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Its rapidly turning into a load of pollocks..... The moderator needs to put an end to this sturgeontly.

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Spinning that old line again, it eel end in tears !

Oh no....I've got a bass feeling where this is going. Memories of codwood for sale !!! Shaun

These things came out last monday in ireland too. See what appens when ya stay in Europe

Yeah , him and kim Gifford used to pass work too each other as and when it suited. Did you ever do the paintball ( madness ) for the Christmas parties? There were two long haired redheads. Rob our main climber was one, I, the other, used to try to keep all the kit running, did most of the stump grinding, and all the matador work.

I transferred to an irish license when I moved over here, but carried what I already had which was 7.5t vehicle plus 4t trailer. A spectacular deal which I firmly intend to hang on to. Steve Burkitt, my boss at the time, god bless him ,told us all in the mid 1990's to urgently lose and renew our licences as legislation was about to come out removing the heavier weights from ordinary use. Thank you steve if you read this for a trouble free life ( in many ways!!) since.

Cool, nice one.

That was my initial interpretation, until I stumbled into the area of what a trailer can potentially carry, taking it into potential overload. Seems like a whole load of over regulation based on what someone might do. But could still do without arguing the toss at the side of the road.

Hi all. A return to the old chestnut. Wondering if there's anyone out there able to give a definite answer to the minefield of towing regs. My situation is I'm hoping to save an extra ferry crossing from Ireland to uk, by combining a holiday/relatives trip with collecting a sawmill . The tow vehicle in this case would be a petrol freelander (later version with improved engine, before everyone says sell it !!!) Pulling my 12' ifor williams max wt 3500kg unladen 600kg. The mill is a hm126 woodlands weighing about 0.5 tonne. The freelanders max plated towing is 1600kg I think. My licence is the old 7.5 tonne plus very luckily 4t trailer. I've trawled through god knows how many different gov. UK explanations and initially everything looks good til I find the bit about what the trailer gross weight was plated as irrespective of whether its empty, part loaded or up to full load. From various forums it seems to very much up to which side of the bed the particular officer of the day got up from ! The alternative is to come over a second time at another €500 with my defender plus trailer, plus the extra time out of work. I can't use the defender for the holiday as I'm taking elderly aunts etc out for lunches etc. Getting em in may be possible with a tractor loader ,but gettin em back out certainly won't be dignified.

If the access is really only 3 foot, take the wheels off, tip it on its side on a sack truck, and with se7enthdevil to help you may be able to get it in. Let the oil settle again before starting the motor. Oh and don't fuel and water till you're on the other side. Shaun

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Would it have made a difference if he weren't wearing the cap ?

There's so many things to learn from this thread, most of which I just needed re education, but splatterbonged is definitely my favourite so far. Thank you for a new level. Shaun

Christ my brain needs to take some rennie or something. I call myself a tw*t every time but I guarantee it'll happen again. !!

Bloody good placing of main part of the stem between the parked cars. If ya pullin trees with a truck/ 4x4/ winch don't stop pullin til its on the deck. Slack cable/rope has no control

If you work in this game long enough that will happen to you at some point. Ah well, that's okay then. We'll keep on going til it happens. No it should never happen in an open public area. We all need to look at things like this, understand what could have occurred, (with trees there's never a one solution fits all circumstances) and do our damnedest to make sure it don't happen again. Education and experience go hand in hand. If it can't be done with safety as paramount then do it another way. - section fell for instance. It always seems great and productive to whop it down in one, but sure takes a lot of cleaning up afterwards.

Cast an eye over mine if you wish. It's been running for almost two years now and probably needs updating. I'm no techy so anything that requires attention goes to my IT guy, but all wording is my own. http://www.sawmilling.ie

Guy goes to bed after a few pints. Wakes a few hours later , really fancies a good time with missus, but mr alcohol has got in the way. He reaches into the bedside drawer for the liquid viagra but takes Tippex instead. He falls back asleep again for 15 minutes. .................and wakes with a massive. .........correction

In this age of safety overload are scouts still allowed to burn anything? - fume hazards, dangerous sparks and a risk assessment of what was previously on the pallets !!

That's without a doubt the most extreme I've ever seen a sprocket worn to.--- Its almost art !!!

Here's some pics from my current holiday on paxos, near corfu. Some really tough rejuvenation works going on at the moment. Their olive groves have been out of production for maybe a generation but are now being looked at again as a cash crop. Most of these trees seem to be coping with this treatment .I was out here last year when the island wide works were just starting. Looks aggressively savage, especially considering this wasn't done in the cooler months. As long as one or two twigs were left the poor trees seem to have responded.

I've bought a load of tips from TC Solutions, a helpful guy. I'm making a jig as the lucas genuine one is for 6.1mm teeth whereas the tcs ones are 7mm and won't fit. You said you are using oxy propane to braze. Does it heat enough for the tip size or would oxy propylene (acetylene alternative), be the best choice? There seems to be quite a debate regarding what gas to use for brazing. Looking forward to seeing your vid when its produced. Shaun

Ooooohh that looks expensive. Wouldn't want to be the one telling the boss about that one.

My mrs loves it- reckons it makes her think of me !!! Could also be the vapours rising up from the environmental disaster zone outside our door, where the land rover is parked.