Chris Sheppard
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Totally agree - lane discipline at roundabouts annoys me massively. Either people being in the wrong lane or straight lining across them. Drives me crackers. The other one is the general poor quality of motorway/dual carriageway driving in the UK. Anywhere else in Europe, people generally overtake and then pull back across and they flow really well. Over here people seem to think that left lane for lorries, middle for cars and right lane for rep mobiles. Used to spend a lot of time on the motorways and am glad I don't so much now. Used to really drive me nuts when I had the trailer on and got stuck behind a slow car sat in the middle lane that wouldn't move across. Figured the best way to drive is to treat every other car as being out to get you as it seems most of them are
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Liking the sound of that
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What are the 2.5 tdi like on fuel? We've been looking for a bit but it would need to replace Wife's 307 hdi and she does about 75 miles a day going to work and back. Did consider the synchro and replace my 90 but think I'd end up battering it too much. Have seen quite a few Vauxhall vivaro (and the nissan version) that looked quite smart with seats in the middle/back too. Think they work out cheaper for newer too as they're not so sought after.
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Chris Sheppard replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
I've not done owt but the unread posts button seems to be working again for me now -
Arbtalk glitches, please report here
Chris Sheppard replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
When I click on unread posts, it still thinks it's 6pm and won't show any of thee new posts. If I go to each forum individually I can see the new posts though. EDIT: just found a today's posts button and that seems to work. -
Done it once or twice and it's not fun Boots start to rub, trousers get mega heavy and it's just not a good place to be. Think it was quite late in the year too so proper cold after a while.
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I like that
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Done that before, only thing to watch for is that MS200 triggers are fairly fragile as we managed to break one in transit when locked up.
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Yep, my 2163 and 2159 were both labelled up as Turbo.
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But what are the XP gubbins? No one seems to have a definite answer
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I must admit I don't use the chainbrake as much as I should if I were to work "by the book". I use it if I feel I need to, which is more often than not during an arb type job rather than in the woods. I'm not as old, but started out working along side guys who were of the older generation so picked up habits from them. So fr can only remember eer replacing two brake bands on saws of my own, and one for someone else.
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Just had the local free ad paper through the door, 5 log men in there now, with one even offering hardwood for £50/pickup load or softwood for £40 per pickup load. Even for a double cab pickup it seems awfully cheap.
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I was thinking similar
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I'd leave it in the garden with the lid off - should evaporate fairly sharpish. Either that or take it to tip or use on bonfire.
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What oil do you use to finish your wood?
Chris Sheppard replied to sasha.p's topic in Woodcraft Forum
We got hold of some good stuff when we fitted our worktops in the kitchen. It's food safe and meant to be about the best stuff available for it's water resistance, stain resistance and durability. Think it was called Top Oil, by Osmo. They do also do a base coat you can put on first to make it even more resilient - aimed at use for damp enviromnents like kitchens or bathrooms. I can't compare it to much else but it was a doddle to apply, dried well and seems to be holding up well so far. -
The technique known locally to us as "landscapering"
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Wot he said ^ There are a tiny few decent agents out there though - usually one's who've retired off the tools
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Damn my one finger typing
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I remember reading the thread but I can't remember wht it was called. Think CharlieH posted the FC document though.
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I don't think there will be that many people jump on the bandwagon compared to those that already are/were/have done becasue they are out of work. It's very rare round us if we're out on an arb job we'll ever hear another saw running unless it's someone cutting a few logs for themselves nearby.
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Burnt, Buried, lead away in sealed trucks - what I was getting at was that I doubted it will end up in circulation for firewood so that's going to up demand even more I'd guess. I'm too young to remember that But yep, I reckon.
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Surely any diseased ash will be burnt on site so as not to spread it?
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Bet it's a bit arse twitchy - even with legs some of the older trailers aren't great on bigger stuff tl there's a stick or two on board. Never used a steering drawbar as yet but really think our tiny Weimer could do with one.
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I've never used either, but, I'd envisage wheel motors wearing quicker as they are turning all the time the wheels are turning, whereas cages are only turning when they are dropped into position. One thing with cages though, is whether they would wear the tyres quicker where they press onto the middle of the tyre? Also, will they still grip the tyres OK when working hard once the tyres wear a bit? The big driven Farma ooks quite smart.
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bet the modern ones won't do that quite so convincingly though
