Wolfie
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Yup, thanks Peter.
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Anyone be able to help with an id please. tried googleing but it just keeps coming up with Acer griseum. Thanks, Ed
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You don't need to be away from it to see.....it is totally ridiculous. Even working lawfully you are still worry about getting bent over by HSE and/or lawyers if an employee decides to have a dumbass moment, because it's always considered to be the employers fault. This country is quickly going down the pan. They can't build fast enough to house the 100,000's net immigration and government deny that this it the reason that infrastructure, policing and the NHS are unable the cope. Booked a doctors appointment recently, for a waiting time of over three weeks! Criminals are having a hay day because they know that there will be no serious retribution. It may get a little better now that we will be leaving the EU but I doubt it, the damage has already been done. I asked my wife several years ago if she would emigrate to Canada with me but I got a firm no.
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Great idea
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I used to supply Silkys' and Felcos' but when they regularly get abused or lost, it's now changed to Samurai and Wilkingson
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Yes mate, got it back home by 9pm after a quick maccyD's near Kettering. Really chuffed with it, nice clean chipper in perfect working order except the lightboard, which has now been changed to LED. I'm definitely up for camping at Cutters and Climbers next year but don't you have to be entered into a comp to be able to camp? Maybe we should start a vets climbing comp - for a laugh.
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I've used them for several years. Scabbards are generally their weak point but they fit into my old Silky scabbards. They are half the price of Silky but i certainly don't think that they are half the quality of Silky.
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Well after much deliberating, swaying back and forth between getting a Honda or other, I decided to risk it and bought myself a Evo420 14Hp engine. At £200 inc vat it's less than a third of the price of a GX390 so if it lasts a year or more, i'll be happy. The fitting was very easy, as advertised it's been designed as a direct replacement for the Honda so mounting holes and drive are exactly the same. It sounds sweet but its got a full day of grinding tomorrow so we'll see how it holds up. I'll try to remember to update the thread in 6 months - hopefully with good news that cheaper engines are indeed a viable alternative.
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Was that the first con rod that sits over the casing plate? I had the other snap once and it seems permanently integrated between the gears.
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Sorry, don't know any results but my vote would've been for the bear doing tree surgery.
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Hi Matty, I've got a couple of Echo long reach in the multi-tool set up. Although i still prefer them over the Stihl kombi system, I would agree that the Echo trimmer heads are less robust than Stihl and also have a habit of the blades suddenly seizing together, despite regular greasing and oiling, annoying as you then have to dismantle the blades and sand off all residue. Hedge cutters are the bane of my life, I have to fix them three times as much as the chainsaws. I'm thinking the charging more for hedge-cutting than for tree surgery!
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Love it, best thread ever - apart from TV girls. Do you know if it's ok to take dogs around the show? That's the four legged ones.
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I've used the ms170 & ms180. Good little saws that should last a few years if not abused. Never used the Husqvarna equivalent but probably also sound. Go see your local dealer who should be able to show you one or the other and hopefully may also do Echo's to give you a third choice.
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This was my thinking and the Honda engine only lasted 3 years anyway, i can't see a Loncin being much worse. What make was your 16hp?
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I had the rings replace in my Honda engine a short while ago but it's now smoking and using a lot of oil again. A local mechanic said that the recent Chinese engines are a lot better than they use to be and would recommend buying a new one of those at a fraction of the price for a GX390. So, anyone got experience with one? There seems to a few choices out there - Eberth, Launtop, Villiers, Loncin. Which to go for? Also, i've noticed an upgrade kit that you can get for GX390 which bumps it up to 16HP - anyone done that? Cheers, Ed
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I had a 2003, it was a pile of sh!t. Pully crank shearing, head gasket, oil leak after oil leak, crap drive and too thirsty.
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I thought that would be a case but the op picture got me thinking, In nature, colours generally have a reason - attraction, warning, camouflage, etc. It seems not so in the case of fungi.
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David, do you know if any fungi use vibrant coloured fruiting bodies to attract insects to carry some spores away with them, the same as flowers do. Stink horn certainly attracts the flys!
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Exactly, you start criticising their faith and you will only breed more fanatics.
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One of the only fail to complete stump grinding jobs for me. Don't think that I can be totally to blame though. Builders wanted a massive wisteria stump and lateral roots out so that they can access the 3 courses of bricks below the damp proof. Of course after that erected the scaffolding which could not be moved. What you can't see in the photos are the horizontal scaffold bars at waist height.
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If your still looking, this one is on Gumtree for £5500 https://www.gumtree.com/p/plant-tractors/chipper-timberwolf-tw-150-dhb/1173864616
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I think that i've been sick most times after have general anaesthetic, projectile last time - luckily first thing within reach was a waste bin.
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A few months after your op I would highly recommend finding yourself a good deep tissue massage therapist. It has amazed me how much of my body has been affected as a result of the bad hip. I started see one every two weeks, now spaced it out to once a month but he's balanced the muscles in my back that were badly affected by my limping, helped stretch and correct defects from years of restricted movement.
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Hi, yes i had a new hip last October, or rather a hip re-surfacing which i was advised as more suitable for someone young (40) and more active than your usual patient. I'm back climbing with no problems but i don't climb very regularly as managing the business take up most of my time nowadays. You can't drive for 6 weeks and don't expect to climb with 3 month, probably 4, and that's if you religiously do the physio that will be given to you. It's a marvellous operation, i could barely walk 50 yards and on max dose Tramadol (which still wasn't doing anything). Now, 8 months after the op, i'm climbing, swimming, walking as far as I like and no pain what so ever. I still have to regain some muscle lost around the hip and occasionally catch myself falling back into a limp when I walk but i'm very, very pleased with the result. But my op was a resurfacing, a full replacement may limit you a bit more.
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You wont miss a thing, England are in Australia at the moment.
