Re: 3C Mk2 4 in 1 with Forks [Wanted]
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:31 pm
I've got a Bradbury Liftmaster Mk3, 3 ton 4 poster with the wheel free beams. I picked it up for 75 quid from ebay I was just getting it all set up during Lockdown 1 at my old house when my life fell apart due to my wife's wierd behaviour and indiscretion. Now need to relocate it down here to Kent. So probably too small for your needs, but ideal for the things I like to play with.
As for the land there in lies a tale; when my folks moved here in 1972 it was an apple orchard full of huge standard bramley's, not long after the field was sold the trees were grabbed up by the farmer who bought it and given over to arable. My dad very wisely made sure that the access rights, which were in their entirety up our drive, through our farm yard and accross a patch of paddock, that were renegotiated during the sale were put in the deeds as 'agricultural use only (arable)'. Roll on to 1987 and the farmer gave up farming and sold up at auction. A local developer (with an appalling reputation) bought it, and a few days after the sale marched up to discuss his access rights. He was quite dogmatic about how he could ride roughshod in court over access until it was politely explained that access went over 7 separate parcels of land and it would need to be negotiated over each. We owned all of them. He was not best pleased! They tried to get outline planning and failed on numerous attempts under the Kent Stucture Plan, so it was kept in land bank and they did noting with the filed bar plNt some bloody Laylandiai along the foot path. Roll on to 1999, and failing once again to get 'our' field and others included in the latest structure plan (due to access!) the developer decided to retire put his business up for sale and started to divest himself of various plots that weren't really going to be viable. The land was again going to go to auction and was being marketed with road frontage! Various potential buyers started pitching up to have a look and each time they appeared in our yard we politely enquired whether they were lost, and when they explained why they were there we asked them to park out on the road and walk up as they were on private property...unsurprisingly it wasn't long before the land agent rocked up to find out what was going on, and the same discussion about access rights (agricultural use only (arable)) took place, except this time we expressed an interest and eventually agreed to buy the land out of auction for the same price as it had sold for in 1987...£32,000). This time round though the land had gone from really great condition arable to overgrown mess full of brambles, self sown trees etc. We cleared it all over time, bar the 'far, far field' bit, grubbed up most of the leylandiai, laid some proper hedge rows, and laid it to pasture. We did the work mostly ourselves having lots of fun learning how to lay a hedge properly for example.
As for the land there in lies a tale; when my folks moved here in 1972 it was an apple orchard full of huge standard bramley's, not long after the field was sold the trees were grabbed up by the farmer who bought it and given over to arable. My dad very wisely made sure that the access rights, which were in their entirety up our drive, through our farm yard and accross a patch of paddock, that were renegotiated during the sale were put in the deeds as 'agricultural use only (arable)'. Roll on to 1987 and the farmer gave up farming and sold up at auction. A local developer (with an appalling reputation) bought it, and a few days after the sale marched up to discuss his access rights. He was quite dogmatic about how he could ride roughshod in court over access until it was politely explained that access went over 7 separate parcels of land and it would need to be negotiated over each. We owned all of them. He was not best pleased! They tried to get outline planning and failed on numerous attempts under the Kent Stucture Plan, so it was kept in land bank and they did noting with the filed bar plNt some bloody Laylandiai along the foot path. Roll on to 1999, and failing once again to get 'our' field and others included in the latest structure plan (due to access!) the developer decided to retire put his business up for sale and started to divest himself of various plots that weren't really going to be viable. The land was again going to go to auction and was being marketed with road frontage! Various potential buyers started pitching up to have a look and each time they appeared in our yard we politely enquired whether they were lost, and when they explained why they were there we asked them to park out on the road and walk up as they were on private property...unsurprisingly it wasn't long before the land agent rocked up to find out what was going on, and the same discussion about access rights (agricultural use only (arable)) took place, except this time we expressed an interest and eventually agreed to buy the land out of auction for the same price as it had sold for in 1987...£32,000). This time round though the land had gone from really great condition arable to overgrown mess full of brambles, self sown trees etc. We cleared it all over time, bar the 'far, far field' bit, grubbed up most of the leylandiai, laid some proper hedge rows, and laid it to pasture. We did the work mostly ourselves having lots of fun learning how to lay a hedge properly for example.