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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.

Thanks for the replies. One of our husky saws has far too aggressive a chain too

Second most problematic probably.

Much obliged. "It's all in the owner's manual." Obviously the (service) manual I have describes a slightly different procedure... And is for 2013-07 saws. My saw is 2018. Anybody got a manual with the right bit in please?

Cheers Thank you 😊

Yeah, its different splice to a traditional double braid

That's industrial jam making. How do you go about taking all the thousands of stones out? It must take forever with that amount. (I've a vague memory of asking you this same question in a previous year, but I forget the answer! Apologies if so).

Well here’s my two pennies worth - to be honest with you I find your advertising to be boring and tedious having to scroll past and ignore you posts. Not only do you have several adverts across various threads you’ve now taken up several ads in the classified section? If all arb related retailers did what you do the real interesting and often informative threads on arbtalk would be lost and the forum probably die? We all have existing retailers we go to as first point of call, we can all use Google and also use the block adds down the side of every page on here where required and I do? Also when you started I did a couple of comparisons and you weren’t much cheaper if at all than a few other retailers? You asked, that’s my opinion, it of course will make no difference what I say🤔

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Both in real world and in a spiking rescue assessment (cs38) I understand it’s beneficial to have a false anchor. I personally have always just done spiking jobs with just a lanyard, but if a it’s an easily tied anchor I will start to use, and also I will need to do it for my cs38. Anyone could explain what a belay system involves as well? Cheers

@Steve Bullman Post the video from one of your Camberley visits please. The manual isn't especially clear.

I've not devoted much time this year to the veg plot. Potatoes have done well enough but could have done with a little watering. Last night, the first sweetcorn, raised at home in fibre pots and planted in full sun with a few squash in between. The taste was...sweet ! Very sweet indeed. The pumpkins, about 40 fruits, are for Halloween, my kids and the local after school club. Onions suffered a lack of water and Red Lily Beetle. Leeks suffered from inattention during my month in Morocco, drowned by woody nightshade which is the most problematic weed I have. I'm on a fertile sandy soil that could always do with more humus.