Oldfeller

I had the very same thing happen to me twice, once with a sparrowhawk, that hit my french windows and was unconscious, I checked and as far as I could tell, no bones broken, I placed it it a quiet place and kept an eye on it, within 10-15 minutes it had regained consciousness and after a short time flew off strongly. an almost identical occurrence but with a kingfisher and a different window, that to survived, it was dazed but not knocked out completely, my missus took a picture of it and did a cross stitch picture of it. but the oddest one was a robin being pursued by a sparrohawk that flew inside my open combat jacket and hid until the threat passed, the sparrowhawk veering off rapidly upon seeing me, I was driving the tractor at the time. I remember feeling it's heart beating at a rapid rate. where I was working at the time you only had to pick up a spade and the local robin would follow you to where you started digging and were tame enough to take worms and grubs from your hand.

bloody terrible, lost all power to the house and the workshop, took all day to isolate the fault, mice chewed a cable and had to practically dismantle the feckin' workshop to find it. had to isolate every circuit to find the fault, lights, sockets, 32 amp for lathe and milling machine, kinda hard to work around all the saws, so all had to be removed before any progress could be made. sorted now, power back on and everything working as it should, my terrier was going mental searching for the culprit, I have placed a dozen traps for the little feckers, so hopefully tomorrow I can get the McCulloch going.

It might be a while before I can post anything guys, I was taking my evening walk and I saw this huge beam of strange light in the dark evening sky, I went closer to where it was shining directly on the ground and suddenly it sort of made me feel really odd and actually started to lift me upwards and towards it's source, It seemed to take ages but I saw a huge craft unlike anything I had ever seen,,, I think I may have gone unconscious shortly afterwards. when I awoke I found myself surrounded by a small group of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, "we wish you no harm" the leader said, "our race is dying as nearly all our men were killed in a galactic battle that has lasted many years, we need handsome, virile, intelligent males of a species like us to breed with to save our race" So guys, I don't think many of you are in any danger,, I just wanted to let you know,,,this spaceship is feckin' awesome.

I'll put this here to save starting another thread, I bid on a little McCulloch last week, mainly because I needed a few bits for the one I have already, looked all there but "doesn't turn over" so it was cheap, less than the price of 20 cigs at todays prices. so I unpacked it today and sure enough it's locked solid, so I remove the plug cap thinking I'll squirt some fuel in the bore and see if it'll free up, and there's a piston stop screwed in it, I remove it and it turns over perfectly, and it has a good spark, and great compression, it's in better nick than the one I hoped to repair, so that will be the donor to this one, I'll pull it apart properly tomorrow and I expect it will be running by the afternoon, all being well.

she was Jaggers girlfriend for a while, I can see the attraction.

foxes often find road kill, and bury or partially bury it, intending to return, but quite often do not, as they can be legally shot, and even become roadkill themselves, also undertaker beetles can quickly dispose of a carcass leaving holes that can look like a small bullet or pellet wound, if a shotgun was used the pellets are within the remains after the beetles have done their job, same for a non exited pellet or smallbore rifle, even sintered rounds will leave a trace.

was the head present, or the feet.

IMO, the older stuff was, while being heavy by todays standards pretty much indestructible, and that would apply to many brands, not just Husqvarna, but just about all of the manufactures built decent durable saws, the "cd" range of Huskies could handle most wood, and if needed there were big Dolmars the 153,166. as well as the Stihls, 041,right up to the huge displacement 090. I cant get enthusiastic about a 500i or "autotune" it's not that I object to progress, but maybe the direction it's gone, building as cheap as possible and often short lived components, rather than higher quality build and long life. some of todays saws are almost devoid of any user serviced parts. much like modern cars. not sure if I would feel different if I still had to earn a living with a saw. a decent older Husky or a Dolmar 116si would suit me just fine. that said I'll rebuild this 350 and you never know, it might just grow on me.

I can remember even as a kid walking among the rows of bikes at the places they congregated, learning the names, the engine size, the top speed, etc, most had taken a standard old bike, and made it their own, crankcases would be polished like chrome, solvol must have been on overtime back then, usually in the old cafe racer, or Clubmans style, clip ons, rearsets, ally guards, but no two alike, names were often spoke of like Hyde, Hagon, Kuhn, Dow, and many more. later there was Ducati, Guzzies, Benelli, even saw a Munch Mammoth once, leather jackets,festooned with chrome studs and enameled badges, and old surplus boots from Pride and Clarks, with the white sea socks folded over the tops,and the essential white silk scarf, and either a "pisspot" helmet or if you were really serious, the silver Everoak "racemaster" a far cry from the rows of identical soul less fireblades an r1,s, gsxr,s and kawasakis. who knew back then it would one day cease to be.

I wonder what the Egli would be worth today?

I conquered Mt Everest.

That's just beautiful, I can remember when rows of them would be lined up outside various venues, before taking off somewhere for the customary "burn up" there was one I knew with the DBD34 and rrt2 box, it was real nice and fast too, but he got quite a bit of stick for "ruining a Goldie"

Frankenbikes were popular back then, triton, tribsa, trifield,Villiers bantams, even Ariel Arrow bantams, Harley 45 in any frame you could squeeze it into,various engines in the wideline Norton frame, Ariel square 4, The famous Egli Vincent Even Ariel got in on it with the 650 Huntmaster/ BSA collaboration. At one time I had a 250 AJS, and discovered the 350 looked to the inexperienced eye exactly the same, for a short while my "250" was quicker than all the others, until word got out.

but I was told there's boat loads arriving every day.

no idea, never had another to compare it with. barrel looks in decent nick, might source some parts and rebuild it in between more desirable projects as long as it isn't cost prohibitive.

I had a few Bantams over the early years, brilliant little bikes, so simple to maintain, never gonna break any speed records but always got me home. even tuned one to get a little more "performance" Todd 160 barrel and piston, Alpha crank, wal phillips fuel injection, expansion box, clip ons, etc. looked and sounded the part but wasn't really gonna set the road alight. then found that with a little backyard ingenuity it was possible to shoehorn a 250 Villiers twin into it,, now that did liven it up considerably.

I'm fast approaching a 100 saws of all brands, sizes and categories Stubby, I can honestly say my opinion of this particular one is extremely low, even as a homeowner saw, plastic fecking crankcase!!! every saw I own will surpass this pos with no effort at all, glad I didn't buy the thing.