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Alive Tuning - Land Rover Tuning Excellence This is a good company. There's a big BUT to chipping in that you must not forget the cost of removing the standard dual mass clutch and replacing it with a quality uprated item. Then you will be able to put this power through your transmission and onto the road! codlasher

If you are using any type of single layer tin sheeting on a roof you will always have an issue with condensation. I use Cladco for many jobs and recommend them to clients too. I particularly like their pan tile sheets, these look good and make a new building blend in well. On the condensation issue with non insulated sheets; If you put a breathable membrane such as Tyvec in as an under layer you will remove the condensation issue. Put this layer in over your rafters and then counter batten ready for the Cladco sheets, problem solved! Reason I like Tyvec is that it is grey underside and white topside unlike the competition thus giving a more pleasant view from underneath. Remember to pull the Tyvec tight and a staple gun helps fix this to the rafters. You can use clear sheets for light too and a perspex sheet can be fixed underneath to provide the condensation barrier. A bit like secondary double glazing. codlasher

V nice indeed! codlasher

Me too! Get the one with two gas struts and then you can take one off. I have landed several hedge-trimming jobs this year and wouldn't be without it! codlasher

Some years back I had a similar call and went out on my Can-Am 250 (ex army and still in its green/black livery) Spent an hour with the gentleman concerned rounding them up and getting them back into the field..... Spent the next hour trying to remember and hunting for where I'd left the bike in the woods....Oops camouflaged paintwork! codlasher

In my nine months travelling on an old Honda 500 around Oz I saw many dead creatures on the tarmac road-sides. You could small them for nearly a mile before you got to them and the smell alerted me to the fly swarm that I had to go through as I passed the carcass. There were pleas from the cattle owners to not hit their animals with 45 gallon oil drums painted up to look like cows with smaller drums to look like calfs next to the big ones. One of my rules was never to travel at night. Two reasons; One was self preservation and the second was that I was there to see the country and I certainly would have missed it if I'd had done any travelling during the dark hours. When talking to younger gap yaar travellers some said 'what a good idea' others didn't give a monkeys as they just wanted to get from suburbia to suburbia as quickly as possible! Shame that. I did see some big Red roos in the north and they were not something I'd ever want to run into in any vehicle, roo bars or not!

As has been said, let them go.... £0.70ppm for travelling, minimum, but you will find that wears thin with not being able to do local runs and you'll be loosing out. codlasher

Don't forget to set up your direct debit National insurance payments. T'internet will guide you there. Set up another DD for £20 per month into a savings account and don't go near it. You will be very happy when you really need it. After that you'll be fine as you are 25 with the rest of your life ahead of you! Good luck! codlasher

I wonder if Jacques Tati ever visited the kitchen......? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9t98Gox60]Jaques Tati - Mon Oncle (Kitchen Scene) - YouTube[/ame]

If you can find an old Allen scythe blade carrier or similar, you can make a brilliant & simple barbed wire strainer. You will need to cut one of the points, including the slot that the blade runs in, from this blade carrier and glue it (braze) to a bar/tube of about 3' in length. You then use the slot to put the wire in and the point to spike into the post and presto, a very simple device with no moving parts. I find old galvanised water pipe works for all these sorts of jobs.

They really don't like being photographed! Get the vehicles rego too if you can. codlasher

All I can say is that I had a front mounted pump on my old County as the original 1974 Ford pump certainly wasn't up to the job on the original crane. Modern tractors have two and three pumps in line as standard today but perhaps a dedicated pump would offer a faster flow and the spin off would be better crane speed plus the tractor could work other things such as a slewing drawbar on its integral system. The biggest plus in a front mounted pump would be that the oil system is kept separate from anything else. If disaster struck you can still use the tractor. codlasher

Try Aztec. They make a non woven and a woven. PM me for any info if you like. I do this sort of thing on the odd occasion. codlasher

In my pile I've Oak, Ash, Spruce, Sycamore, Silver Birch and Willow. I'll burn all of this but like the Oak for 'overnight' as this saves re-lighting in the morning. I'm not really fussed about species except when getting the water hot and then I like Spruce, Ash, Sycamore and Silver Birch. Nice roary fire! codlasher.

I have owned a multitude of small rotary mowers over the years, all were second hand and usually Briggs powered. They are not the best of engines but the main thing is that spares are readily available on t'internet and will arrive at your door without much fuss. My 'newest' rotary self propelled is an Etesia PBTS (I think from memory!) I had some spare money and was fed up with a knackered Mountfield at the time so purchased new. This is now sixteen years old and still going strong! I bought it mainly as our local, at the time, dealer was their agent and I also liked the light-weight construction with the plastic deck and grass collector. It wasn't cheap though, but there's a lot to be said for quality, even with a 5hp Briggs motor. So I've done my own grass, other peoples on the odd occasion too and I've been and got myself some 'old git' contracts doing a little bit of mowing and hedge trimming round and about. Its now done a lot of work. Bottom line is; If it broke tomorrow I'd ring RT Machinery (Aylesbury) and have a similar new one couriered to me. A good mower! codlasher

I had an 03 TD5 and had the brain out from under the seat to be remapped in 08, brilliant, more torque, a little better on MPG and more power throughout the rev range. BUT I then had to have the dual mass flywheel and clutch replaced for a solid item within three months of the upgrade. I have found this is a normal thing to have done and is never mentioned by the tuners. Just be aware that it is a cost item.... I suppose though in an older 5 this is a sensible thing to have done as the fork can be replaced at the same time and you've also a new clutch... codlasher.

I seem to have landed a number of hedge trimming jobs within our local community including the Village Hall. This, along with my own hedges, put me to thinking more about this system. I met easy-lift guy at the APF last year and he kindly demonstrated the system to me. I went away with a picture of it in my head as 'V useful' but not enough £'s to buy at that time. I have now managed to save enough, and price these jobs which have all been accepted, for a purchase. So yesterday I went to our local stockist and bought one. As an 'apprenticeship' I have cut all our front hedge, a job that normally takes me two part days because I'm an old git! I managed to do all this work in two hours......Job done.... I can still use my arms too which I found hard last year after doing the same hedge. So here's a big thank you from me for the system:thumbup1: codlasher

Ah. There's a spin-off from this in that there's some REAL sh*t on the market as all sorts of pieces of abandoned lumps of metal are pulled from the weeds and backs of barns and labelled 'restoration projects' when they are only fit for the scrap pile! I've just watched an identical medium sized tractor exactly the same age as mine but with some 3000 more hours and a dodgy gear-box go for more than I'd ever expected. Still, that means there's loads of life left in mine yet! codlasher

So true! AND there's so many of them. At least you haven't got to juggle with the pheasant shooting interests as well....or have you? codlasher

It was once a Nissan Terrano. All the tractors are soooo big, powerful and thirsty just to sit and drive the machinery behind so this was the solution. codlasher

A good idea and cheap too. This one runs a JD baler!

Mine is a 30 so probably older. The chain and bar is very similar to a Wadkin machine so I would imagine really not too difficult to obtain. I refer to my earlier post:biggrin:

muttley9050. Is that wonderful house still in Horn St? We used to call it 'the manic house' as it was such fun, all painted and wriggly:001_tongue: My Kiwi friend loved it as it was in his style and when he went home he built something similar. Shame you missed that 'sale' as there was also about 2.0 m3 of Deodar planked in 2" x 8" x 12' boards. Still, that's in the past now. se7enthdevil. Re the above 'sale' I managed to pass on to Mr Linford some of that pile beforehand. Yew and Ash, all the other bits were too big and needed a fork truck and a lorry which no one had at short notice. I'm glad you two are talking! codlasher

You'll never be really short of work with your skills there se7enthevil! Furniture Maker London in High Wycombe (Bespoke Furniture Maker and Repairer) will have some competition from you:thumbup: I'm assuming Maidenhead College? Perhaps Wycombe. There's still good skills being taught that are the envy of the world! codlasher

I have a big weight-lifters belt that I use when I know that I'm going to do heavy lifting. 26 years older than you and I'm glad for it as there's many worn parts inside now! My back fails in a big way from time to time but I try to give it all the help I can:001_rolleyes: codlasher