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Thanks, that made my evening!

All my stoves are multifuel. Never had the slightest problem regarding the grate. Keep the ash pan empty, and blast the air with in from below the wood like it’s the glory-days of Redcar.

Two men dressed in pilots' uniforms walk up the aisle of the aircraft. Both are wearing dark glasses, one is using a guide dog, and the other is tapping his way along the aisle with a cane. Nervous laughter spreads through the cabin, but the men enter the cockpit the door closes, and the engines start up. The passengers begin glancing nervously around, searching for some kind of a sign that this is just a little practical joke. None is forthcoming. The plane begins to move. The plane moves faster and faster down the runway, and the people sitting in the window seats realize they're headed straight for the water at the edge of the airport perimeter. Just as it begins to look as though the plane will plough straight into the water, panicked screams fill the cabin. At that exact moment, the plane lifts smoothly into the air. The passengers relax and laugh a little sheepishly, and soon all retreat into their magazines and books, secure in the knowledge that the plane is in good hands. Meanwhile, in the cockpit, one of the blind pilots turns to the other and says, 'You know, Bob, one of these days, they're gonna scream too late and we're all gonna die' !!

I have no saws, or anything of any value whatsoever in any of my sheds. At all. Ever. Just saying.

How is your battery management?

Maybe they are more like ‘British cars of the ‘70s’ There are normal ones, and there are ‘Friday Afternoon’ ones!

Mine haven’t been. I have used them when it’s been hammering it down!

Mutility arb, Mark. Close relation of Futility arb.

Lounging in a cell for a couple of hours would be a piece of piss compared to some jobs I’ve done. She should try her hand at an underpriced, overgrown, overwide, endlessly long conifer hedge reduction in the rain (with a cold) if she wants to experience real misery.

Certainly, but It’s also not inconceivable the shaft may be moving at idle if the clutch is shot. I see no harm in running the engine unit in isolation. Of course, it’s an eBay purchase with unknown history…. ….it could have all the faults.

:- ) I’m sure it’s no more or less demonstrably effective than any of the current alternatives!

Perfect. This time next year you’ll be swimming in partially kiln-dried oak.

Luck offsetting. Buying the lottery tickets should counter any bad luck, leaving you with neutral ‘no luck’

Doesn’t sound right. Have you tried the engine without the hedge trimmer attached?

A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper, Guido, has cheated him out of $10,000,000. His bookkeeper is deaf and dumb, and for good reason - It was assumed that if Guido would hear nothing, he would never be called to testify in court. When the Godfather goes to confront Guido about his missing $10 million, he takes along his lawyer who knows sign language. The Godfather tells the lawyer, "Ask him where the money is!" The lawyer, using sign language, asks Guido, Where's the money? Guido signs back, "I don't know what you are talking about." The lawyer tells the Godfather, "He says he doesn't know what you're talking about." The Godfather pulls out a pistol, puts it to Guido's head, and says, "Ask him again or I'll kill him!" The lawyer signs to Guido, "He'll kill you if you don't tell him." Guido trembles and signs, "OK! You win! The money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind the shed at my cousin Bruno's house." The Godfather asks the lawyer, "What did he say?" The lawyer replies, "He says you don't have the guts to pull the trigger!"

I slightly regret not going down the Stihl route…. The MSA300 is probably the first really ‘grown-up’ looking battery saw.

Decent battery saws are a revelation. When I first got a T540i I spent nearly two weeks re-coppicing overgrown sweet chestnut with it. In the end I got the rear handled version before I got myself busted.

You shouldn’t be getting ‘painful’ levels of vibration on modern-ish tools. Swinny’s suggested of bent drive shafts seems the most likely culprit. The outer shaft may look fine, it’s the drive ‘rod’ running down the middle of the shafts that can be the problem. Can you tell if the vibration seems worse if the thing is under load?

My careers advisor got me an interview to be a bug sorter after I left school. I though it went well, and was surprised to not be offered the job. I was led to believe that the interviewer was happy I had boxed all the right ticks.

What do I think? I think anyone in the industry who suffers ongoing recruiting issues needs to get shacked up with a Careers Advisor! Clearly a source of untapped potential there.

TBH, Elder is a pretty underrated tree. Produce includes: • Firewood • red wine • unbeatable wands • white wine.

Burnt tons of it…. Never noticed any problems with Witches. Store it properly (dry and breezy location off the ground ) as it quickly degrades if in the damp.

… take Nearly-headless-Nick. I have always regarded him as a really badly executed character.