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You're lucky to have blackberries this time of year - blackbirds had the last of ours months back.

Try www.spicerparts.com/axle/off_highway.asp Kirkstall Forge are part of the Dana Spicer Corporation and Kirkstall parts should be readily available in USA/Canada through them! Lets us know how you get on please.

Doen't this depend on the relationship between how the vehicle is REGISTERED, TAXED and USED? As I understand it Jim, You could REGISTER (i.e. DESCRIBE) it as anything, say army truck or truck or agricultural machine or breakdown truck or mobile winch truck. I have log books for Constructors taxed as HISTORIC VEHICLE with 3 of these descriptions!! If you go for a Historic Vehicle TAXATION CLASS, you can only use it under the terms of the legislation which allows you free road tax (and to be honest I'm getting confused as to what those terms are now!). You could also use it to haul or tow loads commercially, in which case you might need a different TAXATION class and you may have to have it plated and tested. You could also use it commercially as a Special Types/Vehicles i.e. a piece of Mobile Plant (winch vehicle) which can travel on highway unladen from job to job. In which case they will allow Historic Vehicle taxation class, as the restrictions of on highway use are similar in terms of testing etc. to Special Types taxation. I did this with a Constructor. You could also use it for commercial recovery work, i.e. as a Breakdown Vehicle. I do not know what the taxation/testing requirements are for using a commercial BREAKDOWN VEHICLE, but be careful not to confuse a Special Types vehicle (i.e. off road breakdown/winching work) with Breakdown truck (i.e. recovery on highway of disabled vehicles). You need to decide what you want to use the Pioneer for on the highway, and TAX it accordingly. What you do with it off-road is between you and your insurance. If ON HIGHWAY USE will be for social domenstic and pleasure then why not just call it a 'truck' and go for Historic taxation? You can REGISTER it as what you want, it only appears as a "description" on the Vehicle Registration Document. (When I registered a Lorry mounted Drilling Rig, the Log book came back with Bulldozer - no idea where DVLA got that from, but doesn't matter - it is taxed as Special Vehicles and it is that which regulates its use on highway). I think the following statement is corect: The key is - it doesn't matter what you register it as, it is the TAXATION CLASS which determines what you can or cannot do with it on the highway, and what testing requirements and carrying/towing restristions apply. Hope this helps :-D :n00b:

Rambo, my old computer firewall would not allow smilies - could this be the problem? :banana::dancinggirls::banana::trustme::banana:

Hey you might well be right - each time I look at it I see a different view, and it's too long to wade through again. One of those subjective things. Perhaps I've lost my sense of humour/perspective. One example of a carrying vehicle which might fit the criteria is a conversion of a vintage Albion(?) coach chassis which was cleverly adapted with a turntable body to transport a traction engine - here the carrying vehicle is designed to convey a specific load only, so if the load complies with MPV then the transporter might too? Anyway, it's all a bit academic. Someone chuck me a few spuds on your way to the bar :yay:

I'll subscribe to that view too. An interesting point - I've just been trying to PM Blackpowder44 but there does not seem to be any provision to do so. What's going on? :confused: So I'll say it here: I don't feel he has been treated too well. I suspect that any out-of-order responses from him have been largely attributable to a bit of winding up and cheap point-scoring, and a desire to lure him into a trap. I also suspect a lot of others feel the same. For example, I wish my occasional bo!?ickings from Mrs N.O.S. were as pleasant as the one BP44 got from Jack :-D Let us have a bit more rational debate (and by all means constructive criticism when appropriate) and a bit less of the sad put-down and cheap point scoring efforts. The original point which started this thread off was perfectly reasonable and might well be most appropriate for certain vehicles/displays and the restrictions might be quite acceptable to some owners. Sadly the thread has ended up being an example of all that the Forum tries so hard not to be. And I don't think BP44 is to blame. I hope we have not put John off making further contributions to the forum (once he has finished peeling all those potatoes :shocked:). Anyone else care to put their head in the breech?

I'm not so sure, Tony. It seems to suggest that if you have a HGV (but no CPC) for your own private purposes, and then help someone out one day by delivering the odd commercial load (i.e. driving 'professionally, but not the not main occupation), you would be at fault for not having a driver's CPC. You might then get 5 years in clink, like the local guy who just got released after 24 hours, having been given a 5 year sentence for posessing a firearm and ammunition (it had been in his 'stored' posessions since being brought back from USA 12 years previously). He's been released on a technicality. Why did he get 5 years? A good fine and a knuckle wrap maybe. It's all going :banana:

And my TM 4x4 tipper (zero miles, ex German reserve stock but run up every 4 weeks throughout its life) did exactly the same, the silly cold start valve leaked fuel into the manifold from the small header tank. Took an age to clear the acrid smoke :cry: :cry: I decided to get rid of the cold start altogether - I did eventually, but the truck went too :-D

Yes Mark, I'd go with that idea of guiding branches etc onto the wings and not under them. My personal view of the WLF bumper is that it a spectacularly useless design - only good when using the whiffle tree thingy. No decent towing fitment in the centre, and the one that's there would pull straight out of the flimsy pressing with any decent load. As have a good many that I've seen. So mine is going to have a 'stonking great bit of channel' hidden full width behind and welded to the centre lug for those bigger skin-off-a-rice-pudding jobs.....:cool2:

Is it my eyesight or is there a very slight crown on those two diameter faces? For example a two speed pulley for a small flat belt auxilliary drive off some antiquarian mv? No, I thought not...

Lee - I was looking under new posts pages, it lists unread posts first and then normally gives something like "following threads have not been updated since last visit but contain unread posts". Thinking about it, perhaps there are no other unread posts, as I would have covered them whilst looking at more recent posts in the same thread whilst working backwards....:embarrassed: :thanx:

Trying to catch up on posts after a while offline. I can only get 9 pages worth, back to 20.02.09. :confused: Is there any way to go further back please?

Mark, Withams have been selling n.o.s. Green Goddess Goodyear round shouldered 11x20s on rims, they may have some left?

Great overload pics guys! Can anyone give us the max. load rating on the Rogers tyres? Tony - I'll try to get a current pic of your old green T (now with Tom) and post soon.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure that carpet in the rear body is not the original WW2 colour or pattern :whistle: Glad you found one at last :thumbsup:

Oh yes....:rofl:

All interesting stuff. The arguments presented simply illustrate how difficult it must be for the authorities to interpret what should, and should not be, permitted. Would you want that job? :sweat: On HGV Licences - the law is changing this year (coutessey of a European Directive!): Anyone obtaining a C1, C1+E, C or C+E licence after 10th Seprember 2009 will also have to obtain a CPC (certificate of professional competence) as part of their HGV licence acquistion training. The idea is that HGV drivers using their licence professionally will need to maintain this qualification by undertaking a specified amount of continuous training (5 full days or 35 hours in every 5 year period - first period 10.09.09 to 10.09.14). Note that this qualification only needs to be maintained by drivers driving professionally. So if you drive a HGV for private use - social domestic and pleasure - you will be exempt from the CPC requirement. But it looks like you will not be able to obtain the HGV licence without getting the CPC. Existing professional drivers don't panic - grandfather rights (only for the first 5 year period to Sept. 2014) apply for anyone holding a HGV before 10th September, and there are plenty of exemptions for circumstances other then the usual hire and reward type of haulage. So - if you are thinking of getting an HGV and might want to use it at any stage professionally (or even if you don't intend to use it profesionally), you may want to get it before September to avoid further expense of the CPC (at least for 5 years) :coffee: E&OE

You can see why Jeeps are so popular :-D :-D :n00b:

Hmm, that is my understanding Bernard, at least for Constructors. Is the Explorer rear diff. similar to the front and same or opposite handed? This will depend on the transfer box which is different to a Constructor (which has one rear prop turning clockwise and one turning anticlockwise). A Constructor has two rear diffs - one A handed one B handed, and a front diff A handed. So if you really needed to, you could put a conventional gearbox in (if you could sort out the transfer box connection headache :sweat:) and swap the A and B diffs in the rear axles, and change the A diff in the front for a B diff :sweat::sweat::sweat:

Just brilliant! I've not seen that before (problems with video downloads). What an achievement. Thank goodness there was nobody standing to Jack's right......

I just phoned Andy's link, Norman, as I was amazed that they list on their website all the old imperial sizes in tapered as well as metric and I thought it would be useful for me too. They are a major steel stockist. I said "You're listing 152 x 89 channel in tapered" He said "Are we? What year is our old stock book you're looking at?" :rofl: I said "Erm, your website" :nono: He said "Oh heck, we'll have to look into that and put it right". :embarrassed: :n00b: I thought you'd walked off with the Find-of-the Year Cup there, Andy! :thumbsup:

Yes you are right. I was thinking tapered channel went to metric sizing before the 'Parallel Flange Act' was passed (at least 12 years ago they reckon, not 8!), but not so apparently. So anything 150 x 90 will not be tapered. My problem is anything I build is 1/2 new steel, 1/2 old stuff - so inches and millimetres and odd sized steel is all imperial immaterial to me, and nothing fits right until the final machining pass with the gas axe :sweat: Glad to see you have your priorities right - rusty steel and brake chambers are a pretty poor second to the excitement ahead of you. Hope all goes well! :yay:

Hence the need to find a "re-usable" steel stockist, and what have I just found in Lancashire (:cool2:) but www.ainscoughmetals.com who are listing 5 parcels of varying quantities of clean re-usable 150 x 90 channel - problem is it doesn't specify tapered or parallel, so you'll have to phone them. Feeling lucky? :sweat:

Tapered channel is only available up to and including 100mm x 50mm. Larger sizes went to parallel flange only about 8 years back I believe.