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Always good when you get given a Pickup compared to a defender. • Has a radio • Heating works • A/C • A decent driving position so you aren't crippled on a long drive. • 5 Seats • The same if not more space in the back for Tools/Spares/Kit. The last 2 operational tours I've been on...

Because imagine if a 55t wagons runs into stopped traffic on the motorway because the wagon is dodgy. For it to get impounded it's a pretty dangerous vehicle, how can anyone justify these on the road?

Aircraft? Much prefer things on the ground, least something will come to a halt at the side of the road instead of hitting the ground at speed. Ground based vehicles allow for far more knowledge to be applied to keep it going if needs by, Aircraft is literally reading a doc word for word.

Very few dealers will provide tools to the mechanic, maybe specialist tools. The vast majority of the tools are laid for by the mechanical himself.

Any lads here who are mechanics and use the 3/8 stubby from milwaukee? Can work on anything from Quads, Pickups, HGVs and Plant all in the same day. Makita is meant to be a good brand but doesn't seem to last when you're on the big stuff, current running a Dewalt 899 but looking for something...

I came from a rural sort of area and went to a urban school. Very few people who had the same interests as me. Always got on with everyone, but had few really close friends and never interested in football. Finished school, and decided I wanted to join the army (16). Made some of the best...

If you look at the skid marks the tractor was on the wrong side of the road? ETA - Trailer full of potatoes, must be near or overweight. If DVSA handed out some overweight fines similar to HGVs there would be some people getting a shock. 1kg = £1

CLAAS only have 14/15? You never hear much complaining about that. As long as you're able to get your parts same day with decent mobile mechanics like CLAAS then there isn't a big deal.

Can you do that trick with a split ring wheel? Them things are deadly enough without playing with fire?

In the US and Canada driving 6 hours to get something isnt seen as that much of a problem. Always amazed me when you see youtubers talk about the distances they cover as if it's a normal thing.

That's a bugger that is, Warrior and Challenger both have remote filters so can be changed quite easily. About 30 minutes to take a engine out of a Warrior with a good group of people. 432 is a bit of a nightmare to take the engine out and definately requires some patience and keen eyes. Not...

How long do your vehicles last? I suppose if you're paying for it you're going to be more gentle than a 17 year old. 432 constantly breaks down, but they've had a hard life and there is very little sympathy in driving styles.

Without going into too much detail. Using epicyclic gears and oil pumps. The oil is pumped in into different chambers which locks the either the Sun, Planet or annulus. Holding a Planet carrier (I think??) allows for reverse. Vehicles such as CVRT has 6 forward and 6 reserve gears due to this...

Recently fixed a compressor on a £1.5m vehicle, with a bit of card I found in the bin. £250 seems extortionate, the cylinder head gasket wont be that far off that price. Not a simple compressor gasket?

Surely the Health minister doesn't sit in his office ordering gloves and gowns. It's hardly the government's fault the countless layers of (mis)management weren't able to buy enough. It's also not the governments fault places cant get PPE delivered, there is enough wagons in the UK to do it...

How you quantifying that? The US has about 1/6 the deaths per million as Italy and Spain. More populace country has more death, hardly tells the truth unless you look at all the facts. The UK has is just over a 1/3 the deaths per million, compared to Spain and Italy. Sweden has had a very...

Can the police actually stop you or not? I commute nearly 120 miles to work, 3 of use spend a week fixing critical vehicles in the response to the pandemic, then drive home on a friday. Wonder what the police would say about that? Drove past loads of police, even on quiet roads and not once...

Absolutely without a vaccine the lockdown is just trying to limit numbers requiring ICU beds, dragging it out over a longer period of time. People seem to have the idea that in another 3 weeks time or whatever thatll it be gone. I personally think herd immunity/vaccine is the only way we can...

Strong effort this one. Nice roll over. Not sure how to attach a video.

They were delivering the SFP to a local farmer ?? Couple more here;