pic showing the 650 model that I have ordered.

I wanted to buy an Avant... I was referred to a dealer in Scotland and despite me having to call him and leaving 2 messages for him to call me.... still nothing!! Very poor customer service always puts me off It may well be a very good bit of kit but with this kind of service I won't be investing in one!!