High fuel costs - the answer

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geoff

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High fuel costs - the answer
« on: March 28, 2011, 07:20:02 PM »
Hi

Rather than get rid of the disco, i did this
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piper5

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Re: High fuel costs - the answer
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2011, 07:58:50 PM »
think i may copy you on that one  i put ?103.50 in the disco on saturday  and ?121 in the defender today, try hiding that from the wife :o

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Tim

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Re: High fuel costs - the answer
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2011, 09:04:41 PM »
Now that really is being tight Geoff, in the top pic it looks like you have the winch rope hooked onto the back of your neighbour's new Smart............
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Re: High fuel costs - the answer
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2011, 09:42:43 PM »
Lol guess its a good way to get around the fuel hikes. Great for around town. well done you.
I have fuel issues aswell my last tax return fuel totaled nearly ?7ooo. So what i have had to do as i need the room to hold lawnmowers, strimmers, chipers,and all the rest of my gardening tools aswell as toeing a heavy trailer at times  is to charge my customers more. And this really upsets me as their good folk and alot of them are elderly and will point blank refuse to find another cheaper gardener so yea i feel great about the 1p those (massif bad word) so and so,s think will sort us all out.
And its not like my landy aint that bad on fuel recently was talkign to my customer who has an all singing dancing tree hugger toyota yaris and he reaskon its gets 25mpg around town well thats roughly what i get always in my 110 as its not fast nufff to need the extra juice to go fatser.
Bit of a rant guys im sorry
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mac

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Re: High fuel costs - the answer
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2011, 11:32:07 PM »
Good idea.  What MPG does it do when you're towing the Disco?  I would think about increasing the length of the tow rope though for safety's sake  :D

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geoffg

Re: High fuel costs - the answer
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2011, 08:33:05 AM »
Not to be outdone!!!





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Re: High fuel costs - the answer
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2011, 10:22:21 AM »
Well I see it being cheap to run Geoff, but I don't know if it tow thhe Sanky :-\
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geoff

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Re: High fuel costs - the answer
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2011, 08:20:51 PM »
the sad thing is, it looks the same ;D ;D

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geoffg

Re: High fuel costs - the answer
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2011, 10:08:48 AM »
It's very much like an old Land Rover too. It's centre steer and the steering wheel has little or no effect on the front wheels.
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