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"feckin' classic"

I was at a party last night, just at the bar waiting to be served and a woman came over and introduced herself. 'Hello, I'm Carmen'. 'Nice to meet you, Carmen that's a beautiful name, is it a family name?' 'No, I gave it to myself from my favourite things in life, cars and men, what's your name?' She asked I thought a while and answered 'B.J.Titsnfishing'

Greetings -- I have a long (150') and rather high (10-12'), and rather wide (8-10') hedge on one side of my property. Trimming it is not an easy job. Part of the problem is the ground. One one side of the hedge, the ground is level, and firm. Fine - straightforward. But...on the other side of the hedge, the ground either (i) slopes down towards the hedge, or (ii) is 12-18" higher than the ground that the hedge is rooted in. See attached. I'm seriously considering the purchase of a good 'tripod' (arbor) ladder, with an adjustable extendable leg (specifically, a Hasegawa ladder -- local dealer). What I can't suss out is how to use said ladder for either scenario (i) or (ii). About the best I can come up with is to try to build up a block of some sort (say, cinder blocks) under the hedge, and then put the leg of the ladder on it - with the top of the cinder block being so many inches above the ground. Any other options spring to mind? Cheers....

Probably, I found my saws required little maintenance, very seldom removed a spark plug and just generally cleaned around the clutch sprocket and cover, shot of grease in clutch bearing, ( bearing did not get much use as tickover slow enough to stall after 30 seconds on idle) plus made sure cooling fins were clear. Daily maintenance was air cleaner, which I did with petroil despite the manual saying not to. Sharpening was light and two or three times a day unless on sandy soil or having hit something, chain tension at the same time. Never greased the tips after I was about 30. A normal day would burn through seven tanks of fuel a day. I never needed a warranty claim on my, or the helpers', saws. We used 60cc Husky saws almost exclusively after 87 and I tended to buy a new one once a year and hand my old one down to a helper. I still use one of them ( I have three dating from 92 to 97)t hough I have an original 346 as my goto saw because it is lighter and I only cut logs.

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I've just decided to try some fermented chilli source to make use of the glut.

I like what you've done there.

I know there are a few ex coppers, and spouses of coppers on here. I've also spoken to many retired officers who policed everything back in the day from poll tax riots to the miners strike. My question is, would you be happy to police, and keep people safe in this country today?

It looks like you've replaced a lot of parts. Is the piston and cylinder kit, and ignition coil oem? Have you tried using the old carb as aftermarket ones are hit and miss at best. You also need to make sure the basics are good, fuel line is good with no leaks plus the fuel filter is good. Spark plug is not a fake ngk as ive seen a few of them which wont spark properly under load. Fuel filter is sitting at the bottom of the tank, sounds silly but Ive fixed a few machines where the filter was jammed up at the top of the tank.

Thanks for the replies. One of our husky saws has far too aggressive a chain too

Cheers Thank you 😊

Yeah, its different splice to a traditional double braid

Well here’s my two pennies worth - to be honest with you I find your advertising to be boring and tedious having to scroll past and ignore you posts. Not only do you have several adverts across various threads you’ve now taken up several ads in the classified section? If all arb related retailers did what you do the real interesting and often informative threads on arbtalk would be lost and the forum probably die? We all have existing retailers we go to as first point of call, we can all use Google and also use the block adds down the side of every page on here where required and I do? Also when you started I did a couple of comparisons and you weren’t much cheaper if at all than a few other retailers? You asked, that’s my opinion, it of course will make no difference what I say🤔

I imagine avoiding anything with my name on because I generally treat them like an unannounced DEFRA visit.

All the best for the future Pete 👍

I used your guide thanks but the resetting warm was advice I read elsewhere. Anyway, I'm going to remeasure the gaps once I've received the fresh rocker cover rubber seal which leaks a little. Thanks for posting that guide.

I assume these are pier bits? What's the eventual repurposed use?

Old Christmas tree that went a bit mental. Drop zone was main issue on this one, but nothing broken that shouldn't be😁

I tend to agree, whilst the US has picked up the slack and Trump gets slated the fact of the matter is the western NATO countries with the exception of a couple of members have gutted their armed forces to the point that they are virtually useless. The UK in particular has huge problems at the minute, whilst we have politicians grandstanding about “ the coalition of the willing” the reality is we couldn’t even begin to defend our own country never mind venture farther afield. We can’t even stop a few dinghies crossing the channel at the minute.

Same headstock as Avant.

Hello, would anyone have a Lucas mill they'd be interested in selling? A 10-30 or an 8-30 would be perfect. Nooie

I looked at one of these online, they have a video of it running. It looks painstakingly slow. My CS100 is significantly quicker, but lacks the feed roller and anti stress. I did request a demo, living near Carlisle, nothing came of it though and ai didn't follow up. The GL&D looks a a far better small chipper, also double the price...

Thanks to everyone for all your input- very much appreciated, and thank you to those that messaged privately, either to offer leads or contacts. Cheers!

Its a wind up , godda be !