Meet Unimog

One of the joys of being in a rural area is the availability of some serious machinery and people's willingness to adapt to local needs. Below is a Mercedes Unimog - an impressive piece of kit with power take-offs all over the place which spends much of its time emptying cess pits. Today, Sunday, it delivered a 3.5 tonne digger to the water tower so that drains can be dug from tomorrow onwards.

Unimog belongs to Chris Armstrong of Horton in Ribblesdale.   Move your cursor over the above picture and click on the black rectangle below and to the right of the Mercedes badge a couple of times for a bit of cess pit emptier's philosophy on life.

Here is Chris about to unload the digger.

And here is a side view of Unimog - kitted out for shovelling s--t, as it were. You need a sense of humour to do that sort of job.   I know that Chris looks at this Blog. His sense of humour extends to his business card which proclaims "You dump it, we pump it".