doobin
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Government agencies are horrendously inefficient. What is needed is a few well paid ex private sector employees with real life/work experience to keep the costs in check and provide real value for money. Two examples- Public sector incompentence- Our local EA have a 13t digger which they use to clear trees fallen in the river. Great. What the morons don't have is a grab for it, so everything takes three times as long as needs to. Private sector milking the public sector, allowed by incompetent/corrupt works allocators- We had some silt on the road from all the floods. A private company, clearly on 'emergency day rate' (despite it being a week after the silt was deposited) took over a week with men, traffic control, a dumper, grab lorry and, get this- a mini digger with a 24" bucket to clear the roads. Stop/go boards, a 3cx with a 4-in-1 bucket followed by a roadsweeper would have sorted it in a day. Serious piss taking. The country is rotten.
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If you bought that as working, send it back! Parts are horrendous money for them. It will be cheaper to buy a working second hand head off ebay for around £100.
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If you can send me photos of the bits I have a few heads knocking around. Take the cover off the head, take a photo and post it up here.
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For the ivy, I just use my digger and grab to pluck it off. I can clean a 3' diameter 20' butt in under a minute. Very satisfying I remember how much of a ballache it used to be though.
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I'd be as happy with a Husky as a Stihl. Both are about as good as you can get. @WoodEd- all this talk of tickets, I recall a thread not a great time ago when you were being chastised for using an 088 with not tickets... I bought an Echo topper two weeks ago from a local dealer. I don't have any tickets. It will come in right handy for when I undercut you lot doing conifer hedge reductions
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Here's a good pick-me-up for you low carb guys. Bulletproof coffee: Brew a cup of decent ground coffee. Add to a pre-warmed blender jug. Add 15g of unsalted ideally organic butter Blend. I also add coconut oil and a drop of vanilla or maybe cocoa powder. Either way you're getting your good fats with no carbs. This and an egg based breakfast keeps me powering on without lunch on busy days. I'm down to 10st 12lb at 6 foot tall. I've lost about six pounds in two weeks, scary stuff!
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Don't replace the bar and chain, put the £40-50 would cost towards a S/H Stihl MS181 for about £130!
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I'd avoid second hand- it will still command a 'Stihl' price premium on eBay, even though it's not a very good saw. It would probably sell on eBay for only £50 less than an MS362, which is IIRC about £200 more saw. My neighbour has one, he's always having problems with it. I wouldn't swap my ancient 034 for his two year old MS390.
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They're OK, but Hardox tines still bend and break. If you have loads to do, you might be better with a proper brash rake. For odd jobs, I'd borrow a buck rake though.
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Tell your prospective new employer that you will work for free the first month if he puts you through your tickets. Offer a first week free 'helping out' to get your foot in the door and show him that you actually know what you are doing too. You could work the whole month legit prior to him booking your tickets (no risk to him) so long as you are on jobs with a guy holding the correct tickets 'supervising you'. Where are you based? I need a guy for a month.
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I've got one, it's indespensable on the right job, but still a faff to use.
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Richmonds are still going.
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They don't make 'hives' as such, they burrow. They'll not bother you in the slightest.
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The Housemartin is cheap and nasty Chinese junk. Mind you, I once had the single roller version. It was agricultural, but OK for £1300, except that it wouldn't feed brash stuff properly. That twin version looks to have addressed that, but I would sooner have a 3k S/H decent brand than that for 2.5k brand new. I think for your needs you would be much better off with a small petrol powered chipper/shredder that you can take along to the job. What's the sense in struggling to cart back whole branches just to put them through a tractor chipper at the yard?? Take a small shredder/chipper and that will allow you to get five times the amount on the truck. Have a look at the Eliet Maestro range. For hedge cuttings etc, a shredder will be much more effective than a pto chipper also. In fact, hedge cuttings would come out of that Chinky chipper in much the same format as they went in!
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I beg to differ, I don't even own a pair of posh shoes! I've teamed my Airstreams up with some rather fetching bright blue laces
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How did you guess? I thought I was the only one who said that, lol
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Electric isn't just for homeowners. If you have three phase and don't want to move the splitter about, then it's the way forward as far as I'm concerned. Quiet and cheap. Just make sure the specs (ram speed, tonnage) match like for like, petrol to electric.
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Airstreams all the time. Great chainsaw and safety boot for site work.
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Meindl all the way....
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This was the thread I found: Two Stroke Oil questions? - Diesel Bombers
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On the contrary, I have found two stroke very economical to use. I'm not suggesting to use Stihl HP- 5 litres of your local motor factors cheapest scooter oil (so long as it's low ash, which from my research, which they all seem to be) is not expensive.
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450kg
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Grab lorry, simples.
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Modern diesel (as of March last year IIRC) is exactly the same as pump fuel but with a dye added. This means it's ultra-low sulphur, which is where the concerns of lack of lubricity at the pump stem from. John Deer diesel additive is well thought of in the plant community, and very economical. I use: 7.8mm fuel conditioner 42.2mm two stroke oil per 10l of diesel in all my machines. If you mix this up in a 1l squeezy bottle for dosing, it's 156ml conditioner and 844ml two stroke. HTH Anything else (especially from Halfords!) is likely to be snake oil. If it were that easy to overhaul a bollocksed engine with no spanners, mechanics would be out of a job! OP- most likely your injection pump is due a service. The lube is probably sealing it enough to keep it going but I doubt it will last that long.
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Trust me, you will A couple of drinks and you will get the munchies, it will seem like a good idea! I often 'carb up' on choccy biscuits on a Friday eve.... Still lost the weight, it's the overall profile of the week that counts, important not to lie to yourself.
