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Having been looking through my survey results, I've added a new option to Question 8, to give everyone who 'doesn't social network' [what's AT then if not a form of it..?!] a box to tick, rather than being a smart arse in the 'other' box...! Thanks all for your time and effort in supporting this! I will give generously to the Christmas raffle! [assuming it all works of course...!]

You still working on your project?! I tend to start a thread on here asking why I'm making it seem so hard.... I have low self esteem anyway so it doesn't do any more harm.... Youtube's a great resource, yes, while it is more often than not videos of people who make it look easy, it's useful to know what is possible. Then I just go off and try to work it out for myself. I have a rope hanging from a rafter inside my shed so I can try new set ups where no one can see me and I can only bail out from waist height.... onto some of the wife's scatter cushions... As an aside, have you thought of SurveyMonkey for your course research....? I like multiple choice... it only lets me answer my own surveys once though...!

I think my son would explode if he saw that Bren....

Couple of bits of 4x2 wedged under it. Job done. If you're a bit posher than that I'll invent something for you....

One thing which must not be forgotten in all this talk of it not mattering whether Land Rover geeks would buy them 'because they don't buy new, they buy them second hand', is that one of LR's [and the Defender in particular] strongest selling points is residual value. If no one will want to buy one of these things second hand in the way we do now, that will hit the residuals and there goes one of the strongest arguments for paying over the odds for a new car with Land Rover badge. A Defender is a good investment for a business, they have a strong asset value even after writing down. A Freelander on the other hand, far less so. Other 4x4 or work vehicles, even less. So while in the short term it makes sense to target the new car buyers, in the medium to long term the second & third owners need taking into consideration. There is a strong demand for used Defenders as proper working vehicles. This keeps prices for 3 year old vehicles ridiculously high. Personally I can't see anything which is designed to steal sales from Wranglers and Vitaras having anything like that demand. And that's when LR will suffer. They will wipe out the HUGE market for their product further down the line, and that will certainly affect sales of new vehicles. The other issue with targetting 'lifestyle' purchasers is they are hideously faddy. What's cool one minute will be a horrible faux pas the next. Can you see anything like this staying in fashion for 60 years...? I certainly can't... As a replacement for the vehicle on which one of the strongest brands in the world was built it gets a MASSIVE thumbs down from me I'm afraid....

That's a Hugo one right? Any idea where the others are? I would KILL for one of them!

Bloody hell... FRODO! Mate of mine is building a demount to go on his 130 crew cab. He used to build horseboxes but he's emigrated to Oz, seems to be a common thing out there... I'll see if I can find some photos off FaceSpace...

That's right, so what we all need to do is wear 'leggings'... preferably with nothing underneath....

I think there's probably some half eaten food tucked under the sofa which is on its way to becoming a new civilisation... other than that I got nothin'! Ooh! Hold on! I have boxes and boxes full of boxed scale models of farm toys, Britains etc, which I'll either cash in when I retire or hand to the kids for them to pass down.... Probably about time I had a hunt round and added to that collection, it's been a while....

Don't worry about that too much, as said, that would have contained chrysotile which was the most commonly used in construction and the least unstable. Amosite & crocidolite [brown & blue] were outlawed first and were more dangerous. In fact, I think chrysoltile was still legal as late as 1998... It's generally bound in cement to improve fire retardancy and tensile strength so unless you pound your roof sheets into a dust you should be fine. This stuff also isn't as tightly controlled when it comes to removal. I think you can actually take it to most council waste transfer stations / recycling facilties.

Burying my uncle on Tuesday, asbestosis from working with lifts in the 80's. Not nice stuff. I encounter it frequently in my work but we don't go smashing through it with drills like they used to!

Apart from preacher & prostitute, is it possible to find two more different careers?!

Which one have you got Pete? I have the 'styled' one, think it's the smallest one. Did you find yours would relieve itself of all it's oil when hanging off a harness...? I find that infuriating, it runs out of oil halfway through a cut when it was full 20 minutes before...

Cheers guys! It's all spend spend spend at the moment!

Anything coming out of Afzal Khan's garage is an abhorrence and in my experience only bought by those with more money than sense. I'm not in the least bit surprised that this house of naff has created a military vehicle for Derek Zoolander. And DC100, biggest problem I can see is the lack of any backward compatibility with 60 years of Land Rover production which is going to immediately open up every market Land Rover leads for re-evaluation. And that thing ain't gonna win any work contests. Given the choice of that or anything else, I'd have a Hi-Lux... and I'm Land Rover through and through...

If you're looking for a change of scene and a salary improvement, finishing carpentry is a better idea than tree surgery. For the phenomenal level of investment and training you have to go through to get into tree surgery I'm amazed at how crap the pay is. A good self employed finishing chippy should easily command £120/day at the moment, up to £150 and even more out of hours / weekends. If you don't mind working harder than you ever have before, risking your life for bugger all reward other than the pleasure of doing the job, go for it! Otherwise you might want to reconsider!

I've abandoned all hope of that... just fingers crossed now someone will take them off my hands eventually...

I need to pull my finger out and start working out how I can tick them off... wrong side of 30 now and have got precisely nowhere with any except 1st and last.... Charger, Chevelle SS, Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda or RoadRunner, Buick GSX.... any of the rare and valuable ones!

Get my new business to work and build it into something my kids will want to come into. Drive anti-clock round the Med in a Land Rover. Get a bike license & ride across Russia. Heli-boarding into spring powder in the 'States or Canada. Drive some sort of early 70's muscle car around the US. Spend a winter in the Alps with my snowboard and a Lancia Delta Integrale. See all 3 of my kids grow up, get married and give me grand children.

I have the Hitachi [although it says Tanaka on it]... Good points - Cheap Quite nicely balanced Good AV Comfy to hold, handle is nicely shaped Quite a large CC for the money Bad points - Chain brake a bit flimsy Bit of a bugger to start -not as easy as they make out and certainly not as easy as a Stihl, although it pulls over easily Doesn't like hanging from a strop, chain oil has a habit of running down the bar Bit underpowered, although that may just be because mine was shipped with a 14" bar and would be far better on a 12" or even 10" Would I buy another? If I could afford a 201, no, but otherwise, definitely... find it better balanced than a Husky I picked up the other week...

Best advice... haircut...

Hamlet had a skull Village had a People Town has a Wetherspoons City has a race relations problem...

Thanks Pete... maybe I should have made it a bit longer for you!

Thanks to everyone who has filled out my first survey. When I signed up to it I didn't realise a couple of things, one that a free account was as limited as it is and two, that I would get such a good response. I have produced another survey to help me understand how we all use the magical world wide web, if you could complete this survey as well it would be HUGELY appreciated. Thanks guys & gals... Survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Online_Habits

Not strictly true, that just makes it a Cathedral City, like the cheese. Newish cities may have had city status conferred onto them without having a catherdral although I couldn't tell you which these are [i know Birmingham became a city first and got a cathedral later...] Pete's right about hamlets, villages and churches. What I'm not sure about is what exactly the point is at which a village becomes a town, I believe it comes down to facilities, population & governance...