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Yes mate, a mixture of places I’ve not been to before and places I haven’t been to for a long time. Wrist is healed now so I’ve no excuses not to get back on the tools.

Big arse piece of plywood or card, start at say 20m and keep going back. And these parallax scopes, wtf know you're drops.

Was it a good walk about eggs?

Fair point, I’ve ditched it and sterilised the tank anyway.

It’s probably more potable than South Devon water.

I have always been perplexed by people making a fuss or mystery zeroing scopes. Visual alignment, large target close in, well bedded/supported rifle, even 1 round and adjust if way off, then fine tune at increasing/longer ranges. Simples, or it should be. Ditto for peep sights on target rifles, I almost never have had reason to touch mine, yet other blokes seem to be endlessly adjusting their sights. Hey Ho.

A bump from way back 🤔. Quickest way to zero a full bore rifle is to put your rifle on a bench or mound and hold firm with some shot bags or sand bags. Take bolt out and look down the barrel and adjust rifle onto the top of a stake or picket 100 - 150 metres away. When top of stake/ picket is centre of barrel adjust scope onto same point. You’ll then be able to send down a 3 shot group at 100 mts and adjust from that. I use 3 shots not 5 to adjust to save ammo then fire a 5 round group to confirm. If the Zulu’s are coming the first stage is enough to keep their heads down😳

Luck ran out today, filled up with water at an allotment, when I went to use it I noticed it was tainted a brown colour, got talking to a bloke who has a plot there, the water comes from a rain water harvester😂 anyway, the jolly around has come to an end, back to East Anglia to get some money in the bank. A picture of Mow Cop castle, it’s a folly. You’ll need to zoom in to see it.

Can’t argue against the French copper who shot the synagogue arsonist? Good on him👍

I guess the Stiga is similar to the Husqvarna Rider which I am more familiar with, when you engage the pto you hear the cluck of the electromagnetic clutch engaging yes? is the bottom pulley now spinning? if yes then it has to be a belt tension issue, either with the belt from the pto pulley, or the belt on the top of the deck, the one on the deck will have a spring loaded tensioner, this may have become disconnected and no longer tensioning the belt.

could,nt you cut 1m above the hollow??

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If everyone who’s getting older, having aches and pains in their joints etc gave up the tools and became consultants there wouldn’t be enough consultant jobs to go around? Mind you perhaps there’d be more tree work for those who stuck it out to the bitter painful end🤔. Not everyone wants to walk around with a clipboard like Blakey from “On the Buses”, there’s me showing my age😳. Of course we do need consultants, but I can get one fairly easily if needed, try finding a decent climber or groundy that’s not already gainfully employed?

Essentially someone bought some land with no planning restrictions that was thought to be impossible to build on because of potential mining issues. It was available for sale to the highest bidder, and nobody else fancied paying any more for it. Said buyer invested (heavily I would imagine) in ground investigations and subsequently proved that where they want to build 3 houses is actually suitable from a ground-stability perspective. It seems a bit late to be moaning about potentially having new neighbours if I’m honest. An investor has gambled and it looks like it may well pay off. Nobody wants development next to them - that’s why everyone knows the term NIMBY…

Oil for me from chainsaw dohh!

Learn something new every day 🙂

No they are interchangeable, its a 30 year old Bolens.

Surveying is just walking along a railway embankment avoiding stepping on dirty nappies looking at sycamores. Tree officers must have committed some horrible crime in an earlier life to have to deal with that paperwork and listen to the entitled moaning lying public all day. Consultancy is just spending ages writing up reports and speculation on various scenarios about something that may or may not happen, clients will ignore you anyway.

I know this isn’t Arb related but please help I have just had all the belts replaced on my stiga at a un- healthy cost , get it back home 5 minutes work and the blades will not engage all belts seem ok and you can hear the pto clicking in but nothing happens any body got any ideas many thanks in advance

Guessing it was one of those small batteries, aren't the terminals a different size like the bigger ones ?.

I recently put a battery in a ride on mower the wrong way round. The starter motor span the wrong way and wouldnt engage with the flywheel. I took off several covers and bolts then cleaned the terminals before I realised! i told myself the mower and under the battery needed a clean out anyway, regreased the steering mechanism, clean battery terminals - definitely worth it!

Proper cnut .

I use a Stihl MS180 for all manner of crap jobs, had it since 2006 it's been used hard, replaced a carb and all the lines and oil pump and that's about it untill the first time I took off the clutch!! I used a impact gun to undo it, worked well but after about two hours work the flywheel fell off(impact gun slackens off the flywheel nut, worth checking the flywheel nut after😠) new flywheel fitted. The next time I removed the clutch to replace the pump with a MS211 pump as it supplies more oil I used a hemp rope, worked well but got a bit of rope stuck in the port😒. On friday it stopped pumping oil, so once again I removed the clutch to check the drive but this time I used a piston stop, no fault? Drained the oil and the oil pipe was missing? somehow it had folded itself in half, replace the hose, cleaned up everything and rebuilt the saw. went to start it and no compression, the piston stop had put a HOLE in the piston. Not happy.

Shame armed response didn’t drop him on the spot. Can’t disagree with a word the guy says in the attached picture. Pure scum that are as far from being genuine asylum seekers as it’s possible to be. Hartlepool street killing of pensioner 'terrorist act' - judge - BBC News WWW-BBC-COM.CDN.AMPPROJECT.ORG Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid stabbed 70-year-old Terence Carney in Hartlepool in October.

Hi all, I am a groundsman and second climber looking for work in the Liverpool/Merseyside area. I have my own climbing kit, ppe and tickets: Chainsaw Maintenance and Cross-cutting, Fell and Process Trees up to 380mm, Tree Climbing and Rescue, Aerial Tree Pruning, Aerial Cutting/Free Fall Techniques, Aerial Tree Rigging, Safe Use of Manually Fed Wood-chipper, Safe Use of a Powered Pole Pruner I also have a Level 3 in Arb and 5 years experience in the industry on a self-employed basis and sub-contracting on the railways. I have just got back from a year in Ontario Canada where I was working in forestry. I am moving from Preston to Liverpool early next month, so if anyone knows of any work in the area I’d appreciate a shout. Cheers