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Both good guns, try them and take the one you like best.

Have been climbing a lot of trees the last few days while having a bit of a cold. Shoulders and ribs hurt like hell... Just put some red tiger balm on and seems to work ok... Pretty strong stuff!

I've got one -took me a while to get used to it-. Get yourself the sportman mount. Great for mounting it on a Shotgun or rifle

My current sa is a browning A5 -the new one- before this one it was a browning gold. Both have been up to expectations -good guns so far. I would go for a well known brand gun that fits. Try a few and make your pick. I know there are a lot of people on here that are crazy about one brand and others that really like the other... But you really cannot go far wrong by choosing one of a brand like browning, beretta, winchester and so on.

@archiebald: pics? I drive a 200 tdi pu and love it. GF drives a 110 td5 and it's not the same but I would hessitate to buy another td5! Both great engines and both will last a lot of miles...

Like many different birds. But if i had to choose: eider!

I don't have a td5 90 -mines a td5 110- but I drive with only the backbox. Nice sound when revving, but no big difference driving at constant speed.

Medium size kitchen knife...

Feel for you. Never get used to it.

Had a few freelanders -not all trouble free-. Replacement engines are fairly cheap. Buy one and change te head gasket, oilrail and -if iTS and older model- the thermostat. Not a very hard job to do, not extremely heavy either - k series engine is a light weight engine- For 250 I would buy it and do her up. But that's just me.

Very sad to hear, put things in perspective.

Interesting read Farmer Sim... And not that difficult to realise either.

About the central heating pumps -I was wondering the same thing. Pumps don't use that much power. Am now thinking about a seperated system for heating, lighting aso. Washing machine would be used when running the generator -in fact, all appliances that use a lot of wattage will be used at the same time by plugging in to the diesel/electric generator. It's not that we were looking to go off the grid. The house has no electrics because it's just to far from the main road and it would be to expensive -to us at least- to connect it. It's not a big concern to us, we know it needs some getting used to, but it will be fine in the end. Just curious about solutions from people over here since most of them here seem to be able to think of the beaten path.

As said, system works ok at the moment -we don't expect it to be without problems- but I'm interested in any means or technologies that can make life eassier. We're looking into solar cells at the moment and which methods we can use to store electricity. Thanks so far! Nice to see so many replies in such a short time.

Hi all, Took us a little while, but we found a nice house in the Scottish Borders. Nice old cottage -but renovated about 8 years ago. There are however a few challenges... House is off grid - no water, no electrics and so on. It can be heated by a central heating system on gas, but we will concert this to solid fuel central heating. Water supply is no problem either -there's a spring near the house and we will install a particle and UV filtration system. Only thing that I'm still struggling with is the power supply. At the moment all power needed is generated by a diesel/electric generator and deep cycle batteries. There is a hydro/electric generator, but this realy doesn't supply enough to make things work. Anyone on here who lives off the grid as well? Anyone any ideas how we can supply the house with power any other way than by using a diesel/electric generator? The system works fine by the way, but it would be nice not to be totally relying on only this system. Cheers