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Morning Team! Last day of the show! Looking forward to nearly night and decent cup of the finest! Been a decent show and good to see folk I've known of for many years! Been a while since I looked at the papers too!

Those pics looked like I'd had half the leg removed . No, the knee takes the weight passing through to the metal peg leg below. The shin is supported on the table running behind the body, with the ankle and foot hanging off the end. Clips on and off superfast. Best thing....look - no crutches. Takes maybe ¾hr to truly set it up for your height and balance, then you're away with it. Great instructional video comes with it. Best €280 spent...says my wife

AT Engineering at Brock opposite Barton Grange garden centre, is ail ways worth a shout on nuts bolts fixings etc, its a proper old school supplier with vast stocks of new metric, but all so some very old imperial stock as well, they been there a long time and all ways helpful ,,

Luckily for me I wasnt a husky dealer at the time.

Sounds interesting, I'll stick that on at some point when I need to fill the air with sound. Not now, early night. Somewhat related to prescribing nature; I've always been amused by the concept of horticultural therapy (which does of course work wonders for all sorts of people, for all sorts of problems, with a lot of data to back it up), and I've often wondered where you would find the upper boundary of a therapeutic amount of hands-in-compost time, and how it compares to the average workload of your average horticulturalist. Because potting on primroses and violas doesn't feel very therapeutic after the first few thousand. 20240913_165501.mp4

If its been a couple of months worth of use then I would presume the initial setup was OK. Make sure your air filter is clean, this is very imprtant on these machines, split it and clean it out properly with carb/ brake cleaner. Check the fuel pipe isnt split at the end where it goes into the fuel filter. Check your spark plug is good and tight. Basic carb settings are around 2 1/2 turns out on the low and high, tweak them from there/

Ah yes Donnie please do send me the WhatsApp link, that would be great.

Sometimes members here have some, sometimes not. Sometimes it is a patience game, you have to remember you'll get a call if it suits whoever has the logs. Perhaps there is a closer free tip site for that days work than you, sometimes you are the closest. Tip sites tend to work well for tree surgeons working outside their area, local ones will be sorted for where to tip, others might not want a 20+ mile drive home with a load of arb waste. So give the tip sites some time, they do work. Weird as it may sound, not every tree surgeon and so on are member here - if you want to put in some leg work you might want to call locals direct, try to time it so they are not hanging off a tree when you call (e-mail works, phone first or last thing) but remember that they could be getting a lot of calls. Last tip is to walk about at lunchtime and listen - if you hear a chainsaw a friendly face asking politely if they have anywhere for the logs can often be better than a phone call. However remember if 'free' then tipping them at yours has to make sense to whoever has them

I want to get new boots. What do you use or recommend? I'm currently wearing a pair of Andrews and while the protection is good, nothing else is, including the fit is about a size too big, but thats all they had at the time. Main annoyances are the lack of grip while climbing and the toe box is huge, often my foot wont fit in the gap between branches. Its like wearing a brick!

A540 tracked is 1400kg.

Use a file and put a chamfer on the edges of the pads the friction material part, top and bottom

Have you heard of the saying about letting sleeping dogs lie?

Hi, Does anyone use any apps (ideally in the free or £10pm price range) for creating and sending quotes which allow you to add pictures and details of the job etc? Ta,

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ya cant cut trees in the buff. thats just not gonna be comfortable where the sawdust gets.

I would be interested to see a video as this isn't an issue I've came accross before.

Seen a few of these posts - very similar - 'neighbours new extension is cracking*, the existing tree is at fault, kill it' - I think the last one was a 150 year old Horse Chestnut? Generally the insurers want to remove all trees everywhere. Generally there is never any mention to compensate the home owner for lack of amenity with the tree going. I suspect a couple of hundred ££ plus full costs would clear up a lot of arguments, be cheaper than pursuing things legally and a lot cheaper than making a proper fit for purpose foundation. [I reckon my apple trees give me say 50 apples a year (and the cows about the same windfalls), organic apples at 40p a shot x 100 £40 a year in apples x 7 years missed harvest while another matures.. about £280 worth of apples lost!]... Might be useful to have a couple of photos to give those with more experience than me something to guess from... but 3m from the extension, and what 8m from the side that is cracking? I'd be wanting to push the insurers for more evidence before a 'much loved' tree is removed. * I mean has cracks developing, it isn't a brilliant extension....

Power is force time speed and you're limited in how much power you can pull from a 13 or 16 amp domestic socket. Upping the budget to 1k doesn't quite get you out of the Chinese weeds, you need around 1500 to get something from Posch, Thor, Oxdale or the like. I'd keep an eye out for good secondhand though, better off with repairable quality than a cheap new one I think.

The tree is probably matchsticks now.

Bit of scrub bashing with Wessex scrubmaster on fendt 304, 12ft high sallow and birch.