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I've got the Milwaukee telescopic pole saw, and is brutally powerful... August Hunicke has a 14" bar on his. Ease of use, power, weight it beats the petrol ones on all fronts imho, plus its nice not getting a mouth full of fumes when your holding it up trying to reach that last bit! Length wise its about the same as a Stihl petrol one i think.

Thank you, I will listen. Though I have heard from someone who attended the lecture and he hated it! If it is just Trump bashing I have heard plenty of that from the BBC over the years. Their presenters on the radio are all anti-Trump, even the many who I listen to on Times Radio (all ex BBC) are always highly partisan when it comes to Trump. I guess if the BBC removed a line they must have realised it could be libellous. In which case that is what they should do. As long as they stick to reporting things accurately they have nothing to fear

Are these the best small chippers? I'm looking at the M400, have tried the m300 and thought it was good for what it is. Jo Beau customer service and aftercare doesn't get a good review though and wondered if there's better out there?

Not bias as such, but an interesting twist on the theme. This is a bad sign of the times. It looks like the BBC have been bullied into self-censorship this time. The not so insidious death of free speech again. An interesting programme btw. The Reith Lectures are always good. I'd urge you to have a listen. Historian Rutger Bregman criticises BBC for removing Donald Trump line from Radio 4's Reith Lecture WWW.BBC.CO.UK Rutger Bregman says he is "genuinely dismayed" after a line about the US president was edited out.

You’d be very surprised lad 🤔👍 There’s not much on here that is able to rile me up, possibly sick buggers like Manco and SP when they stoop to bringing daughters into the argument.

It's more than OK!

Kram, multimeter will be a Christmas gift from the outlaws, rather than a hideous shirt, so everyone is a winner on this thread!

Happy to help Mick, any time. 👍

So tax fraud is OK?

@Steve Bullman Have you added the angry emoji especially for @Johnsond 😂

Thank God! I have closure and can start the long process of rebuilding my life now!

Quick update. Had it all to bits again and it turned out the problem was the contact plate on the switch not making a good enough contact with the crimps on the end of the leads. I pulled them out and reseated them so they were a bit more ‘proud’, and screwed the whole assembly back together tighter than I normally would. Christ they get hot! Too hot for bare hands. Thanks for your input fellas, I understand the system a lot better now.

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Like the shoulder to crayon...

Sloping concrete drive. Big enough for larger skips.

OMG you used the fuuuuuuuucccckkkkiiiinnnggg edit function 😳😳😳😳😳 Your post is pure shite, you were wrong initially about the fuel freeze. Now get back to your spreadsheet you bone idle bugger. No wonder the public sector is a millstone around the next of taxpayers.

I was wondering how SP could read anything else into it apart from what you have just described.

That's true, but... all politicians change their minds yearly, I wouldn't be surprised if they reinstate it next year as a 'isn't the government wonderful to you' gift though. I tend to only count for the coming year because I have no clue what they will change in the next budget. (edit here: With inflation I guess you could say that fuel duty being frozen for the year, not being linked to inflation makes it a drop 'in real terms'... but would be grasping at straws to say that... though I have a vague memory of about 10 years ago a chancellor trying to sell us that line)

I think you have carb issues - the scoring may not be all that bad. When storing a 2 stroke machine for more than 3 months I go over to some rough ground, start the machine, then with it running, open the fuel cap and pour the fuel mix onto the gravel etc, or a jug if you're eco, then rev the guts out of it till it stops. This way you are not left with stale ethanol fuel in the carb to gum up all the bits I know nothing about. BTW I've had mixed results trying to revive carbs with carb kits. Often end up hunting for a chinese copy carb and changing it out, or even a new genuine Stihl carb off ebay if its cheap. By tipping the fuel out after long term storage you still have remains of gakky fuel in the lines and carb. My protocol is for a tightwad who won't pay for alkylate mix. There's usually enough breeze to take the fumes away. And I'd hate to have spent all that money then get prostate cancer

This was a funny way of putting it. What she actually has done is end the fuel duty freeze which has been in place for 16 years (as from next September). But somehow she spun that as a freeze on fuel duty!

Myself and a number of family members and friends have log burners so anything thats free would help in heating thanks

I think it's got to be fuel related, E10 is new and undoes all the years of experience we have in how to look after machines. My thought is ethanol/water in the fuel, causing oil separation else the bores would not score up like that. It's possible the Husqvarna tank vents let more air in and out as temperature goes up and down, hence more water vapour gets in. I realised fuel was taking up too much of my head, thinking about not having it hanging around, tipping it out of big saws, buying additives, extra trips because I only bought 5 litres at a time, etc etc. Thought sod it, 55 litre drum of Motomix in the back shed - no thinking now, just go and top up combi can whenever I want. Have had to buy some rubber parts but touch wood nothing serious.

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