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IMG_6112.mov Sailor just being a fine figure of a dog on the penultimate drive today. Tied up because he’d just tested my patience on some bloke’s labrador and I needed to drop a length of fencing during this one anyway. His best work went unrecorded because I was too busy laughing a rib out. Big field of waist-high dead peas. Woodcock up straight away. Then zigzagging like he knows what to do, three or four pheasants. I praise him and riding high on the adrenaline and my satisfaction he bounces across the field like a blesbok, springing three feet straight up and down, not in slow motion but as if the world just stopped for a moment to marvel at it. Magnificent. Pissed myself to the point I couldn’t blow the whistle.

Can you give an idea of the day rate please?

And a really fcking good guitarist. Really rhythmic, while singing something totally different (well). Not easy. https://youtu.be/TMGJhPO0fUo?si=ToB-03PocWMUC29u and to a lesser extent, Shy. Tom Morello is often held up as an inventive guitarist (not virtuosic in the classical sense but doing things other people don’t do, usually rhythmic). I think Ani could teach him a thing or two.

Had a soaking wet day on Friday when using the trimmer and it worked all day.. went to use this morning and it wouldn't turn on.. tried multiple batteries and no joy... I've stripped it apart in the hope of it drying out by Monday morning before taking it for repair.. anything I should try before hand?

If you block the fuel inlet to the carb, just put your thumb over it and create a vacuum on the primer side, put some fuel pipe on it and suck you should not be able to draw air through, if you can you either have a hole in the pump gasket or usually a bad check valve.

As Stubby said it was user error rather than a manufacturing issue. The 395XP is a really good saw. I have a brand new one knocking about that has a cracked crankcase, I should really sell it on or fix it up. It will be the last of the 395's.

Not that I am aware of, but the CS100 has a dedicated trailer you can buy as an add on. You can leave it on the trailer and chip into a transit, the shute is quite high when loading set up like this though.

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At my age I can't stand up, let alone stand on, when I've had a few.

You could start an eBay shop.

But on the upside they do have a lot of princesses with £millions to give away,,, and they only need your bank details and they are happy to share it with you.

Staying afloat in 2025 be like...

It's taken a while - we now have 1/4 drive sprockets for the 540XPs. These are exclusive to us. No one else has them in the world (as we developed the mold for them). What this means is you can run 1/4 .043[1.1mm] chains on your 540XP. AND you could also run carving bars - the sprocket will run both 1/4 .043[1.1mm] and 1/4[1.3mm]. Find the sprocket here: 5774897-08Q Spur Sprocket 1/4 x8 tooth [Husqvarna T540XP, 540XP Mk I, II, III] WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK 5774897-08Q Spur Sprocket 1/4 x8 tooth [Husqvarna T540XP, 540XP Mk I, II, III]. Allows you to run Dime tip carving bars and... Find the sprocket removal tool here: 4507 [502 54 16-03] Husqvarna Sprocket Clutch Removal Tool WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK 4507 [502 54 16-03] Husqvarna Sprocket Clutch Removal Tool [42, 242, 340, 345, 346, 350, 351, 353, 455, 460, T540 XPs]... Bars - go for one of these here: Tsumura 1/4 .043 Black Edition - Chainsawbars WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK And watch the video here please - shows fitting and other info:

Morning All, decent lie in here and she gone for the tea now. Biblical rain yesterday and think my garage is flooded again. Hopefully watching rugby on the box after a few errands. Be good y'all! Handel, Palma, Stash.

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I'm told that it was one of many that had issues.

Turns out it is the X having checked, so must be the same as all others. Cheers

Yes. When wood smoulders, with no flame burning the offgas, what is happening is the fire is hot enough to pyrolyse wood but not hot enough to reach the autoignition temperature of the offgas. Nascent char is oxidising to give off enough heat to sustain its combustion but largely without flame . Thus the acrid smoke going up the chimney condenses on the cold chimney as pyroligneous acid. This can eat mortar. I think it is slightly worse with hardwoods as it contains acetic acid (wood vinegar). Before organic chemistry took off pyrolysing beech was a major source of acetic acid. In 2002 I was snagging a large woodchip boiler at a department store in Milton Keynes where they had been burning rejected/returned flat pack furniture and one part of the flue had become too cool. Here is a picture of a 316 stainless steel single skin pipe that had been perforated by the acid that condensed, though in this case I think it was probably hydrochloric acid from some plastics that were associated with the furniture.

It keeps popping up doesn't it.

You'd think an important function like justice would be carried out by capable people; failsafe, double checked etc. It isn't. It's performed as competently as anything else the government does. Oh look, Alex is whingeing about government again. I talk with lawyers pretty much daily. I've done loads of bits of legal work experience. I've helped people with legal stuff. I've been through various legal proceedings on my own account, mainly doing it myself. Three days ago I settled an 18 month civil claim with a 9 year history, that I ran from start to finish. Same thing everywhere. Errors are the rule, not the exception. Two weeks ago I was served a copy of a court order (which you can go to prison for not obeying) mandating something be done by a date that had already passed. Evidently computer generated and not checked. You call the court. Everyone's off sick. They can look at it in about five weeks' time (by which time other contingent deadlines will have passed). You call the court via a different telephone number. You get a different answer. Total joke.

You’re an engineer Dan. You know it makes sense.

Yep as above with the link

Didn't Bilbo Baggins live there ?