Random Rob

Looks like it's had suspension upgrade to 3500kg but they.ve forgot to upgrade GTW on Vin plate?

Has it got a LR Special vehicles plate on it? Or been privately upgraded?

Good luck.

It was a Readymix lorry now Cemex that ran over the woman's son, they ignored her calls for warnings so she bought shares in Readymix and stood up at the shareholders AGM and gave a speech that shamed the lot of them! EVERY Cemex lorry has great big signs on the left now!

Stihl dynamic are good mid range with rear zip vents, close fitting but too short in leg for me! Got engelbert Strauss which come in long leg at same price and very good too.

Tanaka worth a look, we.ve had em years. Japanese throughout and normal 2 stroke engines.

Talking to a lorry mechanic the other day, ambulance service bought 50 spinters and load of 'same' crafters. All the crafters are rubbish and they are pulling the bodies off to put on sprinters! They are NOT the same anymore.

One of my dads mates (luckily working for council) drove a platypus anchor through a fibre optic cable and cut off town centre phones and cash machine!!!!

Be careful driving steel into unknown ground!

Farmers weekly just reviewed Stihl, oregon, makita, bosch, husky, cutting telegraph poles,

Stihl battery twice life of rest, bosch best value for small saw. Only really useful for quick odd cuts like hedge-laying, fence posts or reductions with lot of climbing between cuts.

Stihl Dynamics seem good for me £100-120, fit me better than Hi-flex (crotch too low), very comfy, rear zip vents, good pockets, but I only wear em couple days a week.

I know that as a sylvester?? It is a heavy winch system using chains, commonly used in mining for tensioning conveyor belts etc.

You anchor the bar, insert chain in th recess, operate lever to pull chain, there should be another chain gripper on a short length of chain which is used to hold tension, so you can grip the chain further along and pull again.

My dad used to use 2 in tandem to pull trees over.

If you only worked for one firm for years, then technically, you are not a subby and should be on their books. (The tax man don't like it!!).

So tell your boss you would be better, legally, to work for a few different customers, or the tax man will be after National insurance Etc.

This way you can start to be your own boss. Good luck.

I didn't mention thumbs or thumps!! But they will clip 12mm and chew away at 20mm all day.

If you do a lot of heavy work they will need blades touching up before going onto fine conny trimming.

3 grease nipples on head, keep em greased!!

Tanaka, not well known but Japanese built, same head as Husky, good value. Worked one 10 years, never had a spanner on it, just bought another same for backup.

'Oh you're lucky to have all this kit' I reply- the harder I work the luckier I get.

Expert--- Ex is a has-been and a spurt is a drip under pressure.

What about a Trantor? Not quite as rare as an AgRover?

Land Rover WERE going to replace the Defender with the DC100 concept (the Skoda Yeti/Mini lookalike).

BUT when they released the concept models and put out opinion polls, everybody told em straight thats useless crap, if it can't work for a living whats the point?

Now suddenly the Defender will go on to 2015 and they are supposed to be designing a proper heavy duty Defender replacement.

There is a power cable from France to the UK. Send power back and forwards at peak times (so French nuclear makes up for wind not blowing turbines etc).

BUT Canada aint 22 miles away. To send large amounts of power the grid works at high volts/low current hence 500000volts on pylons. Imagine the insulation you need on a 500kV cable in 2000 feet water?

Long comms cables now are fibre optics transmitting laser pulses, not loads of power.

When the bobbles make the grid bury a cables, what would be on a single pylon run is about 6 massive cables spread in a trench 50m wide to stop overheating!

Contact Aladin, when I lost the sealing ring on mine I phoned Aladin and they sent me a new complete cap for free. Result!

Security needs to be like an 'onion'- loads of layers of deterent. Gates so they can't see what's there. Locks, bollards, dog?, alarms etc.

I'm afraid the best system is live monitored CCTV. Not cheap, but police will respond to these monitored by security firms- CamWatch/JCB, Chubb, etc.

A lot of industrial yards around us use these systems, or build your own to smartphone?

New member just saying hi, been lurking for a while.

We,ve got a 13/75, good for narrow access work.

I use push sticks made from a branch about 2' long with a forked end about 4" across.

You can safely push all day with that as the hopper is so long.

On heavy conny let chipper clear before feeding more in or it may clog.