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Milwaukee is Techtronic Industries, a Hong Kong based company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techtronic_Industries

I may have told this story before... A guy I know had an old motorhome, think it was his first time going away in it, he was heading up north somewhere. He stopped at the garage and filled it right up, think it was a petrol engine in this thing. He keeps heading north, fuel gauge is showing empty, thinks it must be faulty gauge/sender. The bloody thing runs out of fuel and cuts out on him going across the Dornoch Bridge!! https://maps.app.goo.gl/RY5kY1VWNWtx2tTa8 So he thinks wow this thing has terrible mpg, he's not long filled it up. He decides to thumb a lift to a garage. Gets 5L of petrol and thumbs his way back. Takes him all day, he looks pretty dodgy stood at the side of the road thumb out, jerry can in the other hand. Finally he gets back to the van and pours in the petrol. Just as the last drop goes in, he spots a sticker next to the filler cap saying "water". He had been filling the camper water tank up with petrol!! In the end he phones up a family member to give him a lift to get more petrol!

Sadly not 3ft, but worth watching for the headwear alone

2-3ft diameter wood for firewood, Husqvarna 365 https://logsandsaws.co.uk/product/husqvarna-365-power-head-only/

From memory, the Husqy 435 and 440 are near enough the same saw, the 440 is just a bit higher tuned. I had one, think it was the 435. It was fine, fairly plasticy as you would expect. Got replaced by battery saws which was a big improvement.

Simple, hold the work piece in your crotch. And hope for the best.

Looks quite heavy duty, but doesn't look very ergonomic to use. I saw one in use, they had 1 lad operating the controls, and another lad loading logs and putting his hands in by the wedge!

That was close! ‘A miracle’: Tree traps man inside a machine, misses him by inches WWW.WSMV.COM A Lawrence County man walked away unharmed after a tree crashed through his skid steer windshield and pinned him inside the machine during a land clearing job over the weekend.

It's 4yrs old but barely been used as it was a 2nd charger for when the main one was busy. Smell of burnt electronics. The main charger is a QC500, 6yrs old, has been used a lot, and still works fine Plenty of stories online of QC330 chargers dying. I wonder what is wrong in the design, they seem to have a very high failure rate.

Time flies, been using this for 5 years now, great strimmer 535iRX

You any good at plumbing? My mate in Edinburgh has a wee job for you

Interested to hear how you get on, I've seen some chinese machinery where it was just generally poorly designed, flimsy thin steel that shears See if you can find out the actual weight of the machine, and compare it to the weight of a known brand of the same size

I wonder if there will ever be a go at some sort of on board powertool battery charging on a chipper. For Stihl/Husky etc batteries. The normal 12v charging alternator wouldn't be up to much, I'm thinking some sort of pto/hydraulic alternator at 36v (or actually 42v), with cooling and all normal battery protection. High power/high speed charging. Or even a wireless charging dock, the saw has only a small (lightweight) battery inside, with a little shelf on the chipper where you can leave it between snedding, and it gets a charge. The chipper saw is kept in a safe place, and will run all day with a tiny battery.

I think someone like Charles Dowding is regularly adding large amounts of green material, which is full of moisture, so a roof works for him. I had some old corrugated iron so I built a roofed compost area but it was far to dry, even with the holes in the tin. So I'm trying to run that down, and will use the building for something else. New diy compost bins are timber & mesh panels that screw together into cubes, and they're position partially under large trees, so they get some shelter and some rain, will see how that goes.

If you want to, you can go back through the years in street view and watch the trees change https://www.google.com/maps/@51.707,-2.2005779,3a,75y,74.89h,70.05t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sgK5t4RWFXAGQP2HZ_YiLjw!2e0!5s20190301T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D19.95281725573716%26panoid%3DgK5t4RWFXAGQP2HZ_YiLjw%26yaw%3D74.89463267935798!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDQxNi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D Ps what a town name!

Got given some 60 litre drums that were being chucked (from a candle maker), they must've had the essential oils in them as they're very floral! Thought they would make good pots for the tomatoes, so cut them in half and added handles. Not gone crazy with the drainage holes as they are going in the greenhouse. 30l should be a good size for water retention Next to a B&Q 12l bucket for scale

Someone will buy it for firewood, for the right price. Might involve a weekend warrior ringing it up on site and carting it away a trailer load at a time, so don't get involved in that. Does the person not burn wood themselves? Or a neighbour?

Just stick on a hi vis jacket and go dig up the road!

The one on the left has been pruned already. I say just go along with a polesaw beforehand and trim off whatever is sticking miles out. How wide is the transformer?

Not bought any for years, I found the Creoseal branded thick and gloopy, and the Barrettine branded thin and runny, soaked in well, almost evaporated Traditional Creosote: Dark Brown 20L | Palatine Paints WWW.PALATINEPAINTS.CO.UK Barrettine Traditional Creosote Dark Brown - Timber preservative and treatment against wood destroying insects, rotting fungi, for external use only.

Being civilised is boring, I built a compost toilet down the garden, beautiful place to go for a dump on a spring morning, sun coming through the trees, birds tweeting away, etc

If the machine is running fine I don't think I would change hydraulic oil. If there's a filter, then yep change that.

I think somebody on here years ago posted photos of IBC liners they were using as raised beds, with a simple strip of wood screwed round the outside to keep the shape Edit - it was @Woodworks page 2 of this thread

I know of a guy, someone living maybe a mile away planted some conifers (spruce I think it was) along the side of the road on their boundary, blocking the nice view for the public. So him and another local made a pact to go out at night, and they would start at either end felling the trees, and meet in the middle. They never got it finished, but the trees owners did get the police out when they discovered it, no one was caught.