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On 15/04/2019 at 10:46, SPARKIE said:
any doubts walk away too many are being stolen.... like said check for damage, damp, dates on tyres and condition ( recommended change by insurance at 5 years old) check date on gas pipe this needs change regular and service history (should be serviced yearly) if its not been serviced has the gas system been checked? breaks? draw bar? if its a ALKO HITCH check the pads check interior condition one of the worst vans to buy is a van that's been sighted and used 6 months of year. massive wear and tear and usually not serviced/moved. check for chassis numbers on windows and doors match chassis number and see if it has CRIS REGISTRATION. I think all caravans after 2010 are automatically registered with them.... and if they sound like gypsy's they probably are lol
High. there sparkie, why is a van that's been sighted and used for 6 months bad? I've just bought a 2010 model for staying in while away at work, had full dealer service and its going to be pretty much left on a permanent pitch. Never had a caravan before so any advice is welcome.
cheers
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12 hours ago, washerboy said:
Is your rapid bog standard from the box
I've heard lots of lads having to have bits made or altered over the years. That's the main reason I wouldn't own a pcp again. Always a small problem
Yes mate, yet to change a seal. From what I've read on the rapid forum they can be improved and are easy to work on, but plenty of folk probably mess who shouldn't.
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53 minutes ago, la bala said:
Just went and got myself a hot cross bun, cut it in half and found two currants. Now i think thats slightly taking the michael
Not good at all, i just got some Tesco super finest apple and cinnamon reduced whilst getting some beers, very yummy.
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On 16/04/2019 at 22:33, Ultrastu said:
That's exactly why the likes of daystate bsa .airarms .fx etc.
Make highend guns .they simply cannot compete at the budget end of the market .
Also the mark up on a £1000 plus gun is greater than on a £300 one .so you can sell less and still stay in business .
Thats exactly the reason the above manufacturers are making these £1000 guns .that and the growing want by customers for more features and better performance.
4 minutes ago, Whitebridges said:A spot on and overflowing with insight !
Who wants to sell and support a Chinese gun at £300 and earn X£'s when they might as well sell a £1000 plus gun and earn 3xX£'s ?
See now that makes sense, my rapid is twenty odd years old and still spot on, quality built product doing what it was designed to do, i imagine you guys have bsa, air arms and so on doing similar.
Can't imagine a bargain Chinese import doing the same, but if they let someone start out with a cheap gun then great.
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Thanks for those pictures, I've had fun untangling purse nets in the past, heaven knows how long it would take me to sort out a long net, always like reading and looking at pictures of net work and lurchers.
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On 16/04/2019 at 10:27, JDog said:
For the last two weeks or so this part of the Wolds has had mostly cold easterly winds with temperatures not getting much above 8 degrees and with a wind chill factor much lower than that. This has coincided with the flowering of many hedgerow plants, particularly Prunus spinosa, but also my ornamental fan trained pear. The window for pollination of this particular plant is only a few days and whilst it has been in flower I have never seen a bee or a fly in the garden let alone on these flowers.
There are 120 flowers on the plant which produces delicious fruit so I was not going to stand idly by whilst the cold reduced the chances of pollination to zero so out came one of my wife's paint brushes and I used it to gently brush the stamens and then move from one group of flowers to another attempting to imitate the pollinating activities of insects. Whether this will work is anyone's guess.
Got your work cut out there, certainly seems strange though the lack of insects you've seen, or not. Up in the north west its been like summer on sunny days, as if were a month in front of the calendar, birds and bees a plenty.
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Very good, but its going to stink around there shortly, and there will be flies everywhere
4 hours ago, Walker570 said:I have been to look at a new pheasant shoot today and got speaking with the keeper, he pointed to this little array ...50 I believe, shot on his pheasant feeders. Reticent to actually book on the the forum himself wishing to remain annon. Would I be cheating if I added his for him ? I counted 48.
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1 hour ago, Pigeon Shredder. said:
Decided that l needed an upper body workout this afternoon, so l got the TX200 out of the locker and went squirrel bashing at the golf course, forgetting just how heavy it can get when doing walked up shooting and after 2 hours l was feeling the effects.
But on a good note 3 squirrels will not be bothering anyone tomorrow.
Now sitting here with arm muscles like a farrier after a hard day. 🥵
654.
you should have had the TX in a golf bag sir, wheeling it around would be much easier, select your calibre for the shot, 110 yards slight dip to the left on the green? Hmr it is, 25 yards sat in a tree? Out with the TX.
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3 hours ago, bruno22rf said:
"Will we ever see Chinese guns dominate the UK market - not a hope in Hell" mmmmmm - If I told you 10 years ago that our car market would be flooded with carp Korean cars you wouldn't have believed me - likewise the Early Japanese motorcycles were something to point and laugh at 30 years ago. The Chinese have the Engineering ability and financial might to take the Lions share of the market if, or when, they decide to.They can buy parts from outside suppliers in massive quantities thus cheaper but they will persevere in manufacturing parts themselves until they get it right - labour is cheaper than we could ever dream of so the West could not compete. When you consider that you can buy, say, a pair of Shorts, from a Chinese company and have them posted half way around the world (often faster than if you buy in the UK) for about a third of the price of a UK supplier, you have to admire their retail might.P.S. bought a one piece mount from the bay of plenty about 6 months ago - £7 inc shipping from China and it's as good as any I have ever bought here.
1 hour ago, Whitebridges said:I mentioned "Chinese guns" no mention of Japanese or Korean products but i guess i can see where you are coming from.
I retired last year but prior to that spent ten years doing business with Chinese businesses. It was to do with high end audio and video technology. In a normal year i visited China 2-3 times a year, usually for ten days or more at a time and visited many many factories and business centres in Beijing, Shenzen, Dongguan, Hong Kong to name but a few.
I have seen at first hand the superb manufacturing facilities in China. One especially sticks in the mind, a mobile phone business which made 3 million 'phones a month........on machines and plant made in Germany !
The best guess estimate at the moment is a Chinese population of 1.4 billion compared with 350m in Europe 370m in the USA. The powers that be have definitely focused businesses in China to concentrate on their domestic market, so this is what will happen.
As for airguns, there is no domestic market in China, the masses are not allowed guns (some are but i said masses). At the moment there is a minute export market but once Brexit measures kick in and hard new tax legislations enforced i think the Chinese will be up against it in our market, however i respect your opinion.
big difference between air guns and cars, for me there is next to no market for air guns in this country which is why i don't think cheaper imports will take over, I've seen machines and product lines move to China and India because there is money to be made from the cheap labour.
Not many moving parts to go wrong on a mount Bruno, can't Imagine the Chinese or Indian manufacturers ever meeting the standards of Air arms or BSA.
And I'm always surprised that air guns are still being developed, look at The FX rifles, must take some investment to come up with those.
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Just now, the poacher said:
What price you selling these at please interested
Says £490 in the advert
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Really nice that BB, looks like it should be framed.
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7 hours ago, Saltings said:
you are somewhere on the east coast I am guessing, please do not tell us you sent this photo before mid morning to your good lady
West coast looking east, I'm working away now and it seemed a nice way to say I'm up
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Fantastic news.
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very nice, thanks for that.
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Any reason you haven't looked at a Pro Sport? I always think the single barrel looks neater and the gun still gets great reviews, still an under leaver.
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I had an innova, it did nothing but leak after a while, it was a nice light weight gun though, 7 or 8 pumps if i remember right?
Always fancied one of the Sheridan pumps, they just looked smart i thought.
I'll have a dig see if i can find any articles for you.
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1 hour ago, old man said:
Nowt wrong with that mate!
Cheers, I'd sent it the wife with the caption eating my breakfast 😎
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3 hours ago, ditchman said:
this i think is a bit spooky.....................
i think Phillip Hammond (chancellor).............looks like Charles De gaulle's son.............................Hmmmmm
what do you rekon ?
need someone clever to put up a split photo
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13 hours ago, Walker570 said:
I seem to have run out and need to restock. Nothing on the cams and only the wood mice and birds are eating the peanuts in the flip tops. One plus to the flip tops is it attracts mice and therefor becomes a MacDonalds for the local owl population.
That's a great picture, conservation at its best 👍
11 hours ago, Sciurus said:Great photo, much more interesting than trawling through hundreds of photos of greys raiding the feeder!
Be a nice surprise, squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel twig squirrel squirrel OWL.
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Nigel Farage has just spoken about launching his Brexit party, as the other MPs are going or gone on their Easter break.
No sure what he can achieve but if your looking for a protest vote that's surely got to be it.
Given the EU elections coming up he might have a few politicians worried.
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not as nice as your pic but its been a lovely week to be getting up early
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I would get your spade out and see what damage they have hidden filling in the holes, bleeding developers 🤬
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3 hours ago, Raja Clavata said:
All of the people I was referring to are skilled systems or software engineering professionals educated to at least the equivalent of BEng, a good mix with Masters and a handful with PhDs. They originate from various EU countries as well as a number on Tier 2 visas from India / Pakistan and oddly enough Egypt.
Good call on the caveat, the original post did come across a bit stereotypical.
my ten bobs worth, i imagine all the people that left were contract workers, were renting in the area they worked, which likely means they were offered more money elsewhere or had worked away for a while and decided to go home, could be that something had changed so they decided to leave, nothing has happened yet so why would people leave otherwise.
As for skilled workers in this country, there are plenty but yes more are needed with apprentices being the best start, all the people apparently coming from abroad do us no good in the long term, same as premier league football, instant stars rather than growing our own through training and education.
Springer vs pcp?
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I know what you mean, but twenty plus years with no problems, i think that's a fair return on my money.
The improvements I've read about are things like regulators, quick fill adaptors, spring guides. Some folk have remachined parts in titanium because they can! You won't get that being done on a cheap foreign import.
look how often folk say to degrease debur and polish any of the break barrel rifles available to improve performance, that's down to poor manufacturing or assembly, most things can be improved it doesn't mean they need to be.