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william127

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  1. My go to hot drink in the workshop is 3 in 1 instant coffee πŸ˜† When customers offer me the choice of instant or 'proper' coffee I always say instant, it would appear I have no standards lol πŸ˜… πŸ™‚ πŸ˜†
  2. Are they?? The only ones I ever see are parked behind broken down cars, blinding everyone with their bloody lights, doing nothing. The other day it took me 20 minutes to get 500 yards up to a roundabout, get there and there's 4 coppers with a volvo and an l200, causing chaos by parking behind a middle aged BMW 1 series, with its towing eye screwed in, ready to use (not that it would have been hard to push), 30 yards from a bloody kwick fit car park!!! As I went past I couldn't help yelling 'you useless ******* morons' to myself. Then I remembered my window was open, and I was doing about 3 miles an hour... πŸ˜† 🀣 πŸ˜‚
  3. On a job down in Dorset a couple of years ago, doing some acoustic paneling on a mobile drilling rig (lorry based with a 2 stroke v8 detroit diesel, you could here it coming a mile away!!), boss says 'anyone for coffe, I'm off to the tea hut?' One of the drilling company fitters, huge burely Geordie, accent as thick as plaster says 'I'll have a gingerbread latte please' πŸ˜† 🀣 πŸ˜‚ Had to ask 3 times before we worked out what he wanted, then we really didn't know what to say lol πŸ˜… πŸ˜†
  4. So easy to sell by the builders bag, new customers you just say 'like a builders merchant would deliver sand in' if they're struggling to grasp it, and repeat customers either liked the amount they got for their money, or they don't buy again. I put my bulk bags inside a box that I made, fill them, fork them out the box. The box does the measuring, the bag is just for transport. Means I can use any bulk bags I get off jobs, reuse them without worrying about giving away free logs- I always get 2 bulk bags out of an ibc- and the customers get a consistent amount. I've done a few deliveries of ibcs this year, fork it on, at the customers hand ball logs out the back until I can tip it over on the truck bed, stand it upside down, roll it back over, drag logs off the back. Easy, and no double handling bagging up πŸ‘
  5. What colour leak? If its atf it should be red- always hard to tell with leaks though
  6. Low fluid level, possibly due to blown oil cooler lines? Any sign of a leak? Do you have a difflock, just to rule out the possibility of a blown diff/shaft/cv?
  7. No because it's got proper, thick, dull paint on it, not poncy metallic πŸ˜† Need it on there to cover up the CHAS registration or whatever it is sticker anyway πŸ˜† 🀣 πŸ˜‚
  8. Made that mistake with my old crafter van, tiny swarf partials on the sign, rusty bonnet within days πŸ˜” 😟 I won't ever stick them on the disco or the ranger for that reason, not that they'd fit in anywhere anyway. Fine on the ifor dropsides or the chipper though
  9. Did much better with what I salvaged from my mates bins on Saturday- couple of hundred imperial spanners of various shapes and sizes, (I've boxed up what I wanted, mainly all Britool and King Dick, the rest will be picked through by mates then auto jumbled/scraped) a Ransmes double ended heavy spanner, go nicely with my crawler, a nice digging bar and a pair of decent circlip pliers πŸ‘
  10. This place have never given a monkeys about anything, but I only ever really take in light iron so it's the lowest rate anyway. Its a waste product really, I normally run it in when I've nothing to do and fancy a cafe breakfast πŸ˜†
  11. Unlike the truck load of stock fencing, wheel barrows and paint tins I ran in yesterday, a whopping 38 quid πŸ˜† 🀣
  12. Took a load of my mates from his work in on Saturday, Β£115 a ton for light iron. Truck load of that and a handful of batteries and cable Took it to just over 200 quid, can't really grumble at that as he'll have sorted it all out in work time πŸ˜€ πŸ˜†
  13. Nice Sunday morning job, pushing up a big pile of grass and leaves for a customer. So much quicker than the digger! Quite impressed that it lifted this crate of hard-core It makes life so much easier being able to keep the excess material from jobs on pallets/in bulk bags ready for the next job. 20230702_092801.heic 20230702_092759.heic 20230702_092803.heic 20230702_095901.heic 20230702_092813.heic 20230702_095917.heic 20230702_100702.heic 20230701_142327.heic 20230701_151726.heic
  14. Just went for a wander, it was last Saturday when it was stupid hot so a sea breeze was bloody lovely. No fish and chips, had a lovely smoked salmon roll and an ice cream πŸ˜‹
  15. Bought myself a new toy- slightly modified ransomes mg5 - during the week. No practical reason for it at all, I just wanted it! Fitted with 2 6.5hp Chineseium engines, came with the original engine as well which should work with a bit of attention. At Β£700 I shouldn't be able to loose on it... Last Saturday I picked up a used 5ft flail for the tractors, went on a little further to the coast for a wander, some lovely old crawlers seeing out their days launching boats 20230627_194721.mp4
  16. Auger torque x1500 on my Giant, runs it very nicely. Ive not used any others to compare to but I'm very happy with it so far. The great thing is what else you can do with the same machine- lift monster oak posts, run debris away in the bucket and fork the materials around. Brilliant πŸ‘
  17. So do I, local farmer/contractor near me had 10 or more 1056s in various states of repair for years, only started replacing them with Fendts a couple of years ago. None of them looked like this one though, it was bloody lovely. πŸ‘
  18. Forgot this one- my mate on a 35 his grandad drove back from the dealers when it was brand new 60 years ago, then used on the farm he worked at till he retired! My mates dad who was there showing a stationary engine saw it by pure chance and recognised it, then found an old photo of it! They were over the moon
  19. Had a great weekend at a local steam fair, I took my Dexta on the trailer and then we went off and got my dads 35 which I drove there. Baking hot all weekend, loads to see, eat and drink and I think I genuinely forgot about work for all of Saturday! Couple of auto jumble ammo boxes bought, always useful, and a new roll of AF spanners. My mate is now eyeing up a very nice mf Industrial, same spec as mine but much better condition, and I've got my eye on a 30E like I had a few years ago. I must behaveπŸ˜† 🀣
  20. Yes, it would certainly do it good. I've got plenty of nettles that need a flailing, just no flail πŸ˜† Got a nice big cultivator that would make it growl...
  21. Dexta getting some attention- cleaning debris out the fuel tank and replacing filter, and replacing oil/bearings in steering column. Industrial just plodding away splitting logs as always. It's basically a mobile log splitter now, hasn't been off since I got it.
  22. I paid 1500 quid for this 3 years ago, you probably don't even need to spend 1000 unless you're after something particularly. It's missing many bits you don't need, but starts if you even look at the key and runs like a watch all day on bugger all diesel. Pto powered splitter hasn't been off since I bought it over a year ago πŸ™ƒ
  23. I need the 'crappy no access fence repair attachment' if you know anyone that's selling one l πŸ˜† πŸ˜‚
  24. Awkward but successful bit of topping done this afternoon, customers ride on broke a few weeks ago and their lawns gone wild! Knocked it down ready for their new mower
  25. Nice steady job this morning, posts for a new pen in a sheep field. Hard gravelly soil, ideal for augering, horrible to hand dig! Auger, forks for moving the posts and bucket to take the soil away, lovely stuffπŸ‘πŸ‘

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