....waiting.... (I think Dave W has gone to bed, which is where all good Citroen drivers should be, it is after 10-00pm)
M
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Micky,
I'm cool with any opinion.
Yes I was in bed, busy day doing 1000 bales of hay in baking heat, not just the sun but the tractor gearbox would have done a nice steak. Enjoyed the 4 mile road trip to the field as well, the tractor/baler combination really "regulated" the Sunday traffic at a safe 18mph!
Even managed to spend half the earnings on a 1963 Land Rover (parked in the long grass on the farm) on the way home....another project for the yard.
Why am I so cool about your Citroen comments? Well the fact the values drop rapidly means I can enjoy a mint, rust free, refined TD with history for absolute buttons. Thanks to the guys who are buying them new and subsidising my "habit".
See that's done Citroens, Land Rovers, tractors and speed in one.
Oh yes Alvin the Reliant Robin was surely a joke, there's nothing wrong with a MKIII Cortina 1600XL in bronze.
David
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">Enjoyed the 4 mile road trip to the field as well, the tractor/baler combination really "regulated" the Sunday traffic at a safe 18mph!<"
I didn't know farmers were allowed to do this sort of thing, surely there should be a law against these outrageous "regulating" activities? Of course, as a townie I fully support the Great Tony's crusade against the excesses of the agricultural community.
Clearly, one advantage of running second hand lemons is that you never have to decide if any major repairs are worthwhile, the value of the lemon is always less than the proposed repair costs. I would suggest banger racing as a suitable and fitting finale to the life of a lemon, but the hoots of derison from competitors and spectators alike would deter all but the hardiest lemon pilot.
(hur,hur) ;-)
M
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Micky,
No problem with the 18mph "traffic regulation" they were packed so densely behind the actual flow rate was massive, and they were also so safe chatting on their mobile phones at that low speed.
And as for the lemons, did you mean Citroens? Keep it up, the more they are insulted the cheaper they'll get, might even buy another tomorrow.
Repairs rarely seen here, preventative maintenance is the order of the day.
David
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David
There's more to this lemon thread than meets the eye. I think I remember reading that Citoen's founder Andre Citroen was originally from Belgium and changed his name from Citron purposely to avoid this sort of confusion.
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It wouldn't have made a scrap of difference round here. I think the local paper has got either a non-car person or a Citroen hater on the telephone staff. It's usual to see at least half the classifieds advertising 'Citreons'.
Regards
john
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To the farmer
"Repairs rarely seen here, preventative maintenance is the order of the day.<" Now there's a novel concept, a farmer maintaining equipment instead of ordering new and taking full advantage of the delights of EU funding.
From my infrequent forays into rural areas (dangerous places, full of strange people), I have observed that the average farmer considers it acceptable to use bale twine to hold agricultural equipment together. Does your lemon feature any bale twine?
">the more they are insulted the cheaper they'll get,<" A secondhand lemon can get cheaper? Oh come on! Cheaper than what? A parsnip perhaps?
;-)
M
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Micky,
Never said I was a farmer, just said I was going baling on my tractor. Preventative maintenance is the order of the day here. Six hours pre-season maintenance on baler for perhaps 30 hours work, bit like having your car serviced one day every week.
No shiny new equipment either. Baler 35yrs old, mower 37yrs, tractor 30yrs and so on. Only one vehicle on the road to match these survival periods and that's a Land Rover.
Not even a hint of baler twine holding anything mechanical together, holding trousers up perhaps.
Ever bought any baler twine Micky? Best value string in the land. Only £10 for 12,000 feet. In the fens we get the kids to roll it round old toilet roll middles, 120ft at a time. Sells down the boot sale for 50p. Much cheaper than the £3.49 at the garden centre. So get your big rolls for £10, few evenings for the kids and you're looking at £50 gross. Nice little earner.
Cheaper than a parsnip will do fine, actually round here parsnips are well regarded for medicinal properties. Don't knock them, you might fall off your bike outside our house one day and need treatment.
David
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To the pretend farmer
">Never said I was a farmer, just said I was going baling on my tractor. <"...... So who else would drive tractors other than a farmer? I sense your mood is changing, I trust I'm not winding you up? And I thought wind-ups were a traditional rural occupation (what else is there to do out in the sticks?)
">In the fens we get the kids to roll it round old toilet roll middles, 120ft at a time. Sells down the boot sale for 50p. Much cheaper than the £3.49 at the garden centre. So get your big rolls for £10, few evenings for the kids and you're looking at £50 gross. Nice little earner.<" .....Don't your kids have anything else to do? It must be a dull life in the fens. As I recall the best bit about driving through Lincolnshire is going over the border into Yorkshire....until you meet a Yorkshireman (that should upset someone). A few evenings work to earn £50 gross? Obviously, after you pay tax on that (a farmer paying tax?), you're left with a pretty useful sum. Should be enough to buy three sheep or a bag of turnips.
">you might fall off your bike outside our house <" No chance, I haven't ridden on road for many years, too many idiots in cars, lemons and tractors
hur,hur
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M
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Not the Bill Giles, weatherman to the masses?
Hur,hur
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