All Activity

I've got a Stihl MSA 120 for sale but it's a backhandle.

the swivel I think will cause more problems that not, anytime I used to turn the head 90 degrees it would clog up as it disrupts the flow of the chip, its ok until you get to 90 degrees. It's not like a normal chipper where the spout can turn at the point it leaves the flywheel/drum. It goes from a wide tapering chute to a narrower spout that you then will turn and create a flat wall so to speak. Gloria is perfect the way she is, just leave her be!🤔😂

Hi I'm looking for suggestions on a small chainsaw for pruning jobs. I recently repollarded a big row of limes and used a silky for the whole thing, the regrowth wasn't that big but my 201 top handle would be overkill. Handsawing the whole thing was pretty brutal after a few trees. Battery or petrol, does anyone have any recommendations? Ideally something small and light. Thanks

Wordle 1,507 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,507 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

He was a teacher for 2 years at Emsworth school . Good at it and they all liked him . However he wanted a job that you start and such and such a time and finish at so and so time Unlike teaching that was pretty much 24/7 . So much red tape . He was miserable all the time . Now he is happy for the same money .

There are ones that split and ones that don't, if the grains double twisted it does literally just bounce back the axe or maul.

Our friends down the road had one that died gradually, I was a bit reticent volunteering to get involved - luckily it fell over in a storm and he cut it up and burnt it.

Hi everyone Were looking to convert our hilux 2016 double cab into a tipper soon, i just wanted to ask if anyone knows any companies who do conversion around the cheshire area or near about Thanks

That would be facts Oldfeller, not popular with some. The 20 times more likely just doesn’t seem to be registering with some people. As is always the case there’s never any compassion for the young child who was the innocent victim in all this from those same types . They don’t seem to be getting the fact many of these illegals are from a culture that does not respect women or girls at all and does not see the age of 12 in this case as a factor. But that would be those inconvenient facts again.

Little bit like hill farm of sheep is different to barley farm in East Anglia, there's arb from small garden work through to big tree management contracts in London streets. Some of it will suit you and some not, but there's definitely work out there if you're a reliable, conscientious type of bloke. Any decent firm nowadays is using hydraulics to take out a lot of the manual handling, hopefully the next generation of guys will see the benefits of this in less back and knee injuries so career spans can be longer. Also if I was advising myself of ten years ago I'd say embrace modern climbing equipment such as SRT and ascenders , doing that in the last few years has really helped my old shoulders and elbows.

totally agree - I'd be very interested to hear the details of recent rapes committed by white Hindu women

I'd be considering a longer one and a shorter one these days - start a smaller hole as support for the longer bits.

I'd take some just for the challenge now! (though likewise if it doesn't split it goes in the wood for the bugs)

maybe the price increases when the taxpayer is footing the bill. like accident repair when the insurance company is paying for it. Mcsweeny family seem to be doing well out of it, and no doubt plenty of others too.

Wages - as you put it in the first post, are only a small part, there is the work-life balance to consider too - an hour of free time to spend with the family is easily worth an hour on the pay check once all the bills are paid. We could all chase the ££, weekly commutes to job sites miles away - but that comes at a cost when you have family to consider. I've always reckoned that you can earn big ££ and have no life of your own, or earn nothing and have 24 hours a day to fill... and somewhere in the middle is where you want to be. Might be you are happy spending all day with a chainsaw and taking a wage home at the end of the day, no pressure to run a business, no pressure to earn bigger money. Might be that you are happy to earn similar sitting at a till in Tesco (other supermarkets are available) (that would drive me mad). At 33 you are not past it - working the last 10 years on a farm probably hasn't given you a beer gut and a sit on your backside attitude - plenty of life left and an attitude to graft if needed? Do you have (mentally at least) the time to work at getting tickets / other qualifications / build a second career alongside the farm work? (or do you need to get out now for your sanity?). Looking at what you say, degree, worked in farming, a love for the land? then environmental stuff might be the thing, maybe not mega ££ but if it pays enough the mental side will more than make up for the rest. Rather than asking for what tickets you need just now, maybe there are some guys down your way you could have a face to face chat with (like in real life, IRL!), maybe shout them a coffee - no strings attached - who know the local market, big firms and small outfits operating your way who might get you a start - and they can tell you what tickets they would be willing to fund and what they'd like to see (different areas, different employment pressures, firms are more or less likely to train up depends how many people are looking for work locally)

Entrance is on King George V Hill

They are paying way over the odds for a 3 star in Wilmslow...

Done a couple of smaller ones recently, split the wood up in the same afternoon while it's still soft and then seems to dry ok. Otherwise if I can't split it straight away I just dump it to biomass place, no point messing around once it's gone hard.

and another one. and right in front of her father it appears!!! A migrant from a taxpayer-funded asylum hotel has been charged with attempting to kidnap a child The Sudanese man appeared in court accused of attempting to take the girl of ten while she was with her father. Edris Abdelrazig, 30, in Stockport, Gtr Manchester, was arrested for allegedly trying to lure away the girl on July 13. He had been living in a three-star, £100-a-night hotel in Manchester suburb Wilmslow. Abdelrazig appeared before JPs on July 15 He was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester crown court on August 26. It comes after claims of a cover-up because police told councilors in Nuneaton, Warks, to avoid disclosing that two suspects in the rape of a 12-year-old girl were asylum seekers.

POssibly better in wet (live) wood. I've never done 60cm, longest is 40cm. But I have wrecked one going through 2 x 3" very hard old joists.

In my experience when they go downhill it's almost free-fall. Never known one to bounce back. It's like an almost complete shutdown of their vascular system.

And you went back for a second.