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[twosmoke300]

Buggered if I know , not highlighted when I look at them

[Bobthebeard]

Everyone else seems to have a 'Rank' above their avatar. I don't seem to have a rank at all!

Is that good or bad? Lol!

[Skizzer]

If you include a friend with the cargo, you don't need a sensor.  When he says stop loading, there's room for a couple more bin bags.

 

Blimey, there's a bloke in there by Skizzer, on Flickr

[wuvvum]

This is what I mean:

 

[twosmoke300]

How strange , is it cos I is special. Well my mum always said I was

[Jim Bergerac]

Something to do with the avatar not appearing, I think.

[twosmoke300]

I had noticed id lost my piccy

[KruJoe]

I also can confirm TwoSmoke is special.

And the other day CatsInTheWelder went all green on me, like he'd been promoted to 'mod'. But he hadn't.

[daveb47]

Why are twosmoke300's posts highlighted?  Or is that just me?

Resolved...

[cobblers]

wor lasses mother has a tractor int barn. Shes a horsey type but its fuck all good to her as she gets a bloke to plow't field for £25 a go. And once he's done that he turns the soil over on her smallholding etc etc.

 

Anyway Said tractor is a Massey ferguson, apparently 'it works fine", I spotted a reg number (something like FEF 890 but not that and I've since forgot it) and did a DVLA check on my phone which showed it was made in 1952 and was last taxed in 83. Obviously its MOT and tax exempt now.

 

 

1: Is it worth owt? Shes wanting to get a bit of cash and was banding round the figure of about a grand, I reckon you could rape the plate off it somehow and make the best part of that, and she'd still have t'tractor in't barn. It looked a nice old bit of kit but I'd been outside the pub all afternoon by this point.

3: How do you plate rape something that doesn't need an MOT and has no realistic chance of passing one?

7: I would feel bad helping out the rape of a plate off of it really so should I just keep out of it?

[twosmoke300]

Ferguson te20 , not worth a fortune maybe 2k ish .

non transferable plate I expect

[Richard]

I don't think tractors have ever needed an MOT anyway, I'm not sure if you can plate rape them or not. Is it diesel or petrol-paraffin?

[panhard65]

wor lasses mother has a tractor int barn. Shes a horsey type but its fuck all good to her as she gets a bloke to plow't field for £25 a go. And once he's done that he turns the soil over on her smallholding etc etc.

 

Anyway Said tractor is a Massey ferguson, apparently 'it works fine", I spotted a reg number (something like FEF 890 but not that and I've since forgot it) and did a DVLA check on my phone which showed it was made in 1952 and was last taxed in 83. Obviously its MOT and tax exempt now.

 

 

1: Is it worth owt? Shes wanting to get a bit of cash and was banding round the figure of about a grand, I reckon you could rape the plate off it somehow and make the best part of that, and she'd still have t'tractor in't barn. It looked a nice old bit of kit but I'd been outside the pub all afternoon by this point.

3: How do you plate rape something that doesn't need an MOT and has no realistic chance of passing one?

7: I would feel bad helping out the rape of a plate off of it really so should I just keep out of it?

You can't plate rape tractors. Also if you want to plate rape a pre '60 it will have to be mot'ed even though it doesn't need one. We had a tractor with RAM3G as it;s reg and found out all the rules then

[cort16]

There's still a few bob in old tractors of they're in decent condition. Have a look at classic tractor the next time your in Tescos.

[saucedoctor]

+1. My mate Alan who owns the breakers has a wee tractor like that. His Dad is well into them, and has about half a dozen, plus 2 or three in varying stages of reassembly in the "shades" at the scrappy. Al told me that his old man has been offered fairly serious money for a couple of them.

[cobblers]

Fairy nuff bout the plate rape issues, TBH I'm happy to write it off cos there's nowt worse than seeing UXBxxx on something proper (which is what imports and plate rape victims seem to get???).  I was speaking to my mum and it turns out I've apparently got some rich relative that made a load of money out of making motorway bridges or something and he is well into his tractors etc, so I will just put him in touch and hope I get a thick birthday card from one of them.

[catsinthewelder]

And the other day CatsInTheWelder went all green on me, like he'd been promoted to 'mod'. But he hadn't.

 

I failed the entrance exam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No I didn't,  I changed my e-mail address and my status changed to 'validating' until Dave kicked the server,  cheers Dave

[Pillock]

she gets a bloke to plow't field for £25 a go. And once he's done that he turns the soil over on her smallholding etc etc.

 

Fnar fnar!

[Leyland Lawrence]

When did they stop making cross ply tyres? Saw a Herald yesterday with them on the front

[Richard]

Ford were still fitting them to the povo Mk2 Escort in the mid 70s.

[catsinthewelder]

I was image searching for more paper models and found this

 

 

 

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=3&f=23&t=1261714&mid=0&i=60&nmt=Datsun+Cherry+Turbo&mid=0

 

I wonder if this is the one Louise saw last Saturday?

[sheffcortinacentre]

think you can still get new cross plys in certain sizes.

[Taff]

why has my avatar changed back to my old one?

[daveb47]

why has my avatar changed back to my old one?

You are imagining things.......

[Taff]

You are imagining things.......

 

it's defo the old one mate, showing a red circle with a line through the word "drama".

 

what happened to retard dog?!

[Tayne]

I see a retard dog tattoo.

[Asimo]

why has my avatar changed back to my old one?

See "has something happened" thread.

[Micrashed]

Car tax questionamabob

 

Tomorrow I embark on possibly my most foolish expodidtion yet to pick up a car purchased sight unseen. Its MOT'd (just) but is on a SORN, I have insured it having found that Kwik Fit wont mirror my NCD of 9 years  but that the lovely people at Lancaster will (for an increased excess), now i wont get my paper work through from Lancaster untill after I have been to collect the car, and I doubt it will show up on MID or IMD or what ever its called - can I juts rock up to a GPO and hand over the MOT and money and walk out with a tax disc?

[catsinthewelder]

Have a nose on http://ownvehicle.askmid.com/ and see if they've boshed it on.  Some folk at post offices check and others don't so even if it's not on you might get lucky.

[Richard]

I thought you didn't need insurance to tax a car any more anyway.