Simon

Probably.... it's not even in the same county!!

Bloody hell, who booked that?! Surely you could have found somewhere closer....? I can't trundle down there for a few beers!

Can't be that hard Sean, go on, give it a go, I promise I won't laugh.... Is it in Malvern or Upton?

Nothing new there then Sean, I'm pretty sure I'm right in saying that you live in Devon and his Lordship in Cambridgeshire.... hence I am curious to know as to which point you will be choosing to follow him from?! You could end up making this an unecessarily long drive for yourself! I don't think even AA routeplanner would take you via Cambs!! Your 2 paths will converge just about exactly at the gate to the showground...!

So Manky, where are the FTF'ers staying then? And what days are various members heading down...? If Barry's going both days that's going to make it very difficult for me to avoid him... \ I might try to get a late pass and come over of an evening for a dwinky-poos with you all....

Telebras - Literally tele - arm.... Made by Lamy http://www.lamy-les-constructeurs.com/ The Unihytel was indeed rare and belonged to Felix McDaid who ran [still owns] a screeding company... http://www.screeding.co.uk/ Very nice chap, his firm did a job for us in Cheltenham 5 years ago

You're battling against the Euro at the moment Col [you are NI aren't you ] and I see little chance of that changing in the very near future... on top of that the French are very loyal and will take great pleasure in taking good machines out of our second hand market at a cheap price, particularly those which were built at Le Mans... I only know to one Temis around here, that one I delivered to Clifton, think it was a 610.... there might be another one near Ludlow but they are a bit like hen's teeth....

C0CK!!! I never thought of that! I shut down 4 CRA's too - Dorset, Kent, Epworth & Ludlow, there was loads of stuff which could 'get lost'... There was a lot of that, I think there was some kind of agreement signed when that creeper box was finally replaced, very odd company indeed.....

I don't doubt that for a second Gav, Renault were a HORRIBLE company when it came to warranty... I remember listening to conversations in our branch where we had sold a new or ex demo 735 with a creeper box and the creeper was shot, but head office didn't want to replace it, so they were forcing our depot to fob the guy off.... which was difficult, because he was supposed to be bedforming with it and without a creep box, he couldn't, so he came in EVERY DAY.... they did it in the end but the stress they put this poor contractor through was unbelievable.... It was one of the things which went toward what would ultimately have been my resignation, had it not closed down before I got that far!

Brockford, that was one of the names I was thinking of.... is that beyond Stowmarket [coming from the West...]? I'm sure they moved the most kit of all the CRA's.... weren't vey F*IN bright whenever I went there though, you're right..... I delivered a McConnel trimmer to them one day... took less time to drive there from Ludlow than it did for them to work out how to strop it right to lift it off the trailer..

Where abouts was this Sean? Was it a franchise or one of our own depots like Ludlow...? We had 7 I think.... Sturminster Newton in Dorset, Marden in Kent, Stowmarket in Suffolk, Epworth, York [and one more but I can't remember where] in the North East, and Ludlow....

Tried to get the stock trailer out.... It's been used as a 'shoot hut' and has been stood in the field at Marlbrook for, crikey, 5 years maybe... but it's an Ifor Williams TA12G so it's too good to let rot... I was going to whip the top off and make some low sides [maybe ] and use it as a GP trailer..... Tried to get the Disco round the front of it and was going to try to reverse it out... couldn't get anywhere near it and George kept shouting 'uh oh, we're getting stuck!'... so abandoned that and stuck the tow rope round it and tried to drag it out backwards.... got it about 10' but started heading for the canal so thought it wise to abandon it and hope for a dry spell / frost... \ Going to go cut some Ash cord into logs now... AGAIN!

I'll have to take your word for that mate but looking at the photos I'm not convinced! I was indeed struggling through the 106 this time a year ago, was April you finally got it

Cor, you'll be lucky Col, we didn't make many of these, they had a VERY short production run, and weren't desperately popular, over here anyway, folks were starting to become accustomed to the Quadrishift box & Hydrostable cab.... I delivered a 610 to a farm and that was one of only 2 or 3 we sold out of Ludlow.... Good luck mate!

Bloody hell that's nice Col.... You know, I still can't fathom why you got me to build you the 106 when you would have made so much better a job of it yourself!

Quite like it in black!

Our second city is becoming very nice now Sean! How very dare you.... nicer than Plymouth that's for sure I couldn't find a strip club ANYWHERE in Plymouth All that being said, there are parts of Brum which are a touch 'multicultural' for my delicate rural sensibilities...

Fetching wood in for the fires today.... dropped some nice Ash poles at the Lynch which can go straight on the burner, then up to Marlbrook to bring out some Alder dropped by the line clearance gang last summer... get it all cut and split tomorrow... hell of a pile to go at in the morning! Now 'relaxing' on the sofa in front of the fire with George, who seems to be recovering well from his chicken pox, hence 'relaxing' only of sorts.... back to his boisterous self...

Very nice but shame it's not on tracks.. \

Can't see the ring hitch getting dropped, may be no use to us but as was pointed out, RC2 stuff uses it.... Britains... part of RC2.... Maybe in a couple of years when they have completely dropped it from their implement range maybe... \ I just pull them off on mine anyway...

I've got a Dremel something or other and a cheap generic, the Dremel really does demonstrate why it's worth paying a few quid more, far more powerful, holds on longer, smoother take up, less vibration, reliable, better chuck [even the standard one] great range of attachments... I thought it would sit doing nothintg but I was [typically, and thankfully] wrong, I've used it for not just modelling, but trimming laminate flooring, sharpening the mower & knives, buffing up ironmongery / cleaning paint off things, cutting copper pipe, useful bit of kit

You're nothing but a man-hoe... bit like a beet hoe but even more into rooting...

What's the score with the 6020? The one shown with the loader on is a Delta cab yet in the list is called a plus...

It's like and epiphany when the last one leaves the farm! :laugh:

Alex, I'm beginning to form a picture of you pretty boy I imagine you could tell me the difference between hair gel, hair mousse and hair spray... :laugh: I've been up ALL F*IN NIGHT!!! Started off badly, bit of snow, let Mrs H go out in the truck, she phoned me up in a flap saying the lanes were lethal and she couldn't control it, then she phoned to say she was a couple of miles from home and was abandoning it and walking home... I was at home with the kids, George with chicken pox so couldn't take him out to pick her up, managed to get a friend to come and sit with the kids while I went and rescued her, left her with her car while I walked up the hill to retrieve the truck, got home, went to bed, then was up with George all night crying that he was itchy and running a temperature... He won't have his mother when he's poorly, he wants me, so I was in his bed with him for a while, then he was in bed with me for a while, then he decided he wanted a bath a 4am, then he was downstairs with Mrs H watching TV til 6, then Mrs H was too exhausted to get up and get Emily ready for school and I was late for work.... now I'm just shattered...