armchairarborist

Just need to get mine insured and taxed now

Been riding this for a couple of days, passed big bike test today

Looks like hawthorn family to me, this is cockspur thorn, crataegus crus-galli blown over a couple of weeks ago.

My 190 is exactly the same, the initial cause was some string/washing line went through and wrapped round the right hand side of the bottom roller, took a bit of dismantling to get it out, that was maybe 3years ago and it gets cleaned out with a good strip down every so often. Just looks a bit wrong with it chewing the left side of the roller box. Timber wolf suggested greasing while the machine is warm, not sure who has time to grease while working?

Had a stable door bolt, cable tied to inside Landy door to stop it flying open on corners. It was there for about a year, must get some more cable ties as I'm going to fall out one day..

Eat, sleep, top leylandii's, repeat...

Missed gear change from 2nd to first in hi-range up steep hill with heavy trailer full of rings, slowed down so went for low range and started getting dragged back! Found a gear and locked centre diff while picking up speed backward, brakes were not helping so opened the throttle and slowly slowed down, stopped with tyres smoking and squealing, it started creeping forward and made it up fine. It's a hill I drive up regular with heavy trailers. Now I make sure I'm in low range mid revs all the way from the bottom, with weight in the tow motor. Scary stuff but planned for lessens the risk.

Shiny new saw I bought yesterday, not even seen timber yet

Well there's a sort of face in the middle

I have a crate of yew firewood sat seasoning in one of my wood stores, I was going to eBay it just before Christmas but was too busy to remember. The apprentice cut a lovely straight yew log up into rings by mistake.

after wearing tea-bag-flexes for years I tried some stretch airs a year ago, the zip still works and the only holes are from barbed wire and the silky saw. the old hiflexes just get used as a draught excluder by the outside door.

Aye lucky alright! The lads couldn't find one of the 200t's this afternoon, so thinking it possible that it too could be lost in the chip we finished up and went back to the yard, quickly checked the container etc and no saw to be found! Getting dark now I got my girlfriend, metal detector, shovel and head torch, after 20mins digging and chasing ghost metal girlfriend says 'is it that saw we used at home on Saturday and is still there?' Oh how we laughed ..all the way to the chip shop

Shot home and grabbed my metal detector, never used it before,

Loading tools into the van this morning and nobody can find the ms460 even though we had used it Friday last week, then I remembered working roadside Friday and putting the saw out of sight behind the tailgate, then dumping the chip at a local stables next to a busy footpath!

Wooden bar, wooden chain, wooden engine, wouldn' go?

...I'll get me coat

How do you find the powerpack armchair, is it fast and powerful enough?

It's not fast but that's because I'm using a pretty big ram on the splitter, plenty powerful enough though. I'll grab some pics next time we use it.

Dip mine in horse trough, stamp feet while walking away, get scrubbing brush out if it's really sticky crud, leave under radiator to dry overnight, heating is only on for an hour morning and 5pm so they dry nice.

no such thing as red petrol, diesel all the way. I got a hydraulic powerpack to run the splitter and it just sips red:thumbup1:

I have in the past put a drop of clean engine oil in with ea full tank. No idea if it helps but never given me a problem. No idea if 2 stroke is any better never dried it.

Very sensible, and I find engine oil cheaper than 2stroke oil. Up to a pint per large tankful depending where fuel is sourced tesco etc, any more and you make fog.

A VW crafter was in the garage last week that I use, it had speedo dial acting as rev counter and vise-versa. Modern technology is a backwards step it would seem

A second hand stihl will last longer and get more done. I had an Efco 152, never again! The thing just wouldn't tickover, in the end it would only run on full revs or not at all, and that was after I'd had to have parts made special to make it run at all.

Truck gardens are cool

Oh it's soo much better than hand digging / loading, but there's a good reason why laddo is driving it, I'm sat on the sofa now and my whole body is aching, I only drove the thing maybe 90 mins today! I haven't felt this bad since my mum used me to hold the lid shut on the twin tub washer when I was I nipper

My 110 hi cap '94 has 203,000 on the current clocks, I think some of the chassis is original. Change it? Never