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I changed careers last year and found that having a clear idea of what you want and asking for help actually makes a big difference. I got some useful tips and motivation while reading articles on pedirayudas.com —helped me feel less stuck and more focused on what steps to take next. You might find something there that gives you a bit of a boost too.

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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I don't blame you. I can only do this to strimmers that have will definitely be idle between October and May. did you inspected the pistons before? Is it just scoring or have the rings melted, is it just the exhaust side or is there damage to the intake side? post some pics I feel stupid asking, but have you ruled out a mix error? Have you compared the colour of the mix that caused the issue with fresh fuel?

So **************** everyone else I’m all right Jack Cheers easy HMRC

I have been using the art one with the cocoon pulley, it's the muts and has been for all the years I have been using it. I can only recall it getting stuck twice in the last ten years. I think it is the design of it. Only trouble is it is an expensive piece of equipment to be smashing to tarmac from 50ft upon retrieval, I should lower it down but never have. Due to be replaced. I do use srt a bit, particularly for access. When I came to the art pulley saver I could not believe the difference in friction between that and a regular ring to ring one I had been using previously!

Get back to work you lazy bugger. Labour look after the public sector shirkers that’s for sure.

Ah HMRC boy, nope I voted reform last time as I’ve told you several times. Is not tax in jock land devolved by the way ??. As a person who was conned by Sturgeon I’d not be making my mouth go if I were you lad. Anyway SP I see the biggest issue for productivity has been revealed to be the “ public sector” if you spent a bit less time on here do you think that might help??. There’s a nice little article from our Norwegian cousins, happily extracting oil and gas whilst we play net zero games, it shows commercial diving not the this Scuba/latex fantasy you keep droning on about. AkerBP viser ansvar med å opprettholde en produksjon og sikkerhetskritisk kompetanse på norsk sektor! Fantastisk 🤿🤩❤️ Keep on rebelling! | Anders Remøy Bertelsen WWW.LINKEDIN.COM AkerBP viser ansvar med å opprettholde en produksjon og sikkerhetskritisk kompetanse på...

Done the sums last night, broadly speaking they'll be taking the same tax from me as before. What did amuse me though is that -even before she had stood up to speak- the Daily Mails calculator was headlined by "How much MORE will YOU pay"... not saying they are biased but... in their actual calculator when I looked they (and the Telegraph) only asked about what will put your tax bill up so any gains from it were not included "Do you drive an electric car" but forgetting fuel (petrol) duty being frozen as an example. Bit of a bland budget to be honest, nothing to get too wound up about, and nothing to get excited about either.

Of course, this was always there, even under the Tory government that you voted for. Just an increase in the cash 'reward'.

could backfire on them,,, they are already turning on each other, this could prove to be their ultimate demise.

To be place on front garden, so I can transport it into the rear garden.

I’d go for an adjustable one with rings rather than plain rings each end. Something around 2.5–3m seems to cover most trees I’m on. The prussik makes it easy to snug up whether it’s over a limb or round the stem, and you don’t have to keep retying knots. They are a bit harder to retrieve off a stem if you really crank them tight, but as long as the bark’s not too rough and you don’t jam it in a union they usually pull out fine with a decent flick and a retrieval cone/ball. Big step up in comfort compared to a sling and steel crab, and you can actually get it back from the ground.

Both are decent bits of kit. From what a lot of climbers say, the SAKA feels a bit smoother and lighter, and it’s easy to tweak the bungee so it sits right, while the HAAS tends to give you that longer ‘big step’ feel and is pretty bomb-proof. If you’re already used to 30" of travel on the HAAS you might miss that with the SAKA, but most people seem to find it more efficient over a full day. I’d pick based on which set-up fits your rope diameter and how you like to stand in the harness rather than the spec sheet.

We have a driveway to drop off hard wood

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Nice to see you up early jase 🤣 100k redundancy can make a man lazy. 😁 Chin chin my boy talk nice to pete and he might swing you a number selling those big chippers he is doing.

Late this morning in the office Mr stub normally you are first through the door.