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I wouldn't like to use a billhook in anger without the tang being fastened to the handle in some way. As said, this is normally by peening it over a washer or by riveting through. They are particularly prone to slipping out during use, especially if the handle gets dried out. I recently bought a new handle off Ray Isles and iirc it even came with the washer. Mine too was a bit short so I carefully heated the tang and drew it out on the anvil, I have welded a bit of rod on if necessary in the past.

I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call centre in Afghanistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.

A Husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf. Of course, the wife promptly hacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest house adjacent to the course. The husband cringed, 'I warned you to be careful! Now we'll have to go up there, find the owner, apologize and see how much your lousy drive is going to cost us.' So the couple walked up to the house and knocked on the door. A warm voice said, 'Come on in.' When they opened the door they saw the damage that was done: glass was all over the place, and a broken antique bottle was lying on its side near the pieces of window glass. A man reclining on the couch asked, 'Are you the people that broke my window?' 'Uh...yeah! , sir. We're sure sorry about that,' the husband replied. 'Oh, no apology is necessary. Actually I want to thank you.. You see, I'm a genie, and I've been trapped in that bottle for a thousand years. Now that you've released me, I'm allowed to grant three wishes. I'll give you each one wish, but if you don't mind, I'll keep the last one for my self.' Wow, that's great!' the husband said. He pondered a moment and blurted out, 'I'd like a million dollars a year for the rest of my life.' 'No problem,' said the genie 'You've got it, it's the least I can do. And I'll guarantee you a long, healthy life!' 'And now you, young lady, what do you want?' the genie asked. 'I'd like to own a gorgeous home in every country in the world complete with servants,' she said. 'Consider it done,' the genie said. 'And your homes will always be safe from fire, burglary and natural disasters 'And now,' the couple asked in unison, 'what's your wish, genie?' 'Well, since I've been trapped in that bottle, and haven't been with a woman in more than a thousand years, my wish is to have sex with your wife.' The husband looked at his wife and said, 'Gee, honey, you know we both now have a fortune, and all those houses. What do you think?' She mulled it over for a few moments and said, 'You know, you're right. Considering our good fortune, I guess I wouldn't mind, but what about you, honey?' You know I love you sweetheart,' said the husband. I'd do the same for you!' So the genie and the woman went upstairs where they spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying each other. The genie was insatiable. After about three hours of non-stop sex, the genie rolled over and looked directly into her eyes and asked, How old are you and your husband?' 'Why, we're both 35,' she responded breathlessly. 'No Kidding,' he said. 'Thirty-five years old and you both still believe in genies?'

What do you mean by a flat anchor?

Second attempt at posting. @organic guy mentioned straps which I think mean two straps of metal on opposite side of the handle, I take a socket to be a frustrum of a cone attached to the blade. Ours were an incomplete socket formed by two cheeks of metal extended from the blade and folded around to form a socket as in the slasher marked 1 in the attached picture. You will see a ring of steel has been driven down this incomplete socket ant then rivets fitted to hold it all in place. Our work ones were the same but the head was a double bladed yorkshire style. You would see these in many agricultural shops until everyone had a chainsaw. Hook 2 is a round handle and you see the tang is peened over a washer to hold it. Hook 3 was my goto billhook given to me for coppice work, when the tang broke I added a bit and it looks like I brazed the nut on. I prefer these caulked handles. Hook 4 was the hook I used when picking up and dressing PSR material that was going to be peeled, it has measurements filed on the back for checking top diameters and a hook filed in the beak so it was used as a pickaroon until the tang broke. After 1987 I never got involved with softwood first thinning and caulked handles are expensive, my carving skills mean this never got repaired. The others are various swap hooks showing the peened tangs and one where the washer has rusted away and the tang is pulling out of the rotten wood.

With the greatest of respect there should be no need to keep adjusting carb screws, having to adjust the mixture is very often masking engine issues, auto tune is very reliable, it will keep the saw running at peak performance without the need to fiddle with adjuster screws, one of the main reasons I see is users ordering new auto tune carbs from dealers then find they do not run as they only have boot firmware on them, then they need to be connected to the service program.

Went through something like this a few years ago with a hedge trimmer that you could not tighten the blades ( shoulder bolts through the blades) the blades then tear the the non woody spindly parts of the hedge rather than clean cut it.

Another reduction, this time a lime. Background the tree overhangs 5 gardens however only 1 is impacted as the limbs have extended into his garden sitting a good 4-6m beyond the canopy line, this isn't helped by the back of the tree being crowded by a large chestnut. Also the garden we were working over is AstroTurf, with two big yew trees. No easy drop zone everything was rigged out and ofcourse a flat anchor across the top.

In that second photo, the close up, the brown bits haven't been cut, they might possibly have been chewed at by a blunt trimmer. Id have happily trimmed that a bit tighter than you have. But I wouldn't worry it will grow out again all to quickly!

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Before retiring, I was a conveyancer for 45 years. I can tell you categorically that enquires of this nature about neighbouring land do not form part of a solicitor's remit for house purchase and you will be charged extra, perhaps now £200 per hour. If you are using one of the out-of-town 'conveyancing factories' then you may find that they will not touch it because their experience is with routine registered land titles only and you will have to employ another, local solicitor to look into things. And, in the end, although you may accept a situation your mortgage lender may not and your conveyancing solicitor will have to report chapter and verse to your lender, who will probably not want to know and may decline your mortgage. It's the old story = time v money. If you and the seller and the rest of the chain and the hungry estate agents (desperate to get paid) can all wait weeks whilst this is looked into, with no guarantee of a solution, then fine....but they won't and you may lose the sale of your own property if you go down this path because people will want to get on and won't wait while you chase a possibly lost cause. My advice would be to suck it up find another property to buy.

I have a kindling axe/knife - bit like a small meat cleaver and that has a hole through the handle and the tang so it stays in but guess much works on the same basis as a file and is an interference fit on to the handle. Most of my garden trowels and small trowel forks use this method successfully.

It’s easy to let your heart rule your head over house purchases but I’m surprised you’re carrying on with the purchase to be honest? If you find the owner don’t expect any issue you have with the property to be sorted? Could take years - if ever to reach a solution and potentially £1000s in costs🤔

Remember, that even assuming you manage to find the landowner, and that they are happy to talk to you; they may not agree that the tree is a problem. I am not an expert but I do know that pinning down the cause of subsidence to a single cause may well be a fool’s errand. Perhaps the oak is a factor, but also the foundations might be a bit shallow. Or some other factors may come into play. My house suffered slight subsidence in the hot summer of 2018, and the insurance company said I should remove an apple tree and 2 metres of hedge. But the main reason is almost certainly the fact that the foundations were only 300mm deep. New builds in my area have 1000mm foundations. These things are very rarely black and white, and often the only winners are solicitors.

Whatever. But surely this is why you pay a solicitor to do searches and manage legal side of purchase? Presume they pulled up that house had subsidence issues in past, my experience of buying various properties is they'll advise where you stand and next steps (surprising amount is included in initial fee) Expensive? Yea but not as expensive as doing a £3 search to try and (failing) to find solutions to problems that could potentially cost £1000's. Up to the op but that'd be first thing I'd do, solicitor experienced in conveyancing should be able to resolve this. If they want to save a few quid and have the satisfaction of knowing after hours of research they'd sorted it, then crack on.

Ah- thank you so much! So each year they have to get an inch or so bigger. Thats the difference between reading a website with no experience "cut back to the same point each year" and with experience knowing 'how' to read that ("cut back to the same point-ish i.e slightly less each year").

I wouldn’t worry, looks like you’ve gone in quite tight, so you’ll get a few brown bits. Leylandii can’t be kept at a constant width, they have to get a little bigger every year, till someone goes in too hard and the big brown patches appear.

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