Today's Posts

I did my first full-fat, name-on-the-door job today. Had a climber in. I bored the life out of him telling him to take it easy, take time, be safe, constantly check himself for tiredness/complacency etc. You know what. I'm going to keep being boring. It's only gardening. Nobody needs to die.

Mine. I'll put you down for a CD and a £35 t-shirt.

I've just bought a digger sight unseen 😆 but was cheap and got a bit of a spanking 😆 If it was me I'd be proper anal from now on on checking things. Pins and bushes play. King pin play. Slew ring play. Any leaks..... tracks, chains, sprockets all costly... tip up either side and check idlers.... Make sure all hydraulic functions work seamlessly and smooth.can it pick itself off the floor... Tracks well, 2 speed works if got it. Check antifreeze, engine oil etc. Radiators for condition and if clean... something rarely cleaned and shows! Run it with rad cap off and make sure coolant not circling all the time as in no stat in place. Id even ask if you could check the final drive oil levels to make sure it has bloody oil in! At 2k a pop or so on an old machine that can take shine off things. Take a bloody good torch... look into the diesel tank and into the hyd tank for milky oil. I know your probs looking at an older machine so will get some of the above problems but everything within reason is fixable! I was looking at machines recently and even when spending 8-14k you were getting 18 year old machines plus with big hours ... all with play in things and most with issues. Good luck 👍 😮 One thing can be said though.... if you bought a right machine and spent more money and looked after it you'd probably recoup the brass better.... Buy and old beater... stuff breaks and you pile a fortune into it and maybe recover the brass if lucky? Hard decision to make Ohhh and keep main brands if possible for parts avaliablity!!!!!

Dunno if it's got a name, trick ladder or circus ladder? It's only attached in the centre at both ends so flips, rotates around the central axis, at any given opportunity. There is a technique to doing it, I've found out now. Got to keep your weight completely evenly distributed at all times, obviously I suppose. By moving opposing arms and legs simultaneously I think.

The only way I've ever found to remove barbed staples is to hammer the pliers spike into the staple and lever it out. Over the years I've done hundreds, probably thousands, on weldmesh animal enclosures built with old telegraph poles. It's very tedious and easy to damage the mesh. If you don't need to reuse the post a cordless grinder with a 1mm disk used carefully is quicker. With animal enclosures there's the added problem that you have to account for every staple and every fragment that might cause injury.

I've also ordered one of these 18v Fakita clones as it looks like a better version of the DUC150, if it really is a brushless motor it may have more power than the original. While its a 1/4" mini chain, I do prefer those narrower bars. Arrives Monday, will put a mini review up if its any good - if the motor is rubbish it will be going straight back.. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0DHZ2T186

Looking at the picture again it does look like the die back is coming from the ash tree behind but the photo quality’s making it hard to see what actually is going on!

Thanks checked carb and all looks good. Surprised it ran with such low compression.

Wordle 1,533 4/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I like the safety features but a bladed power tool should be respected. If your putting your hands or fingers in a blade with it running, what do you expect to happen? If you rely on the glove, one day you will finish a job, take it off then notice a cut you missed and do it without the glove, and your fingers are gone. When I've let other climbers use my secatuers and told them to respect it, turn it off between cuts or any time they are moving around, only one does. The others thought they knew best, they are accidents waiting to happen, so I wont let them use it any more.

There is no comparison - green climber all day long! Robocut are great machines for the price if you’re mostly doing grass and light bramble day to day however if you want something to do grass, scrub & small diameter saplings it’s the green climber. The green climber are a premium machine and will cost more if they go wrong but the output should far outweigh that.

Witington side and no qualifications yet just a few years experiance mate

Huge news if you’re a cro holder Trump Media, Crypto.com Announce Strategic Partnership - Crypto.com CRYPTO.COM Cronos (CRO) Cryptocurrency and Crypto.com Digital Wallet Infrastructure to be Integrated on Trump Media Platforms off the back of this crypto.com are now offering 20% apr for staking cronos for 12 months. I’d strongly advise against taking up this offer

If the fruitiing body is not on the log then how can it sporulate? Altough Kretz is both saprophytic and parasitic/pathogenic once the logs dry it will not fruit and hence spread.

Good Morning Woken up by 8 wheeler delivering hardcore to farm at 7. Milling and food and beer. Perfect day maybe. Have fun.

I am doing this... kind of... along the back fence a good layer of wood chip to break down but then level the ground enough to mow the brambles, nettles etc that grow through the fence - ground level is all over the place at the moment - point is, in some cases it can work... but not on their own. Depends on the weeds you get you might consider ways to embrace them or use what grows there as a guide to what plants to plant as replacements

Hi everyone ,so we are going to make a resin table thats a bit different ,I will post photos when done ,so have any of you ordered and used any resin from Temu or Ali express and is it any good . Thanks. Mark

finally got the recently acquired Danarm 1-71-ss back together today, it had a few electrical problems, I can't be certain but it looked like someone had it apart previously and trapped wires when reassembling, I replaced them all from an old parts saw, and put a kit in the carb, before firing up I pulled the exhaust, piston looked new! in fact the top was showing no evidence of being fired at all, it has massive amounts of compression, I'm thinking someone gave up on it after spending time and coin on it and traded it in for a new model, [it came from a dealers shop, as did the other two] it's now running good and starts in a couple of pulls from cold, and one once warmed up. I got a Dolmar CC [109] coming next week, I hope that as easy to sort.

The only reason I looked at case/NH was the extra pump. The spec says 50ltr constant flow so I can track and flail. Flailing wise would be brambles and small self sown trees on brown sites so there is normally a lot of contamination in terms of rubbish. I currently have a green climber lv500 and it’s brilliant, but my business seems to be moving more towards trees than scrub. im thinking 50% flail work 25% grab work 25% actually digging and grading. Thanks

Lol...

To be honest, your doing well to get three chains worth of life out of a Husqvarna 135 ! Assuming the saw and bar is OK, I'd clean up the bar, get the rails flat and true and replace the chain and sprocket. The problem is these parts wear together. An worn sprocket will mess up a new chain, a messed up chain will mess up the new sprocket.

Just check the local people, they need a 10x1.0 helicoil kit and willing/able to do it.

Be nice or I'll come round and shove a ferret up your nightie!

well done. I'm sure you won't be disappointed