doobin
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Instant black coffee should be illegal! Do yourself a favour and get a cheap coffee machine. I bought one for £24 locally. Six months on in the yard, used about four times a day, can't believe it's still going! I've got it down to about fifteen seconds to rinse the element and jug, fill the water and coffee sections and flick the on switch. Quicker than pissing around with a kettle and instant- and no need to stir. It is amazing how tastes change. I started to crave the bitter taste of black coffee after cutting out sugar for a few weeks. I must try liquorice tea, thanks for the tip! You should also try the range of green teas Twinings do. £1 at tesco at the moment. Green tea and lemon or green tea an pomegranite are my favourites. Keep it up guys!
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I almost caught my yard on fire by throwing bone dry conifer on the stove. Shut it right down and it still got mighty hot. OK, so the wood stack was too close to the stove. Lesson learnt. But it wouldn't have happened with hardwood! My alarm system with a smoke alarm linked in paid for itself that day.
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Don't go self employed just to sub to this fencing company so they can avoid tax and not have to keep you employed. Do go self employed so you can work for them when you feel like it, and get your own jobs in that make you double what they would pay. Spend more time ringing round finding your own jobs than you do working for them.
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Couple of things- one, top marks to the dealer. Anyone reading this thread will be happy to use them I should think. Two, it just crossed my mind, if you are adjusting wheel bearings, err on the side of too loose than too tight when choosing where to stick the pin in the castellated nut. Ever slightly overtightened bearings will fail very quickly. A bit of play and a free spinning wheel is better than no play but a slightly dragging bearing!
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Well, I'm proud to be a feminist. The girls need strong male leadership!
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If you already have two old polesaws, then two new 2-mix engines will give them a new lease of trouble free life and can be used on normal shafts for hedgecutters etc when no polesawing is required. Use them like you stole them for the year's warranty, rinse and repeat.
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Or, depending upon how much use you have for it, you can just swap the engine from any Stihl strimmer to a second polesaw shaft that you can buy separately for ~£230. Of course you'll need another chainsaw head too, but I don't know how many bits and bobs you have lying around? It works for me, but I only use a polesaw once a month or so!
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Then Echo have an excellent reputation. Been a few years since I used one but it was a solid thing. They also have a hedgecutter head with a clutch in it so you can use it on the polesaw without risking blowing the shaft if you hit something.
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Another thing for those of you in rented yards- think carefully when purchasing infrastructure. Just like the alarm system above. If you need bays for chip, then bricks and mortar are expensive to buy and then worthless to anyone but you (and fixed in their location). Instead, buy the concrete lego blocks instead- not only can they move with you, but if you manage to buy secondhand they wil never loose any more value. If you need a shed, then buy a container instead. Same principles apply. £250 for a lorry to move it rather than a weeks worth of labour dismantling and moving, then putting everything back inside. Buy metal trackway like they use at events rather than put hardcore down.
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Buy a wireless alarm system like this: Home Security Systems | Bullnet Systems® Then just unscrew it and the sensors from the walls if you move. Put them up in the new place and it will carry on working. Cheapest and most effective security you can get. No affiliation, this stuff just works.
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See this thread and crack on: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/62516-heads-up-good-replacement-engine-stihl-polesaws-pole-hedgcutters-combi-units.html £250/5 minutes and you're golden. I agree you shouldn't have to. But the rest of the Stihl running gear is good and holds value well. This is your easiest fix. Been using my mix-n-match polesaw today, it's excellent. Plenty of power.
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I don't think the wheel punctured it just fell off. Tits, on the other hand....who knows? Seriously though, if your the kind of bloke to spend on a new chipper/tools/getting ahead in life, and your G/F wants to use the money for a tit job instead, you may be wise to take a short term view with that particular model. You know what I'm talking about.
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Pretty sure he's not, or he would have thought to use a smiley.... That's the trouble with this here internet, it's much easier to play Devils Advocate than in your local watering hole, as nobody can see your poker face!
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I can't stand 'salesmen' like that.
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Hell, I'm buying a Sugi-Hara bar on the basis of this thread.... They're cheaper than Stihl, right?
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Are you for real? It's clearly a cheaply made, tongue in cheek advert for a small business. Had Rob paid Satchi and Satchi to design it then they would no doubt had put it past a legal team and a miserable as sin Guardian-reading saddo like you to make sure that nobody could possibly be offended.
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If your bloke is a genuine bloke, and not one of these effeminate PC types, then I'm afraid you're outta luck on the ban thing. Sexualisation of kids is a huge issue, and we are approaching a tipping point. Has anyone here read 'The Naked Ape', by Desmond Morris? This advert is not using sex to sell. It might have been considered 'selling with sex' back in the fifties. Now it's selling with humour. Watch a bog standard body spray/perfume advert, and then tell me this chainsaw bar advert is selling with sex and the root of all societies problems.
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Young men will pay a fortune for any form of motor insurance. Stay away from stuff like Defenders and it's hardly any worse than insuring a Corsa at 18. I had a Diahatsu Fourtrack 2.8TD at 17. Yes it was expensive to insure, but only £200 more than a Pug 106, and it pulled the trailer a lot better! Look at insurance groups. Fourtrack is Group 7, quite low.
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It worked for Dairy Milk!
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:lol: Seconded. Man up, OP. Any chance of getting the image laser etched on the bars, Rob? Could be a good seller!
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Both types are cr@p. The screwdriver ones are killed by idiots (four in four weeks, I just don't know how I can explain it to him any better!) and the flip ones take too long to check and are a nightmare if you overfill (it happens, don't pretend it doesn't!) Essentially, neither are 'idiot proof'. And if it's not your personal saw, that's going to be problem, as wyk says. The 'raised grip' caps as fitted to my FS-70s and BG-86s are lovely, and I hope they become standard across the range. So quick and easy even with gloves.
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Good stuff. Not like WD-40 PTFE is the lubricating/rust protecting bit.
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what gloves do you wear for maintenance/oil changes
doobin replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in General chat
Nitrile food prep gloves from the local cash and carry work best for me. Very strong, even better than vinyl. chefs larder gloves | eBay If you go into Bookers/Macro they're only £2.80 a pack. While you're in Bookers, buy the six rolls of blue paper towel for £9. Another workshop essential. When changing to a fresh pair of gloves, dry your hands with a bit of the towel and then talc your hands to ensure the new gloves go on perfectly. -
But not actually WD40? There's a big difference between WD40 and something such as GT-85.
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"Overpriced snake oil in a can" would be more fitting
