Mike Hill

Buy/borrow a 36" bar,buck it off the root plate like Rich sayes. Then rip it into quarters even if your going to mill it. Slabs the full width would be heavy at even an inch thick. If you want to mill it quarter sawn beech makes the most of am otherwise pretty boring timber.

Yeah that Kynoch would be dear. Your mate with the No4 won't hurt it putting cordite through it,he probably just got confused as to why not. His bore is more at risk from the corrosive primers if he dosnt rinse it with boiling water after shooting old ex mil ammo.

Not on this one unfortunately.

215 grain round nose. Norma used to make them but now only Woodleigh does and their factory burned down. 180 grainers with a flat base would also be ok. This Rifle has Whitworth rifling and been fed a diet of cordite charged rounds. Cordite burns hot and Whitworth rifling has sharper lands so the throat is slightly eroded. Flat based bullets will obturate into the rifling a little bit,boat tails allow some of the gas to wash around the projectile and buffet it,not great for accuracy.

I have put my prices for domestic up alot as well as charging for quotes outside of where I want to work. No one has taken me up on the "£100 refundable at sale " condition of an out of town quote. Repeat customers I will quote for out of town but not new ones. Easy to waste 2.5 hours or more. The real money is in commercial here.

In theory that would work. But to drop the impact 12" would reduce the velocity enough for it to be inhumane and probably below the required velocity for the bullets to expand significantly. Also accuracy could be total pants. The 174grn service bullets are 30% lighter than what this Rifle was ment for.

Yeah that's the thing with Co2. If you change your mind about continuing shooting 5 shots into a canister,you waste the whole thing anyhow. I had a Co2 revolver as a kid,it always ran out/ was out of gas when I wanted to use it. Anyhoo here is my Lee Speed in 303 brit,bore is a bit shabby and shooting ammo made for Browning Aircraft MG's isn't the best but here is 8 shot offhand at 100m. I need to fi d some heavier bullets because it shoots awfully high.

Pikeys drive nice wagons because it adds a air of credibility. If your chasing top dollar you have to look like you are making it too. Peoples perception of value is weird. If I rolled up with four blokes,did a big section fell and biffed it all into a skip in a day for £5K+vat the likelihood of the customer moaning would be high. If I drop the Valtra off the night before,turn up in the mog,use the crane driver to unhook and I snedd for 20 minutes before chipping it all into the skip,load the wood on top and call the skip company for an early Finnish I haven't had anyone moan when they see all that kit. Even though it cost me less than hiring three subbies for the day.

It is a hard question to answer but here is what worked for me. The big trees and gardens where I work are in the posh areas,the rest of the work was all over the place. I would take the flash motor to the posh places and a little run about everywhere else.Most of the posh gaffs I would park right in front of the house,the everyday places on the road so they wouldn't see the quoting car anyhow.

As unpopular as this might sound... If we as Arborists all drove nicer wagons,I think the public would take us more seriously thus we could charge more.

I'm not. I was born in Lincoln New Zealand

Time for a yarn. I arrived in Norway with an 084 and 10kg of protein powder. I had to declare the saw and pay duty since I bought it for the company. Took the red lane and to the custom agents delight was a foreigner. They swabbed the protein powder but the machine wouldn't work. So they punctured a bag and offered it to the drug dog who gulped it down I nearly fell over laughing as the nog dog handler went ballistic over his dog eating choccy protein powder. Still got the saw.

I have flown with saws both new and used plenty of times. Drain tanks,protect bucking spikes,check in as normal luggage. End of.

America win the "Space Race" after something is won,why do it again? Anyhow America was busy doing advanced landscaping in Vietnam at the time which cost huge amounts of money.

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