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  1. Ohhhhh well done ! How many taps on the go button ?🤬😜🤣
  2. Ok, all messing aside, there must surely be an interesting story behind this
  3. Wouldn't want anything I'd done in the downstairs toilet circulating around the house. The milk would go sour, the fruit would shrivel and the wife and cats would leave, until the pest exterminators found what made the godawful stink !
  4. Well done for putting words to your experience. Way,way back in the 1990s did a recreation for a tv show, of another contractor in a similar situation ( we had an identical machine - just without the blood spatter!). The make up team did an incredibly impressive job, (which never got shown as too graphic) those scenes and terror are still easily brought into my mind even now almost 30 years later. I wish you and your family the best recovery possible. Keep in touch with us all. Thinking of you Shaun
  5. ....and when the pockets have filled with chip and shavings, just hand them back to the shop and pick up the next one on the rack !
  6. Is that a tin of danish oil she keeps drinking?
  7. I fit all seasons on wife's car all year round. Nokians, kleber, Michelins. One set will prob last 2yrs, but great security on water washed roads not even a sense of aquaplaning on very badly drained roads here in west cork, Ireland . We have a mountain farm where we get snowed in every winter, and iced roads with no grit. 200m lower down the road practically never see snow, but always ice.- still no grit ! Downsides, higher cost (slightly), lower lifespan (marginally) and a massive amount of shitty spray all over the back of the cars. Have fitted to freelander1, freelander2, Renault captur, and now suzuki vitara allgrip. Wouldn't go back. My defender now runs road tyres all the time, - bloody things last forever in comparison to all terrains. When things get sticky or slippery put on chains on front end, if really bad, chains all round. Will get me everywhere I need / want to go, though filthy as hell in mud. Limited to about 35mph on roads by noise and discomfort . Absolutely superb fun in snow to get to those stupid places no one else can even imagine driving. 😜
  8. Eventually the bloody things all end up in one place, - they're social beings, and that one place is exactly the place where you aren't at that point in time. 🤬
  9. Not quite an alpine tractor in the common style, but I used to work an AEBI terratrac with front flail and rear hedge cutter.(Lovely but massive expense - I had a V. wealthy employer!) It had electric fans which would periodically reverse to blow out chaff and dust. Perhaps electrics could be fitted to yours?
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    Yep, u.r.on the money there. Great stuff
  11. Think you need fresher bread and a different filling- My sandwiches never stink, 'specially not of dig shit. 😁
  12. I would say otherwise, the helmet is an ideal frame to hang the visor (dog shit collector!) And ear muffs, that doesn't keep slipping or moving off ya head. More importantly, as your always looking downwards whilst cutting and moving forwards, your not looking at what's coming at you at head height. My own experience justifies this, - walked into a steel rebar hanging out of a garage wall, whilst strimming around the edges, a split scalp got me to A and E pretty rapidly to have seven staples put in to hold it all together. Feck, headwounds bleed a lot
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  14. I thought the bit looking round was where you'd spun off the road - made me eyes go dizzy !
  15. The more times you read this the better it gets. You can just imagine the scene.....
  16. You mean something like this pile of shite I spotted on done deal (ireland) last night. 40 quid in time dismantling, 20 quid fuel to take rest of shite to tip, leaves 5 quid profit and hope you don't get beaten down on the price for this elegant piece of art.
  17. Only works on a reasonable size disc though. When its worn down to just outside the steel centres, there's feck all to grab hold of !!
  18. Same here .
  19. skc101fc

    Defender 130

    I think with luck like that, it's time to get the lotto ticket.
  20. Same experience here. I grew up in poynton, cheshire. We lived practically at the end of the runway from Woodford aerodrome, which was one of the production factories for A.V.Roe who produced both Lancs and vulcans. They used to have an enormous airshow each year which brought in so many fantastic planes of the 60's, 70's and 80's, alongside true veterans. The battle of Britain flight were always the real stars. They weren't treated with kid gloves then, pushed really hard in steep climbs, high speed banking and rolling turns. The sounds of those engines working hard and being pushed to the max never leaves the memory. Whilst at primary school at end of 1969 to early 70's the vulcans and beautiful victors were brought in, some for dismantling and others for conversion to tankers. Each day the air itself would shake and vibrate with the sound of engine testing, where the planes were backed up to 4 giant pipes of about 40' horizontal length with a final 15' vertical end to send noise and fumes into the sky. I was always breaking into the base at evenings and weekends, avoiding and hiding from guards, to sit in the chopped off cockpit sections of the dismantled planes, playing with knobs ,switches and firing a fantastic imagination.
  21. Christ, you're village fete has got some clout to arrange a 3 pass flyover. You absolute lucky bastard!!. The sound of those piston engines in harmony actually drew real tears. - Thank you , and your village. Shaun
  22. Absolutely. I have a 15hp loncin on a flail mower. A fair amount of vibration especially when I've knocked one of the blades off. Anyway it had always weeped oil a little but didn't worry about it, til suddenly the oil was pouring out of the engine. I thought I'd cracked the crankcase or something. All the timing case bolts were practically on their last threads and I could waggle the case around. Lesson learnt on the routine checking of all bolts.
  23. That's surely a sweet looking piece of art. Nice one. [emoji3]
  24. Yep, they're all on my list of favourites- never thought of their profile before.

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