PeteB

What the man said!! Bent rods are better than bent valves or knackered piston crowns etc. I recently had a chain slip on a V8 in a hot rod - left me with a load of bent rods, just found some more in the shed and put it back together and she ran!

Gary, your bodywarmer from the ArbTalk raffle was dispatched today. I sent you a message but your inbox is full! Cheers.

I just followed the link off of a FaceBook post.....never liked the lads music too much, but I do like his response to the latest twaddle from the politicians ref elitism in the entertainment world. How very erudite and perceptive....backed up my views on them anyhow....no doubt there will be more twaddle from all sides as thy vie for my vote. Why can they not tell me what they intend to do with my life rather what wrongs the others have done previously! Why do they think that mudslinging will get my vote? when they cannot tell me what they are going to achieve and back up the theory with how and where the money is coming from and going to? Apparantly, James Blunt spent a bit of time working for Home Grown Timber before his time in the army I believe. Top man with some intelligence and balls to stand up for himself.

Define hedge waste for me please. I have shoved hands full of conifer shavings through a CS100 - it didn't change its size too much, but it blew it into bag, wheelie bin and to the back of his compost pile. The CS100 (and similar makes) are about as small as you need to go - in my experience, anything smaller is going to be a mill stone as they cannot do too much and bigger stuff may need a lot of pre-processing prior to it going through. Now is the time to get some help in getting that new tool or growing your business. Whether that be a new (or newer) truck, chipper, premises or setting on a new team or trying a new venture. Raising capitol through finance is the cheapest it is ever going to get. Use your stash as a deposit on a new machine or decent used thing etc as money is at its cheapest for many years. The older amongst us can remember bank loans of 17% back in the 1980's yet at the moment, money is so cheap. (Forget the payday buffoons - give then a really wide berth whatever your circumstances....)

I got an old two stroke for private use. Brilliant for large flat areas like patches of nettles etc in hoss field etc. Or where you have a lot of edges or boundary fences etc. Got my father a four stroke as he found carrying his Stihl tiring - he is nearly 80! Both were off flea bay at around £100 or bit more......

Running at half revs wouldn't have done that! Either timing chain has bust causing rising pistons to impact opening valves or it has "hydrauliced" which is fluid on top of pistons meaning that valves cannot open when push rods try hence the bent push rods. Good video and your Dad sounds a great bloke! Wip head off and see is the next thing for this - I'll found out some details from Mac and Jason....

John Young at Youngs Tree Surgery in Melton Mowbray has been trying to flog his 1680 for a while now, it came with different screens and cutting systems to suit both biomass timber and greenwaste. John has had it advertised on Mascus or Agri Afffaires once or twice.....07836 346606

I seem to remember that the lift pump is a simple bi-valve jobby. Strip and check that muck isn't keeping a valve partially open. Check the fuel system from the high pressure pump back to the tank, clean or replace all filters including anything in fittings on the high pressure side too. Check that the rack is actually opening and not just the quadrant opening.....

Just type in caddy in the search box, then check for car parts in categories. Easy as......got a door card for Wench's Focus......spot on!

Palaeolithic diet? Why not just eat sensibly and cut out processed junk food - modern man lives healthier and longer than the average cave man anyhow. I'm not over impressed with gm crops as it goes, my philosophy would be to pay the producers more for good, natural crops rather than pay retailers more for selling stuff which lasts longer on the shelf and looks cleaner on the racks! And all that after they have shafted the growers!

Saved yourself a few bucks there then!

True word.....better to be over insured and covered than facing or watching misery!

Big cojones! anything is better than the trauma caused by a circular saw when fingers and hands go in......seen it a few times over the years including my own thumb. But like someone said, how would it react on a larger blade - even if it is slower?

Quick, get them in before that lot freezes!

I don't think that they have sold huge numbers of them so 2nd hand units are like hens teeth. By spreading your search for other makes, you will increase the chances of coming up with a similar tool carrier. Choice on those is limited as well. Stand on carriers are few and far between - look also at the Boxer for a start. Have a word with the people at Vermeer to see if there are any available in other markets, look at Mascus or Agriaffaires too. Good luck.

Spotted this on the Mascus machinery website. My 090 is over 30 years old and sits in the garage cover in dust! Now you can buy the 070 again!! Brilliant - no AV kit, small exhaust with no silencer and no chainbreak!

I read it as they have been appointed a Jensen dealer by Redwood, the importer. I thought that they were doing the Laski Raptor thing.....before that (June 2014) they were appointed a Schiesling dealer too.

Torque settings are written in the manual which is available as a download from the GreenMech website or viewable on a tablet or smart phone. If you have plane washers then I would say that 150nm is okay but some go upto 250nm if the fit Nordloc washers in place of the plane washer. A few simple rules are that the blade pocket and surrounding area is clean and also the back of the blade too. Also make sure that the nut orifice is also free from debris to ensure a complete metal to metal contact. Put a smear of grease in the blade pocket before placing the blade and in it and use a torque spanner or bar to get the correct setting. Same as any blade set up tbh.... I take it as the blade/bar gap is now down to something like original, someone had sharpened the wrong face on the old blades?

He is on about the components for a tracked woodchipper's undercarriage not the indeed rollers.

I got told some 20 years ago by someone from Hinckley and Bosworth that the diseases status of "notifiable" had been dropped as by the time it was visible, it was too late and the spoors had been blown through already. They actual advice was fell and chip, as fell and burn on site wasn't practical. Makes good firewood by the time it is noticed tbh.

My wife threw me out over 10 years ago when the kids where 5 and 7. It affected my son(7) a lot more than my daughter. I get the standard Divorced Dad's time - alternate weekends and tea on Wednesday the magic 104 nights..... I have to say that because their mother and I are so very different - it does mean that they did have two lives really. I admit that taking them back was always very difficult and upsetting but that is life tbh. When they did used to get upset, I focused them on the positive things like that their mother loved them, they had pets etc, fridge always full...blah blah blah. My son appreciates that I stayed single for the most part to be there for them and now I have a partner - my life, and theirs, will change again, but then, they are growing up and the dynamic will change again because of that too. My daughter is so very much like her mother, so we don't get on and contact will be lost again......shame, but life goes on and on. Good luck with your son, cherish the time and the events that you come across, teach him well and allow him to grow. He will be okay in the end......and be grateful for having a good ex!

solenoid that engages the cutter? do you mean electric clutch? That will be around the £500 mark I'll quess. How is it broken? Westcon are the importers and know their onions....

Caz got a book from Sainsbury. She was surprised to see a section from an "expert" who spent a while with her old boss, Pete Mellors, learning what he did with his to win prizes! Another thing to surprise me was the anchovy paste or fish essence that went in!

Our lass made some at home last weekend. They got ate before the jelly had set! She is the Production Supervisornat Maloney's in Tuxford and they make 1000s of pies of various types every year! They made 250 x 1lb game pies the week before Christmas, god knows how many miles of sausage rolls every month etc. She keeps me off them or I'd be supersize!