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The Boy Member Since: 28 Aug 2008 Location: East Northants Posts: 1459 |
That looks really nice
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31st Jan 2012 9:39am |
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AndrewS Member Since: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Hereford Posts: 3707 |
Nice I was going to get a white one 130's have feeling's as well you know
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31st Jan 2012 9:47am |
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RFT Member Since: 13 Nov 2010 Location: Cheshire Posts: 678 |
Good choice for a hot country, 130s have a very big roof that collects a lot of sun.
Next photo needs to include a lot of dirt and a scary wild animal sat on your bonnet. 130 Puma HCPU with an Artica 240LR Demountable Camper |
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31st Jan 2012 10:30am |
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RFT Member Since: 13 Nov 2010 Location: Cheshire Posts: 678 |
Stephen
How big is your farm? And what do you farm? You could get a demountable like mine to save you driving home for lunch! Richard 130 Puma HCPU with an Artica 240LR Demountable Camper |
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31st Jan 2012 10:33am |
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AndrewS Member Since: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Hereford Posts: 3707 |
The roof is the same as a 110 DC 130's have feeling's as well you know |
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31st Jan 2012 10:38am |
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robharvey Member Since: 14 Dec 2009 Location: Durban Posts: 86 |
Exactly where a 130 should be - in the sticks. Congrats.
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31st Jan 2012 10:42am |
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RFT Member Since: 13 Nov 2010 Location: Cheshire Posts: 678 |
You'r correct Andrew both got same roof, but compared to other manufacturers pickups they are big. 130 Puma HCPU with an Artica 240LR Demountable Camper
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31st Jan 2012 10:46am |
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bwanashamba Member Since: 03 Jan 2012 Location: tanzania Posts: 14 |
Thanks all for your warm welcome, I will post more pics once I have put the 130 into some more interesting locations, its the rainy season so that should not be too difficult.
Richard, the farm is large as is the norm in ths area, 5400ha, 90% virgin bush, the rest we mix farm livestock and seed maize/beans. The 130 allows us to carry a heavy load and also friends and family |
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31st Jan 2012 11:36am |
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RFT Member Since: 13 Nov 2010 Location: Cheshire Posts: 678 |
The biggest farm in our village is 100ha, dairy, with no virgin bush to be found on it. I guess you can not walk all your and fences and hedges in a week!! 130 Puma HCPU with an Artica 240LR Demountable Camper
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31st Jan 2012 11:48am |
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JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443 |
I don't think we'll see many farms that size over here, especially in one block. Perhaps some of the larger estates in Scotland may just about stretch to that size but in England it's very doubtfull. The biggest single holding I worked on in the Midlands was 800ha, and that was considered large, we had a dairy herd of 250 milkers, a sheep flock of 1500 ewes and arable. Also on the estate were gardeners, woodsmen(with our own sawmill)and a small army of maintenance men. There were 50 odd cottages and houses connected to the estate as well as all the other buildings, every house was decorated inside and out once every 4 years. I had hoped it was a job for life, I was the one and only shepherd, but the management and the family that owned the place decided on a change of policy, the sheep flock was cut in half and to be looked over by contract shepherds. The dairy herd is gone and the buildings are now a business park. 20 years ago there were 45men employed on the estate, now there is just one tractor driver and a couple of odd job maintenance/dogsbodys. Everything else is done when needed by contractors
I moved to Hereford about 12 years ago and worked for a potato farm, just a father and son concern and we topped over a 1000ha one year, over 400ha of spuds, 400ha of rape, wheat and barley as well as 200ha of sugar beet. My main position there............the one and only sprayer driver I had 3 machines, a main self propelled 24m jobbie, one that was only used on the sugar beet(less worry about cross contamination going from potato's to sugar beet and vica versa as well as different wheel widths) and then the old crate that was used for potato dessication(74% sulphuric acid, and you think Land Rovers corrode )I would regularly beat the local spray contractors for ground covered. The job allmost broke my marriage years ago, it was leaving farming but working away from home for weeks on end that did it |
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31st Jan 2012 1:56pm |
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double cab happy Member Since: 01 Jun 2009 Location: merseyside Posts: 573 |
nice pic bwanashamda, the 130 looks just like it belongs there, just as all defenders do when they get of the tarmac
thanks mark |
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31st Jan 2012 7:46pm |
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midmaik Member Since: 11 May 2010 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 34 |
Great !
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1st Feb 2012 6:02am |
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Taquito Member Since: 19 Jan 2012 Location: Limburg Posts: 15 |
Like Double cab happy said, it's great to see a defender off the tarmac. I'm thinking that's what my 130 dreams of at night roaming around the bush in Tanzania, awesome! Keep the pictures coming!
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17th Feb 2012 4:37pm |
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