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  2. With the greatest of respect there should be no need to keep adjusting carb screws, having to adjust the mixture is very often masking engine issues, auto tune is very reliable, it will keep the saw running at peak performance without the need to fiddle with adjuster screws, one of the main reasons I see is users ordering new auto tune carbs from dealers then find they do not run as they only have boot firmware on them, then they need to be connected to the service program.
  3. Went through something like this a few years ago with a hedge trimmer that you could not tighten the blades ( shoulder bolts through the blades) the blades then tear the the non woody spindly parts of the hedge rather than clean cut it.
  4. Another reduction, this time a lime. Background the tree overhangs 5 gardens however only 1 is impacted as the limbs have extended into his garden sitting a good 4-6m beyond the canopy line, this isn't helped by the back of the tree being crowded by a large chestnut. Also the garden we were working over is AstroTurf, with two big yew trees. No easy drop zone everything was rigged out and ofcourse a flat anchor across the top.
  5. In that second photo, the close up, the brown bits haven't been cut, they might possibly have been chewed at by a blunt trimmer. Id have happily trimmed that a bit tighter than you have. But I wouldn't worry it will grow out again all to quickly!
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    This discharges pdq! Simple plumbing
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  8. Wordle 1,069 4/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That took bloody ages.
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  10. Before retiring, I was a conveyancer for 45 years. I can tell you categorically that enquires of this nature about neighbouring land do not form part of a solicitor's remit for house purchase and you will be charged extra, perhaps now £200 per hour. If you are using one of the out-of-town 'conveyancing factories' then you may find that they will not touch it because their experience is with routine registered land titles only and you will have to employ another, local solicitor to look into things. And, in the end, although you may accept a situation your mortgage lender may not and your conveyancing solicitor will have to report chapter and verse to your lender, who will probably not want to know and may decline your mortgage. It's the old story = time v money. If you and the seller and the rest of the chain and the hungry estate agents (desperate to get paid) can all wait weeks whilst this is looked into, with no guarantee of a solution, then fine....but they won't and you may lose the sale of your own property if you go down this path because people will want to get on and won't wait while you chase a possibly lost cause. My advice would be to suck it up find another property to buy.
  11. I have a kindling axe/knife - bit like a small meat cleaver and that has a hole through the handle and the tang so it stays in but guess much works on the same basis as a file and is an interference fit on to the handle. Most of my garden trowels and small trowel forks use this method successfully.
  12. It’s easy to let your heart rule your head over house purchases but I’m surprised you’re carrying on with the purchase to be honest? If you find the owner don’t expect any issue you have with the property to be sorted? Could take years - if ever to reach a solution and potentially £1000s in costs🤔
  13. Remember, that even assuming you manage to find the landowner, and that they are happy to talk to you; they may not agree that the tree is a problem. I am not an expert but I do know that pinning down the cause of subsidence to a single cause may well be a fool’s errand. Perhaps the oak is a factor, but also the foundations might be a bit shallow. Or some other factors may come into play. My house suffered slight subsidence in the hot summer of 2018, and the insurance company said I should remove an apple tree and 2 metres of hedge. But the main reason is almost certainly the fact that the foundations were only 300mm deep. New builds in my area have 1000mm foundations. These things are very rarely black and white, and often the only winners are solicitors.
  14. Whatever. But surely this is why you pay a solicitor to do searches and manage legal side of purchase? Presume they pulled up that house had subsidence issues in past, my experience of buying various properties is they'll advise where you stand and next steps (surprising amount is included in initial fee) Expensive? Yea but not as expensive as doing a £3 search to try and (failing) to find solutions to problems that could potentially cost £1000's. Up to the op but that'd be first thing I'd do, solicitor experienced in conveyancing should be able to resolve this. If they want to save a few quid and have the satisfaction of knowing after hours of research they'd sorted it, then crack on.
  15. Ah- thank you so much! So each year they have to get an inch or so bigger. Thats the difference between reading a website with no experience "cut back to the same point each year" and with experience knowing 'how' to read that ("cut back to the same point-ish i.e slightly less each year").
  16. I wouldn’t worry, looks like you’ve gone in quite tight, so you’ll get a few brown bits. Leylandii can’t be kept at a constant width, they have to get a little bigger every year, till someone goes in too hard and the big brown patches appear.
  17. Few photos from past wee while. Few videos to follow.
  18. Get the David Brown hooked up, jobs a goodun
  19. So it's just more complexity for a simple engine and more things to go wrong. Yey for more Chinesium in the scrap pile.
  20. Wunderbah! A picture is indeed worth a thousand words Jules. Thank you.
  21. Rotary valve, but otherwise a conventional 4 stroke piston engine.
  22. I took found this channel, and was gobsmacked at both his can-do gotta be fixable attitude, his downright stupendous level of knowledge and application. Never mind the endless, " I remember we just happened to have a few spares" like the odd Meteor tank V12 engine, endless black box control units, suitable for a Cromwell tank, etc etc. He must have really went to town when the army had a clear out of new old stock.
  23. Time Left: 29 days and 17 hours

    • FOR SALE
    • USED

    Vermeer BC1000XL chipper includes a spare set of knives. Year 2020 Very good condition, low hours, owned by us from new and regularily serviced. Deutz 74hp engine 897.9 hours Reluctant sale, due to upgrade to a larger chipper. Realy good example. PRICE SUBJECT TO VAT

    £35,000

    taunton, Somerset - GB

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