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It going to be that kind of day. The forecast was for a bright day without rain. But I've just put the rubbish out, which was good and then while I was pegging out some clothes, it started raining, which was not so. At least the funeral later is a humanist affair. So no standing in a freezing church and thence around a muddy graveside. It's just off to the crematorium and an informal get together later.

Somehow, the thread was better when the strides couldn't be seen.

When the site will load, it'll be done.

I like the inclusion of a spare wheel on the first. I'd like to see the jack designed for the original pickup, that could lift that lot.

Did they once belong to a king? And is that why they're invisible.

Also note that the thread was started in June of 2009

The OP did ask for interested people to PM them. Reckon it'd be better for you to contact them, rather than waiting for them to contact you.

I'm not saying Stihl is the only one in the club but they have rather excelled at the 'Microsoft' release method. Manager: When is the new model going to be ready for rollout? Engineer: Well there are still major issues, the software won't be debugged for another 8mths. and 'that problem' is still unsolved. I can't yet give a realistic date. Manager: Good. Good. So we're still on for the big release next week.

As it has been normal, so it was today... raining.

What are articulating Avant like when it comes to reversing a trailer?

Been quite grotty as of late, with today not being the exception.

Years ago, a local solicitor had their main walk-in safe stolen. The safe had been installed many years before through next door's wall, when the solicitor owned that property too. Since then a steel re-enforced wall had been built between the two properties. There was no way anything that big and that heavy could be withdrawn without demolishing the building. The scum came one night with a stolen 'Coles' cranes smashed through the roof, cut through the floor and hoisted the safe. They found the unopened safe, 50mls. away at the docks, waiting to be loaded aboard a ship. The crane was never found. When questioned, the ship's loading gaffer said, he loaded odd things every day and rarely had accompanying paperwork. If it was on the dock, it went in the ship. What happened to it then was none of his business. Sometime later, the word was that he'd skipped town; presumably on a ship. If you're wondering what was in the safe - the deeds of many a property & wills.

Oz is going to get flooded! Has anyone told them?

"Dang! I knew I should've bought the four extension ladder."

A crash between the VW pickup and the Holden, would see St. Peter having a busy day.

Excellent film, great views, bunch of people and well edited.

I know someone who rear-ended a Jag at high speed. The Jag was decelerating sharply from approx. 60mph. The cops reckoned my friend's Freelander had been going around 110mph before the crash and was still doing approx. 90mph at the time of impact. No human was killed, though my friend's Cruft's winning pooch was fatally injured. The Jag was a write-off, the Freelander fared better. While the bonnet remained in intact and seemingly in place, the wheels tore off a wing apiece. The engine snapped off its mountings & forward driveshafts, travelled back through the bulkhead. The main part on the block ended up under the dashboard. What saved the legs of the front passenger & driver, was that the seats detached from their rails and moved backwards. What killed the dog, was not being retrained in any way and thus became just a moving bag of loose meat. What amazed me after the fact, was that the dog was worth more than the Freelander, yet the owner-driver hadn't tried to look after it in the vehicle before the crash. What has continued to puzzle me, is that while her dogs now travel individually harnessed in a separated compartment. The experience has not cured her of travelling at high speed, in a vehicle that is not designed for racing multiple people and dogs. (The Freelander was repaired, kept for 6mths. and sold. She replaced it with another two Freelanders and now drives a 4x4 Ford.)

I reckon the Navara did visually better than the D-Max. The thing I found most interesting, was watching the Xantia. The way the transferral of energy moved through the car, forming a wave that moved through the entire length of the bodywork; and when it got to the rearmost of the structure, popped the boot open. I've also learned that the safest place to be in a Fiat Seicento crash, is not being in the car. I think that one would have woken the sleeping hamster in the boot.

While I essentially agree with you hedgesparrow, looking at Ford as being British is incorrect. While many of 'Fords' destined to be sold in this country, are either manufactured or assembled here and that is laudable. Ford is an American company. Mini are part of BMW; Jaguar Land Rover is part of Tata; Bently are part of VW AG; Nissan,Honda & Toyota are all Japanese. Not quoted in your post - but even 'James Purdey & Sons' are now owned by Compagnie Financière Richemont, which is a Switzerland based holding company founded by a S.African. Rolls Royce Motors was bought by 'Vickers' and have since been resold to VW and more lately to BMW The Morgan Motor Co. is British.

Spent five hours yesterday with the horrid stuff on a 70° slope. Have to say, shade didn't seem to be a barrier to its growth.

I don't know which model number you have but you could try this: for a factory hard-reset. There's plenty of similar vids on YT.

I like this thread; it gives me hope. I know someone, for whom a tree isn't worth left standing, if it's not going to make a foreseeable monetary crop and I find that depressing.

I'm not a tree climber but I am a rock climber, (I don't get paid to climb rocks). Now on ocassion, I have been to an indoor wall and have watched other climbers, learners, proficient & pro alike. But only during a rest between actually climbing routes. Sure, I've seen the odd TV program of amazing climbers doing amazing routes and exclaimed "Wow". I've even learned subtle technique here or there. But all in all, I've never been to watch a climbing competition. So travelling 200mls return or maybe even each way, just so to watch a bunch of people who've been training for 6mths. beforehand, just to shave a second off a given move, fills me with dread. Plus I don't do new kit/gear just because, "Anodised gold with purple, is just so last month." If I buy a piece of kit or gear, it's because I have need of it. And it gets used until it wears out beyond being affordable to repair. Or in a few cases, when the item reaches its manufacturer's safe limit. If there were a competition within say 20mls. each way, (and there never has been, regardless of where I've been in the country) I may well go to see it. Different people climb for different reasons. It might be their job, to be able to compete, a personal challenge, it's on their bucket-list or to watch and be watched. But for me, regardless of who I climb with, though I mostly free-climb on my own, the reason is because I like climbing. It's me and the rock or tree in some cases. If someone else could climb the same route a second quicker and be in better shape at the end, well that's ok. But don't expect me to travel miles and miles to watch you doing it.

For flatwater I generally use an ottertail too. Then in the shallows it's out with the ww poly on aluminium shaft. I use a pole too, mainly for moving upstream or crossing shallow bays. Can be used on open water but you get a little wet.

Nice beavertail that. If you carve another, try cherry or bass. Cherry is light, stiff, yet has just enough spring to save the joints, (elbows, etc.) on longer trips and windy conditions. Bass it light and stiff, mix it with maple, great if you're going to laminate.