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You'll not regret going red. Knocks the spots off other marques for most tasks so long as you compare top of the range models with the same form other brands.

Odds on Musk turning off Ukraine's Starlink capability at some point to help with Trump's 'negotiations'?

Checkatrade are basically like every other snake oil sales 'lead generator'. Pay attention greenhorns, this is how it works. Salesman calls you , promises you the earth. More work than you can handle. You sign the document he sends you. They don't deliver. Either no calls or simply sending you the junk fake leads they send everyone. You complain. Say 'salesman promised XYX' They say- read the contract. The salesman's verbal promises will not be in it. Worse, you are signed up for a year minium. Even worse- you cannot cancel as its business to business. DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING AS A BUSINESS UNLESS YOU HAVE FULLY READ IT AND UNDERSTAND- CONSUMER PROTECTIONS DO NOT APPLY

The only one worth considering is the Milwaukee one Bob. Come borrow mine if you like. Feeds better than its rivals and does it all from a battery, not a big old tethered compressor or finnicky gas.

Sorry matey. I wondered why I never got anymore work off you!

You'll get the best price advertising privately. What are you selling?

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Lovely weather for it.

Horse chestnut is awful, sweet chestnut is fine. how many tonnes do you need? I have lots of seasoned ash cord here.

You could try local forestry contractors or estates for a tractor and trailer load of cordwood delivered. or a local sawmill for slab wood offcuts.

Taking two machines gives you a backup option though…

That's what I tend to use daily on felling work. Covers all the bases for most small forestry jobs. I do have an MS241 but using it today after using the MS261 yesterday it just seems so tiddly- weight is nice though. Both my MS241s have been unreliable pups even with very low hours, so possibly just as well Stihl discontinued them. Wouldn't mind trying the echo version- think its a CS4310? 2.3kw and 4.3kg from memory.

I didn't realise you were trying to do butt joints, that'll test even a skilled mig welder on a rusty mower deck. You'd want gas for sure and also .6mm wire would give you a lot more control. The problem with butt joints is also that you would have been bringing all the contamination from underneath the deck into the weld pool, and usually there is only a mm or so of decent metal to use. Overlaps joints on a mower deck are easy with a MIG- have it set a touch on the warm/high voltage side, start your arc on the new plate and melt it down into the weaker, more contaminated metal underneath. If thickness allows you can weave back onto the high plate, but it's often easier and faster just to let off and then repeat the process for a series of blobs. If done right this is as strong as you'll get given the weaker underlying metal.

There are industrial shredders built for jobs like that. A chipper is not.

There’s nothing wrong with a short dipper for nearly all digging jobs. More power in the dig and a better load over height on the dumper. Better geometry all around. It’s not so much a ‘short dipper’, it’s the standard dipper that the machine was designed for and is used everywhere else with. The UK mini digger industry has got into a stupid pissing contest on ‘max reach’ in the 1.7-1.9t class, and it’s frankly stupid. About the only place it’s required are graveyards and back gardens on clay with very deep footings but limited access. Otherwise you’d just use a 2.7t and be done in half the time.