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My new toy (chickens1968)chickens1968Moderator Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 315 Location: Gloucestershire Posted: 08 Apr 2006 09:48 am Post subject: My new toy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes yet another bizzare project/toy except this one is daily transport since yesterday! 
and here are some pics from the farm sale In Lechlade I was at yesterday 
Just in case anybody ever needs them I can get those caged water thingys in the background for £30 a piece? _________________ http://www.freewebs.com/chickens1968/ Back to top Plocket Evergreen Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 865 Location: The playroom! Posted: 08 Apr 2006 09:58 am Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blimey Jerry you don't mess about with projects do you??? I'd love to have a truck - often thought about getting a landrover (short wheelbase) but as I lived in the outskirts of London it didn't seem appropriate!!! _________________ A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands www.plocket.co.uk Back to top Lottie Evergreen Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 740 Posted: 08 Apr 2006 11:19 am Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wow those caged water thingies would have been brilliant up my allotment - shame the bargains are always at to the wrong ends of the country, Drooling with envy at your boys toys _________________ I am at that purple age! Back to top Jesse Site Admin Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 2188 Location: West Sussex Posted: 08 Apr 2006 02:23 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry if I ever break down I know who to call! Lottie, those caged water tank things are for sale somewhere, OH saw them as was talking about getting some, I'll have a word and see where he saw them and how much. Back to top Becki Moderator Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 1106 Location: Over here and not there. Posted: 08 Apr 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Should of popped in for a cuppa, Chickens. I'm about 20mins from Lechlade _________________ www.thecardbee.com Back to top chickens1968 Moderator Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 315 Location: Gloucestershire Posted: 09 Apr 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now you say!!! I was frozen and the coffee at the catering van was awful! gotta to go to agricultural college near cirencester on Tuesday to pick up a low loader trailer my friend bought at the sale. _________________ http://www.freewebs.com/chickens1968/ Back to top Lottie Evergreen Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 740 Posted: 09 Apr 2006 03:27 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sounds like you have got to sell a lot of eggs to pay for your new toys _________________ I am at that purple age! Back to top chickens1968 Moderator Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 315 Location: Gloucestershire Posted: 09 Apr 2006 08:33 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The eggs are selling well but luckily I have a good friend who bought the landrover for me, wow you say..........not really I have to help him do 6 miles of rabbit fencing along the GWR railway bank!! (I am sure he has some other little jobs up his sleeve too) _________________ http://www.freewebs.com/chickens1968/ Back to top Jesse Site Admin Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 2188 Location: West Sussex Posted: 09 Apr 2006 09:40 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- that's going to take forever chickens! Back to top chickens1968 Moderator Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 315 Location: Gloucestershire Posted: 17 Apr 2006 12:36 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- we did 425 metres off rabbit fencing on Saturday it took 3 of us 2 hours!! thats digging the trench putting in the posts plain wire straining then the netting..with the help of tractors minidiggers agri forklifts and landrovers and quads tho _________________ http://www.freewebs.com/chickens1968/ Back to top Jesse Site Admin Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 2188 Location: West Sussex Posted: 17 Apr 2006 06:19 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- haha, we drove to Kent on the weekend and I was looking at the fencing bordering each side of the eurostar railway tracks, it made me think of you chickens that's not bad for 2 hours work Back to top Lloyd Moderator Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 584 Location: Mainly Bristol but sometimes Shropshire Posted: 17 Apr 2006 08:57 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is the gadget on the back of the Landie a winch? _________________ Back to top chickens1968 Moderator Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 315 Location: Gloucestershire Posted: 17 Apr 2006 09:16 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Its A Harvey Frost crane/hoist/winch thingy for picking up vehicles and towing with the front wheels off the ground _________________ http://www.freewebs.com/chickens1968/ Back to top Lloyd Moderator Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 584 Location: Mainly Bristol but sometimes Shropshire Posted: 17 Apr 2006 09:18 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cool!...POssible alternate or additional income maybe? _________________ Back to top chickens1968 Moderator Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 315 Location: Gloucestershire Posted: 26 Apr 2006 07:02 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had to be rescued today!!! my rescue truck ran out of petrol!!! Much to the amuesment of those who rescued me _________________ http://www.freewebs.com/chickens1968/ Last edited by chickens1968 on 26 Apr 2006 07:11 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top |