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Yes it was Rick . Elixir Nanoweb 9s electric on everything for me . Even on the two Tanglewood Tw45 s . I find Elixir hold their tone and tune for longer than other brands . ( and they bend nicely ! )

Morning Team! Awake and got a list of stuff I need to do this week and already changed the plan. Was going to old folks but then remembered that it is Tom's birthday so will delay visit. He is off drag racing in the states again soon so present will just be a wedge of yankie cash! Have a good week and do it safely! Wooden, Emma, Knee.

Good Morning. Soon be getting the coffee flask out rather than cool bag and water. Have a great start.

Are you a bit of a " Jazzer " then ? what with the flat wounds ...

Morning all . Clear sky , chilly start . 7c . Happy Monday . 🙂

Yes. They had low range and some had reverse

Trying too hard wee man, you are making yourself seem a bit desperate two BS posts 5 hrs ago over different threads.Liking a post that was a reaction to something I admitted was on the wrong thread, a situation that had been amicably resolved 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️. You feel the need to have a little dig before bedtime ” Steven” from behind your veil of anonymity.

Meanwhile check out this goldmine of information put out by “ educated” men whom apparently have no idea of online personal security. Actually these series went out to millions upon millions of people worldwide. Mind you we will have to get the moderators to check for any suspicious activity on this arborist site, could be the site has been hacked into by a terror cell looking to take out a retired sailor up in Bill Quay. You are trying to hard “ Steven” and yet again have made yourself look a ****************ing fool wee man, not hard to see why you choose anonymity.

Looks like it’s been a quiet evening for some of the bottom of the barrel dwellers. For the hard of understanding or those desperately trying to get a little dig in, feel free to check back before posting the normal bollocks. I asked the name of the ships he sailed on. At no point did anyone ask for any personal information. That last post by the anonymous one is absolutely garbage pure and simple. It’s helpful to promote the bs narrative about security and personal information I guess when you are that embarrassed at what you are in life you won’t even admit what you do for a living. I’ll ask again like I’ve done many times to no avail over a number of topics and after numerous BS allegations involving this same fool, show me where I asked for any personal information to back up the lies in that post. For easy reference there’s the original post. Like I say point out where that mentions any requests for personal information you lying shit stirring weakling. Hardly going to trigger the interest of your local illegal immigrant rapist convicted bomb maker led ISIS terror cell.

Plastic maggot, widowmaker, gixxer London was heaving with dispatch riders on CX500s when I was at wellington barracks in the 80s. Jobs advertised in the back of MCN every week.

Rick Beato I'd guess? For me Ernie Ball all the way, 9's on the strat, 10's on the tele and acoustically always EB's heavy bottom light top 10 / 52 with a plain 17 G. 👍

For anyone with good eyesight.

Buy cheap, buy twice. Spikes will last a decade easily, they are cheap. Ive been on DMM distel geckos since 2014. Velcro tops, leather bottoms. Tried velcro bottoms, crap! Straps dont need to be super tight, just snug.

Quiz answers were Honda CX500, Kawasaki H1, Suzuki GSXR btw. What were the nicknames?

I had the very same thing happen to me twice, once with a sparrowhawk, that hit my french windows and was unconscious, I checked and as far as I could tell, no bones broken, I placed it it a quiet place and kept an eye on it, within 10-15 minutes it had regained consciousness and after a short time flew off strongly. an almost identical occurrence but with a kingfisher and a different window, that to survived, it was dazed but not knocked out completely, my missus took a picture of it and did a cross stitch picture of it. but the oddest one was a robin being pursued by a sparrohawk that flew inside my open combat jacket and hid until the threat passed, the sparrowhawk veering off rapidly upon seeing me, I was driving the tractor at the time. I remember feeling it's heart beating at a rapid rate. where I was working at the time you only had to pick up a spade and the local robin would follow you to where you started digging and were tame enough to take worms and grubs from your hand.

Lovely day for it. Our station is a quiz. Riders come in from the hills or road and pull up to one of the ladies. Today’s questions were 80s Jap bikes nicknames. A field of riders mostly on BSAs, Villiers, Greeves etc weren’t all that interested. Fair comment really. Past years’ questions were highway code history, identify silhouettes of Brough Superiors etc. More the scene. Not many mechanicals this year. Usually quite a lot of wet points, difficult restarting once they’ve knocked it off to hear the quiz. Did get a foot long adjustable out as a prop but only thought of it too late. Amused some bloke who’d come up from Sheffield to follow on his GS.

I wanted to buy branded spikes but the price has doubled in the few years I've been working, I think its a rip off. I ordered these clones. Couple of reciews say they need a sharpen out of the box, replace the plastic tpu bottom straps immediately. The top foam appears comfy, the metal bits are all good. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0DHBKQYXW

Reading this, was just about to say pay rise - not a demand - but did you get a suitable increase in wages as you have gained each ticket, and become more profitable to the company. Without knowing, you might be on a basic 'trainee' wage and you might need to be paid as a more experienced employee (OK small company probably doesn't have a formal wage structure but you know what I mean). Second thing I thought, is the boss giving you suitable pay increases only after a while after gaining each ticket, 6 months, a year, - as if there is a payback time for him paying for the training and then you get the pay rise kind of thing.

bloody terrible, lost all power to the house and the workshop, took all day to isolate the fault, mice chewed a cable and had to practically dismantle the feckin' workshop to find it. had to isolate every circuit to find the fault, lights, sockets, 32 amp for lathe and milling machine, kinda hard to work around all the saws, so all had to be removed before any progress could be made. sorted now, power back on and everything working as it should, my terrier was going mental searching for the culprit, I have placed a dozen traps for the little feckers, so hopefully tomorrow I can get the McCulloch going.

Told my mate about this thread earlier and then as chance would have it we poked our heads into a barn and found a barn owl! I woke it up and it rocketed out parting his hair when I said to look in. We'd both just been saying how you'd have to work pretty hard at shooting one but thinking about it now, night vision and thermal is so good and cheap these days that the gap is narrower.

The webbing and buckles on all of them appears to be the wide sort, I'm wondering if it will get in the way or get caught on things? Better if it were narrow like the normal leather straps? Or is the wide sort, not a problem? I saw this video ages ago but never tried it. It makes good sense, but its not going to work with thick webbing. Just been having a look at Notch and Buckingham's, instead of normal webbing adjusters (goes through and back through, locking on itself) the buckle ones seem to use single hole and velco adjustments?! Sort of defeats the point of the buckle?! Distel does use the webbing adjustment type and velcro, which I think could work, they are the only ones with branded AustriaAlpin Cobra buckles. If I dont want velcro on the lower straps, I'm thinking to make up some with AustriaAlpine Cobra 25mm buckles and webbing. First I have some cheapy amazon "tactical belt" webbing with buckles, I may try that on some spikes just to see how well it works before I decide anything. I'll have a backup rope for that test.. got a suitable tree on Tues to have a play with.

I found a dead sparrowhawk on my land which looked odd but it was soon apparent that it had hit a glass panel surrounding my neighbours decking - probably whilst chasing a small bird down. It had catapulted over the panel and landed up in my garden... There was a definite mark on the panel where it had hit it.

It's getting to the stage where a few of us are starting to struggle a bit with battery life on the ProComs now and while I know Stihl say they aren't replaceable, I'm sure there's someone out there clever enough to prove them wrong without too much effort. I've not found anything when I've searched online but figured there's got to be someone on here that's at least got as far as chopping a knackered set open by now, even if not having managed to make a new battery fit. It would be great if there was a way to bump up the battery capacity at the same time so as not to have to charge them every night (not that I ever forget to, nope, never....)

Have you approached the subject of a pay rise.