Recent content by udderlyoffroad

Would certainly agree with that. Squirrelly as all heck. What made it 'click' for me - and as someone said, I can watch my three year old reverse his toy tractor instinctively, adults over-think it - is to look in your mirrors, and 'wipe it out'. Imagine your hand is doing a wiping motion...

I don't think anybody is suggesting that per se. It's that, for the lower end of the maket, which is what the Holts sealed bid is, the fees-on-top-of-fees structure they operate, combined with some...less than stellar descriptions and pictures, make for a somewhat sub-optimal experience. I...

Holts do at least have a calculator on their website, albeit it does not include their somewhat steep packaging charges to send to your local RFD. Honestly unless you’re local or have the time to drive* to Norforkistan, the sealed bid are unlikely to yield you any bargains. If you want...

You've got too many variables going on there to provide anything more refined than your estimate. The biggest of which is the weather -If it's a 30 C roaster of a day when you're running your market stall, those chillers are going to be running continuously. If you're outside in winter...

Second the do you *really* need petrol comment for clearing brash. If you're already bought into a particular brand of cordless tools, get their 12 or 14" chainsaw, not top handled, and give it a go. I've got the Makita twin 18V job. Slightly more spendy, than £150, but it's also not a...

I would, sort of, concur with a 2 vehicle solution. I was just running a 65-plate L200, as the sole family vehicle for a while. 2 kids under 10 and no real commute to speak of other than the occasional away-mission, we did fine. The modern pickups are lot better for rear passenger room than they...

Dragging this thread back on topic, this has to be the answer surely. This was at the Newbury 4x4 spares day a few years ago, Landie was owned by a civvie. Was entirely unconcerned about the legality of his rig, but for all I know he had a "Showman's licence". If you mean the UK; most pickups...

Yea, seen people do it with Sankey trailers, they are at least somewhat designed to do it though, having a rear mounted pintle hitch

Another vote for the rolls of target stickers, for those occasions when you fell slightly more fancy than a black splodge of permanent marker on a cardboard box! Yes they also do tacky replica advertising accoutrements. Will admit to purchasing a reproduction metal sign, replete with fake...

To avoid EU tariffs! The EU is, and always was, massively in favour of protectionist tariffs. Then unelected commissionaires have the neck to try to lecture Trumpy about introducing tariffs but that's another story... And to describe the EU as a trading bloc is a bit like describing Harold...

The reasons are: 1) RFD-RFD transfer will have a papertrail on the RFDs’ (e)ledgers & avoids awkward questions during any audit. 2) RFDs will be far more likely to package it properly than Joe Public. Honestly it’s an expensive business all round but quite frankly the thought of handing over a...

You've answered a different question to the one asked. I asked about the older folk in the 40s, not the ones who grew up then. Every generation looks back wistfully upon their youth. What makes your mother in law's generation (the 'silent generation') an in any way unusual apart from growing...

I'm not old enough to have watched these when first broadcast, but I have seen some on Youtube. So I'm coming at this one slightly fresh, to me it tells as much about the time it was made as the times he's telling us about. Although he's careful to avoid false nostalgia.... Some clearly...

Indeed the blog article is a thinly-veiled sales pitch. But the point remains, it really isn't a difficult problem to solve, or rather it has been solved before in both the public and private sectors. Far more complex 'workflows' are used by the great british public on a daily basis, the...

It sounds like it's given you time to massively over-think things. You're proposing to give up your hobby because it might take you some time to fill in a form? Something about noses and faces springs to mind Your force is still obliged to accept a paper application. In 18 months time your...