armchairarborist

got some welding to do soon to various bits and pieces, not interested im mig i want proper oxy-acetylene, i know obvious bits like chaining them up etc but theres something telling me they cant be kept at home, is this right? any idea how much a set up costs? they dont have to be the big bottles as smaller ones would take up less room if they are available. any help / advise appreciated. Ed.

railed both sides? we usually put palings on same side as posts to save width. sometimes notch posts to get rails in more, thats a wide fence..

dont mind doing the odd fence job, but i dont like making gates.. doesn't stop people asking me to make them though.

sitting in the sunny beer garden down the betty swallox.

this little wriggler fell out of a rotten bit of oak last week..

doesn't look good..

Look at this; even mentions people less than 30 being less able!!!

 

http://www.psychometric-success.com/practice-papers/Psychometric%20Success%20Mechanical%20Reasoning%20-%20Practice%20Test%201.pdf

 

What's your score? - I'm going to do it now... no cheating!

got 14, didnt try Q17-20 as my head hurts..

when i was about ten my dad got me a scrap engine and we stripped it completely, every bit was examined and explained how it worked, its obvious really but without being shown initially id be scratching my head wondering why mechanics are charging so much.. now im looking forward to a break from work to spend a week under the landy(s).

thanks for all the advice guys, wont go on closed ears. i will get round changing bits and pieces . any other opinions are more than welcome. good or not it all helps .

Is that an open invitation to be really picky then? The first sentence is written in 3rd person speech while the second sentence is written in 1st person if that makes sense?

I daren't be too picky as mine is far from perfect, hope this helps and you get work from it.

i use a company called 'plates for fun', easily type in reg on computer and its here just over a day later, about tenner each and can have what you want on them, they do correct spec plates with ce mark etc.. oh no docs needed

looks like you went mental with a saw haha, very nice. i keep thinking one day i'll try my hand at carving

thanks for working with us for a few days this week and last week mike, we got through some work eh? good safe hard worker.

i want one thats capable of splitting a hand, how are you gunna teach pikeys with that?

cant be hard to mount a splitter onto the side of a chipper can it? theres plenty of room on mine, its already got a hydraulic pump running on nice cheap red diesel, just 'T' in with connectors, quick release ones so it can be removed easily. worked out a 4inch ram should give 11t and 6inch ram would give approx 22t..

yup, not tried it though. beefsteak fungus

theres a big one at thorp perrow arboretum on the big oak

laetiporus?

the heavy pruning shown in january, nice to see healthy regrowth

found this laetiporus on an oak near where we have been working in sutton coldfield, the oak looks to have had recent heavy pruning.

wouldn't take much work would it.. theres not even any rabbits here either:thumbdown:

gentle bark reduction should do the trick..

a decent garage big enough to build my own make of car from scratch to my spec.. oh and maybe a box of hydraulic couplings/ram/pipes for something im cooking up in my head..

my reason was the money, there was nothing i could find wrong with it though.. there were defects but i wouldn't have recommended removal, the house is being converted for disabled use and the people dealing with it wanted it gone to extend house that direction, local council had granted a fell so i felled.. all arisings to local yard in the area.

few piccies from todays 'southern invasion'.. found the sport setting on the camera so tried a few action shots:thumbup1:

metal detector shop at mixenden, halifax, just after the morrisons on the left, halfway round the bad rh bend. think its keighley rd?

been to southern parts today, everybody was carrying an umbrella - puffs