Discodevon

Well-Known Member

• Jan 31, 2023

• #1

A question I had asked on here a few years ago, just curious to see if anyone else uses their defender td5 for work purposes still. Farming etc?
I see a few old farmers still using there td5 defenders here in Devon, I’d guess the clock is ticking though as even the last td5 are quite old now, I have been using mine every day since 2016 and it has been fantastic

 

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TheQ

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• Jan 31, 2023

• #2

Not for work, but until I retired I was driving my 1984 110 with 200tdi to work every day that's 25 miles each way. Plus I use it for launching and recovering boats of up to 3/4 ton.

 

tottot

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• Jan 31, 2023

• #3

This farmer on West Wales coast still uses his 1990 Ninety [ now 200tdi ] for work. [ and some play]

 

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Percy the Pedant

Full Member

• Jan 31, 2023

• #4

I use my td5 for work every day on the farm. Not a long commute as work is a mile and a half on the road, then two miles down a badly kept farm track. It’s me that fixes the track and I find that less people come down bothering me if it’s a car sump destroyer

 

Galladog

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• Jan 31, 2023

• #5

Yes every day, towing an Argo sometimes two, up forestry and mountain tracks.

 

Scooby22

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• Feb 1, 2023

• #6

Regularly go beating and the game keeper still has a TD5 110 pickup with Ifor Williams rigid cover to move the beaters around, he calls it the pig wagon, it should be called the sardine tin as you get crammed in like Sardines along with several dogs, great fun though.

 

Brown

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Full Member

• Feb 2, 2023

• #7

My TD5 is still my main load carrier. It's not something I get paid for, so I couldn't call it professional, but is shifts all my timber, cement and other building materials, bundles of fencing wire, garage doors, pipes and much else besides, and it's carried over 12,000 trees to my smallholding.

 

sea27n

Active Member

• Feb 2, 2023

• #8

Yep, both my Defenders are work trucks, and they certainly work for their keep.

 

dag019

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• Feb 2, 2023

• #9

My 110 200tdi was my daily drive before the firee doing about 30k per year. As well as the mileage it spent it’s time towing and being used for “work” although that was all hobby stuff. The high mileage was work travel but not hard work if that makes sense. The td5 I currently have until the rebuild is finished is being used in the same way but is a little small for some of the load carrying duties the 110 did so have a sankey for that. But as soon as the 110 is back on the road it will be back to a daily drive doing high mileage and all the Land Rover work thins you would expect.

 

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slartibartfast111111

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• May 17, 2023

• #10

until about 18 months ago yes, she towed a double axle caravan across the country without a false step and a stuck actuator! wonderful work horse and stunning to look at - Epsom Green.