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Erbswurst

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Which Equipment do you use since more than 30 years and it's still fine?
 

Robson Valley

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My Coleman "green box" and mantle lantern both turned 40 last summer.
Still convenient. Kids are gone so I've bought a Coleman 533 single for my own outings.

I've been using a butane cartrige unit in power failures that I bought in Australia in 1969.
Not the greatest heat output but 100% reliable.
 
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Erbswurst

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Don't you use it or did you replace every single piece of it, or is it a car from the sixties?

My brother has to buy a new Ford Transit motor after he used his brand new Defender for round about 180 thousand kilometres.
That had been more 3 years than 30 !
 

Nomad64

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Today I’ve mostly been using;

Stihl 024 AV Super chainsaw made in W Germany sometime in the 1980s

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Nash billhook and Gilpin axe made in UK probably in the 1960s

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Ferguson TE20 Tractor made in the UK early in the 1950s.

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Hopefully the Stihl will prove as durable as the Brit kit! ;)
 

Broch

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Karrimor Panther 65 Rucksack (Old style, old Karrimor as in K SF now)
A Saunders Spacepacker LW tent
Series 3 Land Rover 88" (all 100% original except the consumables)
Frost hunting knife
My Grandfather's Gilpin's axe
1892 John Harrison & Sons felling axe
My double kayak that I built when I was 16
Numerous wood-working tools 80 to 100 years old ……..

The list goes on; I love old gear with a bit of soul :)
 

Erbswurst

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Janne, his Defender is fine!

It's just the Ford Engine in it, that's broken.

God bless America!
 
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MrEd

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Don't you use it or did you replace every single piece of it, or is it a car from the sixties?

My brother has to buy a new Ford Transit motor after he used his brand new Defender for round about 180 thousand kilometres.
That had been more 3 years than 30 !

its a late 80's defender. engine change because the old one was a non-turbo diesel and it was gutless, i rebuilt and dropped a 200tdi diesel engine in. Apart from service items, and the odd wheel bearing etc its all original. Its my second car and as such only does about 5000km a year.

defenders after the TD5 (about 1999) are shite.
 

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