Mike Hill

Good God Man! When you are in a hole, stop digging! If you over tension a chain the threads on the tensioner will strip. ie: attempt to tighten a chain before slackening the bar nuts. Suggesting you will bend the crank is nonsense via shrinking when cold. Chains snap for a number of reasons, big bars need the side plates hanging off the bottom of the bar slightly or you rob the powerhead fighting friction spinning the chain

@Rough Hewn Why dont you ask @STIHL GB how they go about avoiding bent crankshafts via chain contraction? While your on the phone to them also ask them what ratio coolent to water they reccomend and wether its best to push start a chainsaw or use jumper leads if someone left the lightson in the clutch cover.

Yew did a good job there!

Exactly. A cheap weekend away too and meet some interesting people. This. It was amazing the skill exchanges that took place.I taught a Scottish Butcher how to sharpen a Chainsaw,he taught me how to steel a knife. I let a Canadian woman use my bath,she showed me a reverse cowgirl..

Depends: Woofers can be people employed in public service jobs who get long holidays but low wages. On their 6 week summer holiday they could doss about their flat,take a booze soaked package holiday to some sunny place or Woof across Canada for basically the cost of their plane tickets .

London has long been governed by twats: I remember "Kommunist Ken Livingston" stamping his feet about Kiwi's and Aussies living packed into private houses to save money in West London, whilst Bengali's in the East end would sledge hammer holes in the walls of social housing flats to give them a more "Village Feel" .They would throw the rubble out the windows for the council to pick up.

I don't think anyone suggested we didn't need planning. Would be chaos without. Just that the planning laws are all wrong. Sorry I must have missed that bit

We need building and planning regulations to stop people living in substandard dwellings that might be dangerous to their and their childrens health.As well as people using the land in a responsible mannor. How would you feel if once you had built your sustainable home from timber you had milled yourself,set up a composting toilet and planted a vege garden,Only to have five families living in busses shitting into long drops upstream from your water source? Then their perpetually sick kids giving your kids colds because the ferals live in un insulated routemasters with gas bottle heaters and you getting sick because they have corrupted the water in the name of "Freedom Man". I lost pretty much everything in 2011.Four years later I bought my first house.You have to buy within your means and keep your eye on the market.Once the downturn hit in 2015 I actually bought the first House I ever went to a veiwing for.This was because I had rationalised what I wanted in a house and timed the market,I worked 7 days a week and set savings goals.If you wants something you have to hunt it down. Opportunity only ceases to exist,when you cease to look for it.

Well I am sure the plucky Hun can manage, they experianced such hardship in the past, courtesy of "Bomber Harris" and the dashing RAF.

I took the cab off two mogs to paint them, it made it much easier for a novice painter like me.

Solid as the day it was made. I know what you mean though,they can get very rusty. Truck has only driven 15,000 miles in 40 years,

I painted it myself in 2015 , got the box sign written this year.

I think when such as in Scandi, the socialist model has been long established, contrary to the unlikely event of it ever being implemented in the US where it would need to strip wealth and assets from the rich. The biggest benefactors of the Scandinavian Economic model are those at the very top and those at the very bottom. Its everyone inbetween who pays literally for their privilage.

Another way to show the gap between rich and poor is wider than you think. Coffee Barron buys a £300K Bentley as a company car. Gets pretty much £100K in Vat straight back Claims 15% per annum depreciation for four years and the rest in the fifth. Free Car But wait, there is more! Sells five year old Bentley for £200k,( no vat on used cars) pays that out as a divident to himself taxed at 28% £142K right in the back burner. Whilst his cleaners are taxed at 36% and cant claim their bus pass as an expense.

One other fact regarding Sweden , is that it has an Aristocracy. Who are by definition the very essence of privilage. They may let you roam their forests and swim in their lakes, but they probably got a cut from the fuel in your tank and the food in your cupboard, the clothes on your back and the government subsidies to the kindergarten your children attend. These deeply entrenched old money monopolies are sometimes hundreds of years old.Coffee,Roofing,Shipping, Oil as a late commer to the wealth party are all big parts of a relatively few portfolio's. The politicans after all, have to keep their prospective future employers happy as they can't all go and work for NATO,Brussels or the UN.

Just like how some people can write caligraphy whilst others use a crayon through a stencil.

After a while in Scandinavia, once the shine wears off.. you will come to realise that the very rich are not much different to the rich in the UK or indeed anywhere else Jason. They are simply more adapt at concealing their wealth and some might argue even more skillful in finding loopholes. You will also find that the very Rich in Scandinavia pay personally very much less tax percentage wise than the lowest paid person in their employment. Most of the very wealthy take their money from dividents, the consultancy fees they charge as paper employees of their own companies or assests are often paid in shares.The wealthy own alot of land, land owners have their own tax scales and handily can rent up to 50% of their propert tax free, to their other concerns of which they predictabley consult to...

I use it as a balance weight for the crane and chipper thats usually on the linkage. I just didnt feel like taking it off when I towed the tipping trailer. I have been thinking about permanently mounting the winch on the mog to the from of the tractor though. But a winch on front linkage would be better but comes at the expense of loosing the loader.

"Oh look at that trailer full of loverly wood, let me just park my car in front of the tow hitch"

Come join us Stephen

Morris Dancing Sadly I live in Norway,thus without an abundance of other Morris Dancers we meet up every sunday to Dance together virtually. Such fun.

Check the earth on the solinoid, it might earth to the pump through its body or it might have a separate earth. Disconnect the positive wire and try touching a hot wire to the positive feed, you should hear the solinoid click open. If you have a multimeter check function of the switch on the dash. Is it a double function rocker switch? Press the top bit and the deck goes up, press the bottom and the deck goes down? Check for continuity on the wire(s) going to the solinoid. Its hard to know what to say without being there and seeing it.

Alot of good points made on this thread. Few people argue the price over here, they accept it of they dont. I went out to quote a job on saturday an hours drive from town. I told the woman what the minimum price would be for any work that far out before I left. It was 3 days work with the Valta,25 spruce trees and she accepted on the day. Today she texts and cancels or rather just wants a price for the 5 trees closest to the house. I the price I gave her was 50% of my original quote, she argues it should have been 20% since its 5 not 25 trees. I told her reducing the number of trees dose not reduce the distance from town, it just means I drive the tractor for longer than I use it and the cost of that is higher than having it chipping. She pulled the whole job. Happy.

First thing you need to look at is how to get a work visa for Finland. Contact the Finnish Embassy in the states for details. Embassy, Washington - Finland abroad: United States of America Sweden and Norway are relatively easy to gain work permits for.