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    Money calls but does not stay, it is round and rolls away You only need two things in your toolbox, duct tape and wd40, if should'nt move but does use the duct tape, if doesn't move but should use the wd40
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    Finally finished weeding my patch last week and got the rest of the peas, onions and my courgettes and squash in, main problem is next doors cats coming through the bottom of the hedge and flattening one row of onions on the plus side after two failed attempts at growing tomato from seed this year, I got some for free when went to the feed place for my chicken corn I got offered some as they had got a bit wind burnt so was told to take what I wanted so took one of each variety, potted them on took of the damaged leaves and are now growing like good un's
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    Remember whenever you try to idiot proof something someone builds a better idiot I know my limits and if its outside my expertise I don't comment/attempt it but have learnt alot from being on here
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    Ouch, I've caught one of those in the face before now and it was guarded and I was wearing goggles but trapped the disc and kicked back that hard it flipped over in my hands and went through my nose, its easy done, mind if he'd had the guard on chances are worst he'd have had was a good smack in the gut
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    Looks good to me even with vat and delivery works out cheaper than the last drum I fetched from local agri dealers, that was pennine and came out at £55 plus vat!
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    I've got a customer with a small patch of it approx 3 m x 2m started out in the hedge (he's still convinced his neighbour bought it in on his hedgecutter) was up there topping on monday, its took about 2 years and cost him around £2k to eradicate it, it has also ended up losing 3-4 metres of mature hawthorn hedge due to the herbicide used to kill it
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    Think when the next door neighbours tenant at the farm dug through one it cost £400, that cable is the same its only just in the ground, the original was just laid on top down the verge along the drive!
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    Theres the answer it was in "The Field" no dobt same or more in Countrylife or Homes and Gardens
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    Ta managed it about 3 times in the field the day it went to feather it through finishing out the day, can I get the ferkin thing together in the workshop
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    Apparently the Merc has gone viral on t'internet was an article on it in the Times today, hows that for free advertising
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    Right sorted the Husky, was the pipe from the side of the cylinder head to the crankcase had perished, and the "grease" turned out to be a mix of fine sawdust and chain oil from my brother borrowin git to cut out some old floor joists Got the av mount for the stihl now as well but struggling to reconnect the pipe from the carb to the cylinder head due to the limited room is there a trick to it or is it just perseverance?
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    Cheers GTR been busy last few days will have a look and post pics if need be, was a good day as my stihl 028 snapped the top av mount so left me with no working saws at mo
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    Maybe they have worked out how long it will take to break even given given the cost of the processor plus the cord plus the fuel and time to run it and deliver the end product, an old estate woodsman told me years ago logs are a hard way to make a living, not that I listened
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    Decided to have another go at my kusky 357 xp as its not run since sometime during the winter, washed the air filter and dried it reset the carb put new spark plug in and away it went, only problem is after revving it hard a few times it started firing sparks out from right side of engine somewhere and smelt stinking hot before it cut out when put it down noticed it had also chucked what looks like grease out from behind the chain cover, have'nt tried to start it again yet is it sounding terminal or is there a simple fix reason? thanks Ed
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    Not sure if this is right but found it in one of my books "A cord of wood, traditionally fire wood , is 2.4m (8ft) lomg, 1.2m (4ft) high and 1.2 m (4ft) deep, making 3.6 cubic metres (128cu.ft) Roughly half that is air space and the wood will weigh c.2 tons when green or c.1.25 tons after two years seasoning, as a rule of thumb hardwoods weigh 19.8kg per 0.028 cu m (1 cu ft)" if that helps
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    Don't know about ideal but the woodland at the farm is mainly ancinet hedgerow, so hawthorn, crab, hazel, with standars of oak, ash, alder and rowan, theres also a good stand of alder along the stream and in a low lying area, the rough ground to the back of it I have filled in over the years with norway spruce for christmas trees and sitka spruce for qucik growing windbreak, everything else has been left overs from planting jobs or seedlings removed when landscaping, so have got ash, sycamore, oak, birch, poplar, bird cherry, larch, western hemlock and hazel in it, still got two big patches of blackthorn to clear as its encroaching rapidly and then decide what to replant that with
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    That hawthorn in the pic was'nt supposed to be that thin, but due to the shape of the trunk at the base it ran out to a thin hinge, but it will hold and grow perfectly well from that
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    You light the fire in the barrel, the barrel in my pics is the type that has the circular clip to secure the lid but I don't use it just tap the lid on tight and seals well enough
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    Not tried it on birch or willow but have done plenty of big hawthorn over the years when hedgelaying, I cut diagonally down back to front to about 3/4 to 7/8 of the way through the tree see pic below
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    I was always told that the one to the left as you look from the house is your fence can't remember about the back one
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    David Browns are good old tractors very economical on fuel, my brother picked one up from stafford college the other year for £200 as the engineering students forgot to put anti freeze back in it and left it outside in the winter and cracked the block should be able to get a reasonable one for £1200-1500 I would think
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    Guess I'm flattered that you consider 38 young then befroe the internet I picked up the phone and called A & F Warehouse for saws and parts because the local dealers were too expensive and unreliable even back then
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    Been that way for a long time thats how come I ended up with my Case MX110, to replace my Ford 6610, it was cheaper to buy the Case than something of a similar horsepower to the ford, have ended up keeping the ford as the loader tractor though as they want £5 k + vat to put a loader on the case!
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    Have run both Stihl and Husky over the last 17 years in business but after troubles with my Huskies over the last couple of years, I was seriously considering repalcing all with Stihl, congratulations you've just changed my mind, as others have said our nearest dealer is 7-8 miles away and expensive and useless for parts etc, all my purchases of parts etc is done online or over the phone to save time and fuel, yours another soon to be ex Stihl customer
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    I was just pondering the same thing although I'm now so confused I'm not sure, mayne drinking would help

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