Dean Lofthouse
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Cheeky barsteward, nicking birdfeed on the floor, I should've kicked it in the teeth
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Has anything been put on the neighbouring land Dave, fertiliser, chicken crap etc ?
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Sorry Bob, haven't seen your post till now. I've ended up with a Canon EF-S 17-85mm IS-USM and a Sigma 70-210mm 1:4-5.6 UC-II I think I need to go to the newsagaents and buy a Photography for beginners magazine because all those numbers mean nothing to me apart from the focal lengths which I know from gun sights. If you strap a camera to a rifle, I'd know everything about it
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We used to get a lot of Hondas in for bent crankshafts, on nearly every one we struggled to undo the blade bolts. Locating lugs for a blade is not good, the blade cant slip if shock loaded and something else will give. Direct drive mowers shouldn't have their blades bolts graunched tight, on belt drive mowers it doesn't matter so much as the belt soaks up the shock
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What make of mower is it ? Do you tighten your blade too tight? Something like that shouldn't do that sort of damage unless you have over tightened your blade ( they should slip under a shock load ) or you have a cheap mower
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Nice Tom, but mind blowingly tedious, when I'm doing a double face wall I rarely get more than 2 mtr a day done because I pee about too much. One day I just threw a wall together and to be honest it didn't look too bad. Nice work mate, I couldn't do walling full time, I'd end up institutionalised What width is the bed Tom ?
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I used to sell Dewalt on Ebay Rob and in the end it wasn't worth doing because ebay were making more than me. In the last year I did it I turned over £68K on ebay, I would sell something for £300 and make £50 profit ebay would take half of that in fees. I reckon if the taxman got onto ebay sellers and buyers he could solve the national debt in one foul swoop and leave us poor wood cutters alone
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Just sold my nightsight on ebay for £393 it cost me £700+ £393 inc £12 P&P minus £13.56 Paypal (part of ebay) £38.08 final value fee £3.20 insertion fee Total ebay fees to sell a £380 item is £54.84 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think ebay has got very dear since I first started using it things are almost not worth selling as ebay makes more than you sometimes Right I'm off to slash my wrists
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You'd be able to use a cut and shut saw to do a shut and cut tree job....sorted
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Cant believe my new £350 endoscope only reached £60 Please tell me why idiot bother to bid when it says in the description that it will not be sold if it doesn't reach £200 no matter what in big letters. Then some ding bat bids £60 and sends me payment via paypal and asks me to send it asap. So I have refunded him and told him what I think
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Ahaha The big mistake landrover made was bringing out the sport All I see is wanna be gangsters, bling merchants and drug dealers driving them. The sport is fast becoming a chav car same as the X5 When someone mentions range rover to me I get a mental image of one doing ninety in the fast lane of the motorway bullying or tailgating some car to get out the way They are not refined like the Landcruiser, which is driven by gentlemen with large tackle Thats why I had to get rid of my landcruiser cos I didn't fit the bill BTW, I heard the road tax on the brand new landcruiser is £900 per year
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I know it's tempting for them.. We organised a gang of 20 bods from our shoot to spend a sunday clearing flytip from country roads on the estate we shoot ( a little something to put back into the local community), we got three 10ton and had arranged with a council bod to tip at a waste transfer station When we got to the transfer station they knew nothing of it and declared because they are private and not council they couldn't take it After a morning of arguing with them, they caved in after I told them the local rag were due on site at 12 to run a story on what we were doing and how we were cleaning up the local community It's hard work even getting rid of waste that you have cleaned up for the council to try and save them money
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Oh Dear
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I have just been on the Honey Bro's site and couldn't find a link to opening times..........is there one ??
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What about a running anchor Like a rope strung between two anchor points running alog the cliff edge, tighten it up with a 5:1 then put a pulley on it and anchor off the pulley so it runs. Bit like a dog run wire If there isn't an anchor point I have anchored off my mewp boom before now
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Just anchor the rope round your waist then you stand at the top of the cliff and send your groundy over, make sure you dig in your heels though like they do in tug of war
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I take it you had your whitty bix this morning
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Did a Euc reduction today on a very narrow, very steep cobbled ratrun, literally a car every 10 seconds. Climbed into the tree and put in an anchor point, dropped back down and put one foot on a 30ft branch, which then just peeled off, and fell straight across the road missing a car going up the hill by about 3mm. It was that close the car actually stopped and looked back Luckily no-one was hurt and nothing was damaged but goes to show you never know when that PL insurance might come in. When I looked and the stub end there was included bark and a very weak union from a previous pollarding point. It looked ok as I inspected it pre climb. Hidden weak points that bite You can see the 13mm rope for scale in the first photo, no pics of the branch across the road as it had to be cleared straight away to get traffic moving
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No worries Tommer, I'll save up my doggie do and bring you a load down next time I trip south mate Robert: Police say its the councils job to bring prosecution not theirs Anyway, my faith in humans is slowly being restored, I am at a very bitter stage at the moment where I think all people are ignorant selfish pilchards, It is really getting me down. Ad's comment this morning when he said if he lived closer he would help clear it meant a lot to me. I know most of you wouldn't hesitate to help but I've only met ad once (top bloke) Then after grumbling that no-one ever even says thanks for me letting them help themselves to my woodchip I get this this morning.....it's little things like this imo that make the world go round
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Thanks Ad, it's nice to know there are generous people like you still around mate, that comment is more help to me than helping to clean it up The problem is with flytipping is for everyone you catch theres another doing it. I've caught two up to press, one actually on film with reg number the lot (look on my youtube channel "pecontools") the police said it was nothing to do with them and I could get the council to do anything either so I gave up I've put his reg number as a keyword so if anyone thinking of buying his car puts his reg number into google it comes up with a vid of him flytipping Justice enough for me
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It happens quite regularly but this time it's as if they are rubbing it in your face, it's a quiet long country road and there's loads of off road places to tip. Luckily this time its on the outside of the gate on council land so they are shifting it. I make it my mission to sift through every peice to find evidence, I did find it in one pile and made them come back and clear every bit and sweep up. One day I will catch them in the act, it's just a matter of time. It was clear at 10pm last night so this as been done between then and 7am this morning, I'm going to scan my home cctv to see if they came past my house on their way there
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This was the entrance to my yard this morning
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Holy cow dave, thats a lense !!
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Sorry LENS I want to spend about £250 second hand but I reckon I'm going to struggle to find something on ebay at that
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Now I am confused
