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There's a video of something like that on the Redwoods in the states, I think they call it 'tree fishing' or something?

I am at work, I sit at a desk!

They're not what they once were.... I had a Mk2 Golf GTi insured with them [and HIC, their main competitor when I was starting out whom they now own] when I was 19 and they were ridiculously cheap on ridiculous cars for drivers too young to handle them.... I paid about £550 for my Golf [a friend had a Golf Rallye insured for under £800 back then, aged 19 as well!] Our Jag is insured with them [HIC] now for about £350, but they didn't seem too keen to insure me on an ancient Golf Gti when I enquired last year, aged 31.....

That for ali or steel body? Paul Abbotts, Specialist Arboricultural Services at Malvern would be worth speaking to.....

I would imagine that around sensitive areas, such as holiday parks etc they would be a great solution to a real problem, but for hardcore day in day out tree surgery there looks to be too many compromises. Not least the price....!

I'm going onto Ludlow in a minute? Want me to go give them a rocket?!

They're not 'emotive' Murray, they're just 'fact'....

Has the climate change thread burned out then?

A solicitor hit my mother in our lane years ago and claimed 'knock for knock'. She told him where he could stick it as she was pulled in and not moving at the time. See you in court he said. So she did, by herself, and wiped the floor with the snot nosed little oik.... [You don't go up against my fearsome mother mind you....!] I'd argue the toss if I was you.... But then you might be starting to get the picture that I have a problem with authority or people trying to take money off me and will argue with anyone.....

1971? I thought they were out of production by then and well into 'red giants' territory... Either the date's wrong [1961 maybe] or it's a 135 with the 1 missing, which would be a great result...!

But often burn out quickly [in terms of actual time] following LOADS of posts....

Total cart price, but then I like doing spreadsheets to make sure I'm getting the best deal! And I always spend up to the free postage threshold.... Flat carriage pricing is always helpful, but then we wouldn't necessarily get the best deal. I don't mind not finding out the exact postage cost until the end, but it's nice to have an idea. Like I say though, having a figure at which postage becomes free acting as a target suits me just fine...!

I wouldn't class any of that as a 'modification'... they're bolt on accessories, and I would contact the insurers and tell them as such. All the things I can see could have been fitted when new by Land Rover in theory, so would that have made it a modified vehicle when new? No, it would just have been 'accessorised'. Modifications as I understand it are performance enhancing alterations to the engine or driveline, upgrades to on board systems, changes to suspension, steering and brakes, where original parts which are needed to make a car go are replaced with non OEM aftermarket alternatives. Spotlights, nudge bars, tyres etc are all just 'accessoriess', they serve no purpose to 'improve performance'. If you can take it off and the car still works, passes an MOT etc, or it's something which wears out and is regularly replaced without any changes to the vehicle being necessary, I'd argue that's not a mod. Phone them up and ask them for the guidelines on determining what constitutes a modification so that you can give them an accurate list..... If they can't then it's fairly obvious you're just getting fleeced...

So I believe..... I've seen it on the internet!

I think you've cracked it. Tabloid journalism aside, I wouldn't focus on the case of two individuals, for instance this trout and Abu Qa-ptain hook, but more on the fact that far too many people [like the two mentioned] have children who really shouldn't. We can't rely on social services removing children, that's bad on two levels, one that many children in care end up having pretty crappy lives and two, that removing children from their parents is a horrid thing to do anyway. The financial incentive for having children needs to be removed from those for whom it is their only potential easy income stream, to prevent anyone but the best parents, who will bring their children up well, from choosing to have them. Plainly she's a scummer. But prevention is better than cure. Don't keep taking children away from people like this, I don't want to fund unwanted kids, they just keep having more. Give young poeple the education to encourage them to make something of themselves and not bring more of the poor little sods into the world....

I would promise not to laugh... honestly... no, really... Ppppppffffffff :lol: I thought this stuff only happened in Ricky Gervais' fanatsies...?!

That's exactly what I thought....but I tried REALLY hard!! Does anyone have a video of this set up and working...?

Hmmmm... I tried setting up as per pic 2 / 3 a while ago and found it didn't work.... pulling down on the tail to placed as much load onto the prusik on the standing end as acted on the tail resulting in deadlock....

My son would LOVE this.... Sometimes I am deeply disturbed by his high levels of nerdiness.....! [This week it's Minecraft... eh?] Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to help out with the woodland hire, it would conflict with our own role playing club [where we dress up in costumes running round the woods playing games, sometimes called a commercial game shoot....!] but I'll keep my eyes peeled.... Have you thought about just using accessible FC woodland Tagger? You'd get all the facilities you need without having to pay anything, but may run into the public on the odd occasion.... I reckon that any decent private woodland of that size is going to present you with the same problem, that it's going to be shot commercially and this comflicts quite heavily....

By christ, Dave must have been bloody fuming when she came home and told him that! What planet do these numpties at the council think they live on? Censoring a little girl, and one with more about her than the entire bloody local council too....

If it still works, stick with it! I've just ordered a new battery for my BlackBerry Storm 2, which apparently was the worst phone on the history of everything, but I get on OK with it and have done for the last 2 & a half years so until it dies completely, I'm going to plough on with it.... !

Everyone who signs these petitions mysteriously disappears....

As a related aside, quite often I get plans from some architects in peculiar scales.... easy way round it is measure at 1:100 [with a scale rule, or work on 1cm = 1m on a normal ruler] and multiply by 0.whatever the scale is shown as.... So... a plan at 1:75, which I don't have on my scale rule, would be measured at 1:100 and multiplied by 0.75, while a plan at 1:150 is measured at 1:100 and multiplied by 1.5 .... Also useful for measuring scale drawings of any scale with no scale rule at all...

That's quite a statement you make there Tony. I think that actually, for the majority of the population, certainly of the UK, who live in urban areas, commute to work, shop in supermarkets, escape the rat race by jumping on a plane and having a foreign holiday [none of these are things I do I might add] to make the changes which I think you're suggesting are not that hard, actually they're probably so monumental as to be INCREDIBLY difficult. I think that it's probably very easy for you to say they're easy changes but you live in a compliant way. Seriously dude, walking round the woods at the weekend looking at fungus? This is NOT the hobby of 99% of the population, you'll sound like David Icke to them! I'm not saying you're wrong, just that you may have overestimated human desire for embracing change... If your week was something along the lines of that beer ad on TV, the idea of living in a yurt and growing your own cheese probably falls some way short of your personal aspirations....

Where are they from then? The Ketil Cuthbertson was nice, that one went to the States as well... Those Forest Rovers are monsters to drive I believe, even worse than a standard S2!