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Its so much worser than enough. There is only 240 wanks left until Christmas and now this!

Sycamore Gap and now this. Enough's enough.

Wankers. Men arrested after Shotton Colliery Christmas tree cut down in Durham WWW.BBC.CO.UK Police say they are in the process of charging a man with criminal damage after the tree was felled.

Not sure of any Heacksler or Scarpur dealers in Manchester/NW, so no experience, sorry. But -we did have a Christmas cracker of an 'educational day' using a Forest master Professional 14hp chipper this week. Read on.. My Review/comments are moderated (for legal reasons!).. and based on a couple of decades of owning/using 4-8'' chippers for our work. We had also previously repaired and used a customer's (new) Forest master 6 hp chipper, which was ok-ish (considering it's size and for 'home use'). So after some consideration, we bought a 14hp direct drive 'Professional' unit (with less than 5 hours use), for one VERY awkward-access back garden job. My plan was to make/fabricate some obvious improvements to the input and output shutes -something that Forest Master's Tech director wouldn't agree to consider, on a potential new 18hp machine. Once on site, mostly chipping up weeping willow, the machine (almost) lasted for just 4 hours of use. In that time, we noted : A serious LOT of machine vibration -and noise too. We (partially) bent/broke one blade. Multiple engine fixings and lock-nuts rattled off/sheared off. Multiple broken welds on the output Shute -it was unusable and destroyed in the 4 hours work. 3 broken welds on input hopper flange welds -it actually fell apart, preventing any further safe use on our site. So then, short and sweet ! And, in fair defence of this unit: It has a VERY low centre of gravity -so is very stable. Light enough at 120 kg, for 2 men to just get it up and down a big 45° slope. Narrow enough to take through the customer's house doorway. It also chipped up willow at an impressive rate, though I'd be nervous about feeding it much over 3'' diameter, in hindsight. I liked that strangely familiar very shiny orange paintwork.. 🫢 It appears customer reviews of their machines must be invited by Forest Master -so I'm unable to submit one, anyway.. Would I recommend/buy another one: Sadly, er, not really.

An emergency pallet of Peroni under where the chipper lives.

Probably more like a six quid shiraz in a big King James.

I doubt that he has cans of perry stashed in his fridge!

JAG63- I’ve had the same issue- it’s snapped off today. Did you unscrew the tap lock and put a grease nipple directly into it? Cheers

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I was going to ask for a close-up to check that. Knowing about medullary rays is pretty much the most efficient way to look like you know about trees.

The apparent lack of medullary rays ( from the photos ) reinforces my guess that it is Turkey oak ...

Aye. Garden-variety syndicate pheasant shoot. I go to meet women.

Oh Stubby, you beauty. I've some cracking big potatoes and a lot of butter in stock atm. My mate, Bob is a connoisseur of the tuber. Knows all the varieties and all the uses. The sort of fellow you need around to rebuild a civilisation.

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Thank you Dan and Mark! 🙏 Fortunately the saws I’m contemplating doing this swap on are both brand new, so no wear or tear on either drive sprocket. I appreciate your help! I am lead to believe the 1.1mm bars can be a bit fragile (prone to bend) and the chains can be a bit of a bugger to sharpen, but let’s give it a go! 👍🏻😃

Sheatbelts, Moneypenny! Seatbelt mounting bolts are all 7/16-20 UNF. Some international agreement to never differ because they're apparently such an important part of the car. You can have a thoroughly metric Jap/Euro/whatever and it'll still have imperial seat belt mounts. Interested to know whether Chinese car manufacturers capitulate. I hope not. Stick that up your jumper, USA, Burma, Liberia and Yemen. Automotive nationality is a myth these days anyway. Everything's JE this, JIT that, flexibly integrated the other. My French van is Japanese. My dad's Volvo is American. Women are men. Men are pigs. Easter eggs are illegal. **************** off.

Exactly. Four weeks with no arrivals is rather a long time. Makes one think there is a certain bias to the AT news service. I wonder how many legal immigrants arrived from India in that time period? Enough to make a little Mumbai I'll bet. Those post Brexit trade agreements are the dogs dangles.

Well, I'm guessing you don't have a window in your home office and even the deliveroo driver maybe puts the food in the front porch. But the weather's been a bit against them FFS.

???? You would have thought that would have been mentioned here wouldn't you given the intense scrutiny channel crossings receive on this arborists forum.

Channel crossings resume after four weeks with no arrivals WWW.BBC.CO.UK The 28-day stretch with no arrivals was the longest period without any small boat crossings in seven years.

I cheated and googled it and found an answer which I'm pretty sure is it.

google knows - edit, or so I thought? hmm

What you doing with him Alex ,Beating ? I took my spaniels out at dusk for some woodcock …. Arrived a bit early but at around 4 .30 the flight lanes came alive but I was nearly home and had unloaded the gun so just sat and watched them for a while darting and weaving in the wind … tbh I’d rather watch them anyway unless I’m counting 50+ coming past.

I walked into the kitchen this morning at about eight thirty, looked at the fridge and thought, “I’ve got three cans of perry in there. They’ll be cold and crisp. I could have one.” I’m blaming Bolam, the influential degenerate.

As above its worth replacing it with a new drive sprocket on unless its fairly new with no wear marks.