nepia
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Check the accuracy of this but when I asked the same question re an MS230 a man what knows told me it wasn't a good idea as many (?all) small 2-stroke engines are of clamshell construction and not really up to the stresses of being ported.
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Keep the winch very well oiled. I think it was in Griphoist's own literature I read 'you cannot over lubricate the winch'. If I'm working over dirty ground I just pour chain oil into mine.
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I put some up at home 10+ years ago and it's still the only strong fence here! I used 4x4 posts and 7" gravel boards spaced at 6" but they are horizontal, not vertical. Very effective in withstanding the wind; that's why many large stock sheds, with their huge surface areas, use the same principle.
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Looking for firewood supplier in the Egham/staines area
nepia replied to Gingerbread's topic in Firewood forum
Well done. I tried but let's say that the proposed arrangements wouldn't have worked for me. Good one. -
Probably teaching you to suck eggs here - sorry! - but the couple of times I've been there I've been told 'by appointment only'.
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I don't have sufficient expertise to provide reliable answers for you but you should learn much reading through this thread; the author of it is highly regarded and you can take what he says as gospel. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/fungi-pictures/49997-meripilus-giganteus-giant-polypore-its-host-range.html?highlight=meripilus
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Fig? The fruit's in remarkably good condition if so.
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Crimble Greetings everyone. Steve, sadly I had to scrap the 40' Tulip in my own garden yesterday. Any good to you? I'll take pics at some stage as there is some spalting near the base of the stem but I'm not sure how far decay/reaction has developed. I've got robinia, 14+" holly, a lump of mulberry, catalpa. Just say if they appeal. Jon
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If a newbie wants them great. Otherwise I'll have them thanks but can't collect till next time I'm working for a regular just north of Pulborough. Jon
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Shot down in flames again I am! But you are so right; the use of Erica arborea would explain the presence of the industry in somewhere with the climate of southern France. Making Your Own Smoking Pipe | The Pipe Guys
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This is how I knew about the pipemaking but it's so long ago that I was there I remember nothing except the name. Cogolin visit, photos, travel info and hotels, by Provence Beyond
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What country?! If it's the UK it sounds like Arbutus unedo, which typically flowers Oct-Dec.
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Isn't briar the wood used for making smoking pipe bowls? Is dog rose the same stuff?
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Brace yourself for the deluge kkk2... where are you?
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I could bring you up to a ton of it in April as I head home from John O'Groat's!
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To return to Page 1, Post 1 (!) this might help the confused as it's written in English about as plain as it's possible to be. The Law and Use of force
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Motives and methods (taken from the Word to the wise...)
nepia replied to Gary Prentice's topic in Stolen Equipment
Others beat me to it: some gear undoubtedly goes abroad but to believe that most of it does is wrong I think. An earlier post mentioned the thieves' cavalier attitude to theft victims being insured so why should that victim worry? There is (perhaps now was) an arb not far from here who was challenged by a colleague over the chassis number missing from his chipper: his response displayed exactly the same attitude. It was cheap so saved him money and the original owner got paid out didn't he so what's the fuss? Tony Sorensen - I read that link and what is suggested there is the only hope of ever solving the problem isn't it: peer presssure is more powerful than a law ever will be that is almost impossible to enforce. -
Motives and methods (taken from the Word to the wise...)
nepia replied to Gary Prentice's topic in Stolen Equipment
I'm not sure it's that clearcut. I know someone in this area who lost a shedload of arb gear and watched 3 well known auction sites daily for over a year. A truck had turned up 25 miles from home days after the theft, a stumpgrinder was found on a specialist auction site a year later the other end of this country and a set of chipper blades turned up another few months later on the best known of all auction sites 50 miles from home. Viewing thieves as professionals like doctors, lawyers, arbs etc but just the wrong side of the law is to give them too much credit. Only a very small number of them are that highly organised and truly 'professional' in their activities and I don't believe they account for most of the market by any means. -
As long as he joined in the mickey-taking his street cred would have been fine as far as getting battered goes. But it would have gone through the roof if he'd got thousands of pounds out of a suitably indignant lady with more money than him. There's a reason why these people aren't rocket scientists.
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The print isn't as hard to read as I thought it would be Ian. I'm sure opinions vary on whether there's just too much wording but top marks to Mike for that.
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No problem Beau!
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Not sure how much notice to take of the 'biggrin' that was at the end of that but the above couldn't be further from the truth in my limited farming experience. The farmers I encountered were happy for 'A' to be on the road with the big tractor and new silage cart because he was competent and responsible but wouldn't let 'that idiot B' near it. At the end of the 70s (when almost anything went? - not) I worked on a Ducal estate in Sussex and only 3 or 4 guys were allowed to take the big tractors on the road and that wasn't for insurance reasons, it was because the farm manager and foremen were responsible people who showed discretion.
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That would be sad if true. Not that I'm a fan but more players in the market forces quality up and prices down. Indespension themselves told me a couple of months ago that they were considering stopping manufacture due to the cost of implementing Oct 2012's Compliance Regs (probably got the wrong year there but you know what I mean). Jon
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Having been driven in those 'on the hurry up' when they were substitute ambulances I can say you'll need to add an hour to your working day just to get out of the yard. Slow doesn't start to describe it...
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You're welcome Ian; good to meet another A'talker. An hour to Oxford, coffee, an hour +15 home; was all good thanks. Don't forget to put pics up here when you get round to using a board or two. Jon
