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We need more sympathetic and willing mechanics and folk who can impart the wisdom of doing things up tight!

Fabulous. One of those days where a mechanic goes home and decides that evening to stop voting and start learning how to preserve food.

Fare play on tackling that Mick,ugly dead horrible looking thing, I’ve never done dead sweet chestnut, it looks as hard as concrete!

the summer we've just had was more like Spain is. Never seen a lemon on anyone's tree before. Seen the trees in a few gardens, but never any fruit.

Not a good sign if there is no lights, you can’t even plug it in to the computer if it doesn’t power on, check the battery terminals where the battery connects, I have seen them push one of the connections back so does not make contact, failing that I fear it could be the control board, I hope not.

Bought a 3d printer last week, for now, I have been printing tat found online, but will be learning how to design stuff soon. Seatbelt un bleeper Climbing felling wedge. Added a hole and scaled it down to fit in the side pocket, fuzzy texture to give it more grip. It can print some of the better plastics, nylon-cf and PPA, but I will mostly will be using PET and ABS.

Thanks Spud.. I don't even get a light turn on when I press the power button, making me think water has got in electrics.. I stripped the casing near the battery ect and there was some water in there.. hopefully a day or so drying will help..

It is possible that the water has rusted the blades together and these battery machines like to trip out if they meet any restriction on pulling the trigger. If it is this, dosing the blades with WD40 and manually moving them and then trying to pull and release the trigger multiple times may ease it in to working. It may be water in the workings and this may give zero movement in the blades, motor etc. Never had this but a day or two in the airing cupboard may help to dry it out.

Proper olives. In the cold, dark UK. Who'd have thought it?

100% success rate with the garlic so far this year. That'll be a good few quids worth next summer.

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Numbers 10 and 14 are cracking photos.

Sorry, this is a British forum (.co.uk); people here won't try to advise you. All we can recommend is finding locally appropriate advice. Good luck.

Crytec do one that's not much bigger, bit wider but presume it have to be to go road speed. Would think this is about as small and cheap as road tow get. Chinese made obviously so prob not full time commercial quality; https://crytec-power.co.uk/products/crc500h-r-hydraulic-feed-wood-chipper

IMG_6112.mov Sailor just being a fine figure of a dog on the penultimate drive today. Tied up because he’d just tested my patience on some bloke’s labrador and I needed to drop a length of fencing during this one anyway. His best work went unrecorded because I was too busy laughing a rib out. Big field of waist-high dead peas. Woodcock up straight away. Then zigzagging like he knows what to do, three or four pheasants. I praise him and riding high on the adrenaline and my satisfaction he bounces across the field like a blesbok, springing three feet straight up and down, not in slow motion but as if the world just stopped for a moment to marvel at it. Magnificent. Pissed myself to the point I couldn’t blow the whistle.

Can you give an idea of the day rate please?

And a really fcking good guitarist. Really rhythmic, while singing something totally different (well). Not easy. https://youtu.be/TMGJhPO0fUo?si=ToB-03PocWMUC29u and to a lesser extent, Shy. Tom Morello is often held up as an inventive guitarist (not virtuosic in the classical sense but doing things other people don’t do, usually rhythmic). I think Ani could teach him a thing or two.

Never heard of Ani Di Franco, so googled. Interesting woman.

Had a soaking wet day on Friday when using the trimmer and it worked all day.. went to use this morning and it wouldn't turn on.. tried multiple batteries and no joy... I've stripped it apart in the hope of it drying out by Monday morning before taking it for repair.. anything I should try before hand?

Best I can do is my druid (who didn’t show, presumably because it was raining, the soft cnt) and that I used to drink at the same pub as the Sweet’s drum tech who filled in playing for a few shows. I can do other musicians. Sat on Jack Bruce’s knee at primary school and laid my sticky fingers on presumably his least favourite bass that he brought along for that reason. Was related to Ani DiFranco until she divorced my complicated cousin. Went backstage at the Hammersmith Apollo in 1997 ish and the whole band quickly hid their drugs from me and my middle class parents.

If you block the fuel inlet to the carb, just put your thumb over it and create a vacuum on the primer side, put some fuel pipe on it and suck you should not be able to draw air through, if you can you either have a hole in the pump gasket or usually a bad check valve.

As Stubby said it was user error rather than a manufacturing issue. The 395XP is a really good saw. I have a brand new one knocking about that has a cracked crankcase, I should really sell it on or fix it up. It will be the last of the 395's.