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  1. doobin
    Still worth a decent whack per unit at the scrappy though.
  2. doobin
    Ouch! im always impressed with parts availability for my 20 year old Antonio Carraro. From Kirkland. Never any trouble and pretty fairly priced too. She’s a real asset on this job. Scrambles up the hills and then skips across the bog.
  3. doobin
    I thought they were stolen for their scrap platinum content? I know a new non genuine one isn’t cheap to buy. Can’t see the fact they are aftermarket making them not worth nicking for platinum.
  4. doobin
    Your loss. You just spunked your 800th post on that! 😆
  5. doobin
    Of course you can call it (or possibly refer to it as) a company. A company is a well accepted colloquial term for a group of people under one banner who turn up and perform a task for a customer or client. What you can't do is call it a limited company.
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    Energy Bills

    doobin replied to roboted's topic in The Lounge

    Our energy rebate is covering all our gas- hot water for showers and washing up, plus cooking lots on a range cooker. Odd state of affairs. Little log burner has been lit lots but never full chat all day. It's just not been cold enough yet.
  7. doobin
    I know the feeling, but you can’t let it get to you. That machine you bought has been out earning. And you know it’s history.
  8. doobin
    I’m a fan of 16” picco on an MS261. The new narrow .325 is a great chain, but expensive and only available in full chisel. So I prefer picco.
  9. doobin
    Yup, they are going to zero IMO.
  10. doobin
    Do a search, it's been covered loads of times and invariably descends into willy waving....
  11. doobin
    That’s quite enough of the frankly shocking puns.
  12. doobin
    Exactly as Dan says above. If you’re hoping to use it like a 5” roller fed, you’re going to be disappointed. A mini chipper can be very efficient but you have to change the way you work. Take the chipper to the tree and save yourself the drag.
  13. doobin
    Get a new set. Not worth your safety. They look a little bent elewhere too, and to snap they must have been abused or fatigued.
  14. doobin
    If that fails, just get a cheapo non genuine carb off eBay. I've plenty of GX390s with non genuine carbs, its a simple fix.
  15. doobin
    Then you have to find somewhere to put the trailer, out of the way where it won't get nicked.
  16. doobin
    Ideal for back garden jobs! Simply lower blade for access
  17. doobin
    I agree with you. Stupidly low interest rates and quantative easing have trashed the economy.
  18. doobin
    As far as I’m concerned, finance was an absolute no brainer at the rates I bought at. I’ve always worked on needing one day a month with a machine to pay its finance for that month. Small kit obviously, but lots of it.
  19. doobin
    Would plastic piling be acceptable? Could just knock it in along his boundary with fairly small kit.
  20. doobin
    1.3m is nothing for a footing on clay. I've literally just got back from a footings job in the Havant area, no idea if that's even shrinkable clay. 1.8m deep for a single storey extension. The householder was telling me what a nightmare his single storey lean-to garage was- he dug the external wall to 1.8m deep with a hired in mini. Then the BO turned up, looked at the tree in the back garden and told him he wanted it down to 3.2m! Then told him he wouldn't find anyone to do it, and walked off! Luckily a couple of dads from his sons football team were old school gravediggers, and they got it done.
  21. doobin
    So there we are, it's not that simple. Put in a root barrier and tell them to whistle Dixie.
  22. doobin
    Is it really that simple? The tree roots could all be on his side, but the water they absorb causing subsidence- due to shoddy building work- after the tree was there first!
  23. doobin
    I’m with @Clutchy finance over wages every time
  24. doobin
    Hayter decks cracked for fun and wouldnt collect for toffee in my experience. Lawnflite/Kaaz all the way.
  25. doobin
    So they are still making them for the European market by the sounds of it.

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