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Good morning Arbtalkers 😉 Cold but hopefully drying up.

Cold here. The office are sending me the web analytics for the last few months so I got a couple of days at the screen! Also contacting the previous show enquiries too. Think I got 7 shows this next year to get around too. Enjoy the start of the week safely! Tailors, Whiffed.

Morning troops . There is a frost on the ground but just starting to rain . About 7c max today . Happy Monday .

I must admit to having been to matches at Cardiff, Murrayfield and Twickers and the atmosphere at all three has been epic! Ground level at Cardiff meant that you didn't see much and upper decks at Twickenham in the sunshine was good. The March from Murrayfield to town was also part of the experience!

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Apologies for my Americanism. I did use the word tap to describe earlier tap warnings and I thought that faucet was the new word to describe these single devices that control flow, temperature and direction with one lever. Every day is a learning day. I will in future refer to them as embuggerment devices!

Royal Navy intercepts two Russian ships in English Channel WWW.BBC.CO.UK HMS Severn headed off the warship and a tanker as they sailed west through the Dover Strait, the Ministry of Defence said. Those pesky Russians are up to no good I tells ye. Probably coming to pick up their paid UK politician comrades if the truth be known.

A mate used to drink in the Fawcett Inn in Southsea when at college - never gave the name any consideration. This has reminded me of his later ‘KY Jelly’ anecdotes once the penny dropped…

TBH im not sure but you are probably correct. Maybe a worn clutch and a previously replaced drum. I will check out the clutch before I reassemble the saw but IIRC it didn't look badly worn but I may have over looked it. There was a lot of grumbling, huffing and cursing going on at the time.

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If you ordered the spring through a Schliesing dealer a quick call on Monday will set you right. I’ve found Dave at overland extremely helpful with any questions on ours when fitting new parts.

Hows your German? They have a phone number Woodchipper 495 EX-D turnable, branch diameter max 24 cm WWW.SCHLIESING.COM Dont mention the war...

Where abouts in Cumbria are you?

Well of course people did not buy their house then. And I totally agree about upgrading. I would like to move out of suburbia into proper countryside. But to do that even for a smaller house means finding about £150,000 extra, so it just ain’t gonna happen. So yes, we all lose by having high house prices, unless we are lucky enough to inherit or for some other reason have multiple houses.

An interesting liaison. An unholy union if you will. A Field Maple and I think a Hornbeam in intimate embrace.

weird how house prices were even more expensive than today in 1845 - before the minimum wage a lot of those people in 1845 would have been properly poor, so the average wage much lower

I feel for me, not being able to buy a bigger place, things were better in 1915 with a price to earnings multiple of only 2 - so if we were back in 1915 a house would be 70k in todays money, then off to the western front

I agree I do not see much poverty. Except perhaps when it comes to buying a house. I feel for my kids when they want to buy their first house. My main gripe is that the government have more money than ever, yet public services are generally dire. Of course, bear in mind I have lived in a Labour area for 26 years. Some things like education are certainly better where Labour have not been in charge for long.

I don't see the problems with taxation that you do - many of my customers are quite well off with big gardens, and not aristocrats, just people who worked hard and made good decisions when they were young. Taxation hasn't stopped them building wealth. On this forum I could mention a dozen or more guys who have build successful tree firms that are still trading, despite the tax burdens of recent decades. Take Beechwood and Aspen, both successful firms that are still trading. You could argue those business owners, as examples would be even wealthier if VAT was only 10% and Ltd tax only 10%, but my point is people are living a good standard of living in the here and now. I'm nowhere near as successful as the two I mentioned, a mere one man band, but I have savings (ISA) and a SIPP, my own modest home nearly all paid for and hopefully a few years left to increase my wealth before my body is degraded to the point manual work is not possible. Today's environment is good I'd say - I don't care about VAT or other tax, if I want more mony I just work more days, or sometimes get away with increasing prices. There is no poverty for the hard working that I can see. My tax hasn't all been sqaundered - I've seen a retired guy with a massive lump from leukemia now in remission, cancer treatments are better than 20 years ago. Someone has to pay. People can go to Uni, or become florists, bin men, chefs - all is right in the world

I don't know. Why what's with the £200 million figure?

I wasn't grumpy until the word faucet. It's a f-ing tap 😄

And it is worth remembering that when people talk about austerity, the amount of money the public sector takes as tax and spends is at record highs - not just due to the Labour government. Despite accusations of austerity public sector spending went through the roof under the Conservatives. Many services have been cut and are struggling, but this is not due to tax cuts or frugality. If only it were then the solution would be easy. Our public sector is better funded than it ever has been, but outcomes are probably worse than they ever have been at least since WW2. The actual solution is to somehow make the public sector efficient and productive.

I have pension(s) in place. A pension is no good if you can't afford anything which you have dilligently saved for, because the cost of things is so high. I'm lucky as I get paid to do my hobby, so I'll always be happy, but things aren't looking too good for many.

I replaced a spring on my 485 that broke, I don’t remember tensioning it tbh. just try and match the other one.