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Hi, I can't comment on the hedge trimmer but my experience of Honda 4 stroke garden stuff is with the UMK450 e brushcutter which I'm very unimpressed with. It's heavy, slugish and and uses more fuel than my previous Tanaka and Kawasaki 2T 45cc strimmers... but the main problem with it is that it has zero ability for carb adjustment which any engine needs imo. Don't get me wrong, I have many things that run Honda GX engines but these latest garden machinery engines that can't be adjusted or tweaked are a complete pita and as well as that because of relative rarity there's very little advice or alternative spares available online. I've repaired engines for a living all my life, but " Honda power of dreams " would seem now to be feckin BS when it comes to their 4 stroke garden hand tools. Ok rant over, but as a quick search gives a price of around £650 for the HHH25 while you can get a Stihl HS45 for around £250 which will cut a bit more than 3/8" { I'm imperial 😁 }, why would you even consider it. Just my disappointed opinion, but if it doesn't have H and L adjustment screws on the carb... Don't buy it. Cheers

Prunus cerasifera If you've got free time and he accepts why not do it next week? It's not going to make much noise so could be a weekend job even. I would say to him - if the general advice is June, July August, then doing it after the first week in September not ideal.

Follow up. I've identified it as Prunus cerasifera. General prunus advice is prune in mid summer, until the end of August. We're very nearly there. I think the seasons are late and now would be fine but I could instead tell him to wait until next June. That hits the perfect middle of the pruning season and shows him I'll put his tree's health above my desire for the job now. Or would it make me look like a fanny and he'll just get someone else to do it next week?

That will be a big disappointment for some on here who had him tried and convicted already.

I found this, so I got it apart, the o rings look fine, and it's exactly the problem shown in the video, I'll modify it tomorrow and see how it goes.

Just in case anyone might be interested, I've got a spotless used makita duc150 for sale. It's 18 months old with It's box, manual etc and has a 4Ah battery and charger with it. I'm in Ches/Mancs -and open to reasonable offers.

It won't make me any money will it.

After doing a fairly happy and nondescript decade without one, a mate recently gave me a Stihl can. I bought the Stihl spouts for it. Thirty quid!

Similar to Dan, I've had an oregon can with stihl spouts. Don't need the spanner holders that fall out when you fill your saw. Bloody thing must be a decade old, replaced the fuel filler once.

You should have searched arbtalk first, husky one is well known for being crap, the Stihl one is good had mine for years. If you're too tight to buy the Stihl can it's the same thread on the Oregon can do fits straight on.

I was just about to buy this machine for 700e but found this in the user manual online. This hedge trimmer is designed to trim the hedge, which is designed to cut off the branches of up to 8 mm (0.31 in) in diameter. Do not use the hedge trimmer to cut off the thicker branches beyond the above limit. 8mm. Seriously??

... though they reckoned last week that the fledglings can do with some help. I am the same, will start proper feeding after Autumn. I've never read up on the myths surrounding the 10ft thing and rats - so guess what I've just been doing ! I reckon the 10ft thing is in specific cases, centre of the take away areas in town, farm animal food stores, docks, but generally your house or mine, they are far far away (more than 10ft anyway). Chicken runs - I reckon they pass by at night but arn't sitting waiting about 10ft away during the day. Made me think though, brought one of the trail cams in last night for a look and a charge, got birds, insects, deers, a couple of squirrels but no rats passing by - never seen rats on them either.. so all in, I am more clever today than I was yesterday, but 10ft from a rat is a bit of a myth

Alternatively, you can do it the easy way, with this blade on a Kombi tool. Faster than any saw on branches less than 75mm diameter, and doesn't have a chain flying off on fluffy bits.

Saw another review yesterday and, combined with the free battery offer ending soon, and somones comment that nowhere has stock, decided I do actually want one of the new XGT pruners, UC029. Sods law, the only show with stock is a bit more £££ so 255 spent, should arrive tomorrow by Drop Hide Lose. Reviews say it has a lot of torque and almost unstallable, so I am thinking it needs a bigger 3/8" sprocket for higher chain speed, 1.3mm bar and a full chisel chain.

Total agree the spout broke the first day, took it back and they replaced it the next lasted a week I gave up using it after that .

To be fair the can itself seems fine, but the self sealing spring loaded cap just gets jammed solid once it comes into contact with fuel after a few weeks, it's almost impossible to open in in normal use and as it's no longer able to close once open, sloshes fuel everywhere. I have put the standard type cap on it now, and tried to get the other one apart, but short of breaking I can't see how to disassemble it. most modern stuff is total shite and has a lifespan of a few weeks.

The old husky fuel can, the spouts where crap, the new husky fuel can has crap spouts and I can guess any new ones will be crap too. As much as it pains me the STIHL can is the best one. I've got Aspen one, expensive but it doesn't leak.

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agreed, in fact I have been gifted a few saws that were stored with, and without fuel in them and all have been affected to a degree, some older ones badly. a thorough service and replacement with "viton" parts if possible can be very beneficial to operational longevity. An old mate of mine had his original "Triton" [Norton Featherbed frame, and Triumph T120 bonneville motor] it had a fibreglass fuel and oil tank combined, whole thing turned to mush on modern fuel, fortunately before the engine had "ingested any of it, he has replaced it with a perfect copy in stainless steel, at considerable cost I might add.

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This ugly little fecker about 40ft up. Wondered why an adult pigeon bugged out at a million mph about a minute before.

Not really I see them at the usual (funerals etc) as we are the length of the country away. If my attitude to other nations is negative why would I talk to middle Eastern people, eat Indian/Italian/Chinese etc food, go on foreign holidays, I've been to over 24 different countries from Sri Lanka in the east to the Americas in the west and from the Falklands to the Kola inlet in Russia, but you think I'm negative about other nations. Not interesting, just stupidity or not understanding.

At this time of year there is plenty of food about for them . Insects are the best I nthink . So , I only partially fill just a couple of feeders and wait till all the spillings have been hoovered up before I refill . In the winter I will use them all . You are never more than 10ft away from a rat they say even if you can't see them .

We ain't that daft! Ours is in a trust, doesn't matter how dottle we get the bin lids get it.