MotorhomeFun and VanBitz Get a Mention in the Daily Mail

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so who was the Suffolk member who 'told MotorhomeFun'.....?

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Good advert.

Be interested to see the Google search stats on growler alarm.

And the link in at the bottom to MHF can't be a bad thing

Jeremy vine mentioned a product of ours once on the radio once and it went ballistic with web hits. Very surprised.
 
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: I'm so ashamed someone made me click on a Daily Fail link.

So, £300 instead of a possible £2500-£3000. Pretty good saving. Why try and infer it cost £34!

'I blocked off my driveway with £34 tool from Screwfix - it has saved me a fortune'​

 
VXman said:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: I'm so ashamed someone made me click on a Daily Fail link.

So, £300 instead of a possible £2500-£3000. Pretty good saving. Why try and infer it cost £34!

'I blocked off my driveway with £34 tool from Screwfix - it has saved me a fortune'​

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Me too!
Lazy journalists using stock photos of any old driveway and any old sunken post.

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Riverbankannie said:
So the DM just pinched it word for word from Fun? The junior was obviously set to find a MH related story after the blown over one.
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We have a secret DM journalist secretly scouring MHF for cheap stories? :rolleyes:
 
Riverbankannie said:
So the DM just pinched it word for word from Fun? The junior was obviously set to find a MH related story after the blown over one.
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Sounds about right - here's the headline we want to go with, try and find the nearest story to support it.

Doesnt matter which newspaper or TV channel we're talking about.
 
Did he install all the electrics himself as well?
 
VXman said:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: I'm so ashamed someone made me click on a Daily Fail link.
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I only looked at it because it had the reference to Fun and Vanbitz and was posted by Jim (and it was interesting purely because of those three familiar connections). I choose to 'Ignore' and never, ever open any re-posted stories and links since I became fed up with attention-seeking click-bait headlines and stories with their sensational, outraged, contentious, negative or motorhoming-irrelevant content. There was enough of that on Faecesbook which I used for a month twelve years ago.
 
ShiftZZ said:
Muppet from Portugal?
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Oooooo ... I wonder who you could mean :giggle: ... I assume if the one who ignores me 'cause he don't like me mentioning FB pies! 😄

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Minxy said:
Oooooo ... I wonder who you could mean :giggle: ... I assume if the one who ignores me 'cause he don't like me mentioning FB pies! 😄
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Says Ms Harmonious from Hull……..

Or was that Unorthodox from ‘Ull :rofl:
 
I've got two post hole diggers, so does that mean I've saved £68 !!

To be honest it did make me consider our security. We also have a Growler and Tracker (thanks to vanbitz). We also have two 'folding/hinged' bollards, which are pretty naff to be honest as they're difficult to drive over (due to how we position the motorhome) so a quick check on eBay and ten minutes later, there are two retractable bollards on their way ....!!
 
I’m sure like other Funsters, with the help of my neighbour John we installed a telescopic post a couple of years ago. Nothing fancy but does the job. Mrs W brought me the post for Christmas, I think it’s was c£125 plus couple bags of aggregate. Took around 3 hours.



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We had to fit a post as per insurance requirements, it had to be anti-ram etc and cost about £280 I think, it weighs a ton, I dug it all out and concreted it in ( instructions specifically stated no postcrete ) which was mentioned in the DM article, don’t have a Growler though the wife has one of those ..….. steady on I’m referring to her cavapoo which growls and barks way too often 🤣
 
Dickyb said:
We had to fit a post as per insurance requirements, it had to be anti-ram etc and cost about £280 I think, it weighs a ton, I dug it all out and concreted it in ( instructions specifically stated no postcrete ) which was mentioned in the DM article, don’t have a Growler though the wife has one of those ..….. steady on I’m referring to her cavapoo which growls and barks way too often 🤣
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Why no postcrete do we know..seen this a while ago

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Tombola said:
Why no postcrete do we know..seen this a while ago

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I presumed it was because a bed of gravel goes at bottom for drainage of the post so it doesn’t fill with water allowing the post to rust, this wouldnt allow a sufficient water level for the postCrete maybe or it just isn’t as strong as concrete which contains ballast?
 
going off topic i know, but i think the comparison is a bit premature. concrete and postcrete will both take a long time to harden to their full strength, a lot longer than he left them!!! i understand why postcrete is used so commonly bt fence erectors as they dont need to have a mixer, spend time mixing, have to buy materials separately, that they wont always use, so buying bags of postcrete makes sense. i have a mixer, so always mix my own (as i was doing yesterday for some new fencing!) as for me it works out cheaper and simpler than postcrete.
 

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