Marlin.45

I did something similar a while back on the neighbours Apple tree. Ripped around 5 teeth off the chain on a buried steel petanque ball! No sharpening that puppy.

On that subject I am a bit further south in SP4 (Amesbury/Stonehenge) and always on the look out for cord. Will pay cash or in exchange for free range eggs and beer. Will even pick up roadside if my LWB Land Rover and a trailer can haul it

I am running a AGS 4-16x56 SWAT on the Rapid 17 and it works at very well at low light ...and anything in between. A good mid range scope without getting stupid with the flexi friend IMHO More than enough for 50 yd work.

But is that to weight feed etc. for his own use? If dealing with the gen pub then the annual calibration would have to be to a std acceptable to weights and measures. For someone to come out and transport 1 tonne calibrated weights to check the thing would be the best part of £500-1k every year - probably

Cheers Ashes. How have you found the easy chain adjuster?

We live in a 3 bed 400 year old thatched cottage with no double glazing and 2ft thick walls. I struggle to stop all the drafts and we heat mainly with a 7kw Jotul multifuel on 99% logs. To back this up we have an oil fired Rayburn. We spend around £400 a year on oil and I haven't the faintest how much wood goes through the burner. I just keep stacking at one end and it goes out of the other. Elec is around £700 a year. Rayburn goes on in the morning to generate hot water and a burst of heat fromn the rads. The OH would use it more if we fixed it. Currently it only heats the rads when the hot water is on and finding a Rayburn engineer that a) hasn't a full order book; b)doesn't charge £400 to get off his ar5e is would be another thread on its own. Jotul is in the lounge at one end of the house. Ecofan on the top of the inset stove and another fan wafts the warm air back through the house. Biggest trick is convincing the other half that 16-18 Deg.C is an acceptable. If she is too cold then put some bl**dy clothes on!

Cheers all Bar length would not be over 15" anyway. For what I use it for that would be more than enough

I have had a Husky 141 for around 10 years and used this for general firewood and pallet chopping. It only gets used on the light stuff, but always bats above it's weight since the muffler was opened up For the bigger tasks the 350 or the 044 come into play. After debating giving the old saw a makeover I noted today that my local dealer has the Husqvarna 440 x-torq on special at £250 all in. Sounds a good price when compared with the 335? £50 to stick a new bar/chain and rim sprocket on, or add on a further £200 to get a whole new saw. Man logic after all So for non-pro use is this saw any good?

Also chuck a Husky 350 or 355 rancher into the mix. Good old schools saws

If the SP4 area ever comes into your work zone then I can take a few tonnes. Access easy from the road via small truck/pick-up etc. as long as we know in advance

Current hack..... Back up muddy hack (blue DRZ in the foreground).... Had this for laughs & giggles for a while .......

Fluid bed drying would be the best solution but cost may be a stopper on that one. Could do you a good line in 500kg batch FBD's though with change from £1M Take no notice of me. I'm on the tequila

Bio or non-bio?

The stuff Mole Valley Farmers sell (Total?) - agri 2-stroke. It's red. It's oily. It works

FR Jones

Here is the 'Ron Jeremy'/'Sutcliffe' I have been working on

I have been cultivating my Ron Jeremy/Sutcliffe since Nov 1st So why isn't this working?

As above it costs very little and is a multiple choice test on the computer at a designated CSCS quango's office. If you pass they give you a cert there and then and the card follows on. Mine has just lapsed as it seems few sites I go to ask for it any more....as maybe that is due to recession and I'm going to fewer contruction sites than before?

The only downside of making scrumpy is what my heavy producing neighbour call the 'apple mist'. After a while all you see is fruit going to waste and you just want to process more and more

County 4x4 has made a good point and one we (ex-wife ) fell foul of despite the dealers advice. Our (wife out SWMBO in) cottage lounge area is not that large maybe 15'x15' with a 6' 4" ceiling but the original open fire/range area takes up about 6' of the wall width. So the more suitable sized woodburners looked a tad small so a 7kW Jotul stove ended up in there. Not cheap but a superb stove that ends up being run cranked back a lot of the time to stop the room becoming like mid summer in Bermuda. Not ideal My solution was to fit a room fan in one corner and blow the heat up the corridor and into the dining area

We have two in the home 'fleet'. First the boingy which was bought for Mrs Marlin to tow the dobbins about (in theory) but I nick it most of the time for shooting duties and getting muddy. Plus I prefer driving it to the family Honda. 2007 TD5 90 but now subject to a de-CAT/EGR/center box and a regular service. Just waiting for the moment when I can scrabble the cash together for a re-map Old pic as it now has windows in the rear and a few other bits. Second is my side project 1966 109. Ex military FFR but I bought it with the intention of a mild tidy up and using it to haul bales of hay and logs about. The reality is it has had a complete ground up rebuild with a galv chassis/bulkhead and rad panel then a 200tdi went in and....you all know how these things always go? More info on the 109 rebuild on my signature link.

As most of us UK based blokes will have seen fruit has been in an abundance this year so while I make something more based towards alchohol Mrs Marlin has been mass producing jam. So far it has been blackcurrant, apple, medlar, and some wild plum thing we have in the garden (relieved that of 40kg of fruit alone!) Oh, but she did sway and put on 4 litres of Sloe gin

A tonne - yes. Give that man a cracker

Smith & Allen do a zinc rich primer/cold galvanising primer for £7+vat per litre. Tractol 927 Single Pack Zinc Rich Cold Galvanizing Paint - Paints & Aerosols: Smith and Allan Bought a can the other day for a few outside jobs. Jeez it's heavy