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Billhook

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  1. I regret not keeping the Escort I built in 1975 Mk 1 RS bodyshell brand new in grey primer from Ford AVO for £270 fitted with 3 litre V6 and overdrive gearbox from a Gilbern RS brakes etc. Sold the bodyshell in 1990 to a grasstrack racer from Skegness for £50! Engine and drivetrain still going strong in a Dutton Phaeton
  2. How much did Prince Andrew have to pay Fergie over the years???!!
  3. No just the one, straight petrol
  4. How much would my Little Grey Fergie be worth with H M the Queen as the second owner? Start bidding at £100k???
  5. Another thought I had was perhaps to cut off the top of a round plastic oil drum the same diameter as the bottom of the pole and fill it full of creosote before putting it in the ground to let the creosote soak in and also stop water getting into the wood
  6. You would feel a bit of a prick using that!
  7. We had a whole 33kva line changed simply because it was 50 years old, nothing to do with condition, and the poles looked fine with no signs of rot
  8. We have been lucky here in Lincolnshire with just enough rain to keep things going. One and a half inches about ten days ago but very local. Some places none others two and a half inches. But the green growth in the trees and hedges has been spectacular, all the crops have done well and give me a dry harvest with less yields and no drying costs any day. Less bunged machines as well. Our little orchard has been very good too with Discovery and Early Windsor apples also Greensleeves IMG_3425.MOV , Comice and Conference pears, greengages, plums, damsons, apricots, walnuts, figs, gooseberries,raspberries. I shall be singing loudly at harvest festival!
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  9. I think that if I was short of money and desperate, I would buy an electric blanket for a chair and bed like the ones on Amazon Only 70 watts and probably a lot cheaper to run and buy than a heat pump
  10. I see in the paper today that the energy price cap for April 2023 is £6,069.00 Our fuel and electricity costs are all going up to process the wood so at some point this will have to be passed on to the customer. I think that we need to come up with an Arbtalk figure for the cost of a ton of hard/ soft wood, the labour cost / hour, the machinery depreciation, the fuel and electric power to convert it into dry firewood, office work and taxes, and work out a sensible profit margin. This will make us all find out that we are working for nothing!
  11. She was staring down at where your legs should be because use she thought you were legless!
  12. I think that we need pictures of your waistline with constant updates! Much improved presentation though!
  13. Looks like my dog's dinner! But 10/10 for content, less marks for presentation!
  14. Very good guesses! Pine. 375.5 kg Sycamore. 1557.5 kg
  15. Ella Toone's goal was fabulous, yes there were scrappy moments but to be expected in that atmosphere. I think England deserved it when you look at their previous victories, particularly over Spain and Sweden
  16. England 4 Germany 0
  17. 99.99% of folk found the original uncut scene funny, but 0.01% shouty minority pretend to have hurt feelings
  18. Just have Crocodile Dundee check ‘em all!
  19. Been nice and sunny recently but I can see the dark clouds of a perfect storm brewing in the distance. And a full blown rail strike to hamper the supplies of fuel and food
  20. At the risk of being accused of being an old perverted voyeur, I must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed the England women’s performance recently. They have fantastic skills and teamwork without all the unpleasantness of a lot of the men’s football. The crowd seem to be full of a lot of young families and I wish them all the best against Germany tomorrow. They thoroughly deserve to win looking at their previous matches
  21. As a farmer and potential seller of firewood I have had a lifetime of people telling me what the price of wheat, barley, oilseed, potatoes, timber and many other things are. I’m looking forward to to the time when these things are in such short supply that I am able to name my price.
  22. Sounds cheap to me, I would want double that!
  23. You must keep sex out of this thread otherwise you will incur the wrath of the moderator Steve!
  24. Heck Mick! The Matbro only has a lifting power of 2.7 tons and that was over 12,000 hours and 26 years ago!

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