So. After the cherrypickers, I got a job locally to where I lived on public transport and I helped out a friend by looking after his ex-girlfriends landie. It was bought for her but she decided to return it as it was quite expensive to run and needed some TLC... So for about 2-3 years, I drove...

LR Defender 110 with 14m Simon boom

Range Rover. Although it did not have that much damage, and, at the time had recently had an engine rebuild, I was given bad advice by the insurance company and it needed a lot of underneath work doing to it. I think the sills were bad but I was still learning this stuff so elected to move on...

Drakelow power station, rough ground access in a standard 7.5t boom truck. with 16 engineers around and their 4x4s with winches to support me as long as they didn't have to climb... Being still a 7.5t driver at that stage I was mostly in the MAN and Iveco 5t and 7.5t boom trucks. 14m, 15m, 18m...

Work wise. I tried indoor stuff. Call Centres, offices, admin stuff but... I didn't seem to get on in working in one big massive crowd and usually with everyone trying to one-upmanship of thier work over everyone elses. So I had a rapid direction change and started with 7.5t work with an agency...

So. I started off with a basic series three landie, a 2.25 3 bearing petrol engine with [some] horsepower and mostly on deestone cross-ply tyres. It went quite a few places that I probably shouldn't have done and had traction in lots of places until I needed someone to winch me out... But it...

Hiya Not sure if I've previously created a thread on here. I've owned a variety of 4x4s in my years of motoring, including a lot of 4x2s. Currently drive a 6x2 or 4x2 for work, but at least they pay the fuel. I'm a truck driver living in the Midlands, and I've had a variety of hobbies to keep...