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Today have been playing GTFOOMY with the daughter's new mowta! The bonnet is pretty much the same height as most car roofs!
All black ranger raptor, 10sp auto thingy. It's got an info screen bigger than my telly!
Head and shoulders better than the last one, and she's getting 35mpg towing 2t around.
If I had more money than sense, I'd have one!
Can't see how any self respecting builder would be without one.

Went for a stroll around our new park/nature reserve in the next 'village'*. Nice and flat (unless you walk up to the turf amphitheatre) so it was a good constitutional for the resident invalid.

It's Great big pond in the middle, a couple of nice little coffee and ice cream huts. Loads and loads of tree planting and wild meadow making. Only a stroll from the High Street. Some local benefactor allowed/sold some land adjacent to be developed and the park was the quid pro quo. Warms the old cockles that not all house building is just for profit.

* It's quite a big village really with a Sainsbury, Co-op and M&S Food place but still, officially, a village.

Demannu wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:51 pm Can't see how any self respecting builder would be without one.

Because it's got a paltry 650kg payload. I looked at them briefly earlier in the year, in the end I decided to keep the van, it's got more than double the payload and many times the volume. It does spend most it's time carting bicycles around but I've got some stuff to move later this week which will be 2 trips in the van, lot's of trips in a Ranger Raptor.

Demannu wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:51 pm Today have been playing GTFOOMY with the daughter's new mowta! The bonnet is pretty much the same height as most car roofs!
All black ranger raptor, 10sp auto thingy. It's got an info screen bigger than my telly!
Head and shoulders better than the last one, and she's getting 35mpg towing 2t around.
If I had more money than sense, I'd have one!
Can't see how any self respecting builder would be without one.

GTFOOMY ????

Doesn't the (lack of) payload in pick ups have some big implication for VAT, commercial vehicles etc. etc.?

Get the fuck out of my way, BTW.

Demannu wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:51 pm Today have been playing GTFOOMY with the daughter's new mowta! The bonnet is pretty much the same height as most car roofs!
All black ranger raptor, 10sp auto thingy. It's got an info screen bigger than my telly!
Head and shoulders better than the last one, and she's getting 35mpg towing 2t around.
If I had more money than sense, I'd have one!
Can't see how any self respecting builder would be without one.

a friend up here has ordered one, in orange Delivery date currently November but he's not convinced it will arrive then!!

Pirahna wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 5:10 pm

Demannu wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:51 pm Can't see how any self respecting builder would be without one.

Because it's got a paltry 650kg payload. I looked at them briefly earlier in the year, in the end I decided to keep the van, it's got more than double the payload and many times the volume. It does spend most it's time carting bicycles around but I've got some stuff to move later this week which will be 2 trips in the van, lot's of trips in a Ranger Raptor.

I have been wondering about that, even before you mentioned the actual payload! He's used to working with a HT LWB Transit - HTF is he going to work out of something so (comparatively) small!! LOL


On another note, another friend up here has a second hand Ranger and loves it. It's comfy but Damn it's high up!! And bastard hooooge!! I drove it to do a rescue mission and in the smaller mountain roads its 'interesting'!! LOL

Managed to get on a motorbike and ride it!
Which doesn't seem such a big deal but 10 weeks after breaking the scaphoid, using my left wrist is still "challenging"
Tomorrow the mountain bike ...

Mr Moofo wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 8:49 pm Managed to get on a motorbike and ride it!
Which doesn't seem such a big deal but 10 weeks after breaking the scaphoid, using my left wrist is still "challenging"
Tomorrow the mountain bike ...

Top job! Go easy big fella

Shit faced, again.

Pirahna wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 5:10 pm

Demannu wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:51 pm Can't see how any self respecting builder would be without one.

Because it's got a paltry 650kg payload. I looked at them briefly earlier in the year, in the end I decided to keep the van, it's got more than double the payload and many times the volume. It does spend most it's time carting bicycles around but I've got some stuff to move later this week which will be 2 trips in the van, lot's of trips in a Ranger Raptor.

That's what trailers were invented for! Nothing beats going out to quote for a job in your Raptor! Same raison d'etre for quality plumbers, VW T6 and you just knew they were going to be a good 'un.
Daughter is a horsey person, so towing capacity is the main issue for her.......unless she can persuade some of the frisky ones onto the rear bed!

Got banned from a forum I'd been a member of for 17 years after the admin decided that a comment about the weather was a political statement. Initially started out as a 10 day suspension & until a few hours ago stated that it ran out at 10pm tonight, but at some point in the final 2 or 3 hours, he made it permanent. I guess I was the latest target as he's been banning a lot of long time members for the most ridiculous reasons... which always seems to happen late in the evening after he's had a skinful.

Mr Moofo wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 8:49 pm Managed to get on a motorbike and ride it!
Which doesn't seem such a big deal but 10 weeks after breaking the scaphoid, using my left wrist is still "challenging"
Tomorrow the mountain bike ...

Broke mine March 17th 2003 (right side). It's still broken.

Demannu wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:51 pm Today have been playing GTFOOMY with the daughter's new mowta! The bonnet is pretty much the same height as most car roofs!
All black ranger raptor, 10sp auto thingy. It's got an info screen bigger than my telly!
Head and shoulders better than the last one, and she's getting 35mpg towing 2t around.
If I had more money than sense, I'd have one!
Can't see how any self respecting builder would be without one.

I hope she bought the optional 100k mile/8 year factory warranty because those Ford 10 speeds (10R60/10R80/10R100) are absolute fucking hand grenades... Class action lawsuits in progress. The one here completely shit the bed at 25,000miles (10R60, same as the Ranger Raptor).

ZRX61 wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 6:58 am

Demannu wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:51 pm Today have been playing GTFOOMY with the daughter's new mowta! The bonnet is pretty much the same height as most car roofs!
All black ranger raptor, 10sp auto thingy. It's got an info screen bigger than my telly!
Head and shoulders better than the last one, and she's getting 35mpg towing 2t around.
If I had more money than sense, I'd have one!
Can't see how any self respecting builder would be without one.

I hope she bought the optional 100k mile/8 year factory warranty because those Ford 10 speeds (10R60/10R80/10R100) are absolute fucking hand grenades... Class action lawsuits in progress. The one here completely shit the bed at 25,000miles (10R60, same as the Ranger Raptor).

She does @40k a year, it will be changed in 2026 whilst still under warranty. UK spec motors are far lower hp outputs than your yank tanks so may give the box an easier time. They certainly do some work though.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 6:58 pm Doesn't the (lack of) payload in pick ups have some big implication for VAT, commercial vehicles etc. etc.?

Get the fuck out of my way, BTW.

From memory load bed size has more to do with construction and use regs and which speed limit applies, the police struggle to understand these.
I think VAT might be connected to weight capacity, iirc one German van was VAT free until you added luxury seats which took available load capacity under the limit.

Walked the dog in the rain. Lovely to see her racing around with a little Jack Russell terrier having a ball. She is now snoozing on my study floor as I prepare for a funeral this afternoon. 92 year old lady with great great grandchildren who all adored her. Will be a tear-filled service, but also a joyful celebration of her long and very eventful life.

Collect the wife this evening and walk dog in the projected thundery showers. Just a bit of rain (not like Libya where floods have killed thousands).

woke up in tears, managed not to cry on the bread I made! Sorted the fridge a bit. Sitting here wishing I was in the UK (first time in freaking years) and trying to get the enthusiasm to organise myself for an interview later today!!!

Noggin wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:45 am woke up in tears, managed not to cry on the bread I made! Sorted the fridge a bit. Sitting here wishing I was in the UK (first time in freaking years) and trying to get the enthusiasm to organise myself for an interview later today!!!

KBO @Noggin

Walked the dogs, my back is still sore but behaving itself, unlike yesterday where I was wincing every time I moved. This was brought on by my swimming and messing about in the sea on Sunday, thinking I was 25 y/o me not 54 y/o me.

@Mr Moofo be careful, you don't want one of these. How's the healing going?

Woke up to discover I've been pardoned & allowed back in the forum I was banned from...

Used my new Lawnmower. Quite impressed with it, which is good as it's not something I enjoy spending my money on.