haybaggerman

Hi Welcome to the forum, always room for another saracen. Yours is a nice example though, mk 6 I think. There are many many levels to check on these things, getting on for 20 different ones from memory. Good luck Paul

Cheers, would love to. I'll pm you Paul

Not too far from here, hopefully I'll come across it sometime. Paul

NICE Whereabouts in Devon is this beastie now? Slowly the Devon independance party is gathering it's forces ( and you'll have to pay to get in and out of Cornwall then too:) ) Paul

Yes, I'm just up the road, pop over sometime, pm me for tel no. if you're around. BTW, I've got an old FL6 chassis and a rayburn in the field...... its going for scrap if................... Cheers Paul

Everything in Devon is worth seeing, especially the women, the sort that give birth in the morning and dehorn cattle in the afternoon!!! Me, I married an incomer, needed a fresh bloodline around here. Have a good trip Paul PS Cobbaton is good

Hi Was this the pig that was mentioned recently on a devon MVT email? Cheers Paul

Yes, the one in Somerset was the one I was thinking of. Who knows, it might even be true.

I heard that there are a load of "still in their crates" jeeps buried at the old army camp in Taunton Devon. Thats all I've ever heard about (apart from the king tiger parked at the bottom of my garden) Paul

Hi Welcome on board, there is a nice 101 on ebay at the moment. Cheers Paul

Does she feed you those quality street when your hands are too dirty? A good woman should always do that.

no, don't sell it, you know you'd regret it.

one large port consumed in your honour sir. Not enough honour for you? Right I'll pour another....... Paul

The great wall of china AND my new sock mountain are both visible from space.

I think the whole story was reported in a typically alarmist way last year, but its good to hear the government are taking that approach. The issue with public roads is more about what insurance companies will do to recover costs, any excuse to make claims and counter claims. My wife "met" another car on a 90 degree bend on a single lane backroad in the ice of january 2010. Our insurance company decided on knock for knock, but we still get threatening solicitors letters based on standard templates, most of which isn't relevant (e.g. your car crossed into the opposite lane umm there is only one lane etc etc ), and we have also had a visit from a representative of a government department for having no tax on the car whereas it was taxed and completely legal. These insurance firms claim for every letter they write and every action they take and I wouldn't put anything past them. Right, rant over

or some explosives maybe, more fun than a disc harrow but harder to get insurance maybe:)

Next time we will be ready with a spinner on the back of the tractor and a ton or two of salt and grit, however, it probably won't get this way for another 20 years or so. This time round the ice was already compacted and 2 inchs thick before we realised it was here to stay big time. Still, more snow on monday apparently........

Clearing paths and private drives is one thing but clearing miles of public roads is something else I would say

I take your point, but we are talking about 2 miles of road here, plus we havn't had it like this before, prolonged cold weather re freezing melting snow into hard packed ice lasting so many days. Maybe a crystal ball would be useful as every other year we havn't had a problem.

Yes, good video, ironically that just happened to me in my pajero. Nearly got to the top of the hill, then started losing traction, slowed to a stop, then started sliding back. Tried to steer straight down the hill to slow on the other side, got a long way seeing as it is a narrow road, was picking up speed and it was pitch black, but finally ended up stuck sideways, touching both hedges. The only damage is a dented plastic corner bumper that I think will pop back out. Quite exciting though. My mate pulled me out in his newly restored massey (on which he had done the same thing on the same hill a couple of hours earlier) Glad I wasn't in the sarry or ferret. Cheers Paul

Hmmmm, as I thought, but thankyou for the confirmation. Maybe a fv432 next year then, might be able to put it against tax as a towing vehicle, anything is possible, as long as I keep my customers that is. Cheers Paul

We are trapped here in the back roads of Devon, the council won't grit the road as we don't "meet their criteria". However, several jobs might well depend on some artics getting in and out of here before xmas. We managed to get an artic out yesterday, it took in the end one pajero pulling a landrover defender pulling a zetor tractor pulling the artic with about 10 tons on board being pushed by a new holland tractor. About 2 hours to get 2 miles to the main road. Makes me wish I'd bought a 432 instead of the saracen. However, thought I'd check on what the pulling capacity of the saracen is. Anyone got any experience? The roads are like glaciers here, a good two inchs of compacted ice all the way, any slope and the lorries slide into the ditch. Cheers Paul

Very nice

I've got a pajero, or at least my wife has as its the kiddy wagon, you can fit loads of them in there. Heavy on fuel though, but cheap to buy, and I have used it as the work minibus in the snow of the past two winters. By the way, did you know that they had to change the name of pajeros in spanish speaking countries. Pajero means w**ker apparently. Cheers Paul

Happy Birthday, hope you have a good time