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Thanks, I appreciate the positive feed back ...I am no where near professional tho or even any way close . 20 years ago I carved another thing whilst staying home after work saving money so I could get on the property ladder(I will have to find a pic of that one)...and then 10 years ago whilst recovering from an operation and having time on my hands I carved the one in the pic...not carved anything else ...Loved creating both pieces , I just wish I could make money out of it and do more.

ye they are good, my ones from aldi so maybe extra noisy.

Once you get over the noise and get a impact driver you will wish you got one years ago

well i got a dewalt one today, not top of the range but seems ok, they did have the einhal one on offer with an impact driver too,was kinda tempted but find the noise of the impacts a bit annoying. the milwaukee one was there too looked great but bit steep for my needs ( not trade, just heavy diy.) still not sure whether i should have got another makita but il see how this one goes. thanks for the replies. carl

I really do think that the greens will have a strong showing this time. Voted Tory all my life but will not for the foreseeable. not saying the greens are perfect but I can’t vote for starmer so the greens will do this time round. NoPedigree

If its pumping grease but just not connecting get a new hose and coupler, the couplers are a wearing part and dirt cheap. The reiner guns are good and work by vacuum so suck the grease from the tube not push it out, a lot less messy. £30 should just about get you a non branded one (reiner/fuchs genuine at least twice that). Other than that do a bit of googling and bit of trial and error

I'm in North East Scotland it would probably be cheaper if I went south

Just looked pa6 course with a local company, 282 quid.... that's Inc vat I think also

Christ that's expensive.... sure it was only 200 quid ish when I did mine few years back like

I recently enquired with a local training company about doing my pa1 and pa6 knapsack sprayer ticket I was quoted £850 for both is this the normal price for this kind of course

@eggsarascal Few years back I was not in the best place, post split up, prior to getting into arb machinery.Marine work was going down the pan and life wasn't exactly joyous, though I did have my dogs. One day on a total whim i bought an A3 cartridge paper sketch pad . This got filled over the next couple of years, with what some may call nonsense. Doodles light and dark, qotes from music lyrics in various scripts and doodles, various sketches of things I'd seen and done. After a while I could look back and reflect on my own testimony, sometimes with fear other times with amusement and understanding. It became a sort of crutch to bring me back to my base line, let me reflect that, actually life was OK. I burnt my crutch a few short years ago. Now surplus and very private. A very special place when needed, but never permanent. Sorry to bang on Eggs, just hope my musings may help or give food for thought. Take care.

You're welcome to join me on the step of shame Mark, bit lonely down here today tbh

I still pay keen interest to the UK political landscape, even if it doesn't really affect me anymore. I also closely listen to the US election coverage too. I have a lot of time at work on my headset to listen to podcasts. The UK election result is (for the most part) a foregone conclusion. The Tories will be booted out, Labour will have a massive majority, the SNP will lose overall control in Scotland and the Lib Dems will regain a fair few MPs. Reform will take a massive chunk out of the Tory vote, a bit out of Labour, and still (due to first past the post) might not get a single candidate elected. Sunak is fighting the campaign like he's trying to lose. Starmer is saying and committing to virtually nothing as all he has to be is not a Tory. There isn't much air between Tory and Labour policy, sadly, and I hope that Labour move left after election. It'll be great for Scotland to have the Nationalists unseated, though I must admit that I do think Stephen Flynn is a sound guy (even if I disagree with his Nationalism). Farage, whilst a talented orator and populist, is devoid of moral fortitude, and his attempts to get elected to parliament are entirely self-serving. He doesn't give a flying f**k about anyone or anything except for himself and has absolved himself of playing a pivotal role in the clusterf**k that is Brexit. It's all someone else's fault, apparently. How much will change in the UK after the election is debatable. I doubt it'll be much. With rampant inflation, widening inequality and a general aversion to paying tax, it's difficult to plug the budgetary black hole in the UK and address the core issues that voters regard as important. I think one of the biggest issues really is the NHS too. In 1990, the NHS budget was 5% of GDP. It's now 11.3%. With health care inflation far outstripping actual inflation, how on earth is it sustainable? I'll be the first to admit that I'm pretty fattist, but I really have no sympathy for people who through lack of exercise and healthy eating ruin their health and then expect the NHS to pick up the tab. But equally, I wouldn't want to see a US style system, which is patently unfair and represents terrible value for money. It's certainly going to be an interesting 4 weeks. And then a week later, the orange turd gets sentenced. What entertainingly awful times we live in.

Makita for me,got all the obvious builder/carpentry stuff plus a fair few ope gardening tools now,never had a bad battery or bare tool either,so thats 25 batts and 20 odd tools too.

I did wonder from your past posts if something was going down...just don't let it, easy said but sometimes you just have to grasp the one good thing that happened in the day rather than the shit storm it may have been. I hope it passes in time and you get to the good bit again. Keep talking to us...we ain't all bad!!

Don't think it was a lack of political nous, it was a pretty car crash example tho, almost that painful to watch I had to hit the mute button. She may be the leader after the apocalypse, she might be last rat standing!. William Hill has farage at 1/4, labour at 8/1 for Clacton

Ordinary hard working folk 🤷‍♂️are you off your tiny head 42 My working week when I’m away is 7x 12hr shifts plus pre shift and post shift handover so on average 14hrs. You have spouted some garbage on here for sure but that crack about me being oblivious to the plight of “ hardworking folk” takes the biscuit. Seriously 42.

Showing your lack of political nous there mate-I bet you a penny to a pound she will certainly be the next Tory leader, she's been v.quietly manoeuvring for some time now,and obviously bigging up her military credentials at this moment in time.Also,of course-who the else is there that would put their head into the noose that is the tory party in opposition-Jacob rees-mogg?A man of the people-if you still have a nanny @age-what-58 odd?In fairness,he may actually only be 23-weirdos like him look 60 as soon as they come out of the womb...

If it’s silver leaf then maybe “pruned by a gardener” who wasn’t really a tree man/woman might of been the issue

You can see its been cut before . Maybe it did not like it . Start again . Get rid of the shrub and open the plot up some .

I don't think when the NFU says we should be self sufficient they also meant opium, that's probably more coop banking.

I’m on line 4 and struggling like buggery.

Sure its not an Opium farm Mick ? 🙂

kinda, the local tractor fitters (20 mins away) have got quite a comprehensive range of stuff so occasionally il pop down and get an odd fitting to make up a hose if i haven’t got one in stock and usually get half a dozen so i’ve got them if it goes again in the future. i’ve resorted to cutting fittings out of old hoses to get myself out of the shit as well but it’s a pain to do and a don’t like doing it. obviously you’ve got to outlay on the machine and all the hose and fittings but once your up and running the cost of making a hose with two fittings and 1m long comes in at about £7.50