rapalaman
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Everything posted by rapalaman
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About the same here - 5 days plus 2 a month cutting grass. Waiting on two tpo approvals that are way overdue so will chase up next week. for the first time in over 30 years I’ve put feelers out to expand the grass cutting round - never ever had to advertise so it’s a sure sign times are gonna get tough I think ☹️
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Had my 391 for about 6 years and it’s never missed a beat. Even ran a 25” bar from my 660 when that shot a piston mid cut in 30”oak stem. doesn’t get used that often, but for occasional use it’s done me proud. Found on gumtree for £275 with a horrendously sharpened chain, so scrapped that, had it serviced and been all good 👍
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So you’d like someone to cut it down for free? Doesn’t work like that I’m afraid. Stick some pictures up and you may get someone local give you a price to cut this down. Keep the wood, season it for five years plus and if you’ve been lucky enough to stop it splitting- list as as wood turning blanks on eBay. You may just about cover your costs or make a small profit - up to you to decide how much your time is worth
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Great idea, but it’s Bud 🤮🤮 if that or Fosters are the only beers left I’ll stick to tap water 👍
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😂😂
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Yet another What tree is this post
rapalaman replied to Stringman's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Would be ok if free - certainly wouldn’t pay for any. Needs mixing in with decent hard/soft wood -
Can get tripod ladders up to 16ft with adjustable legs makes 17 1/2 ft. I have the 8ft and 14ft and they cover most bases. Still got my eye on the 16ft though as we always want bigger tools than we have! I use the fiskars loppers, silky hayauchi and 7.7m hayate, both with the sintung lopper head and saw
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Stabila and faithful are the two I’ve used for years without any problems at all
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Wow 👍
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I’m right handed and have a shortage of left gloves as they wear out quickest ☹️
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Wow - not much to be done with them now! Bet the “unmarked transit team” have already moved on
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Cracking job there Mr Ed 👍
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I’m sure it has many fine attributes Mick, but no I shan’t be booking up.
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Another one I can’t listen to - voice just grates like Sara Cox ☹️
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Have a horizontal Alko, 4 or 5 ton that did me well for years. Now use a vertical Clarke 5 1/2 ton. Both good for doing own wood on a small scale but nowhere near good enough for commercial. Still use the Fiskars x25 and x27 mostly as far quicker on straight grained stuff
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Just comes up in general feed for me 👍
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Time to restock and dry for Dec 2024
rapalaman replied to Steve O's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Location will help! Add yourself to the tipsite and or contact local tree surgeons- 1 reply
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Got a few enquiries, nothing like as much as normal as would be booking for April usually. Got 8 full days confirmed and looking at a couple more quotes tomorrow. Grass cutting starting soon will add a day a month to begin with, then fortnightly soon enough. On a positive note I’m not stressed because I can’t keep up and getting a few jobs done at home 👍
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Maybe PayPal would be better if you have it?
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Is it just me being a dinosaur or is this really poor, lazy design?
rapalaman replied to Squaredy's topic in General chat
Six of us do a quiz every Thursday and do just that - phones go in phone boxes in middle of table. Anyone seen using one - the team gets immediately disqualified 👍 -
I found an Ali body from a transit on eBay- cut the steel body off my iveco daily, swapped them over with help from a mate and various bars/levers etc. welded brackets up in situ, bolted it down then made high sides from box steel and ply. Gave it a few coats of bitumen based paint and this lasted me three years. Took about a week and done for under 1k all in - this was about 10 years ago mind so prices have risen since then
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If only I was closer! Someone will bite your hands off at that cheap price 👍
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“I guess it’s who you know, not what you know” isn’t that the same in all walks of life though? Just for the most of us it’s not out there for all the public to see
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Shame Ken is leaving - always try to catch popmaster if we can get a break at that time. Can’t stand Sara Cox - the voice is like nails down a blackboard to me. Yet when she’s on tv she tones it down a lot and is ok
