anyone off to Eastnor

Glad to be of service

He can be a volunteer (I was for 10 years) but he's not doing it for a living - they don't pay firefighters enough here.

Hi Austin,

Thanks for asking: chassis was cut, realigned and fishplated in November and then kept immobilised for 3 months for natural welding to take place.

He was X-rayed again this week and all is looking good although he still has a pronounced limp which will become less obvious as the various tendons stretch again. Metal work due to come out in November and then he has to be VERY careful for a couple of months until the screw holes have filled in.

Lizzy

I did wonder how I have been managing to tow my trialler round all this time!

Dave

Maybe you put it on a trailer?

||| You can tow a caravan quite happily with the 12N socket alone.

|| I'd have thought a towing hitch would be useful too, unless you steel || braid the cable...:)

Towing hitches are for poofs. We just plug in the 12N socket, zip-tie the excess cable to the rear bumper, and head off for the Pyrenees. The caravan tows fine, but slowing down is a bit noisy.

Zip-tie? ZIP-TIE!!??? Southern poofta! When I were a lad, my job on long runs was to wedge myself between t'cross member and caravan, hold the wires in me teeth, and cushion the whole lot downhill. AND use me feet to brake t'whole lot.

Bloody zip-ties! I ask yer! Tch!!

Stuart

|| Richard Brookman wrote: ||| Srtgray wrote: ||| |||||| You can tow a caravan quite happily with the 12N socket alone. ||| ||||| I'd have thought a towing hitch would be useful too, unless you ||||| steel braid the cable...:) ||| ||| Towing hitches are for poofs. We just plug in the 12N socket, ||| zip-tie the excess cable to the rear bumper, and head off for the ||| Pyrenees. The caravan tows fine, but slowing down is a bit noisy. ||| || Zip-tie? ZIP-TIE!!??? Southern poofta! When I were a lad, my job || on long runs was to wedge myself between t'cross member and caravan, || hold the wires in me teeth, and cushion the whole lot downhill. AND || use me feet to brake t'whole lot. || || Bloody zip-ties! I ask yer! Tch!! || || || Stuart

Well, I say zip-ties. Actually it were old string, and when't string snapped me Dad used to wedge one of me testicles in't caravan A-frame and t'other under't boot lid of the car. Crossing't Alps were me favourite. Before they built them poofy tunnels an' all.

Ah'm not Southern. Ah'm Chinese. Won Hung Lo.

On or around Fri, 12 May 2006 14:15:56 +0100, LizzyTaylor enlightened us thusly:

Sound promising. I wish LR chassis would weld 'emselves together...

BTDT on the metalwork. broken ankle in my case. *after* the operation, the surgeon bloke said "you'll be on crutches again for about 4 weeks, 'til the bone regrows properly" ... Thanks a bunch, pal - if he'd told me that before, I'd have postponed it 'til a point where I wasn't just about to start university; as there's no real hurry to operate and remove the metalwork, another few months wouldn't have hurt. I used to have the bits of metalwork in a little bag...

Well that would explain the height of it I suppose. I hate that, on a flat bit of road you do forget you are towing with the Range Rover. You think, "who the hell is that in that range rover right up my chuff" and then realise it's the trialler.

It's an accurate speedo too. The trialler has got twin electric fans, which you can see right inthe middle of rear view mirror. One starts spinning at 48mph, and the other at 56mph!

Dave

On or around 10 May 2006 01:13:25 -0700, "Dave R" enlightened us thusly:

Looking rather unlikely at the moment. I've got far too much to do to have time to repair the landy and get it MOT'd in time.

On or around Sat, 13 May 2006 20:53:18 +0100, Austin Shackles enlightened us thusly:

Unless, of course, I come in the minibus again. it is a different minibus this time, and being a Ford, it's come from the people who now own Land Rover.

I'll see how it goes, I reckon.

On Thu, 11 May 2006 22:35:34 +0100, Tim Hobbs scribbled the following nonsense:

Martyn and I were discussing kinetic ropes and his suture kit this weekend at driffield!

Austin Shackles uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Mixing Oval colours could be interesting.... we could end up with a Disco that looks like a Transit...oh...to late.

;-)

Though to be fair I always thought from the front the Trannys that had the first square head lights looked very Disco is from the front compared to the Disco 1 in the early days.

Lee

On or around Mon, 15 May 2006 19:49:03 +0100, "Lee_D" enlightened us thusly:

the transit I've got ("smiley face" one) actually looks quite good as vans go. Those first "square light" trannies are getting very rare now...

On Mon, 15 May 2006 21:07:47 +0100, Austin Shackles scribbled the following nonsense:

IIRC the first trannies had round lights......

LOL - are you in for a shock :)

good luck

On or around Mon, 15 May 2006 21:21:10 +0100, Simon Isaacs enlightened us thusly:

indeed. the mark II came out with modern "square" lights, although the actual reflectors are still round inside 'em. :-)