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Peter

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  1. I wouldnt try to crane feed any disc chipper fwiw.
  2. I still have the first stretch air tee shirt I got 4 years ago. Getting a bit threadbare now but still wearable.
  3. School isnt designed to educate the individual, its designed to sort children into bin men and lawyers. If a little education happens along the way, then thats a happy accident. Overall it is the nation who benefits, not the individual. University is now a way of trapping young people in debt to banks for the rest of their working lives. Come out of uni with £20k plus debt, by the time its paid off they will have a mortgage they can barely afford, by the time thats paid off its a few short years of retirement before they have to sell the house to pay for care in their old age..... As for being able to get anything you want if you work hard enough, that is a pipe dream. Social and financial mobility has not been harder for 100 years, the gap between rich and poor is growing all the time. While you are working all the hours you can to scrape together the payments on your 3 rental houses, the few with the real money are sitting in their mansions laughing at you.
  4. Nice one mate! Why are you cancelling today's work though? You'll have to get used to working without sleep for the next year anyway!
  5. Klemheist
  6. Black wire under the front of the top handle. Also check your rubber av mounts, as if they are starting to wear there will be increased play in the handle, which can cause the wire to pull off at the spade terminal under the handle.
  7. How do you get the wood chip out of the boot though?
  8. If money is no object then take a look at Festool......
  9. B&Q had a good offer on recently, Hitachi Li-ion with two batteries for £100. Hitachi rep told me the rrp on the batteries is £60 each......
  10. Nice nonsense poem, but I prefer The Hunting of the Snark myself.
  11. I see your bid, and I raise you 13 saws, one hedgetrimmer, and a midget. Beat that!
  12. If I bring 12 saws can I charge £360?
  13. Don't you mean pollarded?
  14. I'd have called it a yellow ash, and sold it for many pennies. Nice job, look forward to seeing more pics. In my experience of consultants and arb reports, you are best off taking all information given with a generous pinch of salt. I'm sure there are many fine and knowledgable consultants, but never assume they are right about everything.
  15. Willow burns just fine. Makes good kindling too.
  16. Wet sappy wood will tar up your chimney, don't burn it unless you want to sweep every few weeks. Again, properly dry is the key. Spitting isn't an issue unless you have an open fire.
  17. Any wood, as long as it is dry. Firewood of any species at a given (low) moisture content will produce roughly the same amount of energy by weight. By volume hardwoods will give more heat as they are more dense.
  18. Peter

    ms650

    I like using a smaller one, it fits in places a bigger one wouldn't!
  19. Peter

    ms650

    I use a 4.8 (3/16) file on my 3/8ths chain, so I only need 2 file sizes. Its all about what you do with it rather than how big it is.....
  20. You will be very disappointed with the performance of green teeth compared to sandvik imo. Have you tried ringing Sandvik UK? 02476 476300
  21. That top wouldnt have been stopped by a dogged step cut, as soon as the butt lifted free of the stump it was going to flip. Proper slinging would have prevented it flipping.
  22. Spread the load with more attachment points, one low down for lift, 5 or 6 spider leg attachments would be plenty for that kind of wide spreading tree.
  23. Not too big, just slung too low.
  24. Try these
  25. Peter

    Sleep.

    Alchohol is not a good idea, it does make you sleepy but after 4-5 hours it has the opposite effect as your body over-compensates by releasing stimulant. Also alcohol irritates the urinary tract, so once you have passed urine containing alcohol you will need to go again sooner. People usually benefit from a routine, so your body knows what to do at a particular time of day. Try to set a bedtime routine, warm milky drink or whatever, get to bed at around the same time each day, and try not to get up again even if you don't feel sleepy. After a few days of brain training like that it should start to get better. On the same note don't vary the routine at weekends. People who say they haven't slept, but have been lying down in bed actually get more sleep than they think they have, as you go into a state of microsleep, where you get tiny bursts of sleep type brain activity without realising it. If you think you aren't sleepy and get up and start doing stuff you definately won't get any sleep. Lastly, different people need different amounts of sleep, 7 hours might be fine for you, 5 hours might be fine for someone else. Most people need between 7-9 hours.

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