doobin
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If it helps, we've only ever run our lines long on our three FS460s/1xfs480, they must be aged between three to 8 years by now.
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What models are they? Are they 4-mix? My FS460s get treated like crap yet are still faultless.
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I’ve got the same and used it four times in as many years. Must be doing something wrong!
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Busy as ever here, that’s the benefit of the pikey trades. I mean, a diverse skill set!
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Chainsaw all the way. Plastics should be cut with teeth, not abrasives. As mentioned abrasives will just clog up. Type of plastic matters- you can get away with a chainsaw easily on soft twinwall, but you're liable to shatter a 110mm pipe using the same. The metal cutting blades in a circular saw make a nice job quickly of harder plastics as well as larger things like barrels. The teeth have much less rake compared to a wood blade, plus a raker like a chainsaw chain so they don't grab.
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Jesus mate did the gypos hijack your account?? why not add some agent orange while you're at it? If you've just three single plants in a garden setting, I'd pop on a coverall and gloves (facemask if you wish) and carefully snip each stem and chuck it onto a lit bonfire. Then the roots should be fairly easy to dig out and add to the fire. Any regrowth can then be treated with spray whilst it's young and soft. Why go throwing large quantities of pesticides onto tough, mature plants when you can deal with them in ten minutes fairly permanently?
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Debt collection in the current climate .
doobin replied to steve@black's topic in Business Management
As above- but the tenner is only for the scare-o-gram, any further (hard) work and costs rise a lot. Used them twice and the solicitors letter worked, but it probably wouldn't on a bigger firm who know how far they can push things. -
Ifor Williams Tipping Trailer - manual pump
doobin replied to Arctostaphylos uva-ursi's topic in Maintenance help
Yeah but it isn’t going to drop that much more. Fair point if buying new but that sounds like the right money secondhand. -
Strimmer is what you need, so you can lift it up and bash back the sides a bit too. Maybe hedge cutter and spring fork for clearing sides also. A bcs flail is pretty hopeless for this sort of work, brambles tend to grow in from the sides so it just won’t grab hold of them. Also it’s a rubbish flail, something like a scag or ferris is in a different league for productivity
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Is the commercial tax less then??? I know I pay a damn sight more vehicle tax on my 1.3 scores van than I would on a car with the same engine!
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There be a proper farmers hinge!?
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Fair play mate, but might as well spend another £300 on a pair of Bethouds and be comfortable! ? Hell, if I was doing that amount I'd have a battery backpack, or a quad setup if the terrain would allow.
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I had a cooper pegler for 5 years, believing it to be the best. Then I tried a mates Berthoud. Night and day in terms of comfort, ergonomics and performance. I would have to say that CP are shite compared to Berthoud. Berthoud Vermorel 2000 Knapsack Sprayer 16L | Garden Sprayers | Pitchcare Shop WWW.PITCHCARE.COM The Berthoud Vermorel 2000 is a 16 litre knapsack sprayer featuring a unique contoured back-frame for... This is what I have. The lance is way less flimsy than the CP, and the comfort levels more than double. The CP equivalent doesn’t even have any padding. but by far the most annoying part of he CP (apart from the cost of spares) was that the lid would be stuck tight every time you came to refill.
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Chinese carb off eBay should sort it.
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Depends how you define low hours. You might get an older style machine with around 2k hours for that or a newer (2014 ish) with 3-4k if you were very very lucky.
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You're preaching to the converted mate, I even have the Makita grease gun and have just bought the missus a Makita brushless hoover for our new place ?
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As above. I stuck a tenner Chinese carb on a TS410 and it's ran faultlessly for three years since.
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As above. It’s a good wrench but often wheel nuts will be too much for it. I have both and use them both equally, but a lot of my stuff is larger/rusty.
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At 150HP I should think they've got the flow. Would be an interesting project, it's certainyl a cheap enough base machine.
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It's a bit animalistic, but most of the stuff in those photos I'd expect to just snap off and lay down with my grab and rotator. But then I'm usually not being paid to leave a tidy finish, just to get rid of it.
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Paying off Finance with bounce back loan?
doobin replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
We're ALL about to get royally shafted for years down the line. I'm just availing myself of the free lube, you might as well do the same. I bet there's a few on here got themselves a liar loan- otherwise known as a self cert mortgage. My generation have been paying for that for years through unnaffordable house prices and steeply increasing rents, coupled with mortgages for self employed being nigh on impossible to attain. My turn to self certify (my turnover!) -
You generally don't want to be towing on a bog. Too cumbersome, gets you into trouble easily and makes it much harder to get out of trouble!
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My gripe is that tickets mean sweet fa. It’s even worse in the plant game, people who shouldn’t be allowed on a push bike can sail through their dumper ticket.
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Don’t forget pa6WA- wipe arse....
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In my experience, an impact wrench will always trash a stripped allen head further. I far prefer an old fasioned imapct driver that you hit with a hammer, as mentioned above.
