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I was at a party last night, just at the bar waiting to be served and a woman came over and introduced herself. 'Hello, I'm Carmen'. 'Nice to meet you, Carmen that's a beautiful name, is it a family name?' 'No, I gave it to myself from my favourite things in life, cars and men, what's your name?' She asked I thought a while and answered 'B.J.Titsnfishing'

Storm Floris has stopped more boats in twenty four hours than Starmer has in twelve months!

Greetings -- I have a long (150') and rather high (10-12'), and rather wide (8-10') hedge on one side of my property. Trimming it is not an easy job. Part of the problem is the ground. One one side of the hedge, the ground is level, and firm. Fine - straightforward. But...on the other side of the hedge, the ground either (i) slopes down towards the hedge, or (ii) is 12-18" higher than the ground that the hedge is rooted in. See attached. I'm seriously considering the purchase of a good 'tripod' (arbor) ladder, with an adjustable extendable leg (specifically, a Hasegawa ladder -- local dealer). What I can't suss out is how to use said ladder for either scenario (i) or (ii). About the best I can come up with is to try to build up a block of some sort (say, cinder blocks) under the hedge, and then put the leg of the ladder on it - with the top of the cinder block being so many inches above the ground. Any other options spring to mind? Cheers....

Probably, I found my saws required little maintenance, very seldom removed a spark plug and just generally cleaned around the clutch sprocket and cover, shot of grease in clutch bearing, ( bearing did not get much use as tickover slow enough to stall after 30 seconds on idle) plus made sure cooling fins were clear. Daily maintenance was air cleaner, which I did with petroil despite the manual saying not to. Sharpening was light and two or three times a day unless on sandy soil or having hit something, chain tension at the same time. Never greased the tips after I was about 30. A normal day would burn through seven tanks of fuel a day. I never needed a warranty claim on my, or the helpers', saws. We used 60cc Husky saws almost exclusively after 87 and I tended to buy a new one once a year and hand my old one down to a helper. I still use one of them ( I have three dating from 92 to 97)t hough I have an original 346 as my goto saw because it is lighter and I only cut logs.

Oldie, but a goldie.

Sorry.......misread your post as grooming. Apologies.

Hi all , I like books , but never got one about pruning of trees! Time to treat myself, I want best well illustrated EXPENSIVE!!!!! And must be about Europe common trees ! And also could be book about mushrooms and fungi ( tree’s related) if course in English language.Some educated people there , plz recommend!

Vietnamese/French braised duck. A litre of orange juice plus, ginger, garlic, lemon grass and a gallon of fish sauce. Lush. Should have had a load of chilli also, but for the boy.

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I've just decided to try some fermented chilli source to make use of the glut.

Chillies are doing fantastically this year.

I've considered Okra a couple of times, but dismissed it as didn't think it would be worth the effort in the British climate. I imagined it would need tropicalish conditions, i.e. hot and quite wet. Have you been giving them lots of water? They nice veg to eat.

Justified or erroneous revenge? i.e. Did you grass him up? Geddit? Grass!

I like what you've done there.

It’s been a while since I did CS38, but the anchor for spike rescue was done using a rope lanyard. Obvs you’re spiking up with a steel core flip line? And also carrying a rope lanyard? Mine has a tied eye at one end and a termination knot at the other, with a prussic attached. Ultimately, the rope lanyard would be chokered off around the stem, above the rescue location (once you’ve spiked above the casualty),leaving the eye to dangle down and would have 2 carabiners attached to the eye, each in opposite orientations. You can then pass your climbing line through and use that to lower yourself to the casualty to perform the rescue. That was the way for my course, but perhaps things have changed since? Hope that makes sense! and I seem to recall belaying done simply by way of adding a clove hitch into the system at the belayers end to add enough friction to aid the controlled descent.

Neighbour has given up growing since his bust though earlier this year in a mad revenge attack he cut down to the ground all my fruit trees and ragged out the blueberries. He's an addict with nothing to lose so although I informed the Gendarmes I asked for no further action. We are selling the place and don't need to have an open conflict on the books.

I know there are a few ex coppers, and spouses of coppers on here. I've also spoken to many retired officers who policed everything back in the day from poll tax riots to the miners strike. My question is, would you be happy to police, and keep people safe in this country today?

You beauty.

It looks like you've replaced a lot of parts. Is the piston and cylinder kit, and ignition coil oem? Have you tried using the old carb as aftermarket ones are hit and miss at best. You also need to make sure the basics are good, fuel line is good with no leaks plus the fuel filter is good. Spark plug is not a fake ngk as ive seen a few of them which wont spark properly under load. Fuel filter is sitting at the bottom of the tank, sounds silly but Ive fixed a few machines where the filter was jammed up at the top of the tank.

Attached is the only instruction manual for the ms661. You need to do the 90sec reset. This explains how to do it. How To Perform An M-Tronic Reset | STIHL Blog BLOG.STIHL.CO.UK STIHL M-Tronic machines are designed to perform at their best at all times, but they sometimes need a reset. Find out when and how to reset them here. MS661.pdf

Yes, I doubt the chain oil would stay in there for long at all. Some of the grease starts to run out not long after you grease them, loads comes out when doing a pdi. Just to clarify, 99% of the hedge trimmers in the workshop are long reach ones, they really suffer from lack of grease. Its not just that the bearings wear out from lack of grease its water contamination rusting them up. No grease to protect the bearings plus water causes rust. I think the way people store the machines also makes a big difference, if its wet and you store the machine hanging from the powerhead then all the water on the drive tube will run into the bearings. Battery machines are even worse as they have a minimal amount of grease to start off with and a lot of water and debris end up right inside the gearbox. They can easily cost a lot of money to repair not just to replace bearings but conrods soon wear out the locating hole in the blades and they are the best part of £110 to replace, the blades that is, the bearings and the conrods might cost £60 ish. If you also wear out the main cam it can soon become a right off.