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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.

Mate of mine got pulled once, three points and £60 fine. He was towing a well dodgy caravan though, he's never been pulled with his tri-axle Ifor, even loaded with three and a half tons of forklift!

Just had a Mexican omelette (cheers for recipe Ben!) and those fries do not interest me in the slightest. Hunger is a state of mind. Down to 11 stone 0lb this morning. I'm 6' tall exactly. This has got to be the lightest weight of my adult life. @WhiteNoise- black coffee and eggs is the best breakfast ever. I know what you mean about feeling rough, did you have a 'sugar hangover'?

Nothing better than a bar room lawyer debate God help anyone who follows advice on licensing rules from the Internet!

Nice one mate! Keep it up, you'll be a slim and sexy as me in a few months! I just drove past two overweight women jogging. Poor things. If they put half the effort that put into that (at least they're trying I suppose!) into learning about diet and following it properly, they'd drop the weight easily without ruining their knees. Jogging is such a waste of time and not good for you

Rubbish.

Unless you take the guard off you won't get the cord long enough to need to rev the engine flat out on an FS460 in bramble and nettle. It will comfortably manage the shredder blade Stihl spec for the FS550, and you only need to tickle the throttle to keep the blade going, momentum does 90% of the work with a blade. I've had both, and the FS550 was an awesome machine, but only really needed for felling hundreds of small trees. Otherwise it was burning twice the juice for no real benefit.

A few filings won't matter in the slightest, unless your going to mount the vice in the air intake.... Just pressure wash it off with the rest of the machine. On a dry day, you can file your chains then blow it off with the blower?

I'm very lucky to have three local dealers (2, 10 and 15 miles away) that will match FR Jones. That said, service from FR Jones is always as good, and like you say they have a lot of spares on the shelf ready to go.

My mate gets about 35MPG he reckons on his 56 Ranger.

Couldn't be easier ay?

What's your budget? Gensetsteve has a nice looking dropside (maybe tipper??) Hilux for £3500- it'll never be worth less if you look after it.

:lol: You either need to bolt it direct or make a mount plate up. Can't weld cast vice straight to chipper obviously. Under worktop type ones would work well if there's a strong bit of overhanging bodywork to mount under. Trouble is bodywork will tend to flex. If it was me I'd find a good place to mount (ie. where there's already a bolt holding bodywork or something onto the chassis) and make a bracket up to suit. That way it won't flex and is easily removable for sale.

I'd stop him talking on his phone so much....

Just find a strong bit of the bodywork the right height and bolt it to it!

Stihl FS460 has been reliable and done a lot of work for me. Although I'd happily use the Husky 545. Pick one of those two and you can't go wrong, all angles covered from garden stuff to felling small trees. You won't need any more power for bramble and nettle, that's for sure. I used to have an FS550 and only used it to it's full potential on a small number of jobs.

That sounds pretty good to me! You could always have yourself a cheat day on Sunday, for your orange juice and bagels. You're still streets ahead of most people stuffing themselves with bread and sugar daily (that used to be me!)

OP, what do you mean, you took a job 'out of respect for the wife cuz she works full time'? Were you struggling to match her income when self employed? Surely not. I think you mean she felt you were dossing around S/E whilst she was working 9-5 for the man. Which is not your problem- she's free to start her own business. Anyway, the answer to your predicament is simple. Use your experience gained to your advantage. Look back over your old books, remember all your old jobs. What made you the most money for least hassle? For me it would be strimming. From whole gardens at a tenner a go to day rate for local nature reserves, £150 a day for a bloke on his own with a brushcutter is easily achievable. For you it may be hedgecutting, I don't know. Do whatever it takes to borrow or buy that bit of kit to get you started. Then use your weekends to get out there and start doing that again- make the contacts, find the jobs and nail them. You have to be dedicated, cuz you'll only have the two days to begin with. It sounds like you are keeping your head above water but only just- an extra £200 every other weekend (one weekend advertising, one weekend doing the job) would make all the difference? Then take it from there, you know what to do! :thumbup!:

You're on. MS 660, 24" full chisel bar... :lol:

I hate to be a killjoy, but fruit sugar is still sugar. There is an awful lot of it in orange juice, and if you are drinking any normal amount of it (glass or two and a banana on the side) then that is way too much sugar/carbs to allow you to feel the benefits of a low carbohydrate diet (which is in essence what Paleo is). I'd say you're not 80/20 on the diet, more like 50/50. But if you feel better, that's still an improvement over the donuts! This may also be why you are struggling to give up the rice and pasta. Same with the sweet potato- sugar. Carbs are sugar to your body. Your body is craving it and you are relenting, convincing yourself it is healthy because 'it's natural sugar'. You will know you are sugar adjusted when broccolli (which is 1.7% sugar) tastes sweet. Orange juice is the same to your body as CocaCola, it's readily available sugar- Wean yourself off orange juice, says government health tsar - Telegraph My advice if you really want to ditch the wheat, rice and sugar would be to stuff your face with steak, scrambled eggs, mature cheese. Eat as much as you like, don't go hungry. Once your body adjusts to lower carbohydrate intake you will find yourself eating less and less and still being full. Well done on the no alcohol- this alone is half the battle with loosing weight.

The van won't get the Saturday jobs rolling in. Not a chance. It will however make life easier once you have put in the hard word of making contacts and getting your name about. Good luck with it.

That's incredibly clean, does it look to have been repainted?

This is also my preferred approach. It's amazing how much easier it is to sharpen accurately in a heated workshop, with a good light over the chain, some good tunes, a coffee to one side and dinner cooking on the stove As opposed to on the floor in the mud with the water soaking into your chainsaw trousers.

LDV tipper would be cheaper, no trailer license needed either. With the cash saved you're well on your way to buying a chipper which you already have a suitable tow vehicle for.

Cheers. I have obtained similar from car boots etc (probably the Rolson ones). Have you a link for the 3/8 eBay ones?