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    When communists unite!

    Just look what could have been, had global socialist utopia been realised!
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    People of France - I need your help!

    Having been stitched up like a kipper by one of our own friendly, trustworthy UK farmers… I am now the proud owner of something broken: a 1949 MAP DR3 It has a broken cylinder liner. Obviously known about by the vendor… but we’ll skip that! I need a new / used liner to mend it. Machining one...
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    RAF Mildenhall Front Gate tractor crash

    What on earth is going on here? Was the tractor driver on his phone or something?
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    Schluter, anyone?

    Get it while it’s hot. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175259288448?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=iVA6kszNR6-&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=0uEg1ZQrTPC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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    HGV drawbar drag trailer

    I’m looking for a drawbar trailer for my lorry. I’m on a 50mm Rockinger drawbar. It needs to be pretty small - an 18 to 24 foot tandem is plenty, on the smallest wheels possible, as I’d like it to be low A gross weight of 12 to 22 tonnes is fine. TIA smcapstick
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    Vintage motorcycle from East Sussex to North Lancashire / South Cumbria

    Hello. This is a long shot... but could anyone fetch me an old motorcycle from East Sussex back to Kirkby Lonsdale, South Cumbria? It'll go in a pickup, cattle trailer... anything, really. It's just a damn long way for me to go to collect! I'll try a few dedicated motorcycle movers, too...
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    1 x Pair of new 3000KG 5' pallet tines for a 16" backplate

    I want to buy myself a Christmas present :) As title, I would like some prices for a new pair of 5' (1500mm) long, 100mm wide 3000/3500KG rated pallet tines to suit the 16" backplate on my little Linde. I'm not looking for links or suggestions, as I am quite capable of googling 'new pallet...
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    ELECTRICIANS - strip light plugs?

    Electrician types - what is the plug for this strip light socket called? I don’t really want to open each fluorescent light back up to hardwire a cable, as I have about a dozen to do and the cases are riveted shut. I just want to order a dozen of the appropriate plugs to suit the sockets, so...
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    Which pickup?

    I vote this one.
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    Laser eye surgery for astigmatism correction

    Further to the other thread regarding laser eye surgery, I’d like to focus (pun intended) on corrective laser treatment for a mild astigmatism. Has anyone had it done? What was it like, how was the recovery and most importantly, did it work? My vision isn’t bad by any means... but the very...
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    I’m in hospital!

    I am literally in my hospital bed, right now. I had my tonsils removed and one nostril quarterised at around 11.30AM. Other than the odd cold and bout of SARS, Ebola and bird flu, tonsillitis is the only thing I ever get. It’ll hit me between 4 and 8 times per year - a real pest when I need...
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    Brake bleeding tool - is there a good one?

    I work on my own, so bleeding brakes is difficult to say the least. I have a vacuum bleed kit for the workshop air compressor (like the one pictured below) and it's completely f**king useless. Short of suckling on the brake bleed nipple myself, does anyone have a recommendation for a better...
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    3 x 16.9R28 inner tubes, delivered

    Hello. Please quote a price for three 16.9R28 inner tubes, delivered to LA62EW. TIA smcapstick @Terry Elsey Tyres ?
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    Maintain your machine’s folding guards, people!

    As title, don’t go whizzing along the road with your guards tied up with some scruffy old length of baler twine - when the string snaps, you’ll hit something. ...just like some old boy did to my Sprinter, half an hour ago! He had a ratty old bit of rope holding his mower side guard up but it...
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    Load binders & chains

    Hello. Please quote me for the following: 4 x 5m chains 80 grade ish 10mm ish Binder hook one end, sling hook the other ideally... but whatever, or none - I can add those later. 4 x ratchet binders to suit the chains The above specifications are flexible - if you have something broadly...
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    VBG couplings on tractor units

    Does anyone run a tractor unit with a drawbar trailer? I’m trying to think of ways to get a ‘proper’ weight hauler in to my yard. There are, really, only three ways: 1) A big, heck-off 6- or 8-wheeled rigid. 2) A short-ass artic trailer. 3) A tractor [unit] and trailer. The first is a...
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    Ratchet strap - spare parts

    Being tight as a fish, I want to repair my existing ratchet strap ratchets rather than simply buy more new ones. The short straps under the ratchet are wearing thin on several of my ratchets (I have had them 10+ years) and due to this wear, I no longer deem them safe for use when transporting...
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    Somebody bumped my leased pickup. What should I do?

    I was waiting in stationary traffic and a car bumped me from behind. I have a big clevis-type towbar on, so the damage was minimal - the bumper beam is very slightly bent and the plastic is marked and not lining up perfectly. It was entirely her fault and I even had the foresight, having been...
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    Farmer that hanged dog sentenced to prison

    I still can't quite believe this. 18 weeks does not seem nearly enough time, either. What an utter barsteward. http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/22/farmer-hanged-dog-because-it-didnt-round-up-his-sheep-properly-7407999/
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    Loader brackets - can anyone name them?

    I have some unusual loader brackets on a grab. I have seen similar, before, but can't for the life of me remember what they were for. Does anyone know? TIA smcapstick
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