sime42
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South a bit ..........
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Glad it it wasn't just me with the dirty mind. I thought it reminiscent of certain parts beginning with an L.
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Is it a brushless motor? I had a similar wobbly chuck issue with a Makita drill driver I bought about 5 years ago. It developed it soon after I got it. I sent it back to Makita but they said they could find nothing wrong so didn't fix it. I looked it up and apparently it's a common fault with early brushless motor cordless tools. It seems like a bearing thing to me but I didn't dig any deeper. Apart from that its a really good tool, I've still got it and use it fairly frequently. Though also got a mains drill and a cordless impact driver so it only does light work. (I suspect I caused the wobbly issue by doing a fair bit of hard masonry drilling with it early on. Though they ought to be designed to take that.) Wrt. the stripping screw heads thing; I reckon that's down to not necessarily dodgy but just old screws. Modern screws are probably designed to be driven by a drill or impact driver so are made of s harder type of steel.
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What to do with Live Oak roots running on the ground
sime42 replied to Johnny Miller's topic in Trees and the Law
If you want to take the roots out I'd suggest using a Mattock because you'll knacker the chainsaw chain in no time otherwise. If the mattock is reasonably sharp it will probably be just as quick anyway; the roots will be quite soft since they are live. Though if you do cut the roots the tree will die fairly soon afterwards, or fall over least. So you might as well use the chainsaw to cut the tree down instead. -
Interesting. Now we're getting down to the nitty gritty details of the issue. I heard an article in the FT mentioned earlier; saying that the rise of mass shooting events in recent years in the US was at least partly due to the increased use of Social Media. I wonder if that is correlated with income inequality.
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More likely that lockdowns meant that there were no mass gatherings of defenceless people, such as in schools, at which the Gun Nuts could enact their sick fantasies.
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Hours of fun with one of them, plus the pints of hot tea.
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There's a few other horrendous statistics on this issue as well. Apparently firearms are the leading cause of death for American children, for instance. Guns now leading cause of death for American children, CDC says NYPOST.COM More than 5 deaths per 100,000 Americans between the ages of 1 and 19 were due to guns in 2020, the most recent year for which the CDC has data. Maybe this subject would be better placed on the Brainwashed Americans thread ........
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First picture: Queenfish Second picture: Clownfish
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Is this a new game? First picture: Lonely Monarch Second picture: Lying Muppet
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Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
sime42 replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
Yeah, most garden centres are a joke now. If you want to buy tack and tat you might as well save money and get it much cheaper at a Pound Stretcher type shop. If you actually want to buy real plants you need to go to a nursery. -
Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
sime42 replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
Not to mention the hardcore and other builders waste that's normally buried two inches below the surface of any new build garden that I've ever worked in. -
Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
sime42 replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
Completely agree;- it just looks sterile and unnatural. No disrespect meant to Jack, it's obviously good quality work to fulfil the desires of the customer, just not to my taste. I've done a bit of hard landscaping in the past so know that it's a good earner. I think that a lot of people these days want to make their gardens into "outdoor rooms". Thereby taming and pushing out dirty, untidy nature as far as possible. Probably driven to a large extent by the desire to minimise maintenance and hence labour, as has already been said on here. The concept is all arse about face to me. A garden is your own personal bit of outdoor space, into which to entice as much nature as possible. Though it also needs to work for it's living, by providing you with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. As a keen gardener I'd have to confess to being somewhat biased .......... -
Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
sime42 replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
It's concerning but ultimately quite depressing as well, it's ubiquitous these days. How far do you go to try and rid yourself of the rank, (but very useful stuff)? Thinking about the soft toys that my young son surrounds himself in bed with every night; if we were to get rid of all the plastic I reckon he'd be left with just one or two, out of the twenty or so, that are made of wool or cotton. Similar situation with the rest of the toys strewn all over the house, most are plastic bar a few wooden jigsaws and stainless pots and pans. And cloths, a lot are made of fleece ......... I did turn him an oak mallet the other day, that's currently favourite. Result! -
Bit of artificial grass - if you like that sort of thing
sime42 replied to forestboy1978's topic in Landscaping
Horrible stuff ought to be banned henceforth IMO. I can't see any excuse for it. There's enough plastic crap in the environment already. -
He's already been stoned.
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"Let's just wait for the Sue Gray report" ................... and then the Commons Privileges Committee ......... .. and then the ............
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Not going that well so far; apart from for people that enjoy an early night. ScotRail's scaled-back timetable comes into force WWW.BBC.CO.UK Almost 700 services are temporarily removed after a pay row triggered a wave of driver shortages.
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Apparently this is one reason that hard drugs are such a problem in prisons; they're preferred because the traces disappear from your system much quicker. Whereas traces of cannabis linger around long after the intoxication has finished.
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Especially if strimming in sunny weather. A lot of the Umbelliferae, (Carrot family), can cause photosensitive reactions, the sap on the skin in sunlight causing blisters.
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Tulip tree.
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Going back to fencing wire strainers. Can anyone confirm that this is one? I bought it some years ago from a sale, for the chunky machine thread. I found it again recently. Nobody was quite sure what it was but the speculation was some kind of old fangled strainer.
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What a massive step backwards. Only in America. Let's hope we don't see similar lunacy over here in future. It'd be interesting to see the results of a referendum on this issue; in those states, and the US as a whole. Surely the majority of the population aren't in favour of such a regression. It must just be another case of too much power in the hands of the wrong people.
